20060829

Para esto era la patente del "e-learning" de BB

Seguimiento a la historia de infamia...
La primera demanda de Blackboard contra los que usen un LMS que les cause pérdidas.

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20060816

¿Blacboard patentó la Educación en Línea?

¿Se puede? ¿Es legítimo? ¿Se puede patentar el aire?
Vean por favor la patente
United States Patent 6,988,138
Alcorn , et al. January 17, 2006

Internet-based education support system and methods

Abstract

A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whiteboard facilities, and the like, all of which are available to the students over a network such as the Internet. Various levels of functionality are provided through a three-tiered licensing program that suits the needs of the institution offering the program. In addition, an open platform system is provided such that anyone with access to the Internet can create, manage, and offer a course to anyone else with access to the Internet without the need for an affiliation with an institution, thus enabling the virtual classroom to extend worldwide.


Inventors: Alcorn; Robert L. (Arlington, VA), Cane; Daniel E. (Washington, DC), Chasen; Michael L. (Washington, DC), Chi; Timothy R. (Fairfax, VA), Gilfus; Stephen R. (Woodbridge, VA), Perian; Scott (Washington, DC), Pittinsky; Matthew L. (Washington, DC)
Assignee: Blackboard Inc. (Washington, DC)
Appl. No.: 09/608,208
Filed: June 30, 2000

Current U.S. Class: 709/225 ; 434/350; 709/203; 709/204; 709/217; 709/218
Current International Class: G06F 15/173 (20060101)
Field of Search: 709/225,203,218,217,204,205 343/350,204,336

20060811

Open source continues to increase its reach into colleges and universities

Open source continues to increase its reach into colleges and universities, with three-quarters considering it when shopping for IT.

Research by OSS Watch found that most institutions (69 per cent) have deployed open source on their servers. The most common use is for database servers (62 per cent), web servers (59 per cent) and operating systems (56 per cent).

Use of Moodle, the open source course management system, has also grown to 56 per cent in less than three years.

In contrast to servers, the use of open source on desktops is lower - 47 per cent have used it on desktops. All educational institutions interviewed offer Internet Explorer on desktop PCs and 68 per cent also provide Mozilla Firefox...

more on http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39161354,00.htm

 

20060808

Cómo crear "Libros Parlantes" en Power Point (tutorial)


En el Assistive Technology Training Online Project (ATTO) ofecen un tutorial legible (PDF) para generar libros parlantes (Ojo, no sólo son para niños...) con el programa Power Point de Microsoft.
Incluso trae un link a un plugin gratuito (un programita que se le agrega al software principal, en este caso el Power Point) para grabar uno mismo la voz y audio que se le insertará al libro parlante.

El link directo del tutorial en pdf es> http://atto.buffalo.edu/registered/Tutorials/talkingBooks/ppt_ace.pdf

Conviene darse una vuelta por este sitio y elportal de ATTO de la Universidad de Buffalo para encontrar recursos enla generación de material educativo apoyado enlas TIC.
Hay muchos otros turoriales

Si te encuentras otros recursos, tutoriales, programas, serviciosweb (preferentemente gratuitos o muy económicos) para apoyar nuestra docencia y pedagogía, te invitamos a compartir el dato con los demás por este medio del Observatorio de Tecnologías para la Educación. Ya sea que me mandes la información por correo (hmacias@tij.uia.mx) o Escribiendo tu mism@ el micro-artículo en este observatorio.