June 2009

Nicholas and Brian team again to help DAI with distance ed tools

Submitted by bfaller on Mon, 06/01/2009 - 12:44

Nicholas and Brian work togetherAn April visit to the Development Associates International (DAI) Ministry Center in Colorado Springs, CO, by MAF staffers Nicholas Ivins and Brian Ward could lead to more effective distance learning through DAI’s ‘Masters of Arts in Organizational Leadership’ program.
   
DAI leadership set out to enhance the learning experience for their Masters program students.   This search lead them to consider new web-based technology products developed by MAF such as DEScribe, DEViewer, and Poodle (Portable Moodle). The next step is ...

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DEScribe 1.2.3 Release

Submitted by thetrick on Mon, 06/08/2009 - 10:56

MAF-LT is excited to announce a new release of DEScribe!  DEScribe is a course authoring application that supports exporting to DEViewer.  This release of DEScribe includes the following improvements to the DEViewer export process:

  • An automated installer for a DEViewer package can now be created during a DEViewer export.  This is a setup file that installs the DEViewer package to other DEViewer installation.
  • During the exporting of a DEViewer package, if the language, domain, or type is being created, the user is prompted for information such as: Language encoding, display name, and directory names

A set of completed tickets for this release is located on the DEScribe Trac site for release 1.2.3.0.
 
For more information and to download DEScribe 1.2.3, please visit the DEScribe product page.

 

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New Product Logo

Submitted by brhoads on Tue, 06/30/2009 - 16:00

I'm working on our next product which is a system to create digital libraries. It's going to be called Ibidem Digital Library. Ibidem is Latin for "the same place." You've probably seen its abbreviation, ibid, in bibliographies.

Well, I needed a break from coding,so I took a first pass at a logo for the product. Ibidem is apparently a contraction of some kind. It's written as ib[ide]m to indicate the contraction.

The main focus of this product is tagging digital resources with their metadata (data about the resource, e.g. author, title). When a tag is part of an XML document (which it usually is), it's indicated as <tag name>tag content</tag name>. For example: <title>Pilgrim's Progress</title>.

So I designed the logo based off of the text ib<ide>m. I kind of like the idea behind the logo, but i'm definitly not an artist. So if anyone wants to make something better, send it my way!

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