Mathieu Plourde

"Marist's Mark Van Dyke navigates higher education's technology maze with the help of the Sakai open source LMS" - Mathieu Plourde

"Fully integrated into the eLearning environment, this innovative module lets educators and students store a wide array of materials to showcase performance and progress—an ever-changing collection of multimedia artifacts, course-created materials, blogs, discussions and wikis. Faculty can meet students in their digital world and profoundly change the way they teach. Students can take their complete ePortfolio with them upon graduation and add to it indefinitely during further education and throughout their career. " - Mathieu Plourde

"The course portfolio is developed as a result of my participation in Disciplinary Commons project. At this time it is somewhat a work in-progress and will be published for public consumption by the end of June 2006. " - Mathieu Plourde

"Open source applications and tools are a great alternative for web designers on a budget. Many open source tools have comparable features to the expensive applications, and are also free" - Mathieu Plourde

"When we published the Sakai Pilot Evaluation Final Report, we knew that most people would prefer a visual summary rather than reading the 74-page document or even the Executive Summary." - Mathieu Plourde

Twitter lists are absolutely going to change the way people use Twitter – exactly how is not really clear yet, it may take a little while before the dust settles on this one. Lists have added a new social element to Twitter, which did not exist up until now. Lists will either be the great equalizer, or create a pseudo ‘class’ system within Twitter. - Mathieu Plourde