I wanted to first put out a quick promo for a new blog I’m writing for in addition to the 75 other (actually four other) blogs and podcasts I currently contribute to. Becoming Legit is a blog I started up with two peers in my company about what we’re doing to make social media (blogs, wikis, podcasting, collaborative tools, social networking) and make it legitimate (blessed) inside our organization. It’s an uphill battle as I’m sure you are feeling yourself (maybe?). It’s a young blog, but we’re going to be posting to it weekly and we’ll be covering a number of subjects, technical, political and otherwise on what it takes to go from working in the shadows to stepping out into the light. It should be interesting if you’re into social media and/or knowledge management.
Second, there’s SO MUCH I want to write about concerning IMS and their passive aggressive overtures towards open licensing with Creative Commons and the on-again/off-again romance with SCORM (right now it’s off again), but there’s a lot of drama and it keeps changing, so I can’t really write to it without sounding like a guy with way too much time on his hands. And it has never been my intention to be the “Comic Book Guy” of the E-Learning world. So I’m sorry to Philip and others for being silent on this subject — there’s a lot of marrow to boil out of this stew yet.
Third, I hope you’ve been enjoying the ActionScript 3.0 stuff I’ve been tossing up here. There’s more coming.
philip
| 16-Mar-08 at 6:52 pm | Permalink
personally, i find IMS’s moves as hard to follow as their standards.
on the surface, both seem great… good ideas that will help everyone out. but once you get into the details, things get much harder to understand and seem much more complicated than they need to be.
i always try to use and promote standards in web development and elearning, but when a group like IMS places a stranglehold on “standards” (their standards are not always public, which means they can’t truly be a standard), it always prompts me to start googling for alternatives.
RE: the Becoming Legit blog: sounds interesting, i’m looking forward to it. operations “behind the firewall” are a big concern for many of us. for instance, where i work, we can’t use PHP at all. this means no wikis, no blogs, etc., unless we use Microsoft SharePoint. yuck.
Brooks
| 26-Mar-08 at 12:25 am | Permalink
Dood - Piss on comic book fears and gives us the straight dope. I for one love getting insights on the elearning sector from someone with your background and vocabulary. Bring on the elearning drama!