FantasticFive2014

WikiSpaces at the University of Akron Instructional Technology Master's Program
 * Meet the Team Members ||
 * Jacki Cain || Jessica Sevchek || Molly May || Felisha Jackson || Christina Paskiet ||
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= = || ||  ||  || Jacki is married to her husband of three years;together they have a two year old son and twodachshund dogs. Jacki lives in Green, Ohio with her family and they love to spend time together. In her spare time, Jacki loves to read, shop and spend time with family and friends! || Jessica teaches 4th grade Math and Science at Bath Elementary School, part of the Revere Local School District. This is her 2 year teaching 4th grade and 4th year in the district. Jessica lives in Akron with her fiancee and spends her free time working on her wedding plans. She has a recent nephew who absorbs most of her time as well. || Molly teaches Kindergarten in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio. She lives with her husband and chocolate lab in Hudson. In her free time, Molly loves to spend time with family and friends, hike, and travel. || Felisha teaches 2nd grade in an out of state school district. This is her 2nd year teaching 2nd grade and her 4th year in her school district. She has also taught 3rd grade. In her free time, Felisha likes reading, shopping, and spending time with her family, and friends. || Christina is a 6th grade math and science teacher in the Akron Public Schools. This is her fourth year teaching, and she was a Title I Tutor there for three years prior. She has a one year old daughter and two year old son who keep her life very exciting, and she loves them to pieces. She also enjoys teaching dance in Stow, and relaxing with a good book when she can find the time. ||
 * acki teaches 7th and 8th grade Language Arts at Canton Local Schools in Canton South, Ohio.

Instructional Design Problem **SME:** Dr. Cheryl Ward, IT Master’s Program, cward@uakron.edu. 440 417-2997 440 417-2997 **Department:** Educational Foundations and Leadership-Instructional Technology **What is the need for this instruction?** Wiki development skills are lacking in new IT students. Since they need to be proficient quickly with these skills, additional instruction that provides some step-by-step, or other support is needed. Audience will need to be evaluated to determine how they want to learn these skills. Different wiki skills are needed so it will need to be personalized for our program, so typically HELP videos are not that effective. **Who is the target audience?** IT Master’s students **What is the anticipated size/scope of the project?** A learning module, examples, step by step directions, demonstrations, practice **Are there known delivery constraints?** Yes, must be delivered online and be able to embed into Springboard.
 * Assuming this instructional product is completed before the end of the semester, would members of the target audience be available so that the team could conduct a formative ** **evaluation?** Yes, you can use members of this class or do an all call in the IT Master’s Portals for volunteers. I allow volunteers you get to use their time for a field experience so it helps you get people to use for the beta testing.

=Initial Status Report =

=Progress Reports = ==







<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Video Presentation media type="vimeo" key="113344219" height="281" width="500"

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 31.2px;">Instructional Website Here is the Link for our Wiki Video Tutorials

<span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 170%;">Discussion
 * = Your Name ||= Your Comments ||= Your Questions ||= Our Team Comments ||
 * Dr. Ward || Very well organized and executed presentation. It was unfortunate that everyone did not have a clear mic for the presentation. That is a requirement in this program for exactly this reason. It is very inexpensive and easy to make sure you have clear headset or mic for presentations like this. The content was well-done. You did summarize the pieces of data by describing what each person had done, but you need to make a statement whether or not the design and development of your product produced learning in your audience and that you reached your objectives..hopefully you addressed that specifically in your paper. The wiki site is clean and easy to follow...I would take out the sample pages that were created..you did that to collect data and they are not needed to show us plus they confuse the flow of the instructional tutorial. This will be a great addition to the program, your design and development of your project was excellent! Great job Team!

Ok excellent evaluation of the sound issues! We can all learn from that. It looked to me like you were all in Collaborate and recorded it there. || Please add me as an organizer for your wiki tutorial site! || Dr. Ward, I think the issue wasn't that we didn't use clear microphones but that we created our presentation all together over collaborate and had one team member screen cast it. I think since our voices were going from our computers to another computer and then having the screen cast pick them up is why they were so quiet. When we spoke with each other we were very clear and didn't know how soft our voices were on the actually presentation. I wouldn't recommend other groups do it this way. Our voices would have been much clearer if we each recorded our own parts on our own computers then combined the videos. -Molly

Thank you for the feedback Dr. Ward. We are working on deleting the task pages and adding you to our Wiki. In regards to the sound, I do agree with Molly. We should have taped our own videos instead of trying to do them all together. I'm glad that this will help other students in the Master's program understand how to use Wikispaces correctly. -Jessica

Thank you for the feedback, Dr. Ward! I definitely agree with the girls; the sound quality would not have been as poor if we all would have recorded our own and combined them. Definitely something to keep in mind for other classes or other groups! The evaluation pages will be deleted today. Thanks again! :) -Jacki Thank you Dr. Ward! We appreciate your feedback. The mic critique is good to know for future classes. I will be looking into buying one before next semester begins. I am happy to hear that you think this would be a great addition to the program. We worked very hard. Thanks for the great feedback! - Christina ||
 * Deborah Jones || Very well done Fantastic Five. Great job! || On the known delivery constraints, was that an incomplete thought? It ended with embed into... || Thank you for pointing that out Deborah. I fixed the sentence. They should be able to embed into Springboard. -Jessica ||
 * Misty Franklin || Fantastic Five you did a great job with the videos and tutorials. This is very helpful and glad to see something like this put together because I remember my first time working with a wiki and having to look up how to do some of this on my own. Great job. I do have to say that the presentation was pretty hard to hear but after reading your explanation above I now understand that the recording was going through two computers prior to be recorded. ||  || Thanks, Misty! I remember the struggle when I first started with Wikis, too. This was a super helpful project in improving our skills as well! - Jacki

Thank you Misty! We didn't realize that the volume was distorted until after we recorded and uploaded the video onto our wiki. The recording was going through two computers, using two different programs. The tutorials will be a great tool for future IT master students to use to help them with their wiki skills. -Felisha || Prischak || Fantastic Five nice job with your wiki. I liked your tutorials the only thing I got hung up on was creating the 20 pt. font so I put it on hold with the intention of coming back, fixing it, and adding my video but I ran out of time. Sorry! The rest of your tutorials were very informative and easy to follow. Your wiki is very well organized too. You can tell that you all put a lot of time and effort into the project. Great job! ||  || Denise, everyone tripped up on the 20 pt. font. That is something we would change next time! -Molly
 * Denise

Thanks Denise. The font was an error on my part when I created the evaluation. I also think that since this was so close to everyone finishing up with their classes, we could have done smaller assessments to allow for more time and better feedback. -Jessica || Standley || This information is great! I love how simple and basic ans procedural you made each step in creating a wiki. It is clear that you used all the steps in ADDIE and I am now better informed about the wiki process. I wish I would have seen some of this information (especially the tutorial videos) when I began using wiki-spaces about 5 years ago. As I was watching your presentation, I did get some ideas on how I could improve upon a wiki I've created for my math PLC. ||  || Thank you, Eric. We tried to keep the step by step simple. Happy to hear you gained some ideas to try in your PLC! - Christina ||
 * Kerry Stanziano || I really enjoyed your presentation. I took Intro to IT this semester and I had never used a wiki before. This training will be very helpful to the students in the program. I will definitely be using the tools you described in your presentation to help me in the future. Very organized and easy to follow. Thank you:) ||  || Kerry, glad you plan to use these tools the next time you use wiki. I also think that as a new student to the program that these videos would be very helpful. Taking Intro to IT was the first time using a wiki and I had to look up how to embed a video or insert an image. These videos will allow students to have all of the information in one place. -Jessica ||
 * Marlise Ramsey || Your Wiki information was well organized and easy to follow. The instructions were understandable and should be effective in teaching about the use of Wikis ||  || Thank you Marlise! Hopefully future UA IT Master students will find our wikispace to be useful when they need help with wiki skills needed for the program. - Felisha ||
 * Eric
 * Krystal Reno || Wikispaces can be confusing when I first began using them it would of been very helpful to have these videos. I thought your video was organized well and I liked that you should the Wikis created by you participants in the video instead of just talking about them. ||  || Thanks Krystal. Our participants worked hard, and we wanted to show off what they accomplished. I agree that it would have been much easier to create a wiki with some step by step videos for each part of the process. - Christina ||
 * Stacy Mercer || Great job, Fantastic Five! I struggled the first time that I created a wiki during the Intro class. Before the Intro class, I was unfamiliar with using/creating wikis and asked another student in my class to help me. Your videos on your wiki were well-organized and easy to follow. I like how you also include written instructions on each tutorial page. ||  ||   ||