Intern Update; 6340 Wrapped

Hello! I hope you have enjoyed a few days off of graduate school. Most of you are right back into it for the summer.

I’d like to report that I’m all caught up with internship matters. That is:

• All of you should now be in WebCT/7460.
• I acted upon the “starting out” info you submitted a couple of weeks ago, as appropriate for each person.
• I created a Discussion Board for each person – which is private between you and me. Everyone now has at least a “starting out” message. From henceforth, I am in reactive mode – you do a step, and post on your Board the results, as appropriate. Follow the Checklist to the letter, and in sequence. You don’t actually have to report every little step; I think it’s clear where you have to wait for my action before going ahead.
• By “caught up” I mean that I’ve acted upon things, but some tasks take several days to 2 weeks to complete. In each case, I’ve acknowledged the task and given an idea of when it will be completed. For example, I must contact several system administrators, and that always takes time – phone tag and emails and delays, etc.

So, if you haven’t gone there yet, check out 7460 and especially your bulletin board. Also check “My Progress” for a quick view of your status.

EDIT 6340 wrapped up nicely. Course evals ended up 100% – thanks to all of you!

As for my schedule this summer, I don’t have one – I’m not really working, but will try to keep up with the little things. My computer is in the shop for 50,000-mile maintenance and my connection is too slow right now — maybe those are good things. No big trips planned; hope to do “homey” things.

Also, I changed the calendar name from 6300/6340 to Cohort 8.

Have fun on Saturday!

Finished!

By now, you probably will have noticed that Orders are all finished, with audio feedback available in the dropbox, and grades were posted.

Course evals: I still am hunting down one person, which means we are 96% complete.

E-permissions and Research permissions: Hunting two, the same two for both.

One example why e-permissions are important: if you have a really good section in your order, then I might want to use it as an example for next year.  While I’m not working on that right now, when the time comes next year, I will have to pull out the permissions to make sure it’s ok.  And it might be hard to track  you down after you graduate (I hope not, but you know how that goes).

I made two audios to “make up” for the topics not covered in our last class – these are now complete.

Intern news:  I’m slowly working through the list, adding people into WebCT and installing individual discussion boards.  It will probably take one more week to get through everyone.  Watch your WebCT – basically, we will pass things back and forth on your private discussion board (db).  So, it’s very important to watch for notifications.  I check mine almost every working day.  And – you can ignore the “late” Documentation assignment there.

Wish Cohort 7 well at Graduation tomorrow!  Your turn will be here before you know it.

Progress Update

Isn’t it great not having class today?  Whee!

Here are update numbers:

• Course evals: 52% done.  Thanks to those! 1 week to go.
• Orders: I’m still waiting for one project.
• E-permissions and Research Permissions: waiting for 4 each – lots of progress made there.

Internship: I’m awaiting info from 3 people (not counting Sylvia) – need this before I can forge ahead with the next steps.

In the meantime, I’ll work with what I have, which is a mountain of stuff to read!   I’ll send individual reminders soon, but I’m hoping there will be very few of those to send.

Enjoy your weekend!