Thursday, January 27, 2011

Starting to write

Today was a really good day for two reasons.  The first is Rick and I sat down and sorted out Wk 2 of the course, which will be about getting good shots and sound. It needs another pass really, but we typed it all up and it made sense at 5.05pm when we stopped.

It gives us something to use to talk about templates and is not very far from a D0 - a structured outline of a piece of teaching. Even better, we wrote down all the phrases and ideas we wanted to get across.  It's such a pleasure writing with Rick, because he gets what I'm talking about and vice-versa and then it's not so difficult to find a really sharp way to put it across.

The other exciting thing is the LTS team have set up the course web site:


The Open University's VLE is based on Moodle, and has really come along since I first knocked up against it in 2006.  Then it wasn't so easy to even look at your own course site while it was being constructed. 

Now we can use it as an outline - write things straight in as we go along, and get an idea of how they're going to look from the students point of view.  I'm really still learning my way into the interface, but here's the outline for week 2:



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