Accomplishments:

�         Continued with IST 111S revision

o   Spent Thursday Oct 13 in am and pm on videos for the revision

�  Emily Spokus helped with video capture and will do video editing

�  Ryan Wetzel more consulting help with faculty

�         Came up with other ideas of how to incorporate media to enhance the course for the future

�         Completed cleaning up content for IST 220 and updated to subversion

�         Continued IST 331 revision

�         Continued with IST 402 revision

o   Mostly completed on the back end

o   Need to take a look at the front end to make sure that everything’s in order

o   Planning to meet with David Saab on Tues Oct 25 to discuss the Spring ’12 running of this course and possible development of his own 402

�         Updated chart on my whiteboard

o   Only a few items that are unresolved J

�         Attended IST Statewide Faculty Meeting

o   Good to meet with faculty that I don’t get to meet f2f

�         Attended Drupal User’s Group Meeting. Here are a few observations from the meeting which morphed into a University-Wide Web Developer’s Meeting: https://sites.psu.edu/rep129blog/2011/10/19/drupal-users-monthly-meeting-101811/

�         Attended Understanding and Valuing Diversity on Oct 18: Understanding and Valuing Diversity  DIV 008. Here is my blog entry on the experience: https://sites.psu.edu/rep129blog/2011/10/19/understanding-and-valuing-diversity-101811/

�         Planning to attend the Educational Gaming Brownbag: Using Game-Like Elements to Increase Motivation and Participation in Business Courses on Wednesday Oct 19

Ongoing Projects:

�         Working on Spring 2012 courses: IST 111S, IST 230, IST 295A, IST 331, IST 402, IST 495

�         Working on Summer 2012 courses: IST 210, IST 220, IST 240, IST 250, IST 260W, IST 295B, IST 301, IST 302, IST 420, IST 421, IST 440W

�         Check for flash and video that doesn’t show up from the WC version.

�         Adding peer evals in drupal to courses.

�         Working on checking courses (content isn’t always there) from WCLD to be placed in Drupal through OIDI task list

�         Updating syllabi & content in drupal

�         Worked on preparations for SLOAN-C conference presentation, especially elements for the presentation 

Immediate Decisions / Issues:

�         Would like to have a better working knowledge of…

o   Kaltura

o   Jaycut

Some things that I learn this week:

�         When at the Nittany Lion Inn, join the wireless called ‘attwifi’ and open Internet Explorer to accept the agreement to access things online.

�         For the courses, if I want the font to be white on a dark background, insert the following code at the beginning of the html:

<p><style type=”text/css”>

#content table tbody .tableheader th {

                color: #FFF;

}

#content table tbody tr th {

                color: #FFF;

}

</style></p>

�         When working with web content that would like to link to the web, usually best to take screen shot and link from the screen shot.

�         Lyme’s disease can lead to arthritis: http://www.webmd.com/rheumatoid-arthritis/arthritis-lyme-disease

Back Burner:

�         Gaming, Simulations, and Virtual World Research Committee

�         Need to read the book Understanding by Design: http://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Design-Expanded-Grant-Wiggins/dp/0131950843/ref=dp_ob_image_bk

Days off / Conferences:     

�         Oct 21 half day vaca in am

�         Oct 24 dental apt in the am

�         Conference Nov. 8-11 – SLOAN-C Conference: http://sloanconsortium.org/aln

�         March 24 TLT Symposium – thinking of using this opportunity to practice session for Madison Conference

Many of the members of the team were off to Educause which made for a quiet week in the office.

Went to a high school and college football game on Friday and Saturday of last week. The high school game was where I used to teach, Lower Dauphin, against State College. Great game that ended in OT 41-38 SC. Both teams played great and fought up to the end. LD’s sophomore kicker hit his 3rd FG of the year of over 50 yards, very impressive. It was the first SC High School game that both Simeon and Noah had been to. They enjoyed the experience. I was glad to talk to several of my former colleagues after the game who coach LD. LD’s team headed up by Coach Rob Klock is class all the way.

Went to the Penn State-Purdue game on Saturday. It was won by PSU thanks to their kicking game. They made all of their FG, XP. Also the kicker/punter hit a clutch punt inside the 5 at the end of the game.

My running went well. I felt really tired at the beginning of the week and have a chest cold which makes me cough quite a bit. I’m feeling stronger as the week goes on and hope to regain some of my usual energy.

Simeon participated in a cougar run. Here some info: http://tinyurl.com/6kjxkrj and a photo from the day: