Posts tagged ‘Rant’
The lower 48
Posted Monday, May 28th, 2012.
Filed under General with the tags hawaii, Rant
While doing some online shopping, I received a notice that said Estimated Economy Delivery (delivered via USPS): 6 to 12 business days within the lower 48 United States. All P.O. Boxes, APO/FPO/DPO addresses and shipments to Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands will ship via Economy Delivery. I always get peeved when I [...]
Is SCORM Dead?
Posted Thursday, March 10th, 2011.
Filed under e-learning, SCORM with the tags ADL, e-learning, LETSI, opinion, Rant, SCORM
About a week ago I tweeted:
from what i’m reading between the lines, #SCORM is dead to the ADL. they’re moving on. interesting timing considering #TAACCCT
I had no idea how much hand-wringing and consternation my off-handed comment would cause. It apparently caused (directly or indirectly) some heated discussions about SCORM being dead.
The problem is, I never said “SCORM is dead.” I said “SCORM is dead to the ADL.” Big difference.
Speaking of IMS…
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, fail, impenetrable fortress, IMS, opinion, privacy, Rant, standards
The IMS wants your personal information before they’ll let you read their public standards.
IMS issues press release for new e-learning interoperability standards
Posted Tuesday, February 16th, 2010.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, grandstanding, IMS, opinion, Rant, standards
If the new standards are written as poorly as this press release, it’s going to be 1,000 pages of useless spec.
Master of My Own Domain
Posted Friday, December 18th, 2009.
Filed under General with the tags Apple Mac Mini Server, bad customer support, hosting service, Media Temple, Rant
Bye-bye Media Temple. You are not the hotness you think you are.
Eolas is at it again
Posted Tuesday, October 6th, 2009.
Filed under General, web design and development with the tags Blackboard v Desire2Learn, Eolas, opinion, Rant, SWFObject, UCSF, web browsers, web design and development
This week — a year and a half after settling with Microsoft — Eolas has gone on the attack again, filing suit against “Adobe, Amazon, Apple, Argosy Publishing (publisher of The Visible Body), Blockbuster, Citigroup, eBay, Frito-Lay, GoDaddy, J. C. Penney, JPMorgan Chase, ‘transactional’ adult entertainment provider New Frontier Media, Office Depot, Perot Systems, Playboy Enterprises, Rent-a-Center, Staples, Sun Microsystems, Texas Instruments, Yahoo, and YouTube.”
Blackboard: Spoke too soon?
Posted Sunday, March 30th, 2008.
Filed under General with the tags Blackboard v Desire2Learn, learning management systems, opinion, Rant
Alfred Essa posted this tidbit today: An Important Correction to the Blackboard Patent Story A number of us, including this blog, have gotten this story wrong. It’s time for a correction. The USPTO has NOT invalidated the Blackboard patent. Instead the USPTO is proposing to invalidate the patent and has issued some preliminary documents for [...]
Rapid Intake: Where are the standards?
Posted Monday, February 4th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning, web design and development with the tags development tools, e-learning, opinion, Rant, rapid intake, standards, web design and development
Today Rapid Intake announced a new service named Unison. Out of curiosity, I perused the Rapid Intake site to read more about Unison. [...] I certainly don’t mean to beat up on whoever designed their site, but as a company whose business is publishing web-based documents, this website gives me zero confidence in the quality of their product.
The IMS Global Learning Consortium needs to loosen up!
Posted Wednesday, January 30th, 2008.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, IMS, learning management systems, opinion, Rant, standards
I looked up the QTI specs on the IMS site and couldn’t believe the boldfaced notice I saw on the page: “HTML documents may be viewed online, but may not be printed without permission” (emphasis added).
Can you believe that? IMS is in the business of creating standards they want the whole world to use. These standards should be open, easily accessible and free from licensing constraints. Why on earth do they want to put silly notices like this on their site?
LMSs are just websites… no, really!
Posted Saturday, November 24th, 2007.
Filed under e-learning with the tags e-learning, learning management systems, opinion, Rant, standards, technology
Folks, it’s simple — if you have to paste a “this site works best with XXX browser” message on your site, whether it’s an LMS, an online course, or just a website for your mom’s knitting club, you’re doing something wrong. Do us a favor and stop it.
