Archive for June, 2008

Initial review forms w/e 27 June 2008

June 26th, 2008

Today I began to fill out the initial review forms for the POCKET material: one form for the Introduction to Customer Service unit and one form for Introduction to Economic Law. I plan to discuss the form with both academics when I next meet with them, as their input will be very valuable.

Meeting with Louise Buxton w/e 27 June 2008

June 26th, 2008

Yesterday I had a meeting with content author Louise Buxton at the Buxton campus. We discussed the development of her module material and viewed the two units that are currently uploaded onto the PlaySpace: Introduction to Customer Service and Responding to Customer Needs.
I informed Louise on the feedback from the meeting with Tina Wilson at […]

Meeting with Antonios Platsas w/e 27 June 2008

June 23rd, 2008

This morning Sarah Malone (Project Manager) and I met with Antonios Platsas, who is authoring the International Economic Law module material for POCKET. This module is being written from scratch for POCKET, which means the development process is slightly different to the other modules on the project.
Antonios has written a large amount of the […]

Meeting with the Interactive Media Unit w/e 20 June 2008

June 17th, 2008

Today I met with two Multimedia Developers from the Interactive Media Unit at the University of Derby. This was a really useful meeting for me as it gave me an idea of different educational interactivities that the unit were working on, what could be achieved using Flash and I was also able to get some […]

Meeting with the Open University w/e 20 June 2008

June 17th, 2008

Yesterday I visited the Open University to meet with Tina Wilson and discussed the progress of the content development so far on POCKET.
We discussed the Content Development Kit and the different versions: there is the original Alpha version developed by the OU and now there is the POCKET version that is being developed during this […]

Sourcing Images for the International Economic Law Module w/e 13 June 2008

June 13th, 2008

At the initial stages of developing the University of Derby’s law module for POCKET I have begun to look for images that can be used alongside the text. These images must be copyright cleared to be used on OpenLearn, so I have been looking at various websites that have images covered by the Creative […]

Reflections after the development of unit 1 w/e 13/06/08

June 11th, 2008

Having almost completed a draft version of the first POCKET material to be transformed to open content on the OU OpenLearn platform I feel this is a good point to reflect on the project process so far. The first unit I worked on for POCKET, taken from section 1 ‘What is Customer Service?’ from […]