Rowland's COMP4040 Blog

I thought that the session went well and was a good example of how some activities e.g. reaching a concensus are better done face to face.

In this session we looked at the grade criteria for the first learning outcome and spent some time agreeing it and making sure that it was sequential in the sense that similar ideas occured at all levels so that we could see a progression through the grades.

This gives us a useful pointer about setting up the other learning outcome criteria in that it looks as if it is best to start at the pass levle and then build from there, that way we can set up a progression through the grades more easily. However we might want to add additional points at higher levels.

The final version was placed on the wiki and we all made our own copy to work with.
We agreed that the assignment would be done as a series of web pages which in themselves could illustrate good design but they would also need a rationale which could be comments in the code.

The claim for a grade might take the form:

* select parts of the assessement criteria
* link from them to the argument for getting that grade
* link to the evidence to support that argument

I need to look at the criteria against the generic Master's criteria to check compatibility.

It would be useful if you could continue with your claim for a grade over the next week.

Next week we will look at LO2, start on putting together a web site and loking at the issues of useability and accessibility.

Please feel free to comment on your perceptions of how the session went.

Rowland

Hi everybody,

How did the on-line session work for you? I found it quite time consuming to look at all the blogs and the wiki to see what changes had been made. Some of you seem to have done better than me.

I started to put together some ideas on the wiki for how we might make a claim for a grade against the criteria. This is in its early stages and needs a lot of work but I would like to discuss it our next session.

I have also amalgamated the work you have done on grade criteria so that we can start to finalise it.

Please let me what it was like to do a session without face to face contact. What were the advantages and disadvantages?

Hi everybody

I have been thinking about how we will know that we have made any changes to the wiki. It is quite difficult to spot what the changes are just by inspection. I know that you can look at updates and from those can expand the text to get a good idea of what changes have been made but perhaps we need to say something as well.

Would it be a good idea if we signaled what we had done by a weekly blog post, on our own blog?

For example if you go to my wiki page you will find that I have been working on two things:

• a simple example of a rationale for an assignment grade
  


• a start to putting together a procedure for developing a set of criteria for web design and then applying them to a web site

Here are some preliminary details of the suggested activities for Week 3. I will put more information on the module web site as soon as possible.

1. create a preliminary set of grade criteria for the second learning outcome and further adapt the grade criteria for the first learning outcome.
   


2. start to develop a rationale for claiming a particular level of achievement in the first learning outcome, linking this to examples of work on your blog and any other sources.
   


3. start to develop a rationale for claiming a particular level of achievement in the second learning outcome, linking this to examples of work on your blog and any other sources.
   


4. do some further work on some of questions about web design on the top page of the wiki

Hi everybody

I think it work better if we post our material to our own blog and then others can comment on it there. It is going to get confusing if we all post to one another's blogs.

Hope this is OK to with everybody. If you are not sure about this please email me at r.gallop@worc.ac.uk

best wishes

Rowland

Few comments on this site http://chennai.bsnl.co.in/ :

Contrast colour sequence
Too many blank spaces
Controversy of font sequence and size
No standard format found from the home pages to all over the links.
Eg. http://www.bsnl.co.in/bsnl_brandnames.htm
http://chennai.bsnl.co.in/chennai/contents.html


Note : This if one of the official web site of India. ( Tamilnadu )

My Rating on this site : Very Poor

Hi everybody

We decided that next week we would not have a face to face session but we would work on-line. I will prepare some activities by next monday. Any problems can be sent to me by email and if they are possible general issues I will put them on the blog. Watch out for another blog message about this later on in the week or the start of next week.

"Home work" was to do a minimum of one more site evaluations each and to comment on at least one of each of the other's critique i.e. five in all.

You might also want to take a look at the criteria for the first learning outcome on the wiki and see what you think about what others have said. If you make changes to the wiki it might be an idea to make a short blog post to say so, perhaps with a live link to the wiki as I have done here.

If you create a diagram in PowerPoint and save it a JPEG you can then upload it to the blog

Hi all,
I was pleased to meet you all and look forward to working with you on the module. I thought the first session went well and you were given the opportunity to get to grips with the some of the technologies we will be using in the module.

My suggested program for the session was a little ambitious so we will need to do the web site evaluation activities in the next session.

I hope that everybody now feels confident to use a blog and a wiki and we will discuss the further use of these in the next session.

best wishes

Rowland