Java Install
So there I am, setting up a Wimba meeting for a group and it doesn’t connect properly. Vas ist das? me thinks… 
So I go to the java site and follow their download and install. Java updates have been known to be a pain but I do it anyway. It actually gives me a prompt stating that there is a website that will show me how to disable the automatic updates. Is Sun playing nice? So I go to the page for the fun of it and find that its only a search menu with no information on how to disable the updates. It doesn’t work. So I start writing this post, get to the point where I’m going to insert the link for the page and it works!?! Crazy. So I go through the requirements and it takes me to a tab that says “Java Last Updated on 5/19/09.” I click on update (remember I just updated to get this whole ball rolling) and it says I have the latest version. Silliness. A virus or java is dumb. I’m going with the latter.
So which of the conferencing solutions can I implement into Moodle? I know a couple of them work but I’m pretty sure that I would need to have direct access to the actual installation directory. I’d really like to see some of these LMS/CMS (which one are we calling it again?) stepped up a notch but it takes so much time. People wonder why schools just take the easy route and purchase one system for everyone to use i.e. blackboard.