Last post about this, I promise.
We've just added an online participation option for the upcoming Education Metadata Meetup. Sorry to do this so late in the game, but we had some logistics to sort out. I've also copied and pasted the final agenda below. Register here:
8:00am: Breakfast
8:30: Why We're Here
- Education Metadata Background (Dave Gladney, LRMI, Michael Jay, Educational Systemics)
- Vision for US Education (Richard Culatta, US Department of Education)
9:00: Learning Registry and LRMI--Enabling the Vision
- The Need for Instructionally Relevant Metadata (Randy Reina, Intel)
- The Role of Distributed Metadata Registries (Steve Midgley, US Department of Education)
9:30: Show and tell (moderated by Michael Jay)
Government
- Jeanne Kitchens, Illinois Shared Learning Environment (ISLE)
- Elizabeth Neuman, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
Developers/Solutions
Providers
- Brian Ausland, Navigation North
- Thor Prichard, Clarity Innovations
- Steve Nordmark, Knovation
Content Providers/Curators
- David Grandison, BrainPOP
- Barbra Sperling, MERLOT
- Michelle Brennan, ISKME
- Marlowe Johnson, Pearson
Institutions
- Melissa Wadman & Darren Milligan, Smithsonian
- Maggie Jacobs, The New York Public Library
10:50: Bringing It All Together (Michael Jay)
11:00: Adjourn
11:30am-12:30pm: Networking Lunch at the Carving Room (300 Massachusetts Ave. NW)