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Saturday, May 01, 2004
2:37 AM: it's all coming back to me now... [#] [0]
so i just spent a lovely 14-hour day working on this psu project. and when i say "lovely," i mean "numb." boy, i had forgotten about this. and i get to get up in the morning and do it all over again. and again. and again. monday is when the final report is due. and then i will sleep. and sleep. and sleep.
but i have to admit, having spent the last several weeks developing the theory behind this project, i hadn't realize how much work it would be to actually do the work. because something i thought would take two hours took more than a dozen, i've ended up cancelling two big events this weekend in order to complete the project. but i promised myself when i moved here that work would never again be my highest priority, so i'm still taking some time out tomorrow to celebrate sven's unbirthday, and helping michaelmas move on sunday. so... having finally done one whole module now, let's do the math: 40 learning objects per module times 10 modules=400 learning objects per course, times 5 minutes per object=2000 minutes which =33 hours per course! yipes! the hardest bits are figuring out how to describe a text object that's only a sentence or two long, and classifying them based on a model that in practice isn't very practical (hello? why didn't the scorm people find "example" to be a decent learning resource type? or "reference"?).
i'm pretty good at working by myself, but there are times when it's good to bounce ideas off someone else's head, so i'm glad sven was around to help me work on developing a reasonably good naming schema for the objects in the database. but having gone through all this, i can't see anyone at either of my prior universities agreeing to go through this process, and i hope it's more than an exercise in futility. i'm hopeful, though: one of the things i like about my current supervisor is that she seems fairly balanced between progressive and accomodating; it seems like she's got a fairly good program set up despite the inevitable political pressures involved w/ online courses.
speaking of sven, he gathered the last of my things left w/ michaelmas, and then promptly got a flat tire on the way home. :( and in other news, i'm cat sitting for seeger again starting sunday.