This is my weekly IMS report – portions have been redacted.
Worked on the following
– Write up several drafts of the LTI+CC document – it is looking pretty good – perhaps we should just call it a “best practice”
– Attend the LTI meeting on Thursday – presented and got good feedback on the LTI+CC document
– Had a meeting with John and XXXXXX – planning for a K12 TI demo – we came up with some possibilities
– Next week I meet with Bryan to go over the Microsoft IMS Compliant LMS that we will be demoing in Long Beach
– I have a meeting in two weeks with XXXXXXXX. He is interested in the Medical School work with IMS LTI.
My next plans are to take materials from the LTI WG surrounding the launch protocol and see if I cannot form them into a Best Practice” that we can quickly advance to compliment the LTI+CC best practice – that gives us a full/formal/approved solution for Basic LTI+CC
After that I want to go after Common Cartridge – I want to build some reference Java Artifacts that parse and interpret CC’s, as well as a Python Reference Implementation, and to see if I can extract some of Bryan’s .NET code to make a reusable artifact.
I am planning to get started work on adding CommonCartridge import to Sakai’s / Melete as soon as the Melete LTI work makes it into production and I can catch my breath. I expect to get some support and assistance in this task from XXXXXX.
In my research and teaching that happens to be related, I did the following:
– LTI Continues in solid production in the Med School – the dev team continues to improve the tools
– I wrote some slides that describe the LTI Launch Sequence.
http://cloudcollab.googlecode.com/files/lti_launch_sequence_01.pdf
– Development on the LectureTools IMS LTI integration continues – I wrote some of the above slides to help me explain stuff to fellow developers more efficiently.
– I rewrote the Python LTI code to support multi-tenancy really nicely – I need to go back and convert the PHP LTI framework to being Multi-Tenancy aware.
– I wrote some slides about Data Models for Multi-Tenancy in an LTI Tool
http://cloudcollab.googlecode.com/files/lti_datamodel_01.pdf
– I built a new IMS LTI Tool and put it into production. It is a multi-user online game for folks to explore the notion of “Free Riders” in public goods situations – it is not much fun unless you find 6 other people to play at the same time.
http://wiscrowd.appspot.com/
– One of my students is working on a FireFox Plugin to launch LTI tools as an independent study
– My other independent study student working on LTI in Python went to the Inauguration so she was not so productive this week :)
– This morning I am writing a first draft of a Journal article about how LTI can change the way we think about authoring content, teaching, and learning. You know we academics must write Journal articles from time to time or we vanish.