The Tin Can, Can
Dennis Calahan,
Learnstreaming,
Sept 07, 2012
I've always thought of the web page as the river rather than the static document - that's why I've long been interested in things like RSS (and why I find document-based scholarship, like the authoring of academic papers, so frustrating). So it's interesting for me to read Dennis Calahan write "I think of Tin Can as 'streaming what you're learning' or learnstreaming." This takes us right into Dave Winer's 'river of news' (or, in this case, 'river of learning'). Be sure to see his JSON River format, just released. Think of Tin Can - the new specification being designed to replace SCORM - as the way you describe the objects used in a learning conversation, as in activity theory. Heady? Maybe - but this is very much in line with my own Speaking in LOLcats thinking, so I think there's something to it.
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