February 2011 Blog Posts (9)

Tackling Web Accessibility:  Case Study of a 10 year Struggle

Ty Bowman

Web Administrator

Cerritos College California

Intro

10 years Ago we tested our web page and we encounter

14 pages of Errors even when the

Began Searching for a Long Term Sustainable Solution for we Ty retires  There are currently 20,000 pages which do what we want,…

Current Presentation Handouts and Links

Higher Learning Commission Annual Conference 2011  Unplugging from the Commercial Software Grid Using Moodle on a Shoestring: Where’s the Chalk?

Sunday April 10, 2011 1:15pm - 2:00pm

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I have given several version of this lately. Getting another ready.  I think I have another at my college page but try this one out to see our MoodleStory.  I will break out my Moodle Songs Later

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NOTE: I will be co presenting with Rick Elder and Nancy Berkompas from Bay Mills Community College in Michigan on this topic in April at the Annual NCA/HLC meeting in Chicago. 

Introduction

According to Waters (2007), "To Vista or not to Vista" was the driving force in a recent conversion from commercial Microsoft Products to open source for a Danville IL school district. Staying with the graphically intensive resource gobbling Windows OS would require a heavy…

Thefirst LEGO star wars set was made in 1999.  The image below shows one of the set's that was made in 1999.

This set is no longer made. This Y-Wing and TIE Fighter is seen in Episode IV. The TIE…

I was just thinking that one of the main reasons I moved to Altus OK 14 years ago to take a position at Western Oklahoma State College was because of the bandwidth available through the the Oklahoma state network OneNet.  I had been in in a situation where we had fought and struggled to get a 56K Frame Relay circuit.  Many people…

Moodle v. Blackboard has been a battle which has had many issues over the years.  It is always fun to watch the rhetoric such as that shown in the video interview of Moodle Founder Martin Dougiamas and a Blackboard spokesman.  

Several years ago when Blackboard asserted patent claims patent on learning management system technologies Moodle seemed to be relatively unscathed by this as a huge LMS community backlash against Blackboard…

I was having a discussion earlier today about vendors not listening when we (the end user) provide feed back for various technology products and recalled an email my friend Mike Woods sent regarding the change in a layout of the remote control for a video conferencing unit back in 2005.  Wow, All I can say is...not  much has changed.



I want to follow up with my concern about the new Tandberg remote with the

MXP system. It is everything I said before and worse. I want my…

I was just thinking it has been awhile since I posted anything, but I guess I better get busy again.  The Dust Bowl is a part of America that I never thought much about until recently even though I am from Springfield Colorado, which by many accounts was the center of the Dust Bowl.  I had seen pictures like the one below (which I pulled out of a box at my…