Reflections Five
On my last reflection page, I wrote about my faculty advisor complimenting me as being a strong woman. That empowered me to continue with my project and the fear of a bad grade. Thus far, I have accomplished:
· Assessment Instruments
o Lessons 1, 2, and 3
· Instructional Strategies
o Pre-Instructional Activities
§ Motivate
§ Learning Objective
§ Prior Knowledge
§ Groups and Media
o Information Presentation and Learner Presentation
§ Lessons 1, 2, 3, and 4
o Testing
§ Review
§ Practice Tests
§ Post Test
o Follow Through Activities
· Instructional Materials
o Instructor's Guide
· Formative Evaluations
o One-on-One Evaluation
o Small Group Evaluation
· Summative Evaluation
o Expert Judgment
In addition, I produced three online multimedia Camtasia videos for lessons 1, 2, and 3, and developed a 14-slide power point presentation for lesson 4. Indeed, I’m beyond exhausted!
For my short-term work objectives, I plan to obtain the formative evaluation feedback from Ignite teachers on the lesson videos. Last week, Ignite teachers were emailed three online video trainings and the evaluation form, Results, Reactions, and Actions. In addition, I’m waiting for the Expert Judgment feedback.
The advice I would give to classmates is that our stakeholders request different things from us according to our project. Allow me to explain. On my last feedback, I was reminded my project has a face-to-face training presentation. Yes, it does--lesson 4. So I am required to prepare an instructor manual with the following:
· Objectives (ABCD)
· Activities defined, sequenced, and timed
· Technologies/supplies needed
· Teaching strategies
· What tools/techniques for what skills
· Assessment and answer keys
· Extensive reading & resources
· Handouts
Because of the specifics of this project, I only need to produce five from the list above. Why? Because after discussing lesson 4 with my stakeholder, three items out of eight are not needed for this particular training. The stakeholder (also the designer/trainer) is a teacher who is like the teachers in my target audience and he knows not to overwhelm them with too much information, to make the project fun to motivate them and to keep it simple. This project will be as difficult for them to create a blog as for me to create this training. I am in constant communication with the stakeholder as I develop this project and his recommendation is the instructor's guide be user friendly and easy to facilitate.
My advice to my peers is stay in constant communication with your stakeholder, come to an agreement on what is most important to project design, and if possible work with the target audience as you develop your project (in my case it does help). As designers we must understand that we will not be present when the stakeholder is doing the final presentation and when the teacher are using the online training. So it is up to us to create an instructor's guide and listen carefully to the stakeholders advice about the target audience. As a result, the instructor's manual is a detailed step- by-step guide as if I were speaking to the designer/trainer in person. I feel I have created a well define, adequate and informative manual to help guide the target audience to achieve their goal of using blog software to increase communication among their peers and students.
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