October is Finally Over

I feel like the smaller pumpkin being eaten by October. I do not know if professors in higher ed experience the same dislike of October as K-12 teachers do, but I am thankful that November is finally here.  What has happened this week, not much.  I love that it appears that my course is finished from the eyes of my partner, but it is anything but finished.  I feel like this is how construction workers must feel like when they begin to finish out a home after the exterior and interior walls are up, here comes all the work.  That is my course the walls are up, but all the finishing touches need to be finished.  I just finished this portion of the course face to face with my current students and oh the take aways.  I need to incorporate more peer feedback as well as practicing for their presentation, I believe that this will be done by creating groups of three to four teams and having them conference and present their design and what challenges they are experiencing on a weekly basis.  I have come to discover that many students are missing gaping flaws in their design, because they just can not see them, because they have been so engrossed in their thoughts, that to them everything is perfect, and it is not.  I am toying with the idea of breaking the log book discussion feed up into weeks rather than one continuous one, it is much harder to grade and keep track of posts when there will be 45 as the course runs for 9 weeks as opposed to 5 per week.

I am still working on making sure that all the links are functional as well as video.  One of the most annoying things I find with Canvas is that items will be viewable to me the teacher, because I have access to all the links, I created them, and from student view it is not always possible to test if they work or not.  Sometimes you can see them and sometimes Canvas just says this is not viewable in this mode, how am I to know if they work. I guess that is were my partner comes in and I can specifically request that they look at specific items.  Speaking of partners, I gained a new partner this week.  As you are most likely very aware, Nicole’s partner had to drop the course and she needed a new team.  I am not sure what my original partner thinks about it but bring it on.  I am always willing to help anyone out in need, it is what we should all do.  I hope to be added to her course tomorrow and will hopefully get her some feedback tomorrow night, now that dreaded October is over.