Friday, December 14, 2012

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?

Thursday, December 13, 2012

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!