autounfocusNonperiodic oscillation between learning objects, informal online communities, self-organization, peer learning, instructional technology, open source culture, and intellectual property law.JIME on the Semantic Web in Ed- May 25, 2004 The JIME special issue on the Semantic Web in Education is out. Congrats to Terry and Denise on what appears to be one of the more useful contributions to the instructional technology conversation in recent memory!http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/archives/000556.html Meeting David Carter-Tod- May 22, 2004 So I finally got out to meet David Carter-Tod. Absolutely smashing time. Exceedingly excellent guy. Very excited to hook up with him again sometime soon. Here are some pictures from the VCCS outing to Maymont to substantiate my claim that we actually met: Me and DCT Bridge in Maymont&8217;s Japanese Gardenhttp://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/archives/000553.html MT Affronts, Offends, Loses- May 14, 2004 Well, for all of their existence the reusability.org blogs have been powered by Movable Type. But not for much longer, I guess. This morning 6A announced their new licensing plans. The free version of MT is now severely crippled: &8220;No more than one author and three weblogs.&8221; This certainly puts reusability.org over the limit, with 12 authors hosting 15 blogs here.http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/archives/000543.html OLS Software Updated- May 14, 2004 The OSLO Engineering Team today released a new version of the OLS software. The update includes a number of new features based on user feedback and requests: Link to MITOCW Materials: Forums now contain a convienent link to the MITOCW materials, making it easier for you to reference the materials while participating in the forums. RSS Feeds: RSS feeds are now available for OLS News and Forums to help keep people up to date on the latest postings. See the FAQ for more details about this..http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/archives/000542.html IMSSSP Comes So Close...- May 7, 2004 A few years ago I gave a conference presentation about adding collaboration functionality to SCORM. Not many people seemed particularly interested in human-to-human interaction in SCORM (or IMS, etc.), and so I presented a model where such functionality might be &8220;hacked in&8221; via a common roll-up area where arbitrary data (&8220;comments&8221;, &8220;questions&8221;, &8220;answers&8221;, &8220;documents&8221;, etc.) could be stored on a per SCO basis (almost exactly the way our OLS...http://www.reusability.org/blogs/david/archives/000538.html |