Forum .LRN Q&A: Re: help with choosing a name for a new package

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Posted by Michael Cordova on

Yes Ernie, that's the idea: a course main page, a front page, where see all the course resources aggregated by lessons or by weeks, by semesters ... by some kind of didactic blocks... for instance, look at the end of this post

I'm Mario's work-mate, and today we have made a graphic in a white board for choosing the composed package name with one word from left colum + another word from right column...

Left column words: Right column words
  • course
  • simple
  • resource
  • block/section/module
  • diagram
  • planning
  • sequence
  • aggregator
  • front-page
  • timing
  • toc (table of contents)
  • summary
  • directory
  • guide

so, some combinations were...

  • course-diagram (as moodle)
  • course-planning
  • course-front-page
  • simple-guide
  • simple-planning
  • resource-aggregator
  • resource-directory
  • block-sequences

and the winner is... simple-planning!!. Does it sound good in english?

For instance... that package should show something similar to...
____
BLOCK 1: (maybe defined by some period of time)

  • Resources:
    • that PDF file,
    • that link,
    • another PDF file,
    • a zip file with exercises
  • Communication tools:
    • use that chat, on mondays
    • and that forum for questions...
  • Evaluation
    • those assessments to complete block 1
BLOCK 2: (maybe defined by some period of time, or deadline...)
  • that PDF file,
  • that link,
  • use that chat (different from block 1 chat), on mondays
  • and that forums (other than block 1 forum) for questions, and proposals...
  • those assessments (different from block 1) to complete block 2 and get evaluated
BLOCK 3:
  • read that book
  • some instructions to complete the course
  • relax, no assessments :) in this "block"
BLOCK 4:
  • block 4 forum
  • final exam
______

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Posted by Christian Fuchs on
I think it is a very good idea to programm such an portlet and it will be very helpful in class.

In my opinion the name "simple planning" might be understood, that the portlet offers "trivial" functions and the instruktor/teacher can only do "basic" things with it.

As a matter of fact, this module has a very high impact on the daily teaching process because
* teachers can easily plan, process and review their lessons
* students can process/review/rework their lessons and their assignments
* ...

And since lesson planning (also e-Learning lesson planning) is based on some kind of curriculum or syllabus these words should be in the new package name.

So my suggestion is "syllabus of instruction" or "instructional syllabus" or "professional syllabus".