Comments for Crucial Thought

Comment on Chris selected as K12OnlineConference keynote speaker by Tony

Tony — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 16:31:06 +0000

Wow – not your first keynote, I think, but a big one, yes? Congrats!

Comment on Publishing an App Inventor app to the Android Market by Mixtah

Mixtah — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 02:35:40 +0000

This also works great, same principal, just more simple, just download a couple files, and move files around, and copy and paste what i wrote into command prompt, It works and made as simple as possible so anyone can understand.
http://bit.ly/qIUsHG

Comment on Download Vimeo videos using a shell script by Anna Brooks

Anna Brooks — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 09:20:04 +0000

There is a handy app for Mac users, which allows downloading Vimeo videos in a couple of clicks- Elmedia Player PRO (http://mac.eltima.com/vimeo-downloader-mac.html)

Comment on How to install SMART Notebook software on a 64 bit Ubuntu machine by soronk

soronk — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 09:47:26 +0000

Managed to install on kubuntu natty 64bit. needed to install lib32gmp3 for missing libgmp.so

Comment on How to install SMART Notebook software on a 64 bit Ubuntu machine by carlos

carlos — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 08:07:32 +0000

Hi Felix
Im triying to install in Natty 32bit… the procedure is similar to the one you used in the 64 version?
if yes could you please mail it to me
Thanks
carlos

Comment on Schedule Google Voice calls in Google Calendar with GVCallScheduler by Susan

Susan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:28:32 +0000

Is Google voice # the same as my cell #?

What does this error msg mean:
WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: ‘H:\\/Google’

I keep getting it every time I try to run Google App Eng SDK for Python. I can’t get it to run.

Comment on Schedule Google Voice calls in Google Calendar with GVCallScheduler by Susan

Susan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 19:26:52 +0000

When I try to download the Google App Engine SDK for Python it won’t download correctly and I keep getting an error log, which basically says “WindowsError: [Error 3] The system cannot find the path specified: ‘H:\\/Google’

WHat do I do about this?

Also, is my Google voice number the same as my cell phone number?

Comment on Abandoning Moodle by links for 2011-08-24 : DrAlb

links for 2011-08-24 : DrAlb — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:09:29 +0000

[...] Abandoning Moodle | Crucial Thought Much as we might hope that moving to Moodle 2.1 will bring some benefits over our existing Moodle 1.9 installation it seems that some who have made the change are less than impressed. In this case, so unimpressed that Moodle has been abandoned by this user in favour of Haiku, an LMS I'd never heard of but one that seems to offer the base features that might be needed and possibly a more attractive look than Moodle. (tags: usqict ee4l elearning dlrn) [...]

Comment on Abandoning Moodle by Bill Fitzgerald

Bill Fitzgerald — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 22:19:03 +0000

Hello, Chris,

Nice writeup -

RE: ” I am getting more and more into the SaaS model, as it leads to faster development (I think) and fewer hassles when it’s time to upgrade.”

The speed of development would be more readily affected by how developer time is being prioritized, so that’s less affected by SaaS and more a function of the priorities of the supporting company.

RE fewer hassles on upgrades, the “hassles” should be invisible to the end user, as they are addressed by the supporting company. However, the downside of SaaS is a reduced ability to customize – if you keep customizations to a minimum on stuff you roll yourself, then upgrades are easier to manage there as well.

In a lot of ways, the biggest benefit of SaaS is that we are protected from our tendency to fidget (or at least to fidget without the safety net of a development to QA to Production workflow )

Cheers,

Bill

Comment on Abandoning Moodle by cmcraft

cmcraft — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 18:13:39 +0000

@Anthony: I am getting more and more into the SaaS model, as it leads to faster development (I think) and fewer hassles when it’s time to upgrade.

@Jim: I am not sure what you mean. I don’t mention Web 2.0 in my post at all. I’d argue that Web 2.0 is about enabling content creation by learners, something Moodle doesn’t do very well. One feature of Haiku I like it called Wikiprojects, which allow students to easily create content, or so it seems.

Say more?

Chris