Fantastic+Five

**Welcome! Meet the Fantastic Five team:**
**Bill Franck****Email Bill** ||= An English Teacher at Wooster High School, I have been pursuing my master's __#|degree in Instructional Technology__ for the past two years. When I am not teaching and taking graduate classes, I coach the Wooster High School Speech and Debate Team. I also have a one-year son who trumps all my other obligations and I am always thankful for whatever time I have with him. || **Marlene Glennon****Email Marlene** ||= Hi everyone, I'm a technical services librarian at Bierce Library, and I assist with the implementation and support of new technology initiatives at the library. I have a Master of Library and Information Science and I'm currently working on a Master's in Instructional Technology. My husband, Ian, and I have 2 sons: Blaise (almost 7) and Lux (almost 2). || **Lisa Temsey**Email Lisa ||= Hello all. I am Lisa Temsey. I am a PhD student working on my degree in Curriculum and Instruction in the College of Education. I am also hoping to get the E-Learning certificate so I can design and teach my own __#|online courses__. I taught middle school gifted for 15 years before returning to the classroom as a student again myself. I am a busy mom as well. I have two children Austin (14) and Ally (12). I am their biggest cheerleader. My son plays high school football, basketball and baseball and my daughter is a middle school cheerleader and plays softball for a travel team. My life is very exciting!!! || Email Dan ||= Always a fan of technology, education, and the challenges they present, I am happy to be the Director of Information Resources and Technology at Laurel School in Shaker Heights, OH. I have been in this position for just over two months, previously spending five years as the Director of Technology at Our Lady of the Elms School in Akron. My role at Laurel is to lead the Information Resources and Library Services department; our biggest current initiative is being in the second year of a One-to-One laptop program on Apple MacBooks and MacBook Pros running Mac OS X Lion and Windows 7. Laurel keeps me busy managing all aspects of my department and setting goals for the direction for the school's technology. From and instructional design perspective, I've taught using some variety of LMS consistently for the past seven years, using Blackboard, Angel, Moodle, and Haiku. I am excited by the opportunities that online and blended learning presents to learners and facilitators. This is my second course in the IT __#|Master's Program__. || Email Blake ||= Hello. My name is Blake Beluscak. I am a science teacher at Buchtel New Tech High School. I graduated from Kent State University in Instructional Technlogy and working on my master in Instructional Technology. I am very happy to be at Butchtel since the is the first year students are one to one with computers and all students and teachers are required to work in PBL. This is also my first year as being science chair, so this is a learning year for me. ||
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 * = ====**Instructional Design Problem** 4 - Enhancing interactive foreign language instruction with technology for PK-8 teacher candidates.==== ||
 * = ====**Subject Matter Expert (SME)**: Susan Colville- Hall ====

**Department**: Curricular and Instructional Studies
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 * 1 - What is the need for this instruction? (i.e. the gap in current instruction) || Because foreign language instruction needs interaction in the classroom, I am looking for ways to teach my teacher candidates that technology can enhance this interaction. I don’t know if using iPads or iPhones or other devises can do this. In addition, because they will be teaching classes, I want to help them develop the ability to self-review using video cams and the technology that goes along with that. I am also interested in establishing a website for my advisees. That may be a separate project. ||
 * 2 - Who is the target audience (and other potential audiences). || My foreign language PK-8 grade teacher candidates who meet Tuesday and Thursday 2:45-4 pm. ||
 * 3 - What is the anticipated size/scope of the project? – a single lesson/activity, multiple lessons/activities, a longer instructional unit. || Multiple lessons/activities or a longer instructional unit. ||
 * 4 - Are there known delivery constraints? – indicate must haves such as video, website, text etc. In all cases, the final decision on media selection will be negotiated with the project teams. || I am thinking that video and other recommended technologies would be required. ||
 * 5 - 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? || I would make all members available so that the team could conduct a formative evaluation. ||


 * **Why we choose this problem:** || Our team selected Instructional Design Problem #4 as our primary choice because we all saw the dynamic potential benefits that implementing 21st century learning strategies could have for Susan Colville-Hall’s PK-8 grade teacher candidates. Designing an instructional strategy for using a wide array of multi-media tools will help these candidates develop a more effective means of interaction both in and outside of the classroom setting. The strategies we help design will be flexible enough to apply on both an individual and group level. This design could possibly extend to interactions between different language classes in different schools and/or countries. ||
 * **Why our team is best to solve this problem:** || Our group believes that we have the understanding (both in technology and instruction) necessary to design a plan that will give Colville-Hall’s teacher candidates the tools they need to be successful in designing fully interactive activities that will accelerate learning and create a more engaging immersion-style learning environment. We also have on our team a member whose primary teaching endorsement is in K-12 French Education. This background in foreign language and how language acquisition works will help guide us during the different stages of the A.D.D.I.E. process. ||

Our group is very pleased to have been given the opportunity to work on your design problem. We would like to set up a face to face meeting with you as soon as possible. Do you have any evening hours open? Most of our group works during the day and is not able to meet until evening. If this is not possible, I am a full time PhD student and a graduate assistant on the Project Achieve grant with Dr. Smolen so I am available during the day if needed instead. Please just let us know what would be the best for you. We are so excited to get started on this project and look forward to helping you solve this problem. || We set up Dr. CH's wiki and inserted her lesson plan template, created a tutorial on how to use it, and posted it in our TA section on Springboard. We chose sections of the ADDIE model for our final paper || || Link to class wiki 1. How comfortable would you be using technology in your classroom? a. Highly Comfortable b. Moderately Comfortable c. Slightly apprehensive d. Apprehensive e. Completely Unable 2. On a scale of 1 (Highly Comfortable) to 5 (Completely Unable) please rate your ability to use the following technologies in a lesson: a. MS Word b. PowerPoint c. Prezi d. WhiteBoard e. LMS (Learning Management System – Like Blackboard or Springboard) f. Youtube g. Audio files h. Video files i. Skype j. Elluminate k. Cell Phone l. Wiki m. Google.docs n. Google.quizzes o. Online textbook (HRW, HMH, etc.) || Evaluation Survey submitted to SME's class on 11-29-12 __[]__
 * = ===Project Timeline=== ||
 * We emailed our SME on Oct 11, 2012: || Dr. Colville-Hall,
 * We have planned a F2F meeting with our SME: || Thursday, October 25, 4:30, at her office in Crouse Hall, room 302. ||
 * F2F group meeting || Monday, November 12, 6:30, Bierce Library.
 * F2F group meeting || Wednesday, November 28, 6:00, Bierce Library.
 * = **__21st Century Skills and Tools Survey__** ||
 * PK-8 FL Teaching Candidate 21st Century Learning Skills and Technology Tools Questionnaire(based on the data collected by Grunwald Associates LLC for Eduventures, Inc. on behalf of Walden University – see [|report])

1. What was your first impression of Wikispaces? Very Negative Slightly Negative Neutral Slightly Positive Very Positive

2. How easy was Wikispaces to use and navigate? Very Negative Slightly Negative Neutral Slightly Positive Very Positive

3. What is your opinion of its overall visual appeal? Very Negative Slightly Negative Neutral Slightly Positive Very Positive

4. Did it run smoothly on your browser? Rarely Some of the time Most of the time All of the time

5. What platform did you use most often to view it? PC/laptop iMac/Macbook Smartphone Tablet/iPad

6. Did the tutorial answer any questions you had? Yes No

7. Would you use Wikispaces again? Very unlikely Unlikely Neutral Likely Very likely

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8. Any further questions or comments? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Required field)

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 * = **Final Report Presentation**


 * Team Project Design Paper [[file:FinalPaper.pdf]]**

Questions: Do you think the students would have taken to the project more readily if you had chosen a different type of technology? Do you think that the unfamiliarity with Wikispaces might be one of the barriers to success, so could a different technology be more successful? || Using a different type of technology may have produced a better result, but it seems the two key factors in play are a lack of time and a lack of support. This project would have been more successful if students had more time to work on the wiki. Also, giving support to the students is difficult, and is affected both by the parameters of time and those of the class in which the project was infused. - Dan || Your group did a great job with the Prezi and the design of your wiki made it easy to navigate. Nice job! || At this point I have agreed to work with Dr. Colville-Hall to implement the wiki at the beginning of the Spring semester. We have not discussed yet if she wants to try it in all her classes or still just the one. ~Lisa || Will someone in your team help the SME implement the wiki collaboration in the beginning of the next semester? Do you know if the SME has intentions of adding the wiki within her syllabus and requirements for her students to use? || At this point I have agreed to work with Dr. Colville-Hall to implement the wiki at the beginning of the Spring semester. We have not discussed yet if she wants to try it in all her classes or still just the one. I plan to let her know that I don't think it will be effective if it is not included as a requirement and part of the grade for the course. I also feel that using the wiki, the dropbox and the discussion board may seem a little repetitive and not necessary. ~Lisa || -Marlene || Also, our project was fairly straightforward, so it would dictate that simplicity is the key. -Dan ||
 * Please feel free to question or comment on our presentation below.**
 * **Your Name ................... ** || **Question/Comment ....................................... ** || **Team's Response** **....**.................................. ||
 * Teresa Potter || It looks like you encountered the same problem our group had: it's really hard to implement something that should be a fundamental piece of a course at the end of the semester. However, it seems that your project was well designed and that you left your SME with something useful to try and implement at the beginning of future semesters for more success.
 * Brandon Caipen || Since you did not get a chance to properly implement your wiki did the professor agree that they would try to implement it at the beginning of the next semester?
 * Leah Burke || I like that you went into the classroom to present the wiki. I think sometimes with all of the technology, the importance of face-to-face is lost. I do understand your frustrations with how late we start in the semester. We had the same problem as our wiki was really meant to be used throughout the semester. On the other hand, I also believe that unless if the professor requires response of students and use of the new wiki's we created, it is unlikely students will use it on their own. Do you believe that beginning eariler in the semester will help, or do you think success of the project is more dependent upon the SME? || It would seem that more time for students to work on the wiki would have been helpful - so, starting earlier in the semester would have been great all around. - Dan ||
 * Alzana Nuzzolillo || First, I believe the design of your Prezi was great (I learned alot about Prezi just by watching your presentation). I believe you have a great analysis of the over-arching problem in that students will not often voluntarily work. With that being said, the design solution you presented is, in my opinion, a great resource for the students of this class. I would imagine that if they did work on this site posting and reviewing others', their foundational knowledge of the process (and maybe some creativity too) would be found. What made you choose a wiki over a discussion in Springboard? || A wiki is something that students can access (if only in read-only format) after they leave the University and no longer have Springboard access. Wikis are wide open to the Internet, so that provides an advantage. -Dan ||
 * Emily Ellison || Great job on the presentation of your project! It is apparent your team put thought into the process and created thorough resources to help attain the goal. Unfortunately, with the professor not seemingly communicating with her students the requirements, you were not able to gain valuable results in order to make changes to your initial plan. It was probably a hard task to try an implement a new form of technology and communication in the middle of a semester.
 * Sharon Caine || The prezi and your resources were easy to follow.. I agree that without a requirement clearly stated for participation in the implementation, you didn't get the full exposure needed for evaluation. Time can be a deterrant. Will your SME try in the next class to setthe expectation and will there be follow up? || See the previous comment. ~Lisa ||
 * Jaclyn Peterson || I really like your groups project. I think the idea of using technology in a foreign language would be very helpful. My group had the same problem with students using our wiki and responding. Is the professor going to use this wiki in future classes? || See previous comment~Lisa ||
 * Jennifer Lanza || I really liked your final Prezi presentation. That was a clever way to complete your final presentation. I liked that you met face-to-face with your group. My original question was going to be about the implementation stage, but that seemed to be asked. Since the students werre teacher candidates, do you feel that it may have been to early to showcase wikis. Time seemed to be the issue with this. I do hope that this will happen next semester for your team. Good Job! || Timing was definitely an issue with SME's class. Since this was not introduced until after mid-semester, these students were already quite busy with their student teaching assignments out in the field, so I feel that was a major roadblock to many of them not using this wiki. They felt this was optional, not mandatory, so only half of the class posted on the wiki, and of those participants, only a few posted comments on others' wiki posts.
 * Melissa Ferry || I loved the prezi this was the second time I have seen one and it was so awesome! As a former student in this program, I think the idea is wonderful but the class itself is very difficult and demanding and I imagine that time really was against you. There is a lot to do in the course and having something else added to the course I am sure made it more difficult. My question is did the students know about this in advance or was it something that was given to them on the spot? || Melissa, it was really kind of thrown at them on the spot at the last minute. I think that if we had started it earlier in the semester it may have been more successful. Dr. Colville-Hall could grade straight from the wiki instead of making them submit their lesson plans through the dropbox. It could have become a habit for them and then would have not been so hectic trying to learn something new on top of everything else that ends the semester. ~Lisa ||
 * Jaclyn Hawkins || Our group also had the issue of getting to the implementation phase late in the semester. If you could change something about your approach in the beginning of this project what would it be? Your team seems to have had good instructional content, with a lack of participation being the problem. To reflect, is there something that could have changed the outcome of this project (for future reference on creating modules)? || It seems that starting earlier with the students in the class would have made somewhat of a difference in participation. A comment was made at the end of the term that the students were rushing to complete their work, so perhaps our project was a victim of that.
 * Anne Bowman || Great job on your Prezi. It is very easy to follow. I have similar questions to those that have already been asked which are: Does the SME plan to implement your project next semester? Are there plans for anyone on the team to help with future implementation? || Please see Lisa's reply (5th row down). -Marlene ||
 * Brandy Cash || I really enjoyed going through your Prezi. You've brought up some very good comments and concerns. We also found that many students didn't complete the survey as we had hoped. It would've been nice to have met with the class at the beginning of the semester and had some backing from the professor to push for them to complete the survey and partake in the activities/lessons. Were there any other suggestions that would've worked to get students to respond and participate? Any other tools? || Timing was definitely an issue with our target audience, as well as support and encouragement from our SME. Our target audience scored "middle of the road" on the pre-survey as to their level of comfort with technology, so probably some of these students were unable or unwilling to go outside their familiar comfort zone and embrace new technologies without the encouragement and motivation from their instructor. It would have been helpful if our SME had given us some feedback on the use of this wiki in her class, but she did not participate on the wiki herself. As I said in the Evaluation section of our Prezi: "you can bring a horse to water, but you can't make it drink." -Marlene ||