Don't Bother with SEO. Did it Ever Work? [www.cincomsmalltalk.com]


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Jeff Jarvis says that as Google makes search more personalized, search engine optimization will be less relevant.

"What does that mean to brands? The world gets confusing once more. But I think it means that true relevance becomes more important than SEO tricks"

James Robertson  says it has been irrelevant for awhile.

"Trying to "optimize" for Google (et. al.) is a game whose relevance is vanishing."

I agree, it has always been irrelevant if you were  actually providing useful content for your visitors.

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I have a new Wii Fit!!!   Nope, I’m not going to post a video of me hula hooping so you are safe on that one. I’m not even going to post pictures of my graphs.

Lots of things suck about the Wii Fit game.  You can’t string together activities so you waste a minute or two between each activity. You can’t share your data on the internet so you can’t compete with your friends.  But I assume they will fix these problems and charge me another $39.95 to get a new version.

The board itself works remarkably well.  It's amazing how it can tell where my body is and it's cool to have visual feedback on my balance as I do the yoga poses.  

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This is the second part of my post on mapping Moodle courses to Elgg communities.  You can read about part 1 here.  This post discusses the actual implementation.

In order for us to track a one-to-one relationship between a Moodle course and an Elgg community we first need to create a mapping table.  The table definition I used is as follows:

 
															<TABLE NAME="block_eportfolio_course_map" COMMENT="">
	<FIELDS>
	<FIELD NAME="id" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="true" UNSIGNED="true" SEQUENCE="true" ENUM="false" NEXT="courseid"/>
	<FIELD NAME="courseid" TYPE="int" LENGTH="10" NOTNULL="true" UNSIGNED="true" DEFAULT="0" SEQUENCE="false" ENUM="false" PREVIOUS="id" NEXT="eportid"/>
	<FIELD NAME="eportid" TYPE="char" LENGTH="128" NOTNULL="true" SEQUENCE="false" ENUM="false" PREVIOUS="courseid"/>
	</FIELDS>
	<KEYS>
	<KEY NAME="primary" TYPE="primary" FIELDS="id" COMMENT="Primary key for block_eportfolio_course_map" NEXT="courseid"/>
	<KEY NAME="courseid" TYPE="foreign" FIELDS="courseid" REFTABLE="course" REFFIELDS="id" NEXT="courseid_uniq" PREVIOUS="primary"/>
	<KEY NAME="courseid_uniq" TYPE="uniq" FIELDS="courseid" PREVIOUS="courseid"/>
	</KEYS>
	</TABLE>
	
The eportid column corresponds to the Elgg community id for a particular course; the courseid is the one that tracks the Moodle course.

Since our code already supports single sign-on, we just add to that to track whether an Elgg community needs to be created.  Let us reuse the signupredirect.php page and just add an extra variable that tells the system to create a corresponding community.  The significant section is as follows:

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2-3-98 Moodle Recap [confluence.delhi.edu:8443]


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I attended the 2-3-98 Open Discussion on Technology in Education conference last week. In many cases, Open Source is becoming just another option when evaluating software for use in education. Of course, there are still objections from some, but more and more software in compared on the solution it can provide, without regard for the license. One day of the conference was devoted to Moodle, and it was clear that Moodle was regarded as a superior solution by those that chose it. There was not any bias in choosing open source or proprietary solutions noted by those that chose Moodle. That is, they chose Moodle for the the features it provides.

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I will be presenting a workshop on Collaborative eLearning at this year's Grassroots Use of the Internet Conference.  It's always a great conference. Here is the description of our specific workshop:

The internet is a great source of information, but how do you move from putting your information out there to really supporting learning online?   In the past people have moved from static web pages, to multi-media presentations that use the “listen-and-read, then answer questions model”.  However, learning is a social activity.  People learn best together.  As the web becomes more social and collaborative so can online learning.

In this workshop you will get hands-on experience using an open source learning tool (LAMS) to support collaborative learning.  We will explore a bit of the theory behind learning and try out some collaborative activities. 

LAMS is a tool that allows the creation and sharing of online sequences of activities.  Using easy drag and drop tools to facilitate the online equivalent of lesson planning it encourages a real focus on the structure and theory of learning (pedagogy). 

The goal of the workshop is not to focus on the how-to of any particular technology but to inspire new ideas for making online learning effective, engaging and collaborative.

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