Who Is Using Sakai & Moodle
A recent exchange online with colleagues in the Moodle community led me to take another look at the statistics of which institutions are using Moodle in comparison with Sakai. Before you read further, know that I think of Moodle as a sister open-source project to Sakai and would celebrate Moodle's increased adoption and success just as I would Sakai's. read more

Sakai 3's Commonplace Destiny
I've recently been enjoying some (possibly) healthy, irreverent debate with colleagues at Blackboard and beyond about some of the differences between such proprietary regimes and the open-source community of Sakai. While the Twitter channel we've been using generates plenty of pithy ripostes, at times a tweet calls out for more sustained thought and response. A recent tweet from @georgekroner—one of my favorite Blackboarders—set me thinking and led to some longer—if not deeper—reflections, likely to be far less entertaining than the short salvos in our ongoing snarkument on Twitter.

W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn
As our inaugural book, we read W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn. Things that came up during the discussion (in no particular order): read more

Community Source Evaluation Strategies: Why Commercial Support Is Key
Josh Baron, Director of Academic Technology and eLearning at Marist College and now the new Sakai Foundation Board Chair, recently posted a great article in Campus Technology detailing Marist's nuanced evaluation of Sakai and its community source provenance: Community Source Evaluation Strategies: Is Sakai Right for