Comments on: Loosely Coupled Gradebook Presentation @ TTIX 2009 http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/06/loosely-coupled-gradebook-presentation-ttix-2009/ Musings about Academic Technology Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:18:27 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 By: jonmott http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/06/loosely-coupled-gradebook-presentation-ttix-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-940 jonmott Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:10:35 +0000 http://www.jonmott.com/blog/?p=54#comment-940 Modularity does come with the possibility of increased "outages," but I think that's a manageable risk. We have lots of inter-dependent systems right now, so I don't think the increased risk is significant. <br><br>With regard to multiple copies, our librarians have been using the term "LOCKSS" -- "Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe." Not a bad digital literacy competency in and of itself. Modularity does come with the possibility of increased “outages,” but I think that's a manageable risk. We have lots of inter-dependent systems right now, so I don't think the increased risk is significant.

With regard to multiple copies, our librarians have been using the term “LOCKSS” — “Lots of Copies Keeps Stuff Safe.” Not a bad digital literacy competency in and of itself.

]]> By: Joel Galbraith http://www.jonmott.com/blog/2009/06/loosely-coupled-gradebook-presentation-ttix-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-939 Joel Galbraith Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:46:04 +0000 http://www.jonmott.com/blog/?p=54#comment-939 Cool presentation...even cooler concept. In my current more continuing education role these days, gradebooks are just not high on our priority. Ultimately it is (job) performance that is more critical, but we don't act as the gatekeepers or measurers of that (for good or ill).<br>My initial reaction is open yes, but there's sure a lot of places where this can break (lots of links in the chain), but your emphasis on digital literacy dictates that everyone be a little more tolerant of temporary failures, broken links and possibly that you learn to re-publish assignments on alternative sites.<br>-JG Cool presentation…even cooler concept. In my current more continuing education role these days, gradebooks are just not high on our priority. Ultimately it is (job) performance that is more critical, but we don't act as the gatekeepers or measurers of that (for good or ill).
My initial reaction is open yes, but there's sure a lot of places where this can break (lots of links in the chain), but your emphasis on digital literacy dictates that everyone be a little more tolerant of temporary failures, broken links and possibly that you learn to re-publish assignments on alternative sites.
-JG

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