Tag: Blue Team

1-1 with El, Kate and Patty

List of courses and their statusWhat’s going on?Academic Leadership Academy (ALA)prep for Sept sessionfirst speaker: John Cheslock, Assoc. Prof Ed Policy Stds Higher Ed., Zeke will train John on eLivepriority: develop course module, awaiting outcomes, materials, etc.do we need to…

List of courses and their status

What’s going on?

  1. Academic Leadership Academy (ALA)
    1. prep for Sept session
      1. first speaker: John Cheslock, Assoc. Prof Ed Policy Stds Higher Ed., Zeke will train John on eLive
      2. priority: develop course module, awaiting outcomes, materials, etc.
      3. do we need to verify with HelpDesk about live session 9/17?
    2. everyone’s busy this week, GA’s have tests
    3. full eLive training for Bob, scheduled to happen before end of Aug
  2. NURS courses
    1. running for FA ’11
    2. Wanda – unknown future since Jeff Hand doesn’t want the program, still being budgeted out of the “non-credit” budget
  3. ID Position Search Committee – phone interviews begin next week, 8/24

What’s coming down the pike?

  1. SPAN courses – awaiting assignment of faculty, access to all sections
  2. MGMT 100
  3. VLN courses? – unclear involvement, will touch base with Lynne
  4. 2011 TLT? – Allan invited me to be the Outreach rep for the program committee
  5. Learning Lunch: iPad? – proposed by Stevie and Wayne to discuss/initiate sharing around technology that’s being tested/reviewed
  6. iFrames + Our.Outreach – spoke to Stevie about a solution to provide better ways to share/edit tabular data on the intranet

What’s on hold?

  1. Deafblind courses – still no word since Shubha’s email 8/11 and f2f soon there after, faculty not happy with curriculum being dictated, Ed says there’s a planning retreat, unknown reaction from PATTAN
  2. School Finance course (CE@UP) – no word since email 7/19

Where do I need some assistance?

  1. Vacation Sept 5-17: 9 work days or two weeks
  2. SPAN courses – potential edits
  3. ALA eLive session
    1. eLive rooms for participants
    2. cover for the live session, 9/17 @ 9-12 PM (ET) to provide morale support for GA
  4. NURS 6012 presentation
    1. slides need to be redone
    2. review once we receive new audio, new audio may need to be imported via Adobe Presenter

SPAN Courses

Transition to Courses 001, 002, 003, & 131Background/History on the coursesWenyi, original designersJuan did a revision 2 years ago (?), no IPS (sometimes Sing)lot of graded assignments, grade book overwhelminglot of flash elements in 1, 2, 3131 is a little…

Transition to Courses 001, 002, 003, & 131

Background/History on the courses

  • Wenyi, original designers
  • Juan did a revision 2 years ago (?), no IPS (sometimes Sing)
  • lot of graded assignments, grade book overwhelming
  • lot of flash elements in 1, 2, 3
  • 131 is a little different, all content in HTML, instructor wants a lot of freedom, everything in lessons tab is managed by the instructor, just keep an eye on things, not changing course content
  • all instructors are very friendly, willing to work with us, easy to take care of
  • they have E-Live sessions (set up by the instructor and students themselves), bi-weekly w/ students, and s-s interaction (links to recordings to T)
  • exams: non-proctored, timed; they have been converted into Asssessments
  • two to three section, 131 has one section
  • Harrisburg is merged with WC version, why?
  • PA: Kelly Ball, all communication; PM: Sue Repine
  • 131 will have a new textbook in July, Fall revision for Summer ’11 new version
  • they run every semester
  • instructors are generally very consistent

Check in PACTS for materials, If Kathy doesn’t update me about new versions assume that we’ll use the customized version of the materials.

Generally just the course schedule get’s updated each semseter.

student home pages also need to be updated each semester

peer evals are not used

ask instructors when to start and end specific lesson folders, T’s want to open and close at different times, maybe a week before or after; they want to do this because they want to guard against future cheating

i should ask them for more questions to use in questions pools

Rox and Maria, sec 1 and 2 (002) are slightly different
be sure to pick up the phone!

131 – first book Burns book is coming out in July
revision usually just changes readings
instructor has a lot of ideas for RI courses, might be able to apply them for the summer revision; Tim Wilsie (revision author) 25% revision… Andrea should we beef up the revision? maybe 50%? depends on the changes made to the new textbook

give instructor 131 one month of time before the course opens to make his changes, he’ll make all of the changes except of the syllabus

real-to-real not from DEV space

Blue Team: ID-IPS Update

Since the Last UpdateJeff Hand and Equella – ON-HOLD (until Jamie returns) meeting with Jeff to discuss the system and his needs, future planning, etc.Just2It Faculty Development – closing session is today; only 3 participants attending :-(mLearnCon – registered, thanks…

  1. Since the Last Update
    1. Jeff Hand and Equella – ON-HOLD (until Jamie returns) meeting with Jeff to discuss the system and his needs, future planning, etc.
    2. Just2It Faculty Development – closing session is today; only 3 participants attending 🙁
    3. mLearnCon – registered, thanks to Mary!
    4. MYRTLE – finally all caught up!
  2. PSU
    1. Google Apps for Education Whitepaper – we’re about 90% there
  3. Outreach
    1. Leadership Academy – brand new; Nancy Eckert, Conference Planner, scheduling initial faculty (Bob Hendrickson & Lisa Latinka) kick off session ASAP
  4. World Campus Learning Design
    1. New courses?
  5. CE@UP
    1. ART H 111 – I now have access to Arts & Architecture Art History course! well… kinda
    2. CE@UP Faculty Portal – just reorganized the site and am waiting for Shawn to finish moving the content so that we can get the SME’s to review the content
    3. Will ask Angela about any new summer courses?
  6. CAPE
    1. EDSGN 498A Photovoltaics – requested a chance to regroup; course redesign is probable, but unknown; we have 8 DVD’s, but don’t know how they want to use them
    2. ENGR 497E Project Management – looking into changes for the next offering
    3. NURS 6003-6008, 8171A – final summer prep
    4. NURS 6009 Living with a Life Threatening Illness – unknown status, waiting on Mediasite Live materials
    5. 8171A Pilot (Manual Course) – finishing up survey, Fall 2010
  7. Other
    1. ePortfolio – getting bogged down
    2. Meeting Facilitation – professional development course
    3. WC Integration – need to know more about start-to-finish
    4. ScreenFlow  – demo (Linas, Patty & Cindy)
  8. Kate’s Help
    1. Nursing Summer ’10 courses – help get the live courses going for the summer
    2. Elive sessions – C&I Leadership Academy
    3. Presenter Demo – venue?

Blue Team: ID-IPS Update

Last UpdateJeff Hand and Equella – meeting with Jeff to discuss the system and his needs, future planning, etc.Penn State Leader – confirmed for MayPSUGoogle Apps for Education whitepaper – draft due 3/17, we’re about 30% thereOutreachnothingWorld Campus Learning DesignJust2It…

  1. Last Update
    1. Jeff Hand and Equella – meeting with Jeff to discuss the system and his needs, future planning, etc.
    2. Penn State Leader – confirmed for May
  2. PSU
    1. Google Apps for Education whitepaper – draft due 3/17, we’re about 30% there
  3. Outreach
    1. nothing
  4. World Campus Learning Design
    1. Just2It Faculty Development – finished until the closing session April 16th
    2. Outreach Helpdesk Support of CE Courses – working with Angela; I have finished my worksheet
  5. CE@UP
    1. List of Courses – now available as a published Google Doc with course information and my related documentation
    2. ART H 111 – meeting with instructor Thu 3/11 to discuss Polycom, CE-specific pedagogy, etc.
    3. HPA 332 – Chris may need more help with his course as he finishes activities for use in ANGEL
    4. CE@UP Faculty Portal – created a WBS and am working with Shawn to get the materials ported over from wikispaces
  6. CAPE
    1. EDSGN 498A Photovoltaics – requested a chance to regroup; course redesign is probable, but unknown; we have 8 DVD’s, but don’t know how they want to use them
    2. ENGR 497E Project Management – looking into changes for the next offering
    3. NURS 6009 Living with a Life Threatening Illness – unknown status, waiting on Mediasite Live materials
    4. Manually-Created Courses – dev and live space available, waiting on Marketing and SOAR to test format
  7. Other
    1. mLearnCon – requested more info, will schedule regardless by Fri 3/12
    2. MYRTLE – caught up to November, submitted earlier months
    3. Blue Team Integration – any blindspots? more updates or info
    4. ePortfolio – continuing to further integrate my posts into other blogs/communities and cross-listing links in other relevant documents like my published course list
  8. Kate’s Help
    1. Nursing Summer ’10 courses – help get the live courses going for the summer
    2. Manually-Created Courses – if testing goes well, then create more dev and live spaces for the remaining courses

More ooVoo Testing

Just did connection tests on the wireless out here and everything looks good. We were getting 8.07 Mbps Down and 2.33 Mbps Up on the Guest network and 6.15 Mbps Down and 6.13 Mbps Up on the Penn State network…

Just did connection tests on the wireless out here and everything looks good. We were getting 8.07 Mbps Down and 2.33 Mbps Up on the Guest network and 6.15 Mbps Down and 6.13 Mbps Up on the Penn State network via VPN.

Our AV signal paused a few times on the PSU connection when we were moving around. It was probably due to moving from one wireless connection to another. The Guest network dropped once during testing on the first floor in the PSPB side of the building.

We believe it’s the instructor’s computer since he was experiencing problems with Skype as well.

Blue Team: ID-IPS Update

Last UpdateTalk to Mary about Penn State Leader professional development – haven’t done itKent will be contacting Rick about the Equella list for CE@UP – haven’t done itNursing Online CE Manually Created Courses – scheduling time with Jim & Kate…

  1. Last Update
    1. Talk to Mary about Penn State Leader professional development – haven’t done it
    2. Kent will be contacting Rick about the Equella list for CE@UP – haven’t done it
    3. Nursing Online CE Manually Created Courses – scheduling time with Jim & Kate to discuss the process and procedures to transition from ANGEL Groups
    4. Suggest strategies to Rick on integrating Blue Team & Learning Design with CE-wide instructional design needs – still at the beginning stages, but I’ve been documenting my outline of ideas
  2. Outreach
    1. RESET 2020 – finished presentations – the Health and Education sectors presented on Fri 5 Feb; there is a meeting with Craig on Wed 10 Feb to discuss next steps for the Education sector; UPDATE Wed 10 Feb – we met with Craig, he asked us to work with David Norloff on any initiatives or programs we can push through the PDP, the team will get back to Sandy about our future involvement, she would like to see the team stay together to continue to support the Education sector
  3. World Campus
    1. ABA Virtual Practicum – made a screencast of using Handbrake to encode video for Linas that is being used in their class; last updated was Thu 4 Feb to figure out Protected PASS
    2. Just2It Overview of Web 2.0 Technologies – kick off meeting was Tue 19 Jan, RSS & iGoogle unit co-facilitated with Cece, finished Mon 1 Feb; Adobe Connect Pro coming up Tue 23 Feb with two live sessions scheduled
  4. CE@UP
    1. RHS 301 Lorenz – assisting with blogs and wiki via instructions posted in ANGEL, individual emails, and phone-based help sessions with students
    2. PHO 100 Howard – vetting a slidesharing service and possible assistance with the course blog
    3. ART 020 & 050 Syllabus Development Mangan– original meeting canceled due to sick-leave, new meeting pending
    4. Faculty Portal – Shawn Vashaw
  5. CAPE
    1. NURS 6008 final edits
    2. NURS 6009 Living with a Life Threatening Illness – Mediasite live implemenation, recording set for early March; possible next course in Nursing Online CE program; no ANGEL group created yet
  6. Other
    1. ScreenFlow screencasts – entries tagged with “screencast“
    2. Blue Team Integration – see above
    3. ePortfolio – over 31 entries since last ID-Pair meeting
    4. mLearnCon – I’ve started the registration process with Mary
    5. MYRTLE – going more smoothly now that more of my codes have been entered/translated
  7. Kate’s Help
    1. NURS 6009 – un-known, possible Mediasite recording integration into ANGEL
    2. Nursing CE Manually Created Courses – planning and transitioning process
    3. Nursing CE converting quizzes over to assessments – we’re going to have to get going on this given the implications of the upgrade
    4. ? RHS 301 – possible assistance with “building this plane”
    5. ? PHO 100 – may need assistance depending upon faculty member
    6. ? ART 020 and 050 – may need Kate’s help with converting John’s syllabuses into HTML formats

Cross-training/pollination with the Blue Team

I’ve been thinking about how I can work closer with the Blue Team or Learning Design as a whole. I’ve talked about it with El and briefly with Rick after he sent me an email:”we need to find a way…

I’ve been thinking about how I can work closer with the Blue Team or Learning Design as a whole. I’ve talked about it with El and briefly with Rick after he sent me an email:
“we need to find a way to do more cross-training, cross pollination of what you are working on with others on the Blue team. And likewise we need to get you more involved with some of the World Campus courses.”

El had made a great point that the more I can do to formulate a strategy, the better it will be because it’ll give Rick and other a starting point. Thinking about an approach, some of the first questions that come up are:

  • What do I need to be effective?
  • What do others need to be effective?
  • What does it mean to be cross-trained in CE programs?
  • Who are the important contacts at CE?

UPDATE: Mon 8 Feb
I spoke to Linas and he reminded me that a lot of our PM-stuff will eventually be handled by Quickbase. However, Quickbase is kind-of “hands-off” right now until Ti Team finishes their work on the database.

I was just thinking, “what would I want if I were to “step-in” and pick-up for Jen for a short period of time?” That depends on the task and length of time really. For shorter projects, I don’t need much background…

  • just contact information for the instructor
  • a quick background on the task at hand (pre-requisite tasks)
  • sense of the critical path
  • due date and
  • details about the actual task at hand.

(That’s not a lot of “background?”)

For projects that need more involvement, in addition to the above list I would like (in no particular order)

  • an overview of the program
  • list of the “usual suspects”
  • time tracking information
  • syllabus for the course
  • change log on the course and a way for me to record my edits
  • an all-paid trip to go relax at my parent’s home in Maui or go up to the Green Mountains “in-style”
  • a new, full-suspension, Trek Fuel mountain bike
  • clear expectations on both sides
  • to have fun

Blue Team: ID-IPS Update

ePortfolio – yet another attempt, an MT4 evolution from Tiddlywiki, Fac Dev Ning, and Our.OutreachUpdate on capacity: courses, committees, projectscourses – see ePortfoliocommitteesprojectsCE@UP IST 250 in MT4 and Plone w/ StevieWC Opportunities – courses, unit-level tasks, etc.Time Tracking – job…

  1. ePortfolio – yet another attempt, an MT4 evolution from Tiddlywiki, Fac Dev Ning, and Our.Outreach
  2. Update on capacity: courses, committees, projects
    1. courses – see ePortfolio
    2. committees
    3. projects
      1. CE@UP IST 250 in MT4 and Plone w/ Stevie
    4. WC Opportunities – courses, unit-level tasks, etc.
  3. Time Tracking – job codes and MYRTLE clutter
  4. Equella list for CE@UP
  5. mLearnCon ?
  6. tons of prof dev things coming through the pipeline right now!
  7. Improving CE@UP and CAPE relationships
  8. Kate
    1. NURS 6008 Dementia
    2. Update course for Nursing Online CE instructors
    3. New design for NURS program in ANGEL
    4. ENGR 497E Project Management for Professionals
    5. Adobe Connect Pro Show-and-Tell for Blue Team