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IP&T 682 Wrap-Up

From the class wiki, here are the assignments for IP&T 682: Assignment: Review a successful grant application (worked example) Completed Assignment: Personal interview with instructor Completed Assignment: List your blog address by logging in and clicking “Edit” above. Completed Assignment: Blog your passion and current question Completed Assignment: Help compile a list of IP&T-related funding [...]
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Attitudes Survey Proposal 2 Pager

Available from Google Docs: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dczd9vkv_158gb3kf8cm
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Interview with Anne Arendt, Web Resource Manager at UVU

I sat down with Anne Arendt, Web Resource Manager at UVU to ask a few questions about her experience managing projects. Here’s an audio recording of that interview (13 minutes): Jared’s interview with Web Resource Manager Anne Arendt (MP3) CC By
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“Outworld” Social Media Services

I don’t know if Carlos Santos coined the use of “outworld” to mean non-institutional social media services in his presentation on SAPO Campus’s institutionally-supported systems, but it is a very apt and suggestive description of a certain perception of or mindset about non-institutional social media that exists amongst educators and administrators. I’ll be mixing this [...]
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Project Concern Resources

David Wiley listed the following areas of concern for managing a project (specifically a grant project)
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Reconsidering dotProject

(This is a copy of a post made earlier at http://jaredstein.org) We’ve used dotProject in my Instructional Design Services unit for almost two years. dP is an open source project management and task tracking tool that has benefited our unit organizationally, and has helped us follow-through on projects in a more efficient manner. It has [...]
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Web 2.0 attitudes survey budget

The following draft budget covers human resources for conducting a survey of campus attitudes toward institutional vs informal social media systems.
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Proposal outline: survey of attitudes toward social media systems

About half-way through the semester I decided to switch tracks to a project that is small (but very challenging for me), relevant to my work, and may have an impact beyond the immediate project, here is an initial outline of my proposal for a survey of UVU educational community attitudes toward an institutionally controlled social [...]
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Moving forward…with a new project

I’ve let myself fall behind on assignments for IP&T 682, in part from indecision on a topic, but mostly from diverting my time to other work and personal projects. Throw in WCET09 and a bout of the flu, and it’s Really Time to Get On Track. The class wiki reminds me that I still need [...]
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Updating the CV

I try to update my CV once a year or so, just to keep myself from forgetting things I’ve done (usually conference presentations) and to lighten the load of updating it the next year. I spent a couple hours on this today as part of an assignment for David Wiley’s IPT 682 course. As usual, [...]
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