Debate - displaying all of the pages

Do ALL of the resulting pages need to be displayed? I think not because

1. It diverts attention from the purpose of the examples, which is to highlight how Course Genie can be used to create interactive web pages.

2. We need to get the reader to focus on the style of the examples, not the content, although the content will be one of the hooks.

It may be appropriate to remove long pages but keep the cgPageTitle and cgSectionTitle, to maintain the structure of the pages.

Another debate - could a TW be used for the comments (both theirs and mine?)

Pros -

Showcases TW

A good method of indexing text

Cons -

Not so accessible! Would need a text-only alternative for searching.

Style vs Content

I have an idea what I would like my e-learning object to look like when it's finished. It's very tempting to think about the appearance of it, especially when trying to explain to the Learning Technologist how I want things arranged.

I have just got involved with the TW again and am sure that this is the best way to put in the written information. It gives tutors an opportunity to search for items needed. And to engage with new e-applications!

Back to the content!

One decision - cut out superfluous text in the examples, so that people can concentrate on the items displayed. The superfluous text arises in the "work in progress" where pages have not yet been formatted, so the last page can be very long. (I suggested that people start from the beginning, considering one page at a time, and continually regenerate the files.)

"Critical Friend"

It was extremely useful to have a colleague act as "critical friend". Basic attempts to explain what I was doing helped me!

Useful things:
Categorise the objects, highlighting various aspects of them.

Looking through the examples

Not too difficult to look at the structure and categorise what types of questions and formats have been used.

The formats were by guessing and remembering the requests of colleagues from the sessions. I may need to go back to the original Word documents to check.

I will also need to anonymise the documents where people have put in their own names. But I have put that on my list.

Next - creating the e-learning object

I need to do the following...

Examples created by people:

1. Look through the examples
2. Decide whether to do any more editing other than forgotten personalisations
3. Look through the TW text of stories
4. Decide whether to edit the TW stories

Commentaries of the examples; what they illustrate; possibly a list of Word/CG skills and links to the examples.

Text handouts:
Create a list of handouts that are needed
Perhaps guidelines need to be given for TW use (small tiddlers)
FAQs?

Movies:
"To do" bits - need a list!

Putting it all together:
What's it about; skills involved; skills gained
How to index the examples (see commentary above)
Snapshots of the examples?

FIRST - I need to compile a list of these lists! See cipel.pbwiki.com

Post collection courses

Now I have a lot of examples.

I need to build the e-learning object around it.

Then I need to test the e-learning object.

I spoke with colleagues suggesting that I ran an external course, previously to collect the "finished objects" for the e-learning. However, I think I have enough now. However, a course would be an ideal opportunity for people to evaluate the e-learning object; having access to it and to the examples during the course.

Final two sessions

Four people for each session. Just enough. Certainly the "going round each person" part was a little crowded. I would have planned the starting bit in a separate room but am glad we did a round robin.

Both sessions made me think that they could have been longer as they both overran.

In the first session there were two people who were from the same office. A disadvantage. At least they didn't sit together, although I suspect that they were influenced as one person had to "leave early" and so did the other.

The second session - one out of the four arrived on time. This really bugged me.

Not everyone brought a Word document with them. This really bugged me too.

I found that they needed guidance in writing the sentences about the document (the TW) so I created a helpful screen with a list of things that they could include. This worked well for the next-last session but not the last session where I really needed it - it was online and there was no online access to the computers.

The examples that I demonstrated must have been useful. Comparing it with the last session, when I did not have access to the examples and instead used solely the question examples produced by CG, the earlier sessions were moe successful.

One conclusion - I need to have local alternatives to everything! Hopefully the examples that have been created during the sessions will illustrate these.