Flexknowlogy – Jared Stein's ARCHIVED blog – update to jaredstein.org

Tony Hirst was looking for a way to output all XML element names and PCDATA in a document and show hierarchical relationships. I guessed this was easy, so I tried but initially failed. I searched for an answer and was surprised when I couldn’t find a good one. An hour later I worked out a solution based on parent::node() that seems stable on all XML files. (more…)

Mike Caufield asked that I put up a screencast on the OpenShare mod for Moodle. Here’s one that comes in just under 8 minutes–shorter even than my hatcheted and curtailed preso at MoodleMoot ‘08 SFO (more…)

Darren Draper stirred up another conversation on his blog yesterday (Hacking the Curriculum) which intersects a number of my interests: independent study, reusable course content, and open education, and reiterates the question, what is not replaceable in teaching? In the live classroom? In individual instructor-developed curriculum? And how far can we stretch the re-usability of online educational materials? (more…)

The OpenShare block in Moodle

Tonight I’ve released the first all-new version of the OpenShare modification for Moodle 1.9, which I demonstrated last week at OpenEd 2008.

You may view OpenShare documentation or simply download the OpenShare mod now.

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