Today I sent off the project plan to JISC and completed the course outline to send to SYeLP, our other funders. I still need to complete the draft of the final document for validation but as Kevin can't check this until the end of August, this seems a good time to take a break.
Originally I had hoped that everyone involved in the development and delivery of the new course could do a bit of blogging around now so that we could trial how well blogging works as well as looking at forums, wikis etc. However, so many people are off at the moment, it is really not worth doing. We'll now have to do this when more people are around, say late August. In the meantime, if I get the chance, I'll do some reading, check out wikis, forums and perhaps do a bit of blogging.
Some Reflections
We have a very tight time frame in which to complete all that is required for the first delivery date of this degree in January 2008. Because of this I’ve been trying to rush things along a bit. However the project seems to have developed and imposed its own pace on things and I am having to accept that I need to follow this rather than try and insist on my own deadlines. In one sense I feel an acceptance here and a confidence that everything will get completed by January - at other times I have a feeling of disquiet that there won’t be enough time left for things to get done.
What I have learnt so far is to call on help whenever I need it. So far I have often spent time staring at a problem and wondering how to resolve it – this is especially true of any technical problem; it is not so much I don’t understand as that the words used totally confuse me. However, everyone I have approached has been incredibly helpful and free with their time and expertise; I have really appreciated this.
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