Accomplishments:
- Prof Dev
- Didn’t have time this week to work on MOOC called An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
- Attended Virtual Session called MOOC Strategies & Best Practices
- Fall ’12 Courses
- Fall ’12 revisions/developments
- IST 230 (Newcomer)
- Note from Toni so spoke with Greg and Will
- Sent out note to everyone to make sure we all were on the same page
- Note from Toni so spoke with Greg and Will
- IST 420 (Ocker)
- Have readings for the course & need to get someone to create pdf’s – delegated this to Audrey
- Double checked to make sure this was okay with Amy G, & it was
- IST 402 (Saab)
- Sent David a note to let him know about Discussion Forum Grading ANGEL page since I forgot to mention this last week before break
- Next meeting set for 12/3 from 1:30-2:30
- Course Committees
- IST 210 on Tues from 1-2
- Spring ’13 Course Prep – Mapped out on my outlook calendar courses to work on so that I’m done by the first week in December. Going to be difficult since we have to go 1 section at a time. Plan has been in motion and seems to be working well. I finishe up the population of the sites early in the week. Then I contact the next courses instructors to start other courses.
- IST 110
- Sec 001 (Mahar)
- Contacted on 9/27
- Will use section 002 to populate
- Received a note that is causing me to delay
- Completed setting up my end of the course on 10/1
- Sec 005 (Mike M) – Cancelled sections 2-4 and made 5-7
- Contacted 9/27
- Will use dev section to populate
- Completed on 10/25 and sent out note to Mike
- Sec 006 (Mary L)
- Told about this by Amy S on 9/27
- Added Mary L on 10/1 to dev section
- Will use dev section to populate
- Received note from Mary. I replied to let her know more specifics about online courses
- Sec 007 (Jim F)
- Contacted 9/27
- Met Jim this week f2f on 10/9 to give him some background
- Will use dev section to populate
- Sec 001 (Mahar)
- IST 111S
- Sec 001
- Contacted Deirdre
- She said to move Fall ’12 materials
- Need to update category weightings and then grading section of syllabus based upon her feedback (90% done)
- Contacted Deirdre
- Sec 001
- IST 210
- Sec 001 (Gary)
- Contacted on 10/2 about the course
- Completed setting up the Spring ’13 course space
- Sec 002 (Fred)
- Contacted on 10/2 about the course
- Received note from Amy S that I would be getting this course soon
- Completed setting up the Spring ’13 course space on 11/8
- Sent Fred an email
- IST 220 – Hyunjeong and Mike M are teaching in Spring
- Secs 001 and 002 (Mike)
- Contacted on 10/3 about the course
- Completed setting up both sections for Spring ’13
- Secs 003 and 004 (Hyunjeong)
- Contacted on 10/3 about the course
- Found out from Amy S that the 3rd section is open but I don’t see it on my profile. Alice S put me in the course.
- Completed setting up section 003 on 11/9 and sent out a note to Dr. Lee
- Completed setting up section 004 on 11/16 and sent out a note to Dr. Lee
- Met on 11/20
- Dr. Lee wants to make quite a few changes
- eliminate unit assessments to make chapter ones
- elimate chapter review questions
- change team project to focus on smaller deliverable at the beginning
- possibly merge sections – she asked this to be done, so I completed on 11/28 and populated with materials from section 003 as she requested
- contacted John B on 11/28 about the merge
- Sent Dr. Lee a note summarizing everything and letting her know my upcoming schedule. Personally, I think that what she’s proposing is too much to do in such a short window. But it’s her decision to make changes. As long as she can pull it off, it’s her decision to make.
- Dr. Lee wants to make quite a few changes
- IST 230
- Sec 001
- Contacted Larry, & he will populate his section
- Had to merge 2 sections since there had been a change in instructors from 2 to 1.
- Contacted Larry and Buck
- IST 240
- Sec 001 (Fred F)
- Contacted 9/27
- Will use dev section to populate
- Walked Fred through the course in the dev section on 10/1
- Populated course on 10/1
- Sent note to both Fred and Hal to follow up
- Contacted by Fred about adjusting syllabus. Redirected since it sounds like this is an unnecessary comstomization to the syllabus. Agreed by Fred and Hal
- Sec 002 (Hal S)
- Contacted 9/27
- Populated course on 10/17
- IST 250
- Sec 001
- Populated on 10/22
- Met with John on 11/2 to finalize
- Realized that grading had to be pulled into the Lessons tab to keep the course flexible
- Made a note to update the syllabus after Fall ’12 is over to make adjustment to syllabus wording
- Sec 001
- IST 260W
- Sec 001
- Sent note to Jason L on 11/2 to let him know that I’d be populating his section on Monday 11/5. He replied immediately to say that he was okay with it.
- Completed populating the section on 11/2 and sent Jason a note
- Sec 001
- IST 295A
- Sec 001
- Populated based upon Spring ’12
- Sent note to Lisa B on 10/22
- Sec 001
- IST 301
- Sec 001 – Ocker
- Rosalie will take care of this
- Sec 002 – Jan M
- Note from Amy on 11/27 ao
- Sec 001 – Ocker
- IST 302
- Sec 001
- Populated course with materials from Spring ’12 on 10/16
- Sec 001
- IST 331
- Sec 001
- Completed populating the section on 11/6
- Follow up meeting with instructor for 11/13 at pre-convocation
- Sec 001
- IST 402 TIE-
- Sec 001
- IST 421
- Sec 001
- Populated course by following plan that John and I worked out last Friday on 10/15
- Asked by John H to changing naming convention on 11/12. Did a find and replace & notified him
- IST 440W – Filled up quickly, so opening a second section – correction, instructor is at max pay
- Sec 001
- Completed populating the section on 11/7
- Sent note to Jim
- Sec 001
- IST 495
- Sec 001
- Populated the course based upon the Fall ’12 version and notified Madhavi
Ongoing Projects:
- Updated google spreadsheet for Spring ’13
Immediate Decisions / Issues:
- None
Back Burner:
- Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual World Research Committee
Important Dates:
- WAH in AM (8-12) Dates: 10/15, 12/3, 12/17
- October 15 – December 8 An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python MOOC
- Nov 6 WAH
- Nov 13-14 World Campus Faculty Convocation
- Nov 19 WAH from 8-3
- Nov 19 Sick Time (2 h)
- Nov 21 Vacation (8h)
- Nov 22 Holiday (Thanksgiving)
- Nov 23 Campus Closure Thanksgiving
- Nov 26 Vacation (8h)
- Dec 14 Vacation (8h)
- Dec 20 WAH
- Dec 21 Vacation (8h)
- Dec 24 Holiday
- Dec 25 Holiday
- Dec 26 Holiday
- Dec 27 Holiday
- Dec 28 Holiday
- Dec 31 Holiday
- Jan 1 Holiday