Reflection 7/8/13-7/12/13

Accomplishments:

Prof Dev
- Completed Building a Safe Penn State: Reporting Child Abuse Training on 7/8/13
Spring ’13 revisions/developments

IST 220
- 2 notes from Nick G about items that he’d like to see done to improve the course
  - One is about a screen cast that shows how to do a screen cap in VHOL
  - One is about creating a better survey in ANGEL for team creation
  - Received another note from Nick about cloudshark
    - The way that he’s thinking of implementing it would erase many of the IT related issues that we currently have
    - It would also allow us to focus our efforts on exactly what we want students to learn
- Met on 5/2 from 11:00-12:00 to discuss
  - He would like OIDI to create a virtual Finite State Machine
  - He included a powerpoint with examples of what he would like
  - Need to assemble a team to get this rolling
  - Spoke with Allison and Ranjani about possible participation in this project
  - Emailed Marc on 5/31 about getting together to discuss the project
  - Meeting planned for 6/5 concerning project
  - Alison, Ranjani, and Will are working on the project. Plan to meet in a week or so
  - Ranjani sent a prototype for Marc to view on 6/26
IST 230 (Newcomer)
- The truth tables are completed
  - Feedback from Kent about video on the page (& in the rest of the course)
    - Would be nice to point students more clearly on where to start the tables – Done
    - Can make the video accessible by ios devices. Here is an evernote on how.
- Email sent to Larry on 4/9
  - Reply from Toni D; positive about the final product
- Amy G pointed me to some resources that were available from the past.
  - I plan to take a closer look and share with Larry for possible inclusion in later semesters
- Note from Larry on 5/9 that there is something that needs to be fixed
  - Emailed Greg for help
  - This should have been done earlier but it’s another reason we need professional ed tech
  - Texted Greg on 5/31 and worked with Ranjani to fix the issue
- Eric is starting work on making videos accessible by mobile on 7/1
IST 240 (Fonseca)
- Talked to Lisa and she was going to touchbase with Mary Beth about reforming committee
- Meeting on 5/1 about the course with Fred rescheduled for 5/8 b/c of grading needs
  - Meeting again rescheduled for 5/15 b/c of being behind
- Received note on 5/20 that Fred could make meeting this week, so I shared my feelings about the project getting behind.
  - He sent me materials and nice note.
- Moved Hal’s materials into an Archive folder in the dev section and deleted gradebook
- Updated the course and made a few more adjustments based upon the file sent and a google+ hangout session on 5/23 & 24
- Received an email on 5/29 that Fred changed his mind and is revamping the course
- Looked more closely over the edits and plan to make adjustements next week when I have time
- Fred sent me materials up through Lesson 11 over the weekend
  - Plan to work with Ranjani on setting up the course
- Meeting planned for 6/24 on google hangout from 1:30-2:30
  - Able to determine a few items for the course. Here are my notes:
    - When: Jun 24, 2013 1:30:00 PM
      Where: Google hangout
      Proposed Agenda
      Syllabus
      - I did a bit of rewriting to firm up the syllabus and fit other items into the standard template
      - Can’t find Sams text about Java in Safari Books. – found under java development
      Final Project
      - Reworked Project Overview
      - Added Evaluation to Rubric in ANGEL to connect to dropbox
      Lesson 00 contents
      - Need criteria for survey – file sent
      Lesson 01 contents
      - Talk about basic flow for the lesson – put content on drupal, the order should b
- On 6/25, began to move things into drupal and could see that there is a ton to process
- Help from Amy G to think about how to leverage student help
- Put place holders in ANGEL with materials from Fred
- On 6/25 & 26 able to get materials into drupal for Lessons 1 & 2. Plan to add one per day until it is all in
- On 6/27 able to get materials into drupal for Lesson 3.
- On 6/28 finished Lesson 4 and Allison did Lesson 5, 6, & 8. Will finished up Lesson 9 and updated content to formatted.
- Also, Will and I worked on making the self assessments open upon submission in ANGEL. Need to send a ticket to ANGEL Support next week about this.
IST 250 (Bixler)
- Met with Brett on 1/30 to discuss adjustments
  - Mostly items that Brett will fix
  - He will send me changes to the curriculum as Word docs for me to update
IST 302 (Clark)
- Sent note to Shawn about new text
  - He replied that if the book changed significantly we would have to do a revision
    - I sent a reply back to let him know that it didn’t change much and to see if he needed a copy
    - He said yes, and I sent a request to Kathy W on 4/8
    - Checked in with Amy S about the possibility of revision
    - I don’t think it’s necessary
      - Talked briefly with Shawn on 5/21 that I didn’t think the course needed a revision
      - Received the book and clarified with James C on 5/31 that we were going with the 7th edition
    - Jan said that she planned to add quizzes to the course
IST 402 (Jansen)
- Meeting set up by Amy S for 6/12 to discuss new topic around Jim Jansen’s f2f 402 “The Google Online Marketing Challenge”
- Sounds like a good idea from several perspectives:
  - student engagement via competition
  - marketing to students in other majors for minor
- Few possible obstacles
  - Not enough students from other majors with complementary skills
  - Large need for synchronous meetings
  - Large time commitment
- Email sent on 6/12 to Jim to set up meeting for June 24-28
  - Meeting planned for June 24 from 3-4
    - Looks like lots of captivates
    - Need to put together a process to share with him to make this streamlined
    - Need to have a drupal space created
    - He probably won’t be able to get me product until August 1
- Put in request to IST Helpdesk to create ist402gomc site for Jansen’s course
  - received notification on 6/26 that this was done
  - sent a footprints request to set up the site on 6/27 to Ranjani and Will
IST 420 (Ocker)
- Will started to convert the ppts into captivates on 7/9

Summer ’13 Courses

Added Midterm surveys to all Summer ’13 courses
- Adjusted the MPS survey to do this
IST 210
- Sec 002 (Fred)
  - Note from Fred about a question being off
    - Problem is that this was something that was not updated
IST 230
- Sec 001 (Larry)
  - Graded several quizzes on 7/1
  - Talked to Larry on 7/1 about the papers that I graded & submitted to ANGEL

Fall ’13 Courses

IST 110
- Sec 001 (Garbrick)
  - Ok from Amy G to copy last version into the space
  - Export/Import done on 6/4
  - Let Amy that it was done and ready for her to set up
- Sec 002 (M. Lipton)
  - Checked in about copying in last version of the course into her space on 5/31
    - Reply on 6/1 that it was okay
  - Finally got to uploading on 6/12 and emailed Mary
IST 111S
- Sec 001 (Deirdre)
  - Emailed Deirdre on 6/12 about populating her space
  - Received note on 6/17 that she needs to make a few adjustments before this should be done
  - I replied that I would bring the course over on July 1 if I hadn’t heard anything
  - Set up the section & sent email to Deirdre on July 1
IST 210
- Sec 001 (Gary)
  - Started on 6/13 after consultation
    - Finished & ready for Fall ’13
- Sec 002 (Liz)
  - Started on 6/13 after consultation
    - Finished & ready for Fall ’13
IST 220
- Sec 001 (Mike M)
  - Emailed Mike and Nick about timeline for completing this
- Sec 002 (Nick G)
  - Emailed Mike and Nick about timeline for completing this
IST 230
- Sec 001 (Larry)
  - Larry will take care of this himself
- Sec 002 (Me)
  - Need to work more on updating my personal dev space
IST 260W
- Sec 001 (Long)
  - Note from Amy S on 6/26 that the section is filled and adding Wilson for section 002
    - Sent out note on 6/26 about populating section next Monday
- Sec 002 (Wilson)
  - Sent out note on 6/26 about populating section next Monday
IST 295B
- Sec 001 (Kari)
  - Populated and notified Madhavi on 7/9
IST 301
- Sec 001 (Jan)
  - Sent email on 6/26 letting her know that I populated section from Spring ’13 into her Fall ’13 section
  - Completed the course set up on 7/1
IST 302
- Sec 001 (Jan)
  - Started on 6/13 because she would like to add exams for each lesson
    - My part is done
IST 331
- Sec 001 (Wenk)
  - Set up the course on 6/17 based upon sp13 version upon Bill’s request
  - Talked to Emily on 6/18 via google+ hangout about the course
  - Plan is to have a 3-way conversation with Bill about how best to set the course up for her in Fall
    - emailed everyone on 7/9 to get this meeting going
      - Bill is available 7/22-26
IST 402
- Sec 001 (Jansen)
  - Received a note that he wants the section populated
  - Didn’t find this on my profile, so asked him to add me if he sees it on his
  - They added Melissa instead of me, so Jim added me.
  - Set up the section and sent him an email on 6/5
IST 440W
- Sec 001 (Jim W)
  - Populated on 7/9
- Sec 002 (Rob L)
  - Populated on 7/9
IST 495
- Sec 001 (Kari)
  - Populated and notified Madhavi

Ongoing Projects:

Updated google spreadsheet for Fall ’13 google schreadsheet

Immediate Decisions / Issues:

Need LMS that better integrates and includes tools that we use in our classes.

Important Dates:

July 2 Sick Day – Family 4h, Self 4h

July 4 Holiday

July 5 Vacation Day – 8h

July 11 Vacation Day – 8h

July 12 Vacation Day – 8h

August 19 Vacation Day – 8h

August 20 Vacation Day – 8h

FTW – For the Wrecord

My Thoughts

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