• IST 210
  • Gary sent me another adjustment to Lab 4 that I made a pdf and added to the dev space
  • Made adjustment to assessments by moving Ch 1 & 2 essay questions to Unit 1 Assessment and deleting from the chapter assessments
    • Gary to reviewed and we came up with the following plan:
      • Move essays to unit assessments
      • Create one generic rubric to assess all essays
      • Edit the rubric to include the need to include one outside source in the essay
  • Gary sent out Lab 7 to Fred and Mike for feedback and updated on 7/9
  • Participated in a google+ hangout session with Gary and several students on Wed at 7:30 PM
• IST 220
• Seems like students are spending way too much time on the labs
• Hoping that the adjustments that we make for next semester help to make the course a bit better
• Summer ’12 revisions/developments
  • IST 420 (Ocker)
    • Met with Rosalie on Monday 7/9 at 11 AM
      • Rosalie has most of the course built out on paper
      • I will be putting together pdf’s of reading and embedding youtube vids
  • IST 402 (Saab)
    • Next meeting is 8/13
    • Here is progress update: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DahJFuTal3noBrsQJXeBnfwgtWDIZ3v1Cm0E8VnhxUM/edit
• Madison presentations
• Worked more on perfecting the prezi and ppt
• Meeting with Gary and Amy on August 3 for photo shoot and practice
• Need to script out what I will be saying for lightning session for practice
• Fall ’12 Course Prep – mapped out on my outlook calendar courses to work on so that I’m done before we head out to Madison
  
  • IST 110
    • Sec 001
      
      • Copied Jan’s Spring ’12 section into the Fall ’12 space
      • Notified Jan, but didn’t receive word about how to proceed
      • Followed up and received request for deadline
        • Provided my thinking and overall schedule
        • We’ll reconvene on 8/15 to see if the 1st section is ready to populate section 002
    • Sec 002
      • Plan is to fix section 001, then copy into section 002
    • Sec 003
      • Copied master course section into the space
      • Met and oriented Marcela to online 110
    • Sec 004 Pearson Pilot
      
      • No longer a Pearson Pilot
      • Probably will not be used based upon into from Amy S

  • IST 111S
    
    • Sec 001
      • Still awaiting feedback, but it is set from what I can see
      • Populated and set up the space on 6/11
  • IST 210
  • Sec 001
    • Contacted Gary about waiting until after the semester to populate 210 for Fall ’12
    • He thought that after the last assessment would work best (August 5)
    • I placed a task on my calendar to take care of this on August 6
    • I updated the course schedule in the development space so that it will be ready to populate the Fall ’12 space
    • Also make assessment adjustments described above
    • Made rubric adjustments and received feedback from Mike, still waiting for Gary
  • Sec 002
    • Contacted Mike about which section to copy into his Fall ’12 space
    • Mike replied to say that he’ll look into it since he may want to add something.
  • IST 220 Backed up populating this until Mid July so that Lisa can make necessary adjustments. Received plan from Lisa B about making adjustments to the course. Replied with a plan that cuts down on the activity level. Received materials that need to update the dev space with
  • Sec 001
  • Sec 002
  • IST 230
  • Sec 001
  • We decided that it would be best to let Larry export and import for Fall ’12
  • IST 240
  • Sec 001
    • Contacted Hal about copying Summer ’12 into the current course space
    • He asked for an adjustment to Lesson 05
      • I completed this
    • He would also like to make an adjustment to Assignment 6
      • I replied that I’d like to have it done by Thursday before I leave
      • He let me know this was possible
      • Received several notes on 6/20
        • Found out that urls will automatically be hyperlinked in drupal is the following filter has URL checked: https://online.ist.psu.edu/ist240/admin/settings/filters/2.
          • Had to uncheck this box for the course
        • Lesson 14 and 15 were adjusted in the content
      • Confirmed with Hal that all was set
      • He agreed, so I completed populating the space on 6/20 and contacted Hal
  • IST 250 Amy S set up a meeting with Brett and Don for July 12. Made adjustments to the dev space. Received more feedback from Brett that I used to make more updates. Won’t populate space until after the meeting this week. Received more feedback, so awaiting still one more reply before moving forward
    • Sec 001
    • Sec 002
  • IST 260W
    • Sec 001
      • Contacted Jason about exporting Spring ’12 and importing to make adjustments for Fall ’12
      • He said it was a go, so I completed this course on 6/20
  • IST 302
    • Sec 001
      • Have access to the Fall ’12 space, so plan to populate with Jan’s materials from this summer
        • Sent Jan a note on 7/9
        • She requested that I wait until the end of the semester before populating the space since she is still making adjustments and will be until the end of the semester.
      • Will meet on August 15 to discuss items to change
  • IST 331 – Amy set up a meeting with Martin and Alan on July 12
  • Sec 001 – Completed 7/12
    • He responded and we had a meeting on 6/20 about items to complete
      • Replaced poor quality usability test video
        • Martin watched the current video and prepared a script of items to ask Ravi for the screen cast
        • Martin asked questions to Ravi while screenr is running
        • Since screenr can only record 5 minutes at a time, we gave each section a name describing briefly what is in the video
        • When the screenr’s were completed, Ravi uploaded to youtube and embed the videos into the course
      • We eliminated the team component to Individual Web and Library Information Resource Seeking Paper in Lesson 04
        • Instead this will be more of a peer review activity
      • Moved the course schedule to the Lessons tab
      • Replaced links on the syllabus to point to WC pages for greater stability
      • Eliminatrf the Assignment and Reading Assignment pages from the content to avoid having to edit several places
  • Sec 002 – Completed 7/12
  • Same as section 001 except for instructor info
  • IST 402 SMO
  • Sec 001
    • Guessing that Rosalie will set this up
  • IST 420 –
    • Met with John H on 6/19 to see if everything is okay to proceed
    • We found that we had more to do with the assessments
    • Redo midterm (fix question set names)
      • Need a pool of questions so that we can grab 10 questions from each question pool
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
    • Redo final exam (fix question set names)
      • Need a pool of questions so that we can pull 50 questions (probably 7 from each chapter plus 1 of 8)
        • Chapter 7
        • Chapter 8
        • Chapter 9
        • Chapter 10
        • Chapter 11
        • Chapter 12
        • Chapter 13
    • John got back to me so I…
      • exported section 1, merged sections 1-3, import materials into merged section
    • Sec 001 (merged)
    • Sec 002 (merged)
    • Sec 003 (merged)
    • Merged section is completed
  • IST 440W Jim would like to have these sections merged
  • Sec 001
  • Sec 002
  • IST 495 Still haven’t heard back from Madhavi and Zoe about items to adjust
  • Sec 001

Ongoing Projects:

• Updating google spreadsheet for Fall ’12 
• Still working on the process of replacing links in Fall ’12 spaces for the syllabus
• Working on Fall ’12 Courses listed above

Immediate Decisions / Issues:

• None

Back Burner:

• Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual World Research Committee

Something New I worked on this Week

• Continued work on the prezi. Here is where I am right now:

http://prezi.com/or0xc7nb6w7f/present/?auth_key=mrck5m6&follow=ivt5ltfuhaki

Days off / Conferences:

• July 10 AM Sick time for Dental Appt
• August 8-10 Madison Conference
• Nov 1 AM Sick time for Dental Appt

• IST 210
  • Gary made an adjustment to Lab 4 last week and updated in his course and the dev space
  • Discussion about amount of grading required still be a bit unmanageable
    • Sent a note about how we could move essays out of the chapter assessments and make a unit essay exam of 1 question from the banks in the dev space
  • Will participate in a google+ hangout session with Gary and several students next week
• IST 220
• Continued discussion about adjustments to be made for Fall ’12
  • Reaching a bit of an impasse about cutting down activities in the course
  • Think we’ve come to agreement
• Summer ’12 revisions/developments
  • IST 420 (Ocker)
    • Meeting with Rosalie next Monday 7/9 at 11 AM
  • IST 402 (Saab)
    • Met on July 2 to discuss how to complete asynchronously
    • Plan is to complete at least a module a week
      • Peggy and I will work on that together
    • Created a google doc for communication amoung the three of us
• Madison proposal
• Received confirmation that I have been selected to present for the 28th Annual Conference on Distance Teaching and Learning in Madison, WI in the lightning session format. The session title is “An overview to providing accessible videos using free tools.”
• Deadlines
• May 4 – Upload required paper for Conference Proceedings and Resources publication Done 4/20
  
• June 4 – Register for the conference (instructions will be sent)
• July 9 – Upload session handout(s)
• Fall ’12 Course Prep – mapped out on my outlook calendar courses to work on so that I’m done before we head out to Madison
  
  • IST 110
    • Sec 001
      
      • Copied Jan’s Spring ’12 section into the Fall ’12 space
      • Notified Jan, but didn’t receive word about how to proceed
      • Followed up and received request for deadline
        • Provided my thinking and overall schedule
        • We’ll reconvene on 8/15 to see if the 1st section is ready to populate section 002
    • Sec 002
      • Plan is to fix section 001, then copy into section 002
    • Sec 003
      • Copied master course section into the space
      • Met and oriented Marcela to online 110 this week
    • Sec 004 Pearson Pilot
      
      • No longer a Pearson Pilot
      • Probably will not be used based upon into from Amy S

  • IST 111S
    
    • Sec 001
      • Still awaiting feedback, but it is set from what I can see
  • IST 210
  • Sec 001
    • Contacted Gary about waiting until after the semester to populate 210 for Fall ’12
    • He thought that after the last assessment would work best (August 5)
    • I placed a task on my calendar to take care of this on August 6
    • I updated the course schedule in the development space so that it will be ready to populate the Fall ’12 space
  • Sec 002
    • Contacted Mike about which section to copy into his Fall ’12 space
    • Mike replied to say that he’ll look into it since he may want to add something.
  • IST 220 Backed up populating this until Mid July so that Lisa can make necessary adjustments. Received plan from Lisa B about making adjustments to the course. Replied with a plan that cuts down on the activity level. Received materials that need to update the dev space with
  • Sec 001
  • Sec 002
  • IST 230
  • Sec 001
  • We decided that it would be best to let Larry export and import for Fall ’12
  • IST 240
  • Sec 001
    • Contacted Hal about copying Summer ’12 into the current course space
    • He asked for an adjustment to Lesson 05
      • I completed this
    • He would also like to make an adjustment to Assignment 6
      • I replied that I’d like to have it done by Thursday before I leave
      • He let me know this was possible
      • Received several notes on 6/20
        • Found out that urls will automatically be hyperlinked in drupal is the following filter has URL checked: https://online.ist.psu.edu/ist240/admin/settings/filters/2.
          • Had to uncheck this box for the course
        • Lesson 14 and 15 were adjusted in the content
      • Confirmed with Hal that all was set
      • He agreed, so I completed populating the space on 6/20 and contacted Hal
  • IST 250 Amy set up a meeting with Brett and Don for July 12. Made adjustments to the dev space. Received more feedback from Brett that I used to make more updates. Won’t populate space until after the meeting next week
    • Sec 001
    • Sec 002
  • IST 260W
    • Sec 001
      • Contacted Jason about exporting Spring ’12 and importing to make adjustments for Fall ’12
      • He said it was a go, so I completed this course on 6/20
  • IST 302
    • Sec 001
      • Will meet on August 15 to discuss items to change
  • IST 331 – Amy set up a meeting with Martin and Alan on July 12
  • Sec 001
    • He responded and we had a meetin on 6/20 about items to complete
      • Replace poor quality usability test video
        • Martin will watch the current video and prepare a script of items to ask Ravi for the screen cast
        • Martin will ask questions to Ravi while screenr is running
        • Since screenr can only record 5 minutes at a time, we will give each section a number describing briefly what is in the video
        • When the screenr’s are complete, Ravi will upload to youtube and embed the videos into the course
      • We will eliminate the team component to Individual Web and Library Information Resource Seeking Paper in Lesson 04
        • Instead this will be more of a peer review activity
      • Move the course schedule to the Lessons tab
      • Replace links on the syllabus to point to WC pages for greater stability
  • Sec 002
  • IST 402 SMO
  • Sec 001
    • Guessing that Rosalie will set this up
  • IST 420 –
    • Met with John H on 6/19 to see if everything is okay to proceed
    • We found that we had more to do with the assessments
    • Redo midterm (fix question set names)
      • Need a pool of questions so that we can grab 10 questions from each question pool
      • Chapter 1
      • Chapter 3
      • Chapter 4
      • Chapter 5
      • Chapter 6
    • Redo final exam (fix question set names)
      • Need a pool of questions so that we can pull 50 questions (probably 7 from each chapter plus 1 of 8)
        • Chapter 7
        • Chapter 8
        • Chapter 9
        • Chapter 10
        • Chapter 11
        • Chapter 12
        • Chapter 13
    • John got back to me so I…
      • exported section 1, merged sections 1-3, import materials into merged section
    • Sec 001 (merged)
    • Sec 002 (merged)
    • Sec 003 (merged)
    • Merged section is completed
  • IST 440W Jim would like to have these sections merged
  • Sec 001
  • Sec 002
  • IST 495 Checked back in with Madhavi and Zoe about items to adjust
  • Sec 001

Ongoing Projects:

• Updating google spreadsheet for Fall ’12 
• Created a new end of the semester survey for Spring ’12 & received good feedback from the team before implementation
  • Completed sending these out on 6/18
  • Not getting much feedback at all
  • I thought that making this asynchronous in nature would make for greater participation, but it’s probably better to hold meetings to get the feedback
  • Also probably best to focus on courses of need
  • I started thinking that maybe I should create examples in Captivate that I could push out to faculty to get feedback to get the ball rolling
• Started the process of replacing links in Fall ’12 spaces for the syllabus
• Working on Fall ’12 Courses listed above
• Updated Karen M on materials for:
  • IST 220
  • IST 302
  • IST 451

Immediate Decisions / Issues:

• None

Back Burner:

• Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual World Research Committee

Something New I worked on this Week

• Learned that I can create icons on iphone and ipad using favicons, so updated for the prezi

Days off / Conferences:

• July 10 AM Sick time for Dental Appt
• August 8-10 Madison Conference