This week was rainy all week. I was able to get outside with the kids between the rain drops, but I’m hoping for a bit more sun.
PUBPL 483
Had a few more meetings this week with the instructor of PUBPL 483 via Elluminate Live (soon to be Blackboard Collaborate). The course is really starting to take shape. Glad to have content on a consistent basis. We now have Lesson 1, 2, 12, and 13. The idea is to have a one-user multimedia experience for the lessons from 1-7 that relate to current issues like gun control. We hope to tie the content and readings to these learning objects. We also hope to prepare students to do an asynchronous simulation from Lesson 8-13. To better prepare to create the simulation, we had Penny Ralston-Berg demo LER 434 that has a negotiations simulation. Since we are tackling negotiations, this should serve as a template for the sim in this course. Everyone is excited about the possibilities. To better understand the sim, we plan to participate in it next Thursday.
CAS 100B
Had a chance to meet again about ideas pertaining to making this course more interactive and media rich. Stephanie Edel-Malizia proposed that we use understanding by design. I plan to take a closer look at the following websites for our next meeting:
I’m finding that I’m using some of these backward design strategies in courses like PUBPL 483.
ACCNTG 512
Visited Great Valley on Wednesday to hold an instructor meeting. The plan with this course is to have The Introduction Objectives page, The Roadmap page with embedded voice-over ppt, and Activities page based on several companies. It looks like we’ll invite the instructor to UP to do much of the production work. This is an aggressive roll-out schedule since he is leaving PSU and would like to complete the work before leaving.
AGBIO 520
Had a program meeting this week. 520 will run in the fall, and we are to get a copy of PHP 594 into a dev space to create AGBIO 594 in its image.
Business Literacy Meeting
In light of the end of the Call Center, this meeting lacked focus. There will be another meeting on June 1. Hope to have more upon which to base a decision for the filling of the 329 space.
TED Talk
The biggest thing that I thought about when I watch this is that maybe we shouldn’t worry about giving students choices. Too many choice tend to cause more unhappiness.