Posts by Megan Bowe

A Tech Dive into xAPI

You’ve all been waiting patiently for this Thursday, December 6th. We appreciate that. If you don’t know what I’m talking about... Surprise, it’s a webinar! You’ve probably heard what xAPI is, you’re excited about the possibility of collecting data from a lot of tools that…

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Thanks for Making DevLearn Awesome!

First, a huge thanks to David Holcombe, Heidi Fisk, and everyone else at The Guild who have been so amazingly helpful in providing a platform for all of this to happen on. Another huge thanks to Dave Kelly for curating the backchannel. Finding all of the…

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We're hosting #TalkTech this week!

This week we’ll be hosting #TalkTech along with @BLPindy. This is a twitter chat that happens every Thursday from 2:00-2:30 pm CT (3:00 - 3:30 ET). Follow @projecttincan and the #TalkTech hashtag if you want to participate in the chat. Andy (@tincandy) and I (@meganbowe)…

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How Do People Find Their Paths?

Meet Steve... Steve is in his 20’s and he uses the internet for EVERYTHING. Steve recently finished his Bachelors degree in business, he works in finance. Every day he finds himself more interested in the technology he’s using for his job, more than the job…

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What's Up with Verbs in .95?

The 0.95 spec is complete; you can grab a copy here if you would like to read it. I recommend it with a cup of hot chocolate by the fire, kinda... If you’re into warm stuff and cold hard specifications. The 0.9 version of the…

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Float's Shiny Little iOS Library

It's now even easier to kickstart your xAPI iOS development.   There have been a number of new adopters coming on board in the run up to DevLearn and great new stuff from our existing adopters. Anyone at DevLearn is in for a real treat,…

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There are Stories to be Told

We really like telling stories here at Rustici. They’re a great way to help someone understand an idea in a context that they can grasp onto. Think about how a story opens up a little of your world to other people, brings them into how…

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Why Aren’t We Talking About Content?

One thing that I hear often from people working with learning technology is that there are a lot of standards: they seem to compete and that makes it really hard to know what one is supposed to do about these new standards. One common thing…

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Our New Guest Blogger – Julie Dirksen!

With the guest blogger series, we're looking to pull in the views and opinions of people across the community who are all part of the bigger ecosystem xAPI plays in. That's why we're really happy to have Julie here. She's brilliant and has been designing…

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Badges, xAPI, and Boy Scouts

A lot of people have been coming to me to talk about xAPI lately (right, obviously… this is my job.) Anyway, a good number of them have a specific interest in badges. They want to give people badges as symbol of completion or accomplishment. They…

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