IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: Jared, Marc, Janel, Travis, Ken, Dorothy


To claim empty course development space in shell, name through administrative tab. Marc needs ten new development shells

Course Reviews:

TECH 3000 -- 15 week course

• Travis, have Walker get video streaming digitized for "The Secret" and other videos. Need address for streaming
• Decide how to format questions
• Discussed synchronous vs asynchronous discussions and activities through WIMBA. Better for students to be asynchronous in online course. John MacLean wants synchronous for creative brainstorming. We will build course and then try to convince him to use asynchronous
• Could we set up tutorial to help students with synchronous WIMBA? Flag synchronous activities with "live" to alert students that they need to meet timetable
• Are instructors committed to complexity of class? John ok, Richard may not be because of his time constraints
• We need a section in template that explains about Discussions- Jared had one and will put in template

BESC 4705 -- 15 week course

• Use built in "Course Goals." Any assignment can be associated with specific goal. Once built, it is a great feature, but is not being used
• Electronic portfolio: best way is to set up del.icio.us account and put in first lesson. Richard could check bookmarks each week- need to clarify electronic portfolio in Syllabus
• Has length of time listed to do each assignment- may be underestimated
• Change "L6 - Assignment" to "Discussions 6," etc. Combine continued discussions for ease of reference and so students can see all posts; will also help in instructor management
  
• In table of contents, change to "Assignment-Webquest" and "Quiz-Webquest" to clarify
  

TECH 3000 -- 15 week course

• Needs better description of table of contents
• Course looks ok

CA 1310

• Course has "in person" group activities. Need to figure out how to implement. Also, need to teach instructor group feature
  
• Could set up Discussions that is simply a student-led forum--could be ambiguous as to how much instructor looks at discussion
  
• Jared: No assessment of most objectives, so how are they measured? Objectives with "explain" or "describe" need essay questions, written paper, or discussion. Objective with "know" or "understand" can use multiple choice questions. Make objective and tasks compatible: either align activities to objectives or add new objectives for tasks.
  
• Discussed if instructor is committed to time involved in managing class

CLSS 2100

• Ready for review for ITR- looks great

Conference

• John has asked what conferences we plan to attend in coming year. (Can attend one conference for professional development, additional conferences if presenting) Fill out conference proposal form, which is turned in to Jared or Travis, then on to John for approval

NACE Pyramid -- Looks great; kudos to Ken (woof)

• Some text hard to read- perhaps need lighter font (not so blocky and bold)
  
• Too big to embed into page. Could have screen shot that is clickable

Japanese Flashcards

• Flashcards to be available online -- can import content into them
• Ken, talk to Gordon: generic is ready to go. Ken will try unicode. Generic English is good
• Iman wants to use template for Arabic
• Embed bottom of page with" "Flashcard tool courtesy of Utah Valley University Distance Education"
• Show flashcards at next meeting -- Website: John's Playstation Game Garden site?
• John to set up integration feature to add content, questions to file. If it works, will take multiple choice questions and turn into two-sided flash card with questions and answer
  

IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: Jared, Marc, Janel, Travis, Dorothy

Discussed move from current offices. There will be a meeting this week to decide where Dist Ed will be relocated. Move probably by July 1. Possible new office location in Foundation Building or Advancement Building (Some confusion about which buildings these are- maybe old warehouse building or a building across freeway?) There may be more available space, but that may not include classroom space. Basement space may be difficult because of water problems.

Reviewed status of fall courses
Janel:

• BESC 4705 (JR) Resorting content. Course is partially programmed; will be ready for JR next week
• BIOL 1010 (Ken) If Heather used Camtasia, could probably produce content quickly (Carolyn used Camtasia successfully)
• ESMG 3100 (310G) E-mails sent to John Pepper. Handed off new content, 14 lessons. Work with latest submission. Not yet assigned to programmer.
  
• TECH 3000 (RJ) We have content; RJ programming.
• CA 1310 (JR) Full content in; JR will finish programming next week. Janel asked if all four videos are in (2 Harmons, 2 Val Brown) She needs them by July 1. Travis said all are done. He will tell Walker to put them together in time line- he can start editing interviews even without the graphics.
  
• TECH 3000- Just waiting for 5 videos to come back. Raw footage is in. Cheryl is waiting for content based on final videos. Travis said we are only waiting for support materials. We need to communicate deadlines clearly.
• Travis: give all raw audio files of video interviews to Dorothy for transcription

Marc

• CA 1150 - Some material sent but we need more
• PHIL 3450 (Karen Mizel) this course won't fly
• TECH3010 - Receiving constant material. Plans to use WIMBA. RJ is programming initial lesson.
• Note: All TECH Management should be use same format in VISTA

Jared

• Nutrition 1020 - E Pack course- Jared will take this one if it comes. Janel has course content (CD) for Jared to review to use for fall. Cost probably based on per student usage.
  
• BESC 481R - Will have complete content soon. Needs some prototyping
  
• ENGL 4210 and ESMG- Have not looked at yet
• Nutrition, PSY- no content
• SSY/SW - Not for summer (has disappeared)

Janel wondered about banners for all classes. Travis will check Google Docs for banners for fall courses- he is waiting for Monte to give G-drive. He will ask Shawn to link Janel to Travis' computer so she can check. Travis: check the look of all 084 courses (Spring, in yellow in Google Docs)

Janel wants archive for all Spring courses

TTIX

• TTIX Website has general survey for all participants- they have been spammed to complete survey.
• Janel wants to have a staff meeting to talk about successes and suggestions for '08 TTIX- possibly next week?

Changing from Blackboard? Luke Fernandez wants statewide LMS to be Moodle or SAKAI. Probably premature to go down that path- the State would have to be pushed to change because there has been so much time and money invested in Blackboard. When new version of Vista comes down, that would be the time to make a change, instead of renewing contract. If we have to have another LMS, be sure it is what we want- may not be Blackboard.

Still discussion new part-time web developer

Discussed Online Learning Book (95 new ideas) Jared pared information to 31 best ideas (others not so good.) Summary is posted on Jared's Blog. Janel is to review book, then pass on to Marc for his review.

Moodle Conference: UCLA has developed Open Courseware modification. We will likely scrap much of ours and use the best of theirs. We still need approval on Open Courseware procedure.