Meeting+on+Sep.+23

Goals for the coming week:

1. Plamen will request kindle again and we can keep it for another week. Jason and May can have a try. 2. Plamen will create a twitter account for IM646. 3. Plamen will invite May to facebook. 4. Think about how to use texting for education and how to make materials attractive to kids. 5. Jason will post an article about Sakai. 6. May will post an article about next-generation iphones. 7. Try Lodestar in the coming week. 8. We can make good use of Minnesota digital library.

//May, Sep. 23.//

Here is an article from the director of academic media and technology at Yale University. []

He suggested that Sakai will cost less overall to deploy and support, but they can expand it into more than a course-management system and build it to a center of learning and teaching technology center. As a result, they are not chose Sakai for saving money, but desire to break through the contraints of existed licensed CMS.

This is a very vivid argument. As a University like Yale, I think the cost for "against" commercial CMS is affordable, however, how small or medium universities deploy the Sakai in their learning technology system and how do they align this system with their goals, objectives and finaicial budget may be a good question for research.

p.s. Thanks for your meeting minutes, May.


 * //Jason, Sep. 24.//**