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