Ravi Blogs about IT Topics

I am writing this after a recent email exchange between a few of us about whether we should look at an open source course management system called the Moodle as a replacement for Blackboard. I will spare you the details of the email exchange because there was a fair amount of confusion surrounding this topic. [...]

I was invited to attend the AT&T Executive Summit by Brian Harvey, who is our AT&T representative. In the event you are not familiar, we have been a long term customer of AT&T for all long distance and international calls and SNET (and then SBC) customer for local telephone service, telephone service to woodframe houses, [...]

I met with the desktop support services staff twice in the past month. The second meeting, which we had last week, was a longer one and included the staff from the store and the service center. Despite the fact that I had a pretty good idea of the kind of things that this group does, [...]

Mike Roy has been talking to Suzanna Tamminen about possible collaboration between the Learning Objects program and the Wesleyan University Press. During those conversations, some other issues surrounding the WesPress website surfaced and Suzanna and her team (Leslie Starr and Stephanie Elliott) met with Justin and Jen Carlstrom from University Communications and Pat, Mary and [...]

Getting Old
My heartfelt thanks to you all for the surprise party on June 29th to celebrate my 20 years at Wesleyan and my 50th birthday… After we left Wesleyan, the party continued with our good friends who had one surprise after another until we ended one of the most memorable days in my life with [...]