Mini rant on the way:-)

TBH I don’t think we need any talk anymore about “talking about LD” – certainly not in the same context as at the summit. To stop – or at least lessen – the comments you mention about a solution looking for a problem, what the LD tool development community needs to do is (imho ) is start demoing some real examples of courses, viewed not from the editing point of view but from what the learner actually experiences. Then take it back to show how these lesons/activities/designs were built and orchestrated by the tools.

The widget approach I think could be particularly appealing/useful in this context and some of the screen shots Paul showed of the potential redesign of the Sled player I think could engage real teachers and allow them to start having the conversations in their language, relating to their context and let us (saddo) educational technologists build relevant domain models based on what really happens. I think this would be much more effective than trying to explain a spec or a complex tool -which all the tools demoed at the summit still are.