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A look back at February

It’s been a long month. I really wanted to do weekly reflections, but that just didn’t work out. This post roughly covers topics since my last post, but kind of covers the last 30 days.SPAN 001-003 RevisionsAssessment FeedbackDifferences between SPAN…

It’s been a long month. I really wanted to do weekly reflections, but that just didn’t work out. This post roughly covers topics since my last post, but kind of covers the last 30 days.
SPAN 001-003 Revisions
Assessment Feedback
Differences between SPAN 001 and 003
Roll-over Templates
Audio Files in Assessments
New Instructors don’t touch courses
fixed gradebook
Release Dates and Grades, Early Progress Reports
Editing PDF’s
Fixing Flashcards
M&LD
Deafblind canceled
OL2000 finishes

TLT Videos

ALA Logistics and Planning for March Session
Budget
Gathering Content and Storyboarding
Draft
Future action plan based on these reflections?
  • Take a big breath when working on Spanish. We’ve done an incredible amount of work. Patty has assisted me with the majority of our 110 individual tasks since we began tracking them and that list isn’t fully comprehensive.

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

Blue Team: ID-IPS Update

Courses, Conferences, Seminar Series, Certificate Programs, etc.Summer 2010Leadership Academy – Non-Credit; FTF Conference, Elluminate Live, ANGEL; working with GA’s to build out all of the conference sessions, training materials and sessionsSchool Finance Credit/Certificate – Credit & Non-Credit options; FTF Conference,…

  1. Courses, Conferences, Seminar Series, Certificate Programs, etc.
    1. Summer 2010
      1. Leadership Academy – Non-Credit; FTF Conference, Elluminate Live, ANGEL; working with GA’s to build out all of the conference sessions, training materials and sessions
      2. School Finance Credit/Certificate – Credit & Non-Credit options; FTF Conference, Adobe Connect Pro, ANGEL; awaiting updated content outline from the lead SME
      3. ART H 111 – Credit; Polycom, ANGEL; will be meeting with her when the 119 OB renovations have finished
      4. NURS 6003-6008, 8171A – Non-Credit; ANGEL; ready for Summer
      5. NURS 6009, 6011 – Non-Credit; ANGEL; basically ready to go, awaiting schedule #’s from Wanda
      6. 8171A Pilot (Manual Course) – Non-Credit; ANGEL; in progress, waiting feedback from SON
    2. Fall 2010
      1. SPAN 001 & 002 – Credit; ANGEL; upcoming meeting Thur
    3. Unknown
      1. EDSGN 498A Photovoltaics – Credit; ?? Streaming Server, ANGEL; long hold, unknown instructor/author
        Who is teaching
        Who is authoring
        Who is the audience
        When is the course running
        What is being taught (updated or new)
        What should I do with the materials I have
  2. Projects
    1. Virtual Presentations – Adobe Presenter, Mediasite Live, Camtasia, etc.
    2. Research Team – team leaders meetings, meeting with Andrea pending
    3. CE@UP Faculty Portal – update for Becky, Deb Simpson and Destiny One Compliance?
  3. Other
    1. Penn State Leader – professional development course
    2. WC Integration – working with Jeanette to get courses into QuickBase
    3. mLearnCon – four weeks, choosing sessions

Academic Leadership Academy: Elluminate Live

We can start scheduling now, using the new thing vs. old thing :-)New thing: unlimited rooms 🙂 we can request a room for a whole calendar year, we can access it whenever we pleaseHow many rooms will we need? Break-out…

We can start scheduling now, using the new thing vs. old thing 🙂
New thing: unlimited rooms 🙂 we can request a room for a whole calendar year, we can access it whenever we please

How many rooms will we need? Break-out rooms are available.

  • Public (formal (you can setup before the session) and informal (ad-hoc)) and private (create on the fly)
  • public room stay open whether people are there or not
  • private rooms exist only as long as people are there
  • content might be lost in private rooms once people leave
  • participants cannot move in and out of rooms? Kate is going to check on this

www.elluminate.com/support – to test out one’s connection/computer configuration
https://our.outreach.psu.edu/content/11094

How will the rooms be used during the room? Who will get moderator privileges?
What room features will be used?

Online Training:
http://www.elluminate.com/Services/Training/Product_Training_Resources/Moderator_Guides_for_V9.5+/?id=377
http://www.elluminate.com/Training/Documentation/Detail/88/?id=227

Nursing Online CE Summer ’10 Update

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groupsList of participantsNo creditSurveySummer Groupsmake changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)screen cap quizzes, then chuck them”You have now completed this course” change link2. Helpful Informationcheck presentation lengthsremove…

8171A Pilot – test-out flow and function of groups

  • List of participants
  • No credit
  • Survey

Summer Groups

  • make changes given the upgrade: no GOTO function
  • 6003-6008 (see 6003 for changes)
    • screen cap quizzes, then chuck them
    • “You have now completed this course” change link
    • 2. Helpful Information
      • check presentation lengths
      • remove maximize/minimize toggle button
      • remove “click here to return to the course content” link
    • 3. Presentation
      • no banner?
      • re-publish w/o toggle button
    • 4. Technical problems – add info to OTS
    • 5. AI – add alert
    • 6. Quiz
      • check feedback options
      • “all at once” questions
      • delete action
  • 6009
    • About page – text and recording?
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • screen cap and remove quiz
  • 6011
    • About page text
    • publish presentation
    • Sections 1, 2, 4, 8, “You have now finished…”
    • wrote Colin about deleted files??
  • 8171A
    • remove quizzes
    • reverse import from DEV?

C&I Leadership Academy

PeopleAttending: Rick & Nancy Eckard (Conference Planner)Lead faculty: Bob Hendrickson rmh6 (Education Policy Studies)TA’s: Zeke Kimball ewk124 & Phil Blackman pcb141; consider succession planning through the end of the programFollow-up Facilitator: Lisa Luttuca (Associate Professor)ScheduleF2F Conference, 1 week, 6/29-7/2, begins…

People

  • Attending: Rick & Nancy Eckard (Conference Planner)
  • Lead faculty: Bob Hendrickson rmh6 (Education Policy Studies)
  • TA’s: Zeke Kimball ewk124 & Phil Blackman pcb141; consider succession planning through the end of the program
  • Follow-up Facilitator: Lisa Luttuca (Associate Professor)

Schedule

  • F2F Conference, 1 week, 6/29-7/2, begins on a Sunday-that evening there will be a keynote
  • 9 months to follow-up with readings and discussions

Background

  • participants are generally associate deans and department heads
  • modeled after a program at Harvard that was designed for higher-level administrators, a more intense and expensive program
  • this program is for 2nd tier administrators of smaller institutions and colleges

Description

  • Program Website: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/programs/academic-leadership/
  • non-credit certificate program
  • program capped at 30 participants
  • required hardware? laptops for everyone?
  • costs: IT support $32/person; ≈$300 for E-Live; $720 for ID support
  • F2F Conference Week
    • Rick: we’d need at least 2 hours for training (probably on the last day in the morning)
    • located at the Nittany Lion Inn, Ball Room AB
      • Rick: connectivity? free wifi? wired connection and projector for the presenters?
    • different presenters for the morning and afternoon sessions
    • Pre-conference: run E-Live tests
  • Follow-up
    • each month will have a focus
    • faculty leader (Lisa) for each month
    • there will likely be guest speakers each month
    • primarily independent work during the month and discussions and debrief
    • ANGEL Group
      • PSU-ID’s will be used
      • some participants will need to be added manually
      • the SOAR team should be able to automatically link the ANGEL Group to their listing in SOAR
    • E-Live Session(s)

Next Steps

  • determine what will be put into ANGEL
  • determine what Bob’s level of preparation is; we’ll need a course outline for each online session; how much time will the participants have to dedicate for prep each month?
  • materials? Library’s eReserves for copyrighted materials/articles; students may need support turning on access for their accounts to link with the Library
  • what are they going to do for 3 hours? will the participants be grouped in the activities?
  • setup E-Live sessions for the entire year; no need for performance release needed
  • will the E-Live sessions be recorded? if yes, then we’ll need separate sessions; if no, then we won’t
  • setup a skeleton in ANGEL based on the tentative schedule from the portal
  • we need to map out at least the first few months

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?

Wiz-Bang Presentation Tools Demo

with Kate Twoey. If anything, I’ll probably be supporting Kate during this demo. She’s got a lot of excellent experience working with Presenter. If I recall, she and Jen use it for HRER courses. Based on the Learning Design “Course…

with Kate Twoey. If anything, I’ll probably be supporting Kate during this demo. She’s got a lot of excellent experience working with Presenter. If I recall, she and Jen use it for HRER courses. Based on the Learning Design “Course Inventory” GoogleDoc, there seems to be a number of courses that currently feature PowerPoint with Audio. Of those, I’m curious how many use Presenter to publish those presentations.

The idea for this demo first came up in a Blue Team meeting I believe. It’s been a little while since the idea first came up. I’d like to move ahead with this asap because there are other demo’s I’d like to get working on.

One possible set of Guiding Questions (based on ELI’s 7Things…) that I would like to get Kate and El’s feedback on.

  1. What are these tools? “Wiz-Bang Presentation Tools” Adobe Presenter, Camtasia, MediaSite Live, iSpring, Adobe Connect Pro, Kate: start with a scenario
  2. Who’s doing it?
  3. How does it work? Workflow: planning, setup, recording, post-edits, publishing
  4. Why are these tools significant? Intimate, allows for new programming options, narrows the interpretation issue
  5. What are the downsides to using this approach (vs. individual tools)? Kate: certain edits can effect your delivery date, republishing; recording
  6. Where is it going?
  7. What are the impacts for teaching and learning? Let the scenarios illustrate/answer
  8. What will our presentation format be? Kate and Kent will present on the fundamentals, a couple of examples and closing. We will try to ask others to participate if they are using virtual presentation tools in their courses. TESTIFY or present. It would be nice if we provided a hand out or a link to a website of all the resources/information.

ELI also presents a scenario, so we should consider that as well. Actually, as noted above, will be showing a number of scenarios/examples. I crossed off a couple because I’m not sure we need to cover these depending upon the audience, etc.

Before we can plan our demo, we need to answer the following:

  • Who’s the audience? Venue? Learning Design, Open Mic
  • What’s our time frame? We’re presenting June 1st, we’ll have 45 min.
  • Are there any other important questions to answer? Where are the resources, platform issues
  • What resources will we need? Probably a projector, laptop… the usual stuff 🙂

Possible matrix headings: Tool | Features | Availability | Contacts

Updated: 14 May 2010

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

ANGEL 7.4 Assessments losing images

When converting a 7.3 quiz to a 7.4 assessment, you will lose any images that were added to any of your questions – except if you save those resources to your own, personal ANGEL space (limited to 10 MB).7.4 assessments…

When converting a 7.3 quiz to a 7.4 assessment, you will lose any images that were added to any of your questions – except if you save those resources to your own, personal ANGEL space (limited to 10 MB).

7.4 assessments create virtual directories serialize specifically for each question for associated resources, like images. You cannot access those virtual directories by any traditional means from within ANGEL as a course editor.

In order to move a picture from a 7.3 quiz to a 7.4 assessment you must:

  1. download all of your images from your quiz
  2. save all of the metadata (image properties, alt tags, links, etc.)
  3. browse to the specific assessment question and re-upload each image and restore it’s properties one-by-one

Kate and I think this might be because of how 7.4 assessments handle the question bank. Questions are now “free to move” between assessments and therefore need individual, serialized, virtual directories to maintain question integrity no matter where the question might appear.