http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/ Solution Grove Blog OpenACS 5.0 Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:43:28 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/rss-support/images/openacs_logo_rss.gif http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/ 126 48 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=1007970 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=1007970 I was privledged to meet and share a hotel room with Lucie deLaBruere an extrodinary educator and blogger and fellow hot-tub lover from Vermont.  Her write up of the open minds conference is awesome!  http://www.infinitethinking.org/2008/09/open-minds-momentum.html Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:43:28 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=1006716 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=1006716   LAMS was very well recieved at the K-12 Open Minds conference in Indiana.  I think its hard to understand what LAMS does until a person has some experience with Moodle without LAMS.  There were lots of Moodle users at this conference.  My audiance was mostly Tech Directors and they felt that the teachers they were supporting were trying to do LAMS like sequences using Moodle alone and would really appreciate LAMS. The State of Indiana is officially movin... Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:58:37 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=1002059 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=1002059 Ernie over at LAMS has been working on LAMS "Tool Adaptors".  These allow you to use the LMS, e.g. Moodle, .LRN, tools such as Forum, inside of LAMS with far more integration.  Main page on Tool Adaptors: http://wiki.lamsfoundation.org/display/lams/Tool+Adapters  The secret to understanding this is to go into the .LRN and Moodle pages and watch the vidoes of the Forums integration.  But the real power and promise isn't in using Forums, its the co... Sun, 21 Sep 2008 16:00:09 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=998274 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=998274 Our customers, and thier students, are often using a wiki for the first time on one of our sites.  I saw a great video on YouTube explaining the whys and hows of Wikis. I also made a quick demo to show the features they go over in our wiki.  Try out the basics and then when you are ready to learn more check out this documentation: http://www.solutiongrove.com/docwiki/howtoxowiki   Mon, 15 Sep 2008 18:57:42 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=995384 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=995384 I am participating, in a non-credit capacity, in the massively online course Connectivism and Connective Knowledge. This is a great experiment to apply the ideas of connective knowledge to a course about the same topic. As a programmer, I enjoy the recursive nature of that. The course started this week. I am a little behind on my homework but I am catching up. My first task was to post an introduction on the Moodle forum for the course.  Here is what I posted to the forums: I ... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:54:19 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=992841 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=992841 Solutiongrove has been using YUI on the front-end since it was released in 2006. I fell in love with it's sophisticated handling of browser events and how event listeners put unobtrusive in "Unobtrusive Javascript". We have seen it evolve from a couple of core utilities to a library with complex controls and widgets. Just a few days ago the YUI team released a developer preview of YUI 3, the next generation YUI library (YNG, YUI Next Generation).  I haven't had ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 14:32:47 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=958579 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=958579 One of my friends who is also a Linked In Contact wrote me this email in response to Linked In's automated updates :)    On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:45 PM, Greg  wrote: LinkedIn ------------ GROUP UPDATES: ... * Caroline Meeks has joined Women 2.0 ... Geez. I had no idea.  I won't ask about the new features. (Sorry, but it couldn't be left alone...) Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:22:21 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=949687 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=949687 Another reference to go along with my previous post notes how Richard Feynman's description of the NASA engineering process, "The usual way that such engines are designed (for military or civilian aircraft) may be called the component system, or bottom-up design" coincides with good programming practices.  Jake Voytko notices that Paul Graham says something similar in ANSI Common Lisp, "Experienced Lisp programmers work bottom-up as well as top-d... Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:00:53 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=945405 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=945405   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 ... Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:40:44 GMT http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=943336 http://www.solutiongrove.com/blogger/one-entry?entry%5fid=943336 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.... Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:33:34 GMT