Migrating a SharePoint blog to Hosted WordPress

I needed to migrate a SharePoint blog to hosted WordPress (this blog, category RKChronicle), and after a bit of searching assembled this solution: SharePoint to Excel, Excel to CSV file, CSV imported to WP (3rd party host), WP export to WP (hosted) import. Recipe SharePoint to MSExcel. Using Internet Explorer under Windows, in the SharePoint [...]

How a rubric can communicate

OAI has been finishing up its 2009-10 cycle of reviews of program-level assessment, see the University’s portfolio for details about the process and the results. One of the responses to a program regarding communication with stakeholders had a summary of the utility of a rubric as a communication tool: Under “Communication” the report states: “Program [...]

Chart of raw scores on 3 related engineering assessment reports, Fall 2010

Re: chart of raw scores on 3 related engineering assessment reports, Fall 2010 Kimberly, Thanks for making this graph, its a helpful visualization of the raters’ differences. You, Jayme and I have confirmed that the three reports are substantially identical. The other observation you made the other day was that Raters 1 & 2 were [...]

Analysis of Inter-rater agreement 2009-10

Lee, Thanks for telling me that you completed rating Honors also. Our average ratings for that program were 5; 5.5; 4.5; 5  so we are a little lower than you, but in the same category “Integrating” in all but one. You can see all our results here: https://universityportfolio.wsu.edu/2009-2010/Pages/default.aspx We are exploring two measures of inter-rater [...]

P2PU Assessment Workshop

Philipp Schmidt of P2PU was attending the HASTAC P3 meeting last week. He’s hosting a meeting (P2PU Assessment Workshop) next week at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Palo Alto. CA.  The meeting’s agenda is evolving in the wiki in the link above.  Theron DesRosier will be attending with me. I have one key [...]

Information Abundance

As we continue to collaborate to prepare for the HASTAC P3 event, Kim has asked me a couple more questions Kim: What do you believe are the challenges and barriers entry scholars will have to navigate as they attempt to make a lifelong career in the Academy? In a 2007 conversation with Dennis Haarsager, Interim [...]

My arm's almost better

I went to the Doc yesterday with the hope of being freed of my post-op restrictions and to discuss my various arm pains. Good News: He says: “You may do anything you can do.” (Note the careful grammar). I think we both know that I can do less than I want to do, so off [...]

An invitation to shape my presentation at P3

I am going to be participating in a one day event Peer-to-Peer Pedagogies (P3) Workshop September 10th, 2010 sponsored by HASTAC on the Duke campus.  As part of that, I’ve been assigned to work with Kim Singletary on a bio/ speaker intro piece. The event was great fun. Thanks to all. Here is the SlideShare [...]

Shared Language-Jargon Dilemma

Our University-hosed wiki is about to be retired. This page, developed in Sept-Oct 2005 seemed work keeping. I’ve ported it here changing links to preserve the navigation. – np Shared language Most academic disciplines and other discourse communities develop context specific language. They use such specialized language to communicate complex ideas efficiently among members of [...]

Using Wiki to Develop Communities

Our University-hosed wiki is about to be retired. This page, developed in Sept-Oct 2005 seemed work keeping. I’ve ported it here changing links to preserve the navigation. – np The (perhaps not obvious) way to find community in MediaWiki installations (and some others) is to use the history page to see who is contributing to [...]