15/5s - Week of February 15 through February 21, 2016

Analysis report is the heart of the instructional design. It helps the organization to identify either the performance gap or opportunities to improvement through context analysis. Once the performance gap is identified, potential alternate solutions are considered to address the performance gap; best possible solution is identified, and finally decide on "if instruction is the best solution?". If instruction is the best solution, we would like to know about the learners and their learning preferences and learners' performance gaps before defining learning goals to address the performance gaps through instructions. Finally, we would like to identify the learning context and its restrictions or limitations besides available resources and media of instructional delivery. Identifying the differences between learning and performance context is essential for devising a path to transfer the newly constructed knowledge through instructions into performance environment for on-job application by utilizing job aid.  
As the lead evaluator  of the project, I worked closely with the lead instructional developer to finalize our analysis report. Our Project manager provided valuable insight and guidance through fruitful discussions and meaningful suggestions. At the end of the day, this was  a great collaborative effort in which our client also played a vital role by providing reliable documentation and by engaging meaningful discussion through conference call and electronic communications.

Analysis report helped us to link the pieces to see the bigger picture of instructional needs, learners profile, and instructional goals. This is a great structured critical thinking process to identify a problem or opportunity for improvement, and to explore and propose a viable solution in almost any working scenario. This process also helped me to learn and excel in collaborative working environment to construct collaborative new knowledge through inquiry of learning. This is always fascinating to learn the internal prospective of the client and its interpretation based on the organizational culture and context.   

Presenting analysis report as a team was a great and enjoyable learning experience. First, we though we would do it over a Google hangout session and I will capture my screen through Camtasia studio, a screen cast tool. Eventually, my lead instructional designer and I met at the main campus to record our presentation. This provided an opportunity to meet my peer face to face and learn about my peer who is great motivating character. Sharing ideas through discussion enhances confidence in the process of constructing new knowledge. I plan to apply this approach in any opportunity I can avail.
Peer evaluation helped me think about self evaluation before judging my peers. I am blessed and grateful to be a part of this dynamic and proactive project team. Learning team survey is a great reminder of group behaviors and identify the room for improvement. These are great feedback and improvement tools and I intend to utilize these tools in my future projects for capturing feedback to just, modify, and improve during and after the end of each project.

Asking questions and learning from the peers and Dr. Weaver is a unique and enlightening experience. This process is continuously helping me to think hard and understand new project management and instructional design concepts with much deeper understanding with a new and different prospective. Finally, watching Dr. Weaver’s screencast provides a clear guideline on how to deal with so many moving parts without getting overwhelmed. I would like to apply the techniques I am learning from Dr. Weaver to utilize in my future teaching profession.

Learning project management process and learning how to work successfully in team set up are two of the essential skill sets for any profession. To master these skill set one needs both pedagogical backbone and practical experiences. I am seeing progress from both of these ends slowly but steadily! Finally, learning is a continuous journey, not the destination! 

My task list for week three:

Task	Percent Complete	Time Spent in hrs
Weekly Group Meeting	100%	1
Contribute to the discussion in G+	100%	2
Transition to take over the role of Lead Developer	100%	.5
Discussion and feedback on project charter	100%	1
Learning the basic functions of Asana tool for project planning and WBS	100%	1
Keep up with Dr. Weaver's post and screencasts, taking surveys	100%	2
Writing Analysis Report	100%	3
Presenting  Analysis Report	100%	4
Posted 15/5s for my blog	100%	.5
Worked on a shared Google doc, with the team members, to capture all our questions for Terminix related to Project Charter and Goal Analysis.	75%	1.0