Last Week of the Practicum Last Week of the Practicum This week was the last week of the UNT practicum. Because I have to write a short reflective essay, I won't add any mushy stuff here. Just wanted to officially document the end of another semester!
Famous Mathematician Virtual Exhibit This week we decided to make the Famous Mathematician exhibit live. Because I created the website, I had to go back and add the Google Analytics tracking codes. Now, we can track visitors to each page. Each hyperlink also received its own tag, so we can also see which tidbit of information people were most interested in. Were they interested in the Galilean moons or in the film, Pi? Did people want to read up on Jerry Tarkanian, or unlike me, do they already know who he was? I'm curious to see how many people view it and what the overall impression is.
We won't announce the audio tour until we get our lobby monitor. But that is more or less ready to go.
On Friday, my boss, my co-worker, and I received an email from the staff newsletter saying that they wanted to run a short story on the virtual exhibit. Awesome! I'm honestly glad that they gave us the questions because I'm a horrible interviewee and pep-talker. My answers in person would have been "Uhh...I don't know, I just did it." They asked what we are most excited about and the opportunities that this now presents.
LMS Training Now that we have a few on-demand tutorials in the bag, my boss wants me to start thinking of providing LMS training. At work, staff can take different online courses through our own LMS system. The system then counts the points or hours of each course to show that we're continuing our professional development.
After watching the Lynda.com course on hotspots in Camtasia, I thought I should try to start an LMS course. Because this will be my first hotspot-making-quiz-adding video and because we'll want to submit this to our LMS system, of which I know nothing about, I figured I would spend this course working on the technical aspects as opposed to the content.
For this first training, I've decided to call it Scopus Basics. Though I will re-record each section, I'm borrowing heavily from the on-demand tutorials already created. Based on the progression of this course, some learning objectives will move around. However, I think by going about this route,
I can work out any technical SCORM-type kinks and then focus on new content for the next installment.