Thanks so much Bill and everyone for an interesting discussion over the past few weeks. I'm sure we'll have opportunities to revisit the question of automating aspects of the instructional design process in the future. Bill, you'll have to promise us to report back on your work!
Reading back over the seminar Bill's facilitation style really stood out -- such a welcoming tone, and gentle prompts to advance the discussion. One of my overdue projects is to make some progress on preparing resources for future SCoPE facilitators using examples from past discussions so there will be much I can use from this discussion. Thanks for that!
We're gradually lining up a schedule for seminars in the fall (see the upcoming seminar list). If you have ideas for topics please get in touch! (scurrie@bccampus) Also, if all goes well we'll be upgrading the SCoPE site and doing some general maintenance work over the next few weeks.
Sylvia
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Just a quick reminder that there is a text chat today the SCoPE here in just a few minutes (I hope the "mail now" button works!) Hope to see you there!
Welcome to our June seminar: Automating Instructional Design.
About this seminar
The purpose of this 3-week seminar is to share, learn, and discuss strategies and current projects in the area of automating the instructional design process. With the explosion of web 2.0, rapid e-learning design, online simulations, and other modes of training, it seems the time is right to pull together a tool that can aid the instructional designer in fitting the right type of training for the given purpose of the instruction.
About our facilitator
Bill Thimmesch comes to us with experience as an educational specialist for the United States Courts in Washington, D.C., and program manager for professional training programs for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Bill currently serves as Vice-President, Federal Sector, for the Federal Government Distance Learning Association.
Participating in SCoPE seminars
SCoPE seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. You are welcome to come and go according to your schedule and interests. To contribute you will need to create an account on the SCoPE site -- a quick process. Are you new to SCoPE or wondering how to manage your participation? Check this resource.
If you're a Diigo or Delicious user we can round up our resources pertaining to this seminar topic by using the tag 'scopeID'. In Diigo you may choose to share to the SCoPE group.
If you have any questions about participating in SCoPE don't hesitate to ask here in the forum, or get in touch with me directly:
Sylvia Currie
scurrie@bccampus.ca
skype:webbedfeat +1 250-318-2907
About this seminar
The purpose of this 3-week seminar is to share, learn, and discuss strategies and current projects in the area of automating the instructional design process. With the explosion of web 2.0, rapid e-learning design, online simulations, and other modes of training, it seems the time is right to pull together a tool that can aid the instructional designer in fitting the right type of training for the given purpose of the instruction.
About our facilitator
Bill Thimmesch comes to us with experience as an educational specialist for the United States Courts in Washington, D.C., and program manager for professional training programs for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics and Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Bill currently serves as Vice-President, Federal Sector, for the Federal Government Distance Learning Association.
Participating in SCoPE seminars
SCoPE seminars are free and open to the public, and registration is not required. You are welcome to come and go according to your schedule and interests. To contribute you will need to create an account on the SCoPE site -- a quick process. Are you new to SCoPE or wondering how to manage your participation? Check this resource.
If you're a Diigo or Delicious user we can round up our resources pertaining to this seminar topic by using the tag 'scopeID'. In Diigo you may choose to share to the SCoPE group.
If you have any questions about participating in SCoPE don't hesitate to ask here in the forum, or get in touch with me directly:
Sylvia Currie
scurrie@bccampus.ca
skype:webbedfeat +1 250-318-2907
Having said we should register a unique URL I wonder if we should just stick with this path for now: http://ltc.bccampus.ca/sotl/
We might get ideas for the site name through our feedback at STLHE. SoTL Connect might stick. We're also referring to the site as a Portal, but I wonder if that conjures up customized information flow more than a place to collaborate.
Heather used the word "workbench" and that really stood out for me. If we prefix each working research group label with WORKBENCH it will be an easy way to narrow down the search for users looking for existing projects.
Anyway, these are quick ramblings that I wanted to get out of my head!
We might get ideas for the site name through our feedback at STLHE. SoTL Connect might stick. We're also referring to the site as a Portal, but I wonder if that conjures up customized information flow more than a place to collaborate.
Heather used the word "workbench" and that really stood out for me. If we prefix each working research group label with WORKBENCH it will be an easy way to narrow down the search for users looking for existing projects.
Anyway, these are quick ramblings that I wanted to get out of my head!
Hi everyone,
The Elluminate walk through and subsequent notes were reallky helpful! I took your feedback + did a thorough review of the website and sent this list along to Northstudio. They then went through the list and indicated how much time is needed for each item -- also copied to the wiki (see bottom of page).
Right now Northstudio has 12 hours left in the budget, so I pulled out 6 hours worth of work to get the site up an running. So we have 6 hours left, which might best be used on training us to make the changes we need to make based on the feedback from folks at STLHE.
I've spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out the best way to organize the different research project phases using the tools in Open Atrium. I think I'm beginning to see a clear path, the tools associated with main activities on the site, and also key areas that will translate into a good visual for the main page. I outlined the key areas in the wiki.
Anyway, we're well on our way. Heather, you asked in an earlier email message if you thought we'd have a live site for people to try out and give feedback by the June STLHE conference. For sure we'll have the Beta site (functional, but not (ever!) completed) ready to go by then. In fact, I think it will be a good time to pause for a round of feedback.
Next I'll create and configure the necessary groups and work on the visuals (colour, logo). That may be as far as I get this week because I'm traveling, organizing, presenting, etc for the Educational Technology Users Group Spring Workshop in Nelson. I expect Northstudio will complete their revisions this week. Then there will be final bits to do the week before STLHE conference.
Heather, thanks for writing up and posting the welcome text. I'll link things up when I have the other pieces in place. We nay need to tweak it a bit to match up with the spaces/tools, and also change the sequence (eg. "use as a workbench" before "post finished projects")
I hope this all makes sense! I have notes and conversations scattered here and there, so hopefully I didn't miss any big chunks while trying to summarize here.
Sylvia
The Elluminate walk through and subsequent notes were reallky helpful! I took your feedback + did a thorough review of the website and sent this list along to Northstudio. They then went through the list and indicated how much time is needed for each item -- also copied to the wiki (see bottom of page).
Right now Northstudio has 12 hours left in the budget, so I pulled out 6 hours worth of work to get the site up an running. So we have 6 hours left, which might best be used on training us to make the changes we need to make based on the feedback from folks at STLHE.
I've spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out the best way to organize the different research project phases using the tools in Open Atrium. I think I'm beginning to see a clear path, the tools associated with main activities on the site, and also key areas that will translate into a good visual for the main page. I outlined the key areas in the wiki.
Anyway, we're well on our way. Heather, you asked in an earlier email message if you thought we'd have a live site for people to try out and give feedback by the June STLHE conference. For sure we'll have the Beta site (functional, but not (ever!) completed) ready to go by then. In fact, I think it will be a good time to pause for a round of feedback.
Next I'll create and configure the necessary groups and work on the visuals (colour, logo). That may be as far as I get this week because I'm traveling, organizing, presenting, etc for the Educational Technology Users Group Spring Workshop in Nelson. I expect Northstudio will complete their revisions this week. Then there will be final bits to do the week before STLHE conference.
Heather, thanks for writing up and posting the welcome text. I'll link things up when I have the other pieces in place. We nay need to tweak it a bit to match up with the spaces/tools, and also change the sequence (eg. "use as a workbench" before "post finished projects")
I hope this all makes sense! I have notes and conversations scattered here and there, so hopefully I didn't miss any big chunks while trying to summarize here.
Sylvia