The future of Sakai

Lance Speelmon recently posted this to the Sakai mailing list “This video gives you the first glimpse of the hybrid integration between Sakai 2 and Sakai 3. This is a very early look and is not showing finished product, but instead … Continue reading

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The new Site Stats tool

From Nuno Fernandez: I am very pleased to announce the 2.0 release of SiteStats for Sakai! SiteStats allows authorized users to view site usage statistics related to user visits, tool activity and resource activity. SiteStats 2.0 is major rewrite of … Continue reading

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How do I display a WebLearn calendar in my email client (Nexus)

The best way to do this is to subscribe to a WebLearn calendar (rather than import) so that new events or changes to existing events are reflected. First of all, the ”Schedule” on a site needs to be exported (click … Continue reading

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New Sakaiproject.org website launched

Pieter Hartsook, Webmaster – Sakai Foundation Communications Manager says: “We hope you will enjoy the new Sakai website. The idea behind the design was a better user experience. We wanted to make the content not only more appealing to look … Continue reading

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Podcast of Michael Korcuska’s Sakai 3 presentation now available

Michael Korcuska is the Executive Director of The Sakai Foundation. He visited the WebLearn team in OUCS earlier this month and gave an informal presentation about Sakai 3. Here is a recording of his talk. http://media.podcasts.ox.ac.uk/oucs/sakai-07102009-medium-audio.mp3 Sakai 3 The Sakai … Continue reading

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SoftChalk announces Sakai integration

SoftChalk v5 will contain Sakai (WebLearn) integration. Let Ed Garay from University of Illinois at Chicago explain: SoftChalk is essentially an easy-to-use yet powerful authoring tool (Windows and Mac) for instructors to create simple, intermediate and even advanced (and interactive) … Continue reading

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How do I display Journal Alerts on a site?

Informaworld.com provides an RSS alerting service for a vast number of academic journals. Visit http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/browse~db=all~thing=title~by=title and locate the journal you want alerts for. Once you have found it, click on the [RSS] icon (Top right) and use the URL shown … Continue reading

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Back to basics: the web, academic values, and Sakai

There’s a great article about Sakai 3 by Sakai’s own Clay Fenlason in the latest ALT newsletter. (Remember Oxford is an institutional member so there’s no excuse not to make the most of ALT resources.) “The latest version of the … Continue reading

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Displaying a Twitter feed using the News tool?

The following are tips to provide as the feed URL: Search term: e.g. ‘sakai’. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=sakai Search term with a space: e.g. ‘web services’. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%22web+services%22 Search on a #hashtag: e.g. ‘#sakai’. http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=%23sakai Tweets from a specified user: e.g. lxsocon: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?q=from%3Alxsocon (Note: … Continue reading

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Displaying Twitter feeds in a WebLearn page

This page was updated on 20 October 2012 To display Tweets within an HTML page do the following. At the place where you want the Tweets to appear, switch to the Source view of the HTML page (using the button … Continue reading

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