Thursday, 17 July 2008
Our session
Our session seemed to go over well, though we did not have evaluation forms as the Bb folks lost them. Still, those who talked to us afterwards seemed interested, and we have some who want more information as a follow-up. Ours was the only session I attended with any sort of interactivity in it, which seems crucial for a 50 minute session. I think we got about 30-40 people in the end.
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glad the session went well - what sort of interaction did you include? (brave move for a US conference - did it go down well?)
shame about the evaluation but pretty sure they would all say you were great!
I know it is really hard to blog about your own session but it would be great if you could capture the main points discussed and...yes, my usual fixation... what sort of questions did you get?
I think the interactivity part went over well, though Paul did have to really force them to raise their hands to vote. I also showed them three of the sites pre-consistency, and asked them to think about where they would imagine 4 things would be (module handbook, assessment details, reading list, lecture slides). I was trying to get them to sort of experience what a student might feel when first coming to a site. Finally I asked them to discuss one of the recommended menu structures that we would give a group, and ask what they might change.
Questions included:
-What's the rationale for?
-Comments about how they would structure things by week or unit or chapter rather than putting learning materials and resources in different folders.
-How do we get subject groups/course teams to agree to talk to us? (nearly cried hearing this one)
-Why didn't we go for a consistent menu across the whole university? (I had to point out that in the US students are more likely to take things outside of their area, explained about the top 4 we do recommend as a starting point, and the difficulties of trying to get a consensus from the entire university which is essential for the success of this).
-What concerns are there with students accessing grades, other data they shouldn't have access to?
-What sort of QA do you have to do with making sure the students do what they say they will, stay on task? This was because their student employees rarely stay on task and spend most of their time on facebook
Maybe Paul can remember more of the questions, as I was answering most of them.
Oh yeah, they discussed the what menu they would do in pairs or threes and then some of them fed back.
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