Tuesday, April 5, 2016

15/5s - Week of March 29 through April 4, 2016

Treatment report is an important document to design the user interfaces to seek the approval from the client and to develop a set of standard for the entire development team to follow during the development phase to ensure consistent look and feel. This week we completed the treatment report along with visual diagrams and pictures for user interfaces and entire site. Jennifer did a great job in capturing screenshot of all the interfaces and other diagrams. I presented our final treatment report in a screen cast and shared with my peers. Watching screen casts from other groups is a unique experience to learn many other dimensions of the same task or deliverable; diversity and plurality of thinking is a great vehicle to keep our mind alive with fresh idea and thoughts.

        This process helped me to understand the need of consistent look and feel in online instructions development, and also how to achieve it in a team development environment. Client's input in this process was very helpful as they have a firsthand experience of the learners liking and ability. Now I have a better understanding of linking instructional strategies to optimize learning outcomes. I plan to utilize Dick and Carey’s five learning components in any future instructional development as  part of core instructional strategy.

           Though initially I thought treatment report is just a concept document; now I can see a clear value of doing all these steps in a logical pattern to bring uniformity in our team development setup to optimize learning outcomes. Google hangout are becoming extremely valuable in sharing ideas and building consensus; besides that document sharing feature is helping us a lot to complement our discussion in a more efficient and effective way.

            Asking questions and learning from the peers and Dr. Weaver is a unique and enlightening experience. Laerning a lot of different prespectives by watching the screencasts from my peers. These resources are continuously helping me to think hard and understand new dimentions of any task at hand. 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 and my teammates 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%
2
Contribute to the discussion in G+
100%
1
Develop Treatment Report
100%
2
Discussion and feedback on Treatment Report
 100%
2
Update project tasks/sub-tasks in Asana
 100%
 .5
Keep up with Dr. Weaver's post and screencasts, taking surveys
 100%
 2
Discussion and development of  Initial Formative Evaluation Plan
20%
3
Screen-cast Preparation and presentation on Treatment Report
 100%
3
Posted 15/5s for my blog
 100%
.5
Installation of Articulate Storyline2
 100%
 2

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