Re: LC in Education

2011-05-04 Thread Terry Judd
Hi Judy - the good thing about Blackboard occasionally being unreliable is that people are more likely to be somewhat forgiving when (inevitably) one of the new systems we are developing springs a problem. We can usually put things right pretty quickly and only a few hundred users at most will

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Judy, on Mon, 2 May 2011 20:45:51 -0700 (PDT) Judy Perry wrote: He is Larry Tesler. Did Larry Tesler posted (in the Facebook Runrev in Education page) about integrating revlets with Moodle? If not him, Who? I am curious to know if this developer would allow other teachers to experiment in

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 3, 2011, at 10:27 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote: I would like to experiment with this new setup, but do not want to learn the whole Moodle system to play... Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education, and you should get to grips with it no matter what. I can't

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Terry Judd
On 04/05/2011 12:41 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education, and you should get to grips with it no matter what. It's big because the main alternatives (notably BlackBoard) are so awful (and awfully expensive). I'm no big

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Colin Holgate
My point was, that even though I don't fully understand it, anyone doing education courseware should be familiar with Moodle ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Terry Judd
On 04/05/2011 01:02 PM, Colin Holgate co...@verizon.net wrote: My point was, that even though I don't fully understand it, anyone doing education courseware should be familiar with Moodle Agreed. Terry... -- Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Education Unit

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Alejandro Tejada
Hi Colin, on Tue May 3 21:41:17 CDT 2011 Colin Holgate wrote: Although I don't fully understand why, Moodle is huge in education, and you should get to grips with it no matter what. I can't find any proof of Larry being that involved in Moodle and Revlets. Can you point to anything? I think I

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
Alejandro, That was Carly Born. I don't know if she follows this list, but if you are interested, I can give her your email information and she can perhaps follow-up with you. I prefer Moodle over Blackboard because it sucks for free (okay, it doesn't suck overwhelmingly... really!) Let

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
Colin, Moodle is gaining traction in education because it is FOSS, that is, free, whereas Blackboard is hugely expensive and doesn't tend to play well with any browser made outside of Redmond. Blackboard also has exhibited predatory patent practices and successfully locked some similar

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
Terry, It's funny that you should mention Blackboard being awful. It really IS gawdawful! I happened to be in my class early one day and several students were trying to access my Moodle setup (on server space I rent from Mark and paid him to install while I maintain) and they reported it

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-03 Thread Judy Perry
Alejandro, Like I haven't heard how our CS students easily hack whatever it is we're using for our MS in Software Engineering online coursework... (wanna bet it's Blackboard?!). They actually TELL ME these things. O_o Judy On Tue, 3 May 2011, Alejandro Tejada wrote: By the way, after

LC in Education

2011-05-02 Thread Judy Perry
Greetings, all! We had not one but TWO lovely little LC in Education presentations at the conference (the second of which featured Larry Lesler showing us something he's working on, and which went on for two straight hours!) and, as a means of keeping all the educators or those using LC

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 2, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Judy Perry wrote: We had not one but TWO lovely little LC in Education presentations at the conference (the second of which featured Larry Lesler Is he related to Larry Telser? ___ use-livecode mailing list use

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-02 Thread Judy Perry
:-p Sorry, my bad. He IS Larry Tesler. Judy On Mon, 2 May 2011, Colin Holgate wrote: Is he related to Larry Telser? ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: LC in Education

2011-05-02 Thread Colin Holgate
On May 2, 2011, at 11:45 PM, Judy Perry wrote: Sorry, my bad. He IS Larry Tesler. I suspected as much. For anyone who doesn't know who Larry is, he worked on Smalltalk, at Xerox Parc, which led on to what Apple did later, and he was a lead person on the Lisa team.