haiku LMS

We are working on a number of business related changes at HAIKU, all of which are designed to help educators teach and students learn.  That was the reason Bryan and I started HAIKU and it is the driving force behind everything we do.  We started, in April 2006, with the belief that our collective vision and skill combined with the expertise of some really smart partners could play a small but important role in the improvement of our collective educational experience.  We believed (as did you, most likely, if you are reading this) in the power of learning.  And for every

Haiku continues to garner some nice reviews from new users.  Recently Judy O'Connell of HeyJude wrote:

This is why the Haiku LMS has instant appeal.  It is as easy to use as any blog, wiki, ning etc  tool you are currently playing with. It does what a good LMS needs to do - allows you to create classes, drop boxes, add attachements - whatever. Choose your own templates for a fun look too!

Once in a while a great idea merges with excellent execution.  Even less often the result actually has a positive impact.  This is one of those times.  I was showing our newest feature to the instructional technologist from a large marketing company the other day and he used more superlatives in those ten minutes than I've heard in a long time.  Check it out for yourself and tell me if you don't immediately think of a dozen ways that Embed the Web™ could make your life as an educator easier

We're headed to San Antonio for the annual National Educational Computing Conference early next week.  We're exhibiting at booth #5030 and all our information can be found here.  We LOVE this conference.  It's always full of old friends and new inspirational ideas. 

So, we accomplished a lot this week (especially on our soon-to-be unveiled social media strategy).  One item that we can share is an observation that there are really a lot of useless and bizarre widgets in the social nets!  We were mildly astonished to note a widget company (RockYou!) raised $35 million in venture capital today.  Their “killer” widget is a flash slideshow with pop music playing in the background.