Accomplishments:

• Spring ’12 courses running

• IST 230
• Saw a note from Allan Gyorke about flipping the classroom
• Definitely a great idea being headed up by Chris Millet and others at ETS
• Thought about how 230 is based on this model of learning online since there aren’t any lectures
• Live sessions are used to provide solutions and address specific problems
• Here is a video and more info about flipping the classroom: http://tlt.its.psu.edu/flip/
• IST 295A
• Some students were unable to get to the course peer eval b/c I didn’t update the course schedule to include the new link.
• Able to get to the bottom of this with the help of the WC Helpdesk
• IST 331
• Got a note from student about the optional evaluation
• placed a subtitle calling it optional & info for course design and delivery team
• More feedback about not knowing where the course schedule was
• thinking that it makes the most sense to include this in the Lessons tab
  
• IST 402
  • Met with David about peer evals for the course
    • Need to find averages for each student by sorting my email id of students and doing additional calculations
    • Best practice is to create a new sheet on the original spreadsheet by copying data for manipulation. This avoids tarnishing original data and allows for some creative manipulation
    • Found it useful to hide comments to complete the task
    • Also got same result for average wheather averaged each individual submission or averaged by category and averaged the result
  • Talked about the use of rubrics
    • Need to ask Melissa if she knows about the portability from the interface to excel of the tool being developed by Khusro and group at EMS
    • Also would be nice if could account for late submissions in the rubric
      • can’t use negatives in ANGEL rubric tool
      • move negatively across columns but the feedback will be off
• IST 420
• Met with John H and LA’s
• Talked about rubrics & peer evals
• Spring ’12 revisions
  • IST 210 (Heberling)
  • Added Ch 1 & 2 Assessments to the dev space
  • Included the essays in the exam
  • Found out that rubrics in ANGEL can be attached to assessments as well as dropboxes
  • Received assessment banks from Gary to be added to the course
  • Decided to use rubrics for assessment essay and project materials
  • IST 220 (Bertin)
  • Still waiting for more info on where the mystery section is located
  • IST 240 (Smith)
  • Received Lesson 09 materials on 2/21
  • These materials include an intro to Java and Coding Standards
  • Set the materials in place. Included the coding standards at the end of the lesson 9 materials
  • IST 402 (Cameron) – I’ll be assisting Melissa when needed
  • IST 402 (Saab)
    • Met with David on 2/20
      • I got all of the materials on my mac to populate the course
  • IST 421 (Hill)
  • Checked in with John Hill via email about setting up a meeting to discuss the 421 Development
  • Have a preliminary plan in place
  • Met on 2/23 about latest course schedule
  • Set a meeting for Fri March 2 to start making adjustments
  • IST 440W
    • No word on where this is
  • Madison proposal
    • Awaiting confirmation about both the lightning session

  Ongoing Projects:

  • Updating google doc for Summer ’12
  • Working on Summer 2012 courses: 110, 111S, 210, 220, 230, 240, 295B, 301, 302, 420 EA (Melissa), 421, 495
  • Still need IST 260W content added in drupal
  • Rest of course has begun
  • Once this is completed, I’ll check it with the WC offering
  • Sounds like there are some things that need to be adjusted

  Immediate Decisions / Issues:

  • I don’t have any major concerns since we are moving forward on most of the revisions that need to be ready for summer. The only course that is concerning me a bit is 220 since Lisa Bertin has had to pick up responsibilities for a sick colleague. We have a plan, but I haven’t seen much from it, nor have gotten much direction about what she would like me to handle.

  • Talking more about transcription. We also mentioned something to Greg about the tool that Pat Besong had developed. Greg sounded like he was interested and was going to look into using it. Not sure where that is, should we have IT add the software to the student computers? Do we need to  discuss how we will handle the transcription? Is there a protocol that you would like us to follow?

  Some things that I learned this week:

  • See notes from IST 402 in the current semester about the peer evals in google
  • See notes for IST 210 revision for rubrics in ANGEL
  • Learned that in ANGEL when in assessments, text is added to the Page Text settings field, it shows up on the screen where students can Begin Now.

  Back Burner:

  • Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual World Research Committee

  Days off / Conferences:

  • February days out of the office 3 (half day vaca in pm), 6 (vaca), & 24 (half day sick-dental/half day vaca)
  • March 22 S.T.A.R.T Conference
  • March 24 TLT Symposium 
  • June 11 & 12 Web 2012 Conference
  • June 22, 25-29 vacation days