In my previous posts on this topic, I outlined the mundate yet important core use cases that LIS is intended to address. Now I’d like to start looking at some of the sexier possibilities that the spec enables. In recent guest posts, Inigral‘s Michael Staton wrote about the Schools on Facebook application and also let the cat out […]
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IMS Learning Information Services: What a Solution Looks Like
In an earlier post, I outlined the motivating pain that brought the working group members to the table. In this post, I’m going to list out the highlights of the solution we came up with to address that pain. Again, this post is focused mainly on the important but unsexy problems of SIS/LMS integration that […]
SIS to Facebook Direct. Introducing Schools on Facebook.
Hi! I’m Michael Staton and I’m a guest blogger. What I say in no way represents Michael Feldstein or his ancestors. Also, our screenshot here is of our app with Abilene Christian University, a school known for being a thought leader in instructional technology and mobile learning products. (They give their students iPhones. No, […]
Oracle's Work with Fluid on Accessibility
Although I try to maintain separation between e-Literate, which is my personal blog, and my life as an Oracle employee, I don’t mind posting about my employer every now and then when I think that we’re doing good work that my readers might want to know about. And this is something I’m particularly happy about. […]
Traveling This Week
I’m leaving tomorrow for the Oracle Higher Education Users’ Group Conference and will be gone most of the week. Anybody who will be there and wants to chat can find me in the audience at either of the SAIP presentations or at the Oracle booth on Tuesday from 2-3 PM. As for the blog, I’ll […]
More On the Widgets vs. Portlets Thing
Thanks to Oracle colleague Jake Kuramoto, I just learned about a product Oracle is in the process of acquiring that has some connection to the whole portlets/widgets discussion. Apparently, BEA has this product called Ensemble that can (among other things) take any web page and turn it into a “pagelet” (which is kinda like a […]
Oracle Doing the Web 2.0 Thing
I generally don’t blog about my employer too much, since this is a personal blog. But Oracle is doing some interesting (and perhaps surprising) Web 2.0ish things that I thought were worth noting. First, the company now has an official wiki, based on WetPaint, which is open to customers and employees alike for building up […]