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Hack/Doc’ing at Butler University
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest at Butler University has come and gone, yielding recommendations regarding adopting Moodle 3.0/3.1 and demonstrating that the new “competencies” module isn’t going to be nearly as useful as I’d hoped. At first blush, Competencies seemed like something that might be useful for our badges project (e.g. demonstrate competency in a foreign language, then use that … Read more
Summer 2016 Reading List
I’ve compiled my summer reading list for 2016. As is normal for me, it’s dominated by space opera and military science fiction, but peppered with some steampunk and superhero fiction. It weighs in at 14 books and 6 graphic novels. That’s one fewer than last year, but that gives me gives me some wiggle room to … Read more
Olaf’s getting a trainer!
Olaf, the German Shepherd puppy that my family and I spent the last year raising for the Seeing Eye, has gone off to college. He’s being assigned a trainer, and with any luck we’ll be getting status updates about him soon. During his time with us, we taught Olaf basic obedience and socialization. Now that … Read more
Get an update Phase 2 of the Web Redesign at the next #lafweb meeting
Phase 2 of the Web Redesign — in which the new design is rolled out to department, office, and program websites — is well underway with more than a dozen sites converted. Learn more about the update at the Web Redesign at the next Web Community of Practice meeting from noon-1 p.m. on Wednesday, April … Read more
What I’m Reading: The Hundred Days
My slow voyage throughPatrick O’Brian’sAubrey/Maturin epic series nears its end with The Hundred Days, his 19th novel . The books are set in the late 1700s and early 1800s against the backdrop of a series of European wars. The protagonists are Jack Aubrey, an captain in the British navy, and Stephen Maturin, Jack’s long-time friend, sailing companion … Read more
What I’m Reading: The Peripheral by William Gibson
I got this book in Kindle format for Christmas 2015 and then promptly forgot about it. Since then I’ve read a number of books, so many that I was getting dangerously close to having to buy another one (or at least, check it out of the library). And then I remembered … my old friend … Read more
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest hits Indianapolis in Summer 2016
Moodle Hack/Doc Fest — that biannual summer camp for instructional technologists, web developers, and other folks who work with Moodle — hits Indianapolis this summer. It’s being held Tuesday, June 21 through Thursday, June 23, 2016 at Butler University in Indianapolis, IN. A pre-Hack/Doc documentation and coding sprint will be held Monday, June 20, 2016. … Read more
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