I chose this picture because I imagine this is what I’ll be seeing a lot of on vacation since we really can’t go anywhere 🙂 . Not a hardship.
This week I spent some time digging up resources for the August sessions. Got into an OER wormhole through the OE Global Connect site. If I wasn’t taking most of the summer off I’d be looking at a project. A lot of time was spent reading through the resources I’m collecting and working out outlines for the sessions.
I’ve been looking for resources for the Open section of the Teach Anywhere site and found this gem courtesy of Alan and Press Books: Crowd sourced introduction to OER
I’ve started mapping out how I think the resources could be grouped on the web site and writing a few descriptions. That will be my deliverable for next Tuesday before I go on vacation.
I went into the office to check on the move and pick up a key. No one was at facilities and they were waiting for IT to move the computer equipment off the desk. By Thursday everything had been moved and I picked up my new key.
I’m still working on the one English course and meeting with the instructor. I had to write her a ‘don’t panic’ email because she looked pretty desperate at the end of our meeting. This is a course that could have benefited from a one on one, full-time collaborative effort for a couple of weeks. It’s been copied so many times and it’s had a few owners so the language needs work, the style needs work, the fonts… so… many… fonts. There’s was also the obligatory clean up of Blackboard extras that come over with every copy. We’re almost there. I’ve cleaned some of the code and we’ve organized the content. We’ve got one more meeting on Tuesday next week to finish it up.
Not part of my NIC work but something I worked on last winter that I’m really proud of: Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence on Campus. It was a very collaborative and well managed project. I got to work with the Subject Matter Experts and do Instructional Design and help with evaluations. I was sent the press release last night so thought I’d include it. Also, it’s Open.