Last Saturday I wrote a Journal article about CloudSocial and IMS Learning Tools Interoperability. I liked it a lot – I was asked to be “not so technical” – so I wrote the article focusing on the ideas behind CloudSocial and IMS LTI and how we hope it will change people’s perspective when they build content and craft learning experiences.
So I sent in my draft to my editor and he said “No”. He wanted a different article – one more focused on the standards and on the technical aspects and on the possibilities that IMS LTI opens up. Now those of you who know me well – know my nearly automatic reaction when someone tells me “No” :). But not in this case! He gave me really clear and honest guidance about what he wanted in the article. So I quickly decided to publish last week’s article as a white paper on the CloudSocial site as soon as my co-authors work on the text a bit. The nice thing about being a white paper is that we can stress all the concepts that underly the approach to CloudSocial even more strongly than if it were destined for publication in a Journal.
So this weekend, again I am writing a Journal Article – hopefully my editor will like this one better – it is more technical and focuses on what the IMS Tools Interoperability Spec is and how it works and some case-studies on how it has been used so far.
So far I am on my second cup of coffee and plugged back into the power supply since my battery was running our as I typed in my recliner – but I am up to 9 pages – aiming for about 15-16 pages and a complete first draft by noon so I can finish painting the Kitchen before I leave for the Conexions conference in Houston on Thursday and the IMS Quarterly meeting in Long Beach next Sunday.
Update: The article is finished – draft 0 at 11:30 AM – it is 15 pages long. I like how it turned out – lets see if the Journal editor likes it.
I include the Introduction of the article below. As always comments and suggestions are welcome.