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Reflection for 3/2/15 to 3/6/15

I’m starting this on Friday. I’m looking at my upcoming week. It has less meetings for now. I’m hoping to get to some professional development and get other items completed.

Monday was busy with course revision/development work. Mainly, 402 SMO is being revised and completely gutted. I’m hoping that we can get something done for Fall ’15.

Also, there is work to be done on 140. It is slipping away right now. We have a meeting tomorrow to get things back on track.

Finally, there is 220 course project work to be done. I’m seeing momentum which should continue to propel us forward.

This weekend ended the basketball season. We had another dominant outing which I did my best to make sure was not embarrassing for the other team by pulling my best player. We did well this season because of effort and resilience.

My oldest son had a tryout for 9-year old baseball this weekend. There will be two leagues, one competitive and one developmental. This is the first time this is going to happen. I thought that all 9 year olds were developing…

Tisha and I worked on rubrics for 220 today. We are a project document and part 2 rubric away from being done.

Meeting about 140 that hopefully will get us closer to the goal of being ready for Summer ’15. The meeting was during some bad weather, and it was a bit difficult to get through. The bottom line is that we are freezing on writing content. The push is for Steve to get us zyBook information, problem sets, and quizzes. He will set up the first unit. From there, we will replicate and add the rest of the items.

We received another rubric for 220. Tisha and I will meet to get that rubric completed. From there it will be up to the faculty member to write the problem documents for parts 1 & 2. It looks like the approach that the faculty would like to take is to make 3 different documents for different scenarios. That means that we will need 6 documents for the course.

We received a note about 140. Hopefully, some decisions will be made to keep things moving to the goal of the summer ’15 first run of the course.

I decided this week to deactivate my facebook account like I did during Lent last year. This time, I may just leave it deactivated for the year if not longer. I also decided to bring my juicer into the office since I wasn’t using it at home. I did carrot-apple juice (2 apples/4 carrots, both organic). Prep time is minimal, but it does take some time to clean up. All in all, it seems like the type of thing that I should keep up to improve my overall health.

We had a meeting to discuss Summer ’15 rollout. We had a good meeting. I hope to get things moving forward for the courses that I’m responsible for when I get back in the office next Thursday.

Reflection 1/21/13 – 1/25/13

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Accomplishments:

Prof Dev
- MOOC on Evolution
- MOOC on Game Theory

MOOC on Personal Finance starts 1/14/13
- I originally signed up for this course then unenrolled. But I’m interested in what this course entails. It almost seems like advice you would get from a financial planner. It would be interesting to see these type of self-help courses become more ubiquitous.
Attended Educational Gaming Brownbag on Bagdes by Brett Bixler

Spring ’13 revisions/developments

IST 230 (Newcomer)
- Larry says that he will take a look and let us know
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

Course Committees
- Attended IST 210 on 1/22
- Attended IST 220 on 1/24
Spring ’13 Courses

IST 210 – Note from IT about making sure students know how to login to database for the course. The wording is already in the labs.

Sec 001 (Gary)
- Note from Gary that Elluminate Live is now Blackboard Collaborate.
  - Didn’t hear this from WC.
  - Need to update info in the course. Placed a reminder on my calendar to do next week
Sec 003 (Marc)
- Several requests to update grammar on assessments
- Updated lab
- Met f2f to take care of issues

IST 220 –

Secs 003 and 004 (Hyunjeong)
- request to provide accomodations.
  - did this for one assessment and provided video
All Sections
- working through labs that Nick is reworking

IST 230

Sec 001
- Worked through an issue with Blackboard Collaborate

IST 402 TIE-

Sec 001
- Tested scoring rubrics and sent request to WC Helpdesk to see if this needs to be pushed to ANGEL Support
  - Reply mentioned that Rubrics or Scoring rubrics most likely work independently but Supplementaly may work with the other options.

Ongoing Projects:

Amy S editted google spreadsheet for Summer ’13

Immediate Decisions / Issues:

None

Back Burner:

Important Dates:

Jan 1 Holiday

MOOC Jan 4 – March 15 called Introduction to Genetics and Evolution

MOOC Jan 7 – Feb 11 called Game Theory

MOOC Jan 14 – Mar 4 called Fundamentals of Personal Finance

Jan 7 WAH in AM

Jan 8 Dental Appt (3 h)

Jan 14 Dr. Appt (2 h)

Jan 17 Family Sick in AM – 4h

Jan 18 Vacation Time – 8 h

Jan 21 WAH

Jan 21 Family Sick – 1h

Jan 23 Education Gaming Brown Bag: Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Badges!

Jan 23 Family Sick 1h

Jan 24 Family Sick – 2h

Jan 25 WAH in AM

Jan 25 Vacation Time – 5.5 h

Jan 28 Family Sick Time – 1.5 h

Jan 31 WAH all day

Feb 4-6 EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative Annual Meeting in Denver, CO

Feb 18 WAH in AM

March 4 WAH in AM

March 6 WAH all day

March 18 WAH in AM

Reflection 12/10/12 – 12/14/12

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Accomplishments:

Prof Dev
- Final Thoughts on MOOC called An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
  - Great concept to motivate students by providing opportunities to create games.
  - Love codeskulptor!
  - Video lectures did not help me learn the concepts
  - I needed some sort of way to complete the assignments without being walked through the process
  - When I attempted the assignments, I didn’t know enough to get the process going. Mini assignments would have helped immensely.
  - The quizzes were too easy to game to get higher scores. I lost interest in even them after awhile.
  - It would have been best if I could have spent more time on the course and maybe put together a mini cohort to get through the course
- Went to Foster Auditorium to see Designing a Quality MOOC for the “Right” Purpose by Ray Schoeder. Here are my thoughts: https://sites.psu.edu/rep129blog/2012/12/11/reflection-on-ace-open-online-classes/
- Virtually attended session on rubrics. Featured tools were:
  - ANGEL rubric tool
  - rubrics from ems
  - turnitin rubrics
Fall ’12 Courses
- IST 110 – More requests that have little to do with me. Changes have been made inconsistently by LA’s and instructor.
- IST 240 – Added a link to the Final Assessment
  - Also added link to both Spring ’13 sections and dev section
Fall ’12 revisions/developments

IST 230 (Newcomer)
- Checked in with Greg again to make sure that everything gets done before the break
  - Looks like it’s near completion
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)

Called David; he was very sick. Now he’s behind. I’ll do what I can to help, but he’ll be on his own over the holidays
Made a note to touchbase with him on Monday.

Course Committees
- IST 210 on Tu from 11-12
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. Prepped a bunch of emails to send out on Monday.

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
  - Saw that section is in ANGEL on 12/3
  - Populated and contacted Mary L
- 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
  - Amy S is capping section 006 at 20 and will open Sec 7
  - Corresponded with Jim several times and expect him to do a great job
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)
IST 210 – Sent out roster to IST Helpdesk on 12/7

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
Sec 003 (Marc)
- Contacted Marc on 12/13
- Completed setting up the Spring ’13 course space on 12/13
- Hope to meet with Marc next week

IST 220 – Sent out roster to IST Helpdesk on 12/7

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.
Sec 005 (Nick)
- Contacted Nick on 12/13
- Completed setting up the course on 12/13

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
- Followed up with Larry on 12/11 about setting up course
  - He said he’d let me know if he needed anything

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
- CE Sections
  - Have been corresponding with Irina Pesin and Greg O’Toole about their courses for the past several weeks
  - May meet with both of them f2f next week
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
IST 295A
- Sec 001
  - Populated based upon Spring ’12
  - Sent note to Lisa B on 10/22
  - Followed up on 12/12. Lisa B responded that she could take it from here.
IST 295B
- Sec 001
  - Note from Amy S on 12/12 that this needed to be added
  - Saw course in my profile on 12/13 and completed setting it up based upon feedback from Madhavi for 495
IST 301
- Sec 001 – Ocker
  - Rosalie will take care of this & update so that I can populate Sec 002
    - Completed on 12/6
- Sec 002 – Jan M
  - Note from Amy on 11/27
  - Answer to question from Jan
  - Populated and set up on 12/6 and sent note
    - Got return notes about items that needed, most of which would have been gotten by someone more resourceful
    - Not looking forward to all of the requests
IST 302
- Sec 001
  - Populated course with materials from Spring ’12 on 10/16
IST 331
- Sec 001
  - Completed populating the section on 11/6
  - Follow up meeting with instructor for 11/13 at pre-convocation
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
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:

October 15 – December 8 An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python MOOC

Dec 3 AM Sick Time (FMLA) – 4 h

Dec 7 PM Sick Time (FMLA) – 2 h

Dec 14 Vacation (5.5h)

Dec 17 WAH in AM (8-9:30)

Dec 17 Vacation (2.5 h)

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

Reflection 11/12/12 – 11/16/12

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Accomplishments:

Prof Dev
- Didn’t have time this week to work on MOOC called An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python
- Attended World Campus Faculty Convocation
Fall ’12 Courses
- IST 240
  - Adjustments needed for Clock Assignment
- IST 250
  - More edits
Fall ’12 revisions/developments

IST 230 (Newcomer)
- Met on Tuesday and Table 7 is mostly done
  - Heard back from Larry but already in production mode
IST 420 (Ocker)

Have readings for the course & need to get someone to create pdf’s – delegated this to Audrey

IST 402 (Saab)

I adjusted rubics based upon convo from 11/12
I also adjusted the discussion forum code. Not sure what David’s objective is in placing the forums the way he is.
Next meeting in 11/19 from 10:30-11:30

Course Committees
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
- 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
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)
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

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
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
IST 295A
- Sec 001
  - Populated based upon Spring ’12
  - Sent note to Lisa B on 10/22
IST 301
- Sec 001
IST 302
- Sec 001
  - Populated course with materials from Spring ’12 on 10/16
IST 331
- Sec 001
  - Completed populating the section on 11/6
  - Follow up meeting with instructor for 11/13 at pre-convocation
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
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, 11/19, 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 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

Reflection 02/20/12-02/24/12

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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)
- IST 220 (Bertin)
- IST 240 (Smith)
- 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)
- 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
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

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My Thoughts

Category Archives: rubrics

Reflection for 3/2/15 to 3/6/15

Reflection 1/21/13 – 1/25/13

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Immediate Decisions / Issues:

Back Burner:

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Reflection 12/10/12 – 12/14/12

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Immediate Decisions / Issues:

Back Burner:

Important Dates:

Reflection 11/12/12 – 11/16/12

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Back Burner:

Important Dates:

Reflection 02/20/12-02/24/12

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Immediate Decisions / Issues:

Some things that I learned this week:

Back Burner:

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