Collaborative Liberal Arts Moodle Project » audio http://www.clamp-it.org Building tools and sharing solutions for liberal arts colleges Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:43:44 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 Using the summary field to create “liner notes” for course materials http://www.clamp-it.org/2009/05/using-the-summary-field-to-create-liner-notes-for-course-materials/ http://www.clamp-it.org/2009/05/using-the-summary-field-to-create-liner-notes-for-course-materials/#comments Thu, 28 May 2009 22:28:03 +0000 Staff http://www.clamp-it.org/?p=173 Professor Mark Burford, Reed College
Course: Music of the Caribbean

Unlike my courses on European art music, for which there are numerous anthologies and CD sets or multiple recordings of canonical works, several other music classes I teach, and the way I teach them, require that I accumulate materials from several sources, especially recordings. For these courses, which generally center on popular music and non-European musical traditions, I have used Moodle primarily for four purposes: (1) creating a “virtual mixed tape” of listening and viewing examples for each class; (2) providing “liner notes” with background information to complement this assigned listening; (3) posting assigned reading; and (4) providing a clearinghouse for course-related resources and other items that come to my attention over the course of the semester. For these purposes Moodle has been an indispensable part of my courses. The annotations for the listening assignments have been particularly vital. These allow me to give the students some context for the recordings—personnel of performers, instrumentation, date and location of the recording, song lyrics, performance context, significance of the particular recording, etc.—and to draw connections with other recordings we’ve already listened to. Providing this information saves valuable class time; students can come to class with basic information and we can hit the ground running during conference. From a practical standpoint, it is remarkably fast and easy to upload materials and, more importantly, to adjust on the fly, since material can be shifted around or supplemented as necessarily.

Web page with summary

Web page with summary

Listing of resources with "liner notes"

Listing of resources with "liner notes"

Setting up the summary to appear along with the resource

Setting up the summary to appear along with the resource

Audio file with summary

Audio file with summary

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As always though, we’re looking for suggestions from the community about things *you* want us to look at and work on. These can be bug fixes, hacks, functionality improvements, documentation, road testing, etc. 

Note: You don’t have to be attending Hack/Doc Fest to make suggestions — we’d like suggestions from the entire community. 

Here’s a rough list based on brainstorming by the steering committee. None of this is set in stone (save for updating the Moodle: Liberal Arts Edition package to Moodle 1.9.5 and rolling in all of our fixes/patches/commonly used modules, etc.)

Instructional Technologists
  • Move existing documentation to CLAMP-IT.org
  • documentation for 1.9.5 Gradebook, Groups, Roles, …
  • QuickStart Guide for novices
  • Usability testing
    • 2nd round
    • Verify bugs
    • Index videos
    • Generate list of User Interface Design issues
  • Review CLAMP-IT.org
  • Instructions for how to customize Moodle
  • Build CLAMP illustrated bibliography of presentations, etc.
  • Implement Documentation Workflow:
    • Wiki: first page menu to sections, page for each section, page for each piece of documentation  
    • Tracker issue for each post to assign workflow elements
    • Post to Redmine (any pasted data should be text only; all formatting in Wiki)
    • Post draft, assign to reviewer
    • Review, assign back to poster
    • Revise, elicit feedback
    • Finalize
    • Post to CLAMP-IT, etc.
  • Create Audio-visual documentation on vanilla LA version, create scripts that can be made specific to institution
  • Create series of “Moodle Minute” entries — short tidbits or “Did you knows?”
Coders

  • Create LA version for 1.9.5
  • Debug Roles and security reports for roles
  • Create Autorun process for testing script
  • Formalize Census module
  • Evaluate NanoGong for inclusion in LA version or create separate package for it (use CK editor and Tiny MCE)
  • Develop patch for integrating CKEditor and TinyMCE into Moodle 1.9.5.
  • Repair Assignment Zip
  • Polish and possibly broaden Course Block
  • Fix major bug in Scheduler
  • Tweak Single File Upload – correct display of icons
  • iTunes Block
  • Bug List
  • List of regular Hacks to potentially include in LA version

Graphic Designer (from Smith) in conjunction with instructional Technologists

  • Create a CLAMP Theme
  • Screen mock-ups as result of usability testing
  • Potentially brainstorm My-Moodle design

Please add your ideas to this list! Not sure if something fits? Just ask! Feel free to post a comment or email me at newquisk@lafayette.edu.

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