PLS Online Development Team Presents at the TCC Online Conference

This is the third year we’ve attended the wonderful TCC  (Technolocy, Colleges & Community) virtual conference hosted by the University of Hawaii and Learning Times.  We presented for the second time.  The 2009 conference theme was: “Collaborative Learning, Social Networking, Technology Tools, and Best Practices.”  This year we decided to tell the story of our [...]

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Are we there yet?

The phrase “Are we there yet?” brings back memories of family road trips.
Not always a pleasant experience! There were three kids in our family; I was the only girl and middle child. My father believed the trip was about the destination, definitely not the journey! Maybe that had to do with three kids in one [...]

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Converting Courses to Sakai

I’m sure some of you out there are great cooks who can handle complicated recipes that require exacting measurements and technical finesse. Myself? Well, if a recipe has more than 6 ingredients in the list and takes more than 20 minutes, I’m probably not interested. I admit it; I’m a lazy cook.
If I flipped through [...]

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P.O.C: Training Implementation

P.O.C. Piece of cake. It’s my Dad’s favorite saying. One of my favorite sayings is: the more difficult it is to do, the more you’ll appreciate it in the end. And I, personally, found it true for the training portion of the LMS conversion process.
We were certainly prepared. As Natalie mentioned last week, we went [...]

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Next Step in the Journey: Preparing the Training Package

Don’t you just love it when things just work out; for example, when you can say, it’s as ‘easy as pie?’ But even baking a pie takes some effort.  In retrospect, the Sakai Conversion process seemed to work well. At least the conversion, training and preparation part of the process seemed to go smoothly.  I [...]

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The next step… testing the system for usability

Usability is a term used to denote the ease with which people can employ a particular tool or other human-made object in order to achieve a particular goal. Usability can also refer to the methods of measuring usability and the study of the principles behind an object’s perceived efficiency or elegance.
(Usability, 2008)
Savvy online course developers [...]

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