SCORM Comics?
1.27.2006 - Tim Martin The SCORM Engine, the SCORM Driver, these are our products. But now, we're branching out into SCORM Comics? That's right, as part of our trade show booth at the upcoming ATSD event in Denver, Hannah Wyatt created this comic for us. Two frames really tell the story of our business quite effectively. We suspect that you can relate to the feelings of the guy in the green shirt. If so, please give us a call.
8:13 AM
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International Plugfest 2
1.24.2006 - Mike Rustici
ADL hosted the Second International Plugfest event last week in Taipei. The event was well attended by the Asian countries but had surprisingly little Western representation.
I gave the presentation "LMS and Content Conversion Tools for Multiple Standards" [download] in the SCORM 2004 Product Demonstrations track. I also made an impromptu presentation during the Plenary Sessions about our hands-on experiences with SCORM 2004 and the challenges we've faced during our implementations.
The 3rd Edition of SCORM 2004 is due out anytime now. The 3rd Edition will include a number of changes and improvements to the specification. Since publishing SCORM 2004, ADL has made over 150 fixes and improvements to the specification that will all be rolled into this new release. The changes have all been approved be the ADL Technical Working Group (of which we are a part) and will be release for review be the community at large before being finalized.
CORDRA seems to be making progress...slowly, but surely. The ADL Registry is supposedly operational and the source code behind it should be released this month for public consumption.
ADL's next big push will be for performance support integration. A test bed was recently established to experiment with the integration of S1000D technical manuals and SCORM training.
SCORM 2004 adoption continues to increase with LMS vendors leading the way. We've been in a chicken and egg situation while we wait for significant adoption by either LMS's or content vendors. It looks as if the LMS vendors will be leading the way which should spur on more 2004 content development.
Thanks the everybody who stopped by the Plug N Play area. We successfully tested the SCORM Engine with several other vendors and we also had a chance to demonstrate its new multilingual capabilities. The SCORM Engine even impressed some of the other LMS vendors with its robustness, usability and functionality. Our SCORM Reference Poster was a hit with nearly half of all the attendees stopping by to take one home.
Thanks to Dr. Shih and everybody else at Tamkang University for hosting us at this event.
2:18 PM
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SCORM Reference Poster
1.10.2006 - Mike Rustici
Internally here at Rustici Software, we've long known that having a consolidated SCORM reference on our desk makes our lives a lot easier. Being that we work with SCORM all day long, day in and day out, this just made sense. Lately we've heard from a few other folks that a similar reference might be handy for them as well. Turns out, there really are other SCORM-nerds out there! For all of you (and even non-nerds), we put together a SCORM 2004 Reference Poster that you can freely download from the Resources page of our website.
The poster is current with the upcoming SCORM 2004 3rd Edition and includes:
The complete CMI and ADL.NAV data models with data types, syntax and descriptions.
A road map to the sequencing pseudo code with function relationships and descriptions.
A syntax reference for the runtime API.
A summary of the SCORM activity tracking data model and how it relates to the CMI runtime data model.
Check out the poster, download it, print it out, put it on your desk and let us know what you think.
Come visit us in the Plug-N-Play area at International Plugfest 2 for a free printed color copy.
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