Artifact 1
Steps for Substitute Success Articulate Presentation
Context & Conditions: EDET703 Design & Development Tools II, Fall 2023, Dr. William Morris. Critical analysis of research in multimedia programs and implications for instruction. Application of instructional design criteria to develop, author, and evaluate multimedia projects.
For group projects, having good team members is of prime importance. Having seen Amy Fetzer's work in a previous class I asked her to join my team. This points out the need for instructional developers to foster a network of reliable, skilled practitioners.
Scope: Use Kuhlmann's challenge, choices, consequences (3Cs) model to develop an engaging scenario-based eLearning module, where the learner "pulls" new knowledge or skills instead of "pushing" new content. See the Resources section below for details of the model. The module provides feedback with the consequences. Robust consequences do not allow the learner to immediately progress to the next challenge. The experience presents a short series of linear screens demonstrating new knowledge and skills.
Teaching is a challenge in a hostile environment. It is even more so for substitute teachers. Yet they often are not prepared. This presentation addresses that condition.
Role: This was a collaborative project completed with Amy Fetzer. Amy took the lead and used her Articulate subscription to create the project. I supported her efforts. We each contributed more than half the effort. The more I contributed, Amy contributed more. This is a formula for great teamwork.
Instructional Design: This is a scenario-based learning experience utilizing branching that begins with a challenge. The learner is presented with choices. Will they choose well? Each choice leads to a consequence. Some consequences are bad, others are good. The goal is to equip learners to make good choices.
Related performance indicators:
- Collaborative Practice: This artifact demonstrates my ability to collaborate with peers and subject matter experts to analyze learners, develop and design instruction, and evaluate its impact on learners. I've never worked as a teacher but Amy Fetzer has. I listened and learned, and then was able to co-develop a plan. Ideas were traded back and forth. The end result was a product better than I could have done on my own.
- Leadership: This artifact demonstrates my ability to lead, make that follow, their peers in designing and implementing technology-supported learning. Being a good leader begins with being a good follower. l drew from Amy's experience and at the time she had an Articulate subscription which I did not. I like a previous presentation of her's and suggested we use it as a model. In the end it is the team that wins.
- Reflection on Practice: This artifact demonstrates my ability to analyze and interpret data and artifacts and reflect on the effectiveness of the design, development and implementation of technology-supported instruction and learning to enhance their professional growth. We should never stop learning. We should learn from others. We should learn from our experiences. We have to take data in and process it in order to grow.
- Assessing/Evaluating: My work demonstrates my ability to design and implement assessment and evaluation plans that align with learning goals and instructional activities. Is our product effective? The answer to this question could evade our grasp if we are not careful. Evaluation is a skill that develops over time.
- Ethics: My life demonstrates ethical behavior within the applicable cultural context during all aspects of my work and with respect for the diversity of learning in each setting. Having a Christian worldview is a great benefit here. I don't have to agree with everyone in order to give them the respect they deserve as being created in God's image...even if they don't agree that they are.
Reflection:
This was the second group project I completed in the program. I learned from that experience and asked Amy to be my team member because I liked her work in a previous class and had noticed she was always one of the first to post on discussion boards.
Good team members make a great project. We traded dozens of emails as we built this learning experience, which is modeled after one of Amy’s previous projects where the site map uses a school map as a metaphor.
This is one of two presentations created in Articulate. In reflection, I wish I had purchased an Articulate subscription at the beginning of the program rather than at the end. The trial period for Articulate is way too short to explore its features. An instruction designer must be proficient in Articulate (or a quality competitor) to be effective. My instruction design journey now leads to building proficiency using Articulate.
Artifact 2
The Legend of SohCahToa
Context & Conditions: EDET703 Design & Development Tools II, Fall 2023, Dr William Morris. Critical analysis of research in multimedia programs and implications for instruction. Application of instructional design criteria to develop, author, and evaluate multimedia projects. Trigonometric functions are not easy to remember. I used to have to look them up when I needed to use them . Yet mnemonics and story can boost memory.
Scope: Develop a web-based eLearning that follows a systematic plan to resolve a lack of knowledge and skills in the cognitive domain. Knowledge can be fleeting. How can we remember something we learned years ago?
Role: This was another collaborative project completed with Amy Fetzer. This time I took the lead. Our experience working together made an even greater project.
Instructional Design: We followed the guidance of Morrison, Ross, Morrison, and Kalman (2019) Designing Effective Instruction in creating our design documents.
Related performance indicators:
- Collaborative Practice: This artifact demonstrates my ability to collaborate with peers and subject matter experts to analyze learners, develop and design instruction, and evaluate its impact on learners. This time the product was based on my experience and what had worked for me. Amy provided great input to make a good product even better.
- Leadership: This artifact demonstrates my ability to lead their peers in designing and implementing technology-supported learning. This time I functioned as the lead and Amy provided support. This artifact demonstrates a great project needs a project manager to weave the different parts together. Amy was great at performing AI magic.
- Reflection on Practice: This artifact demonstrates my ability to analyze and interpret data and artifacts and reflect on the effectiveness of the design, development and implementation of technology-supported instruction and learning to enhance their professional growth. Simple concepts may be difficult to recall years later if we don't use them regularly. Mnemonics and stories are great memory tools. Current Trigonometry students and adults years later have difficulty recalling trig functions. SohCahToe can help!
- Assessing/Evaluating: My work demonstrates my ability to design and implement assessment and evaluation plans that align with learning goals and instructional activities. Is our product effective? The answer to this question could evade our grasp if we are not careful. Evaluation is a skill that develops over time. This learning experience includes interactive assessment with feedback.
- Ethics: This artifact demonstrates ethical behavior within the applicable cultural context during all aspects of my work and with respect for the diversity of learning in each setting. If you look up SohCahToe on the internet you may find an insensitive portrait of an American Indian. We considered doing a sensitive portrait of SohCahToa as an Indian hero but to avoid offense, IA generated a different story.
Reflection:
I am growing better and better at making an instructional experience more aesthetically pleasing. It is a journey where each step leads to improvement. This experience accentuated the difference between design and development. A designer seeks to discover solutions and suggests an intervention. A developer takes that design and makes it appealing and aesthetically pleasing. In both of the projects we developed together Amy and I considered how to engage the learner in the experience. Many YouTube videos can put you to sleep which is something you can't do with an interactive, engaging Articulate presentation.
As I consider where my journey heads from here, I don't see YouTube like videos in my future. I like Khan Academy but have always thought it could be better. The same goes for other video based lessons. A quality, interactive learning module will produce a more efficient, effective, accessible learning experience. That is the challenge!