An appropriate medium for its intended audience of Digital Arts students, a university program developed in Second Life will be debutting at Simon Fraser University. I hope that the virtual university isn’t just a digital replica of the bricks and mortar one and that for $20,000 a year (in Canada, where education is usually a little less costly), students receive some complimentary linden dollars.

I enjoyed this post at Dangerously Irrelevant because I had never thought of the argument FOR blogging as that it might save time.

This was originally posted here.

I wasn’t necessarily looking for definitions when I was browsing through my aggregator, but they found me. A thread on Many 2 Many arrives as a good definition that is useful. Clarification by Matthew Hurst defines tagging as: “the process of associating terms with an item without the constraint of a controlled vocabulary.” If that doesn’t mean anything to you, read the whole post and comments.

I haven’t posted in a while, which is simply indicative of being caught up in other work. Currently, I am conducting a workshop on blogs, podcasts, and wikis, the content of which I organized on a site using drupal (to take advantage of the aggregation feature). I set up my course site for Digital Media for Art Educators (links dead :() in the same manner. I like it, but I don’t love it as a CMS. I do love the aggregation feature, and it saves having to get everyone acclimated to using an aggregator.

Has anyone else used drupal in this manner? The only problem I keep running into is setting up the cron jobs. I set it up on the cultivating.us server without TOO much trouble, but now on the school server, it doesn’t seem to be working exactly right.