Posted 9:43 PM by George Siemens
I've posted a new article: Blogging - Part I: Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications (I'll post Part II later this week). The article is an attempt to provide an overview of what blogging is...and how it responds to the characteristics of the Internet...and altering how information is/will be handled.

Posted 7:55 PM by George Siemens
Open Source in Education
Quote: "Open Source is especially useful in an education environment. Since the source is available, it's ripe for study and experimentation, and since it's free, there are no financial barriers to its deployment."
Comment: Several times over the last few months, I've whined about the lack of education's embrace of open source. I'm currently playing with Movabletype (for klogging at RRC), Plone (content management in our department), Zope and Python, and for personal web development - PHP and MySQL (which is also used for Movabletype). Education should be championing open source. In an era of increasing technology costs (think WebCT and Blackboard), simple, open source technologies can offer excellent learning tools.