January 7, 2011
by Clint
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I am working with an Instructor on a project in Desire2Learn in which she wants to give students the ability to comment and respond to any piece of content in the course, similar to a blog commenting system. D2L does … Continue reading
December 23, 2010
by Clint
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I was reading Jacob Nielson’s new research on how College students use the web and this little tidbit popped out at me. Students are strongly search dominant and turn to search at the smallest provocation in terms of difficult navigation. … Continue reading
August 19, 2009
by Clint
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Just a quick note that if you administer and/or support people who use Desire2Learn, Kyle Mackie at the University of Guelph has set up a new Ning group called Desire2Share. It’s a private group and if you want to join … Continue reading
June 6, 2009
by Clint
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Adding audio to your website, blog or online course is pretty easy to do these days. Long gone are the days when we would force students to download and install proprietary players like Real Player or Quicktime. With the ubiquity … Continue reading
March 3, 2009
by Clint
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Online Course Peer Review at Lake Superior College just posted a nice D2L tip on how to personalize content in a D2L course. By inserting {firstname} into any HTML spot in your courses (news, content, release conditions, etc), D2L automatically places … Continue reading
February 9, 2009
by Clint
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TiltViewer is a free, customizable 3D Flash image viewing application you can add to your site to create a lovely, interactive wall of photos. In just a few minutes I put together a demonstration page to show off the effect. … Continue reading
November 17, 2008
by Clint
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Well, I put this video together and demonstrated this technique at a video workshop for our faculty last week, only to have it fail miserably in Internet Explorer 7. Of course. Go figure. I have embedded dozens of YouTube videos … Continue reading
May 24, 2008
by Clint
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Take a bunch of classic Bollywood movies, mash in a few of your own select subtitles and add in a bit of Learning Management System subtext and you have The Adventures of Blackboardwala, some seriously fun edtech mashups that give … Continue reading
March 28, 2008
by Clint
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The D2L patent blog has been humming the past few days. First, it looks like the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office has rejected all 44 of Blackboard’s patent claims. The patent office released a non-final action, which means it ain’t … Continue reading
February 23, 2008
by Clint
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D2L President John Baker posted the news on the D2L patent blog late Friday afternoon. Blackboard has won the patent lawsuit against D2L. D2L has been ordered to pay Blackboard $3 million US in damages. Now, I’m no lawyer. And … Continue reading