Plan for 2011

After talking to Justin, Mark and Dale, and learning from our 2010 activities, here's a revised plan for delivery for 2011:

Beginning-mid February 2011:

- organise 2 weeks of backfill for Justin and any necessary backfill for Mark if needed - we will pay for this. Justin is teaching as of Jan 30 and Mark at end of Feb.

- Stefan, Craig, Justin and Mark to work together to develop immersive activities (keeping Dale in the loop too - Dale will be busy on other projects at that time)

- Activities developed will depend on availability of web in prim feature within OpenSim. If it's not ready, we will have to adjust activities a little.

- Focus on developing in-world activities *and assessment* for three subjects previously targeted: OH&S, Sustainability and Building Docs and Plans.

- Activities to be immersive, where students do or make stuff ,and where there is a sequence of events with consequences for doing (or not) things right

- Assessment to take the form of in-world question-answer tests, to be collected by PushLMS (basically in-world versions of current paper tests)


- USB Stick functionality to be incorporated into project as a subset of activities in trial form eg some activities could be delivered by USB and undertaken individually by students in their own time or in lab. Possibly also some assessment could take place via USB if results can be fed back into PushLMS. But will see how this pans out.

- Plan of delivery worked out in consultation with Daniel


After Feb 2011:

- follow-up week of tweaking/redevelopment undertaken with the team. May involve more backfill