IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

Attending: Jared, Marc, Janel, Travis, Dorothy


Travis
Banners

• Travis finishing banners - some classes not clearly named
• Nutrition needs banner
• Travis to get titles from Jared

Video segments for courses

• Tuesday, Wednesday filming Steve Fullmer, ENGL 2300 (Spring delivery)
  
• Janel needs video links for CA 1310, TECH 3000
• No dialogue for CA 1310
• Dave Walker working on videos - Scott to help, Adam also help when he is free
• MGMT 3430 - Video segment is ripped onto computer - Problems when streaming starts. Working on first one, should be completed today
• Send audio of all videos to Cheri for accessibility services ( She will send to Dorothy for transcription)
  

Janel

• Content sent to developers
  
• BESC 4705 - finish
• TECH 3000 - JR programing (helping Janel on all courses)
  
• ESMG 310G - May need two sections, two instructors. Just comes through Banner

Marc

• New faculty need training
• Janel and Jared to send list of new faculty for training (4 from each)
• Marc to set up two sessions for group training, contact instructors and let them choose preferred session to attend

Jared
Dotprojects

• Several projects duplicated on dotprojects
• Figure out way to consolidate without losing information

Updates

• Updates: Shaline doing most, Ken doing 4, Tryel doing some.
  
• Distribute updates evenly so new projects can be distributed evenly

UVU Wiki

• UVU Wiki has been set up for accademic departments
• Wikilearn.edu.edu
• Type address and put in department prefix - takes to academic department wiki homepage
• Listed by topics instead of by courses
• Can be edited, linked to learning modules, topics

JR off Friday

Fall IDS Services Weekly Ed Tech Meeting

• Mondays 1:15 - 3:30
  

MediaWiki Fall Pilot: wikilearn.uvu.edu

After JR, RJ, and Tyrel investigated possible wiki platforms, Paul Nuffer has helped us set up a MediaWiki installation for UVU educational content.

Mediawiki is one of the top oss wiki platforms, and allows us to LDAP students into the system with directory-specific editing privileges. This means (hopefully) that Banner will send student accounts straight into wikilearn.uvu.edu, and students will login using standard UVID/password.

The URL is wikilearn.uvu.edu, though currently we are piloting it for fall with only subdirectories. I'll work on scripting an index page in the future.

Subdirectories will be added on a departmental level, so Computer Science will have wikilearn.uvu.edu/cs open for editing for their faculty and enrolled students. At this point our objective is to disallow anonymous editing and user account creation--the only wiki editors will be faculty and students (and possibly staff).

We can include wiki content pages into Bb Vista or Moodle courses in place of or in addition to regular content web pages. Similar to the Shadow Files system, the beauty here is that multiple courses can use the same content source. The source content in the wiki will be as current as faculty or students want it to be, and can be the base for a lot of cool collaborative student and faculty authoring projects.

For fall we are going to allow CS and DGM access to wikilearn.uvu.edu. Kirk Love and Nate Snapp will be using it for content in their CS courses, and I'm going to start transitioning some of my DGM stuff to it as well.

The library has asked for access for Spring, and hopefully we will be able to add more departments and courses as well. Spread the word.