Stephen Downes

Drawing on a post from Will Richardson, Scott Wilson observes that "many teachers aren't likely to be happy with the downside of the small-pieces approach, which is cobbling together a whole range of tools," and then proceeds to map out an approach that "is primarily a piece of glueware for doing the cobbling together, while retaining most of the flexibility that the small-pieces syndication world promises." I like the approach, though I would seek greater simplicity of design (for example, at the bottom of the activities diagram, Wilson draws separate panes for sources, titles and the resource itself, which though standard for feed readers, is (in my view) needlessly cluttered).