The name SAIL is firmly entrenched as the W3C's Web Ontology Language. Within 10 years, this term will be nearly as ubiquitous as HTML. Imagine a product now named "HTML" that wasn't HTML.

So we need a new name, or family of names. This page is a "namestorm" (Jim, neologism alert!) to capture all our stupid and brilliant ideas for new names.

I'll get the ball rolling by pasting below the ones I generated before SAIL.

Terms

Something else we can throw in here are the ideas we want to convey:

platform
education
pedagogy
technology
distributed
community
peer-based
advanced
object-based
open
reference
foundation
teaching
instruction
learning
network

Unique first letters: P E T D C A O R F I L N

Top important terms:

P latform
O pen
T echnology
I nteractive

L earning
P edagogy
E ducation

Main contenders

• EPIC
  • Education Platform for Instructional Content
  • very taken

• PETAL
  • Platform for Education Technology Advancing Learning
  • connotes: pedagogy, portal, modular and multi-faceted
  • used by Southern Alabama but not platform, technology or evenresearch

• POET
  • Platform for Object-based Educational Technology
  • used by [MIT] but not specifically edtech

• OPAL
  • Open Platform Advancing Learning
  • not very taken

Words

Plant - could be acronym too
Fruit - yield of plant, more catchy
Olive - Open Learning ??
Pesto - Platform for Education ??

Native American names

Female

COCHETA: stranger
EYOTA: great
HALONA: of happy fortune
HELKI: Miwok name meaning " touch."
ITUHA: sturdy oak
LEOTIE: flower of the prairie
MACAWI: Sioux name meaning " generous."
MEDA: prophetess
MINAL: fruit
NAMID: Cheyenne name meaning "star dancer."
NATA: speaker
NUNA: land
ONIDA: the one searched for
PETUNIA: flower name
TUWA: Hopi name meaning " earth."

Male

ALO: Hopi name meaning " spiritual guide."
ELAN: friendly
IGASHO: wanders
KAGA: chronicler
LAPU: Hopi name meaning " cedar bark."
MILAP: charitable
NITIS: friend
PINON: myth name
YUMA: son of a chief

Forgone acronyms

• PEWTER
  • platform for education web

• LITE
• taken lite learning@Google

• PET
  • Platform for Education Technology
  • connotes: small, friendly, furry

• POEM
  • Platform for Object-based Education Management
  • connotes: elegance, limp wrists

• OSCI
  • Open System for Computer-mediated Instruction
  • connotes: Berkeley (Oski the bear)

• POOP
  • Platform for Open Object Pedagogy
  • good words, bad acronym

• POOL
  • Platform for Open Object Learning
  • connotes: shared, fluid, growing

• POLO
  • Platform for Open Learning Objects

• OPT
  • Open Platform for Teaching

• OPOL
  • Open Platform for Object-based Learning

• MOST
  • Modular Object Standards in Teaching

• TEAL
  • Technology Environment Advancing Learning

• POSTPIE
  • Platform Open School Teaching Pedagogy Instruction Environent

• POST
  • Platform for Open Standards in Teaching

• PIE
  • Platform for Instruction

• SILO
  • System for Instruction by Learning Objects

• FLEM
  • Foundational Learning Environent Management

• LEAP
  • Learning Environment for Applied Pedagogy

• CAFES
  • Computer Architecture Founded on Education Standards

• DIOCES
  • Directed Instruction by Object Content Educational System

• SOFA
  • Standards-based Object Foundation Architecture

• ALPO
  • Architecture and Learning Platform (Open)

• LAPDANCE
  • Learning Architecture Platform Directed And Necessitated by Computational Environment

• STOLI
  • Standards-based Technology for Object Learning Instruction

• PONS
  • Platform for Object-based Networking Services