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Plaintiff Blackboard Inc.'s complaint for patent infringement: PDF of scanned legal document filed Jul 26 2006 at US District Court Eastern District of Texas Lufkin Division
[from the inquirer] scanned copy of the complain against Desire2Learn. see esp 'prayer for relief' at end for damagessought and sn 10 for descr of infringing products ( all D2L products based on the D2L learning system or platform )
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United States Patent 6,988,138. Alcorn, et al. Jan 17, 2006: 'Internet-based education support system and methods' - the BlackBoard Patent (US Patent and Trademark Office Patent Full-Text Database)
Abstract: A system and methods for implementing education online by providing institutions with the means for allowing the creation of courses to be taken by students online, the courses including assignments, announcements, course materials, chat and whi
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Blackboard CMS Patent FAQ [bb site] [best quote: BB principals as 'a team of inventors' :o] 2nd best (to those whose institution uses a non-BB system 'Evaluating patents can be complex.. we encourage you to consult with your CMS provider for answers' :o{
expires 2022..'The patent was issued under the title "Internet-Based Education Support System And Methods" and relates to course management systems which provide an easy-to-use and scalable system with multiple user roles in an online learning environment
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History of virtual learning environments - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (documenting prior-art releavant to resisting the BlackBoard CMS patent- lots there but we should all add the systems we built or knew of in the 90s - and no mention of IMS yet!)
started 29 July 2006 Mfeldstein; lots of edits to aug 3, as long-time ed-tech developers document their own and other known systems. esp dense in 90s, earliest 1960. MUST-ADD REM+FC + ensure IMS is noted (this tech was so common it needed interop stds :-)
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Blackboard : topic at Stephen's Web | Stephen Downes' posts tagged 'blackboard'.. recently [aug 06] providing comprehensive round-up of analysis and commentary on the patent issue + his own prior art objections
the usual excellent round-up of the ed-tech community's commentary, + his own analysis + personal affront at similarity of BB's own description of their patented system to his earlier paper on 'The Assiniboine Model'
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The Compleat Grazr/OPML Library Interface, v 0.0.1 | OUseful Info: In this post, I discuss a 'presentational mashup' of library feeds and the Grazr OPML browser, and offer it up as a entry to the Talis Library Mashuip Competition.
..'In So What Exactly Are Library Feeds Good For? I showed several screenshots that demonstrated how a wide variety of library related feeds could be aggregated using an OPML file and displayed within the Grazr OPML browser.
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Unity Project: WebKit Ported to Qt 4 | Surfin’ Safari: 'The KDE team anounced the Unity project, an effort to port WebKit to Qt 4.. with this effort, we have the opportunity to once again have a single source base that works on both Mac OS X and KDE.
We are looking forward to merging in the porting patches from KDE, and to merging general improvements from KHTML that are not yet in WebKit. Working together with KDE and our friends from Nokia, we can continue to build a world-class web rendering engine
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Introducing Blackboard Backpack! [ hmm... I wonder can 37 Signals sue... :o] - BB's new 'personal' product so students can access proprietary bbcontent offline (windows/tablet-only)
they'll be patenting the PLE next :o) ..'Blackboard Backpack allows you to easily download course material which your instructors have placed on the Blackboard Academic Suite™ for use when you aren’t online. This frees you up from the Internet!
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The Pedagogical Patterns Project: Patterns are designed to capture best practice in a specific domain. Pedagogical patterns try to capture expert knowledge of the practice of teaching and learning in a compact form that can be easily communicated
'..a pattern solves a problem such as motivating students, choosing and sequencing materials, evaluating students... A number of educators have been involved in the pedagogical patterns project for several years. Contributions are eagerly sought and membe
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Fire Vox: A Screen Reading Extension for Firefox : Fire Vox is an open source, freely available talking browser extension for the Firefox web browser. Think of it as a screen reader that is designed especially for Firefox.
In addition to the basic features that are expected of screen readers, such as being able to identify headings, links, images, etc. and providing navigational assistance, Fire Vox provides support for MathML and CSS speech module properties. It also works
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Fourteen Pedagogical Patterns | Joseph Bergin, Pace University: These patterns form the beginning approaches to a pattern language for Computer Science course development. They might have application to other fields as well.
Early Bird | Spiral | Consistent Metaphor | Toy Box | Tool Box | Lay of the Land | Fixer Upper | Larger Than Life | Student Design Sprint | Mistake | Test Tube | Fill in the Blanks | Gold Star | Grade it Again Sam
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Google Accessible Search : an early Google Labs product designed to identify and prioritize search results that are more easily usable by blind and visually impaired users. Accessible Search helps you find the most accessible pages in the result set
'In the past, visually impaired Google users have often waded through a lot of inaccessible websites and pages to find the required information. Our goal is to provide a more useful and accessible web search experience for the blind and visually impaired.
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Sliding Doors of CSS | A List Apart: Articles: Image-driven, visually compelling user interfaces. Text-based, semantic markup. Now you can have both! Douglas Bowman’s sliding doors method of CSS design offers sophisticated graphics...
'Many of the CSS-based tabs I’ve seen suffer from the same generic features: blocky rectangles of color, maybe an outline, a border disappears for the current tab, a color changes for the hover state. Is this all CSS can offer us?
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Drop-Down Menus, Horizontal Style | A List Apart: 'Multi-tiered drop-down menus are a hassle to build and maintain when they rely on big, honking chunks of JavaScript. Nick Rigby presents a way to.. cleanly structured XHTML and straightforward CSS
'using structured HTML and simple CSS, it is possible to create visually appealing drop-downs that are easy to edit and update + cross-browser - and no JavaScript is required! (Actually, a tiny bit of JavaScript is needed, but it’s not what you think.)
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