A New Look at Old Goals

Below are the goal(s) that I set for myself at the beginning of the semester. My main goal, as seen below, was to discover faster ways to deliver course content online. In my mind, I think I covered this pretty well. I'll be blunt when I say that my goals change in my brain more often than they do on paper. However, in this case, I came back to my original goal...full circle if you will. I have proposed to have some of our overview training for my customer (not central training) put online. My boss and I agree that this is a good idea. However, it will not be until we actually get into the "meaty" courses that we will be able to experiment with this wiki thing. Whether it works here or not is the next question. Working here is a little different. We have a whole different subspecies of conehead.

I believe focusing solely on the wiki provided an opportunity for me to go more in depth with that program. The wiki, or other web building program, will provide the foundation for the overall course site. Other Web 2.0 applications can feed off of the wiki in my proposal. It would be harder to build a course based solely on a blog or photo sharing site.

I'll leave it up to the rest of you to decide.

Hello Dr. Brady,

I understand that you would like to see our goals from the course. Mine are simple. I want to see the methods out there for delivering content over the web. Mainly, I want to know how to do it faster. I have a fairly strong history with internet use and web-site development, but that's where it ends. Right now, my job uses pretty archaic methods of course deliver (face-to-face). This works very well with many people, but with the professionally diverse audiences, scheduling is taking up seemingly as much time as the course development itself.

Here's a direct link to the paper attachment for download. Also, for fun, here's the narrated video/slideshow of the presentation.

If you would like the paper in a different location, let me know. I think you've already read most of what I have so far. The link to the wiki should work. If there are any problems, I'll do what I can tonight to fix them.

Slideshow

Ok, sorry all. I forgot to make that slideshow public. I'll do that tonight!

Update

The wiki is updated. The paper is attached, for the time being, at the bottom of the home page. Find it here.

Be gentle...it's not finished

Well, I know we're supposed to have a rough sketch of our project by tomorrow. Though I haven't seen anything about where to turn it in, it was a good bench mark. I have proceeded with my original plan for the project. There will be a video PowerPoint added to the home page of my Wiki course. Let me know what you think.

Ben's 593 Project

Wiki's

I'd never known what Wiki actually meant. Hawaiian for quick...interesting. I guess quickie was already taken (man that was bad.) Actually with Wiki's, I have found that wetpaint is probably the most user-friendly that I have found. It can't do a whole lot, but it has done everything I've needed it for.

I think that wikis are going to come up in the world of business. A peer-edited, company-relevant encyclopedia of whatever would definitely come in handy for training. This would be especially useful if one could integrate this kind of technology at a company's inception. It would make training for the staff of that company tremendously easier to develop. It would also provide a pretty solid training aid.

Keep in mind, there are weaknesses to a wiki. If all your peers are idiots overconfident in their knowledge of a certain topic, it can really make that peer-edited feature a pitfall. However, despite this, I think we'll see them popping up more and more.