Friday, December 3, 2004

Storyboards I just started doing some storyboards for the classes tonight. I have a little icon for each type of puzzle piece for the classes: An article that the student should read Lecture Paper to write Test Meditation Reading material Group activity Just for fun Video clip Photo Audio clip Music Personal journal Reward This is starting off to be really fun. I love designing big projects like this. But now it's time for bed. BTW, the rolfing session did not address my back problem in the mornings. It's still there. However, Larry the rolfer noticed that I had two places in my spine where the bones were a little rotated, so he refered me to a chiropractor. It will probably take several sessions with the chiropractor before it's back to normal. And the chiropractor is...Dr. Kris Keller, who serves on my Board of Advisors for Simplicity Institute! How cool is that?? We also managed to re-host the Website since we ran out of room to do Moodle.org on the previous host. Plus, the hosting company was giving me heartburn, so I switched to a new hosting company that my Website designer suggested. 11:31:00 PM     Overwhelm There is so much to do with this Web class initiative! I hope I have the time to do it between now and January 15. I just visited a professor of a Buddhist university. He lives here in Columbus, but the university is in Colorado. He teaches all his classes online. This is his full-time job. This type of thing is becoming more common. Why go to a class somewhere when you could take the class from home? You still have the benefits of interaction with the instructor, and interaction with other students (using chat, threaded discussions, etc.), so why not? I realized yesterday when I was watching him do his work that the Simplicity Institute classes online may actually be higher quality than the classroom classes were. This was a new realization for me. I saw that the professor could post articles that he read in magazines and just scan them in and shove them into his classroom area online, and then tell the students to read them. Then he'd ask them to comment on it in a special section on the Website. The students are getting the most up-to-date information, and the professor is accumulating a huge inventory of great articles that relate to a particular idea/class. So now I'm saying to myself, "Self, you should be creating this damn stuff instead of just blogging about it." Alright, alright. Off I go... 10:35:39 AM

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