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Sunday, May 02, 2004

 
9:52 AM: in and out of my head [#] [0]

things are better off than i thought. no excuse to slack, but i think i've confirmed my worth to my supervisor, who i called at home yesterday to ask more (yes, even more!) questions. we scaled back what i was initially asked to do because it looks like we've got most of what we need out of what i've done so far. at any rate, i still have more cataloguing to do (module 4 and then an AJ syllabus & assignment, i suspect) and then writing. due tomorrow! my previous time estimate for cataloguing of learning objects looks a little low (you could probably double it: 10 minutes to identify & catalog each object= 66 hours), but she considers it to be a small investment for a course which could take 200 hours to develop and then be able to reuse chunks of it in other courses at what is hopefully a significantly reduced development time.

maggie has been working on a paper for the webct conference which talks about the very project i'm working on, and so it's kind of funny that we're working on it in parallel. as i work on the project, her paper changes. she sent me a copy of it, and it was nice to get that mid-level sort of view: i knew about the concept of learning objects and the basic steps which were involved, but then leapt right into the microscopic details. it's like the difference between, "hey, that's planet earth" and "hey, look at this parking space." so it's nice to get that "hey, is that colorado?" view. but it's also interesting to see how my previous analysis work for her has been used in this paper (statistics for webct course usage). ee!

today we're moving michaelmas (and amelia) into 306! this is one of the times freecycle has failed me: i've asked twice for a cat door panel since michaelmas has a patio now, but to no avail. two nice people emailed me to tell me they had the kind of pet doors you actually cut into the glass, but that seems, um, impractical in a renting environment.