{"id":12,"date":"2010-01-17T19:45:22","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2010-04-16T08:22:58","modified_gmt":"2010-04-16T16:22:58","slug":"course-site","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/course-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Course site"},"content":{"rendered":"

The course site project hung over my head for months. I didn’t know what was expected — I couldn’t find any statement<\/em> of what the site assignment entailed. An entire course? Consisting of what?\u00a0 (This goes back to my frustration with 565’s organization and navigability.) I did some work on the site assignment in early March, then gave up for a while.<\/p>\n

\"course-site\"It was only in reading the content pages for Module 5: Multimedia that I finally found a sketchy list of the criteria. I say sketchy because what, for example, is a “splash page” in this context? I associate “splash” with Flash. So I spent hours building a Flash animation conveying some suggestion of the history of information, only to find that I couldn’t upload it into Moodle. And YouTube doesn’t accept SWFs. Lacking access to an external server to host this animation, I abandoned it.<\/p>\n

So I adapted it into a banner. But what’s a “GUI” in this context? I associate GUIs with javascript, but lacking access to the <head> of Moodle webpages, I couldn’t use javascript. So I built a table, to serve as a GUI of the course pages and activities.\u00a0 But this meant I couldn’t have a “module programmed for selective release.” And so on.<\/p>\n

Anyway… MY COURSE SITE<\/strong><\/a> illustrates my conception of an eight-week part-time course (i.e., a component of a first-year English course) to teach students the rudiments of information literacy for the purposes of undergraduate study — how to research a paper, use databases, determine what’s a good source, incorporate sources into a paper, etc.<\/p>\n

Besides meeting the criteria, I was interested in two aspects in particular: (a) navigability; and (b) the ability to upload or embed learning objects into the course pages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The course site project hung over my head for months. I didn’t know what was expected — I couldn’t find any statement of what the site assignment entailed. An entire course? Consisting of what?\u00a0 (This goes back to my frustration with 565’s organization and navigability.) I did some work on the site assignment in early […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1727,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mccallumetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}