This is a Netherlands week. Monday I am doing a video shoot of some K12 students using Sakai and portfolio – with JJ Doherty. I will edit and publish as soon as possible. This is more in my video series on “Using Sakai”.
Tuesday through Thursday is in Maastricht at the IMS meeting – at the Open University of the Netherlands – my first visit there. The meeting will be cool – I hope to see IMS Enterprise and IMS Tool Interoperabiltiy v2 move forward as well as IMS Common Cartridge.
I feel bad that we don’t have more representation and technical involvement in IMS from Sakai schools. I keep going to the meetings but I am weakly covering three technical areas. Josh Holzman has gotten involved in the IMS Enterprise – that helps a lot. Zach Thomas and others did all the technical work on Sakai’s IMS Common Cartridge. Of course Steve Lay of Cambridge is an IMS icon in the QTI space. I just wish there were more folks that came to the meetings and helped with the technical work. This really is not a “Sakai” responsibility – Sakai is not a member of IMS – this is something that our schools need to do as schools.
Ah well enough whining – I look forward to meeting folks like Rob Koper and getting totally immersed in the Learning Design stuff – this is a great meeting to come up to speed on *that* topic. Also I will run into Kerry Blinco of DEST fame and catch up – there are lots and lots of fun topics to talk with Kerry about from RAMS to CORDRA to Arrow – etc etc etc.. The Aussies have some fun stuff going on in the area of data repositories.
What a week it looks to be. And JJ is picking me up in an hour to go to the video taping..