Care to join me for an interview? 🙂 Watch your step… We waited for railings on our deck for what seemed like a very long time…
Another quick week . I had a couple more interviews and have set up some more for next week. I held off booking too many due to the craft services course. There is no content for that yet so I did an email blitz with the rest of my open and access contact list and will hopefully be able to schedule the last of the interviews I want to do. In the mean time I am making connections and finding themes arise with the people that I talk to. I think early March is realistic to make a report out of what I (will) have to work with. I know that craft services still has a tight timeline so I imagine that will take up a good chunk of my hours when the content does come in.
I am now trying to imagine how I will do some graphic representations for the report and the kinds of headers and sections I will use for organization. It might be that my original organizers don’t fit with the content, or maybe I’ll have to add a couple. I have really enjoyed talking to colleagues and hearing their perspectives. I had a great talk with the crew from the Student’s Union and we will be talking some more about open textbooks/resources soon. I can see where that conversation will fit in with recommendations.
I’ve also done a little reading from the BCcampus newsletter on open and accessible content and I registered for Cascadia since it’s all about Open Education, and, it looks like I won’t be on vacation…
Next week will be taken up with more interviews and more organization of the material that I have. I will read through some of the transcripts and look for more themes/commonalities. If the content comes through I’ll likely spend some time on the craft services course. I’ve had a few more responses since I started writing this post. I am once again, really pleased that people are interested in talking about access. It’s reaffirming that NIC is a place where people really care about student success.