This week was a bit of a mixed bag – or- a tossed salad?
We had a meeting with the hiring committee to narrow down a short list of candidates. We had a CTLI meeting to check in and a meeting about the impending Blackboard Ultra switch-over. I spent some time looking at videos about Ultra and experimenting with my courses in Course Sites. I copied over a version of the Instructional Skills Workshop Online (ISWO) that I ran at NIC a number of years ago. It used a lot of the tools and I got over 1600 errors on my import. I didn’t spend a lot of time looking over the errors but I will. I want to know how easy (or not) it will be for instructors to clean up after an import – and what triggers the errors. 1600 sounds like a lot but a quick look revealed that it wasn’t that scary.
I spent some time on ITLC Lilly conference site. I updated my profile and made some notes on which synchronous sessions I might want to take in.
The rest of my time was spent working on the Blackboard Sampler Course for instructors. It feels a bit like writing an outline for a paper at the moment. Mostly descriptive content so far but I’m working on adding interactions. I hope I can make more time to work on it in and around the conference next week. I want to make aesthetic changes but I think it’s more important to keep moving forward for now.
That’s about it. I’m building in more breaks just to get comfortable but am able to move a little better and am bending my knee as ordered by the surgeon. It’s going to be a while but hey, it’s been almost 4 weeks already so, almost halfway there.
In my head those 4 weeks have gone quickly, but I’m guessing less so for you. I’ve not exported my course yet but I will do. We should compare notes to see if there are any common errors coming up. And also to see which sessions you plan on attending next week. Great photo as always; your pictures usually leave me feeling hungry.