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
      • Nice to have the opportunity to present with Keith Bailey and Jen Berghage about Crumbling the Cookie Cutter. Here is a short blurb about our session:
        • Do you feel like courses offered online are mostly cookie cutter or out-of-the box? Are you having a hard time understanding how to create or implement a course because there are too many restrictions? Are you looking for a solution to having a greater say in your courses? If you have said yes to any or all of these, please attend this session.

          During this session we will discuss a cookie-cutter approach to course design and implementation. We will do demos of courses run through World Campus to see what the possibilities are. We will also look at some scenarios familiar to course implementation teams and discuss how to apply the notion of parameter-based design as a way to have greater say in what is in your courses.

        • My thoughts on the session is that is was nice to use google presentation to collaborate. Eventually, we placed the presentation on Keith’s computer.
        • I thought my part went well because I stressed team and had an instructor demo something that they were doing in the course.
      • Found myself tweeting after a bit of guilting by Melissa Hicks. It’s so easy to do with the phone. Nice to follow all of the conversations.
      • Interesting discussion on MOOC’s
        • With all that has been going on in higher ed, MOOC’s are not the 1st attempt at this. How about the Open University?
  • 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

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