Overheard in the Learning Management System
Like any zealot, I spend weekends, evenings, social engagements, and holidays ranting about the things that really get on my nerves. Today, July 4th, a day commemorating the birth of our glorious nation, I spent the early afternoon orating on the relative merits of the LMS in hopes of fomenting revolution. I am currently taking an Information Architecture course, ironically offered only through BlackBoard, the arch-nemesis of all that is righteous and enlightened in higher education, a blithely tyrannical George III to Web 2.0’s promise of digital democracy, a naval blockade on usability and information seeking behavior, an unjust tax levied on the collective sanity of the student body.
Maybe I’m taking this too seriously, you say? Well, what did you do to celebrate America today? Eat some hotdogs? Listen to some Lee Greenwood tunes? I think it’s clear who the real patriot is. Hit the break for the full thread. Names have been changed to protect the innocent, the neutral, and the obsequiously monarchical.
