Taking Your Seventh Inning Stretch

 Many of you are celebrating summer and enjoying some baseball. While I am not a baseball fan, I can appreciate the seventh inning stretch where you take a short break and stretch your legs before getting back to the action. With Memorial Day this week, we hope you stretched and relaxed and are ready to get back into the content of the workshop! 



Courtesy of AJ Wms from flickr.com



The seventh inning also marks the beginning of the ending of a baseball game, and we are truly at the beginning of the ending of the CPDE content portion of the workshop. This module will introduce you to some ways to convert existing course content for online use. Many of you have already discovered these tools, so for the exercises, feel free to just point us in the direction of an existing bit of content. Don't create fake new content for this lesson. If you have not already created content, just follow the instructions. We have some participants who are fast tracking themselves through the workshop and getting ahead of our standard pace. That is great, and we don't want to hold you back.

After this module, we have another on communication from the designer's point of view and another on assessment. Module 10 will not be opened until shortly before the Showcase. We are getting to a point in the workshop where the focus will turn from the workshop participation to your content creation and course design. We are seeing good things so far.

As a side note, your course icons and headers should be the way you want them and loaded in the course at this point. If that is not the case, contact your lead instructional designer and we can work with the media guys to get things worked out.

The Design Team, other than poor Milissa who we left all alone to answer questions, just got back from the Distance Learning Administrators conference in Georgia. We learned a lot and have been contacted by three universities to share more about how we do things at UCO. You are part of a great program and other schools are very jealous and/or inspired by our level of faculty interest and engagement. Thanks as always for all you do.

Try to squeeze in a baseball game or some other summer fun, but keep working on your course! Let us know if you get stuck or have questions.

Regards,
Andrea and the CPDE Design Team