All entries for August 2006

Chalk and Talk

Writing about web page http://o.tearne.org/G103/download.htm

Mathematics rituals, Warwick style

(G103 is the UCAS code for a 4-year undergraduate MMath Degree)

: 16 Aug 2006 17:01 |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

US Patent 6,988,138

Writing about web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4790485.stm

When Blackboard merged with Web CT in late 2005, it became the largest company marketing Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). Last month Blackboard was granted a very broad patent (translated into plain English here) and has issued a writ against a Canadian company Desire2Learn for breach. If you believe, as I do, that such ridiculously general patents stifle innovation, the "Noedupatents" wiki offers suggestions for converting outrage into action

: 16 Aug 2006 16:20 |  Comments (2) |  Close comments |  Report a problem