By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Montreal 2005
My head is full of ideas from today's BlogWalk, some of which will emerge in my talk tomorrow (if I ever get it written). In the meantime, here is a link to photos from Montreal before, after and during the snowstorm. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Downloading Service Offered by University Failing to Entice Students
Experiences elsewhere vary, but this report indicates a very slow start to legal music downloading at Tufts. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Repositories
The quality of this preentation is a bit unever (some of the diagrams absolutely need interpretation) but the author makes enough good points that it is worth a view. The 'The Next Wave' diagram on slide 5 should be noted by the LMS industry. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Interoperability State of Play at IMS Melbourne Meeting
Good and detailed article describing the ebb and flow of ideas exchanged at the IDEA Summer 2005 conference held last week in Melbourne. What is interesting was what appeared to be the consensus that, despite all the initiatives, we still don't have interoperability. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. DRUMS
Scott Matthews proposes DRUMS, a database of creative works and relevant metadata including, crucially, rights and permissions. "The intention is to enrich the environment for creating and consuming digital works by enriching the environment for developing new applications and services to interact with these works." Doesn't sit well with me, and I comment on Joho, where I found the link (it's a Joho day today). More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Audio of OSN 2005 Keynote
I will be participating in the Online Social Networks conference as a last minute educational stream addition. This page links to an MP3 of a converstaion among keynotes Howard Rheingold, Lisa Kimball, and Joi Ito. Neat idea. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Distributed Engagement With Courses and Other Units of Learning
Scott Wilson pushes the concept forward a notch, discussing the array of services that would be needed to support an online course - or as he has decided to call it, a "shared learning context". More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. Educational Metadata FAQ launched
Coverage of the newly launched educational metadata FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions). I toodled around in the site for a while, and while the information appears accurate, it's pretty basic. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. ANT
The multimedia revolution continues with the introduction of ANT - currently for Apple computers only - which is in essence a podcasting tool for video. More...