Thinking about relationships

I've been thinking about departmental relationships and how they play into the development of quality online courses.  I've also been thinking about how to graphically represent functions within and supportive to OIT.  It's funny how you drop back to what you learn in elementary school - the only graphic that came to mind as valid was a Venn diagram. What do you think? Did I manage to link the resources needed to design a quality course?

Cool App! and an update!

Just found a cool app! for my iPhone. Anyone who knows me, knows I buy books over and over because I forget titles and author combinations.  I also maintain a huge annotated bibliography of my research interests.  I hate, hate, hate to type all that bibliographic info into my database. I found BookManager.  So far it captures info from the ISBN nicely. Next trick is to see if I can get the data out in a form I can use in multiple locations. Stay tuned for that bit of fun!

Beginning to get my feet on the ground with Blackboard!  The grade books function is so far the only area I feel shaky on still.  So far so good.  We'll see how the start of the semester goes!

Week One At UTK-OIT

Welcome to Room 511 Greve Hall!

I've started with a new team at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.  As of the end of the first week I am jazzed! This is a great bunch of folks. It's a much bigger group than I've ever worked in. The University is large but seems pretty efficient at first glance. The biggest challenge so far has been completing the benefit package! That took forever.

So what have I done this first week other than the benefits?  I investigated and compared two plagiarizer prevention application SafeAssign and iThenticate, I've viewed Blackboard tutorials and looked at the ticket system and knowledge base. I've also observed my colleagues present BbC (Collaborate) and wikis in Bb Learn. I've also looked into social aspects of online learning and assessment.

I wanted a cool way to introduce myself to the group. I've decided to use a QR code on my door with a bio landing page.  Not!

Possible project - per: Rosie is to catalog the books we each have in our offices.

The book I'm reading is Self, Peer and Group Assessment in E-Learning.  (LB1028.2.S38885 2006 ) by Roberts, Tim S.