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Aimee Davis || My name is Aimee Davis and I am excited to be just over half way finished with my Master's Degree in Instructional Technology. I teach first grade in the Riverside Local #|School District and everyday is an adventure! When I have time between "schools" I enjoy traveling, jogging, golfing, grilling out, and really any activity that can be #|completed outdoors. || Kelly Weaver || Hello! My name is Kelly Weaver. I am almost finished completing my Master's Degree in Instructional Technology from the University of Akron. I currently am in my eighth year of teaching at Parma Senior High School as a high school mathematics teacher. Outside of teaching and earning my degree I #|love to golf, bike, hang with family and friends, and cheer on any Ohio sports team playing! || Beau Schluep || I'm a history teacher turned tech student. The first eight years of my career I taught history and geography across grades seven through twelve. Now, I've decided to improve my tech skills and create more opportunity by pursuing an Instructional Technology Master's at the University of Akron. After I've earned my degree I plan to obtain a position as a school or districts technology coach. While not teaching and learning, I spend time with my daughter and stay active. || Verlinda Bennett || Hello! My name is Verlinda. My background experience is social work. I have over 23 years of experience working with people from diverse and challenging backgrounds. I have a Master's Degree in Social Work and I am a full time instructor at a Community College. I started teaching and wanted to learn about technology and education. The Instructional Technology Master's Program at the University of Akron is allowing me to round out my educational experience and enhance my teaching ability. I will graduate soon and use my skills to provide a better learning experience for my students. In my free time I enjoy participating in various activities. In the summer of 2009, I participated in my first Women's Mini Triathlon and will continue to talk about it as though it was yesterday. A true food connoisseur, I enjoy exploring all types of cuisine. My interests are spending time with family, and traveling. || Steven Dietrich || Hello. I am in my second semester in the Instructional Technology program. I was a soccer referee for the first time this passed fall season for junior and high school players. I have a B.A. in Education and to my satisfaction am working toward the M.A. in Education, while waiting for substitute teaching calls. I have thought about going to England to student teach since I never did that yet. I may go anyway since my subject area is English, and it is where the language originated and is the most intimate. ||
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** COMPUTER-BASED ASSESSMENT WITH __FIRST GRADERS__ ** **INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN PROBLEM**

What is the need for this instruction?
====Students are required to demonstrate their knowledge on computer based assessments. They lack the required technology skills to accurately portray their current academic ability when assessed in a digital format. Although most students understand the basic functions of the computer, they need formal training on typing, scrolling, and basic problem solving skills to be able to demonstrate their knowledge digitally. ====

**Who is the target audience?**
====The target audience includes the first grade students at Madison Avenue Elementary School in Painesville, Ohio. ====

What is the anticipated size/scope of the project?
====The students' grade level and current abilities will guide the size and scope of the project. One of the main goals of the project is to increase the independence of first graders on the computer by formally teaching necessary skills. Additionally, Ms. Pearn has asked us to research programs to scaffold the typing ability of elementary school students so they will be able to efficiently express their thoughts.====

Are there known constraints?
====Delivery constraints include short attention spans and large class sizes. There are also budget constraints to consider. There is no guarantee to purchase programs, and/or instructional materials, suggested by the team. We cannot count on homework assignments being completed.====

Yes, a release-form may need to be signed.

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 * Melanie Pearn, Principal of Madison Avenue Elementary School **

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** Parent Introduction Letter and Survey **

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 * **ZIP TECH'S PAPER** ||
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Prezi's [] http://prezi.com/rlg8rgrxhzps/ ?utm_campaign=share&utm_ medium=copy&rc=ex0share

to online assessments is going to be a monumental task. It seem unrealistic that first graders will be required to do it too. || I noticed that some of the text runs into the graphics in the first Prezi. Were the programs purchased and used with the students? || Hi Tami, Thank you for your comments and question. I just noticed how the text runs into the graphics. I will address this with the team in our next meeting and we will resolve this error. Thank you. || A second question is whether or not the school has decided to include the program for the rest of the first grade and possibly expand it for other grade levels. || Hi Jessi. As far as the unit went, the school did not yet implement the software. Your second question is an insightful one. . .Hi Jessi. I have shared the unit with my partner teacher. If it is successful for her as well, I am going to share it with the other first grade teachers in the district. || I think Aimee will have to answer the first question because it was her class in which this instruction took place. Hi Marla, Aimee here. I think the most challenging part was making the time to individually assess the students two different times. My students do not work independently so I had to have a parent come in and volunteer to work with the class while I was assessing. My analysis is that the students did a nice job picking up the skills and knowledge - based off the formative and summative assessments' feedback. It's hard to say for sure, based on our data, which age group learns computer skills best. Our final ADDIE document will be uploaded tonight or tomorrow. It might provide more insight than the videos do. || Kerns || I really enjoyed navigating through your project. I especially liked seeing the documents that were created by the group for use in the classroom and seeing the examples of student work. This is a difficult topic that is ruffling feathers in many districts, including my own, I appreciate your pro-active approach to getting these first graders ready for online assessments. || I think Rome asked an interesting question about the accommodations that IEP students will receive while taking the tests. Was your group able to learn any additional information through your research about the online assessments that will be implemented next year regarding IEP accommodations? What would your advice be to a district that has not yet started preparing students for these assessments? || Hi Katie, please see above for an answer to IEP questions. Although I can't speak for the whole team, my personal advice (Aimee) is that a little instruction can go a long way in terms of technology. I would personally advise a district to have curriculum/technology directors to put performance objectives and correlating units in place at each grade level to scaffold students' skills. || Stoicoiu || I enjoyed learning about your project! I really liked that your project was implemented in a real classroom setting, and that it turned out to be successful and likely to be used again! My team's project was heavy on the analysis end, so we did not do much designed in terms of instructional materials and sequencing. I am impressed with the amount of work your team did to create effective lessons that would help students reach the learning goals. Kuddos Zip Tech! || In the evaluation video, it was mentioned that 5 students were not able to take the post-assessment because they were receiving special education services. Do you think this missed data is valuable in assessing the project? Will you, or are you able to still obtain post-assessment results from these students? || Hello Callah, Good observation. I believe it was important to note that these students had special needs and it was more important for them to receive their services during this time. It may have been nice to have their assessment scores. Aimee probably could complete these assessments at a later date, but I do not believe it would have improved our success rate by much due to these students special needs.
 * ** Your Name ** || ** Comment ** || ** Questions ** || ** Team's Response ** ||
 * Tami Warner || I like your choice of Prezi and the designs used in both presentations. The movement
 * Gabor Smith || Very nice job Zip Tech! It's certainly quite interesting that computer based testing is being introduced at such a young age! || The University of Akron is currently rolling out new software to make use of online testing. It will use the computer's camera to observe the student and verify identity and that no cheating going on. Do you find this creepy? Also, do you think first grade is too soon for computer testing? Should we do away with paper and pencil altogether? || Hello Gabor, The online school I work at is already using the webcams to make sure students aren't cheating when they take the NWEA MAP tests three times a year. Yes, it is a little creepy. Bandwidth is a major problem that arises when using that many webcams at the same time. I don't know if first grade is too early or not. It certainly seems a bit young, but it's coming whether we like it or not. I don't think we should do away with paper and pencil altogether. I believe in balance. ||
 * Jessi Hoffman || Great job Zip Tech! Your presentations give excellent background information about your program as well as the suggestions for future implementation. I like the approach you took and how you broke down the lessons. Your Prezis are very nice. || In your first Prezi you mention the cost of the programs, and the change from typingweb to read, write, type. Did the school choose to implement these changes?
 * Marla Battiste || Good job! I noticed that 3 of the 5 videos are very soft, I could barely hear the information being presented. The Prezi gives a good visual of your design. || What was the most challenging part in completing your instructional design? Do you think it's easier for kids this young to gain computer skills? || Hello again, Marla.
 * Rome Fiedler || Excellent job. Very relevant problem to address. Teaching in a computer lab I can see how you fell short of your target. Students at that age are difficult to gauge in the lab. Your prezi's and presentations are done very well, really get the message delivered || I found it interesting that as a group they had a harder time completing the pre-assessment than the post assessment individually. What factors do you think may have contributed to that? You address special education services. Will students with special needs get modified testing? Will it still be computer based? || Hi Rome, thanks for the feedback. to answer your first question, I feel that the students really just lacked basic computer knowledge. I made an effort to use appropriate vocabulary when teaching and it showed on the post assessment. Currently, my special education students take the computer based assessment with their peers because it is read aloud at this young age. My student with a vision impairment has a screen enlarger. My principal implied that if the test was not read aloud, it would be administered individually. ||
 * Katie
 * William Voelkerding || I payed close attention to the evaluation part because that I am doing for my group. I really thought you did a great job of explaining your results || My question is, I noticed you had students work in groups for the pre assessment and individually for the post assessment. Do you think that skewed your results either way? || This method probably wasn't the best way because the team was comparing formative and summarize data. My students get super stressed about pre-assessments, and when planning I decided to opt for the group route to ease anxiety. For a project like this, it probably would have been best for the formats to be consistent. I would do it differently next time. ||
 * Callah

Hi Callah, It is tough to plan around my students being pulled for Title I twice a day, vision, speech, and special ed everyday. I cannot introduce anything new during these times, so on this particular day this was a filler activity until they returned. On any given day I have between one and three students absent, so was the situation on assessment day. SInce my students don't work independently, assessing them would come at a cost of a guided reading group, third grade guarantee intervention, small group work, or remedial work of some kind. Since the data we collected was significant enough, I opted to not sacrifice any of the above activities for yet another assessment and focus on continued academic growth. :) ||
 * Kathy Coughlin || I really loved the vocabulary assessment. That is so important! I love how students were able to practice how to type in their usernames and password on paper keyboards. What a creative idea! I really liked your performance objectives.They are realistic and so important for students to learn. Wonderful job Zip Tech-you did a phenomenal job! || Perhaps I missed this, but how much time did Ms. Davis dedicate on teaching these skills and lesson? I know in the design phase it mentioned the various lessons that were taught but was curious as to the time that was given to each lesson. Also, how did the students respond during these lessons? Were they excited to learn more about using a computer? || Thanks Kathy, this was an enlightening experience for our team. An outline of the performance objectives is located in tables 7 -11. These tables will give you detailed information regarding the objectives, dates, time, procedures, and assessments. The students were excited to learn, however they enjoyed socializing with each other. It was important for the team to have structured activities for the students and to make sure they understood the computer room rules. ||
 * Holly Mothes || I too liked the idea of the paper keyboards. The students can practice anywhere anytime! Given the outside influences that technology can have on a young student, correcting bad habits, bad behavior is challenging. Your program clearly would be an asset in classroom in most schools. Impressive project! || After working with the students at the STEM school, I think most of the behavior problems were do to 2 things, boredom and time of day. In your classroom was the computer lab at the end of the day when some students are very aped to be distracted? Prior to your ID program were the lessons specifically for this age group or were they " one sizes fits all" model? || My computer time is in the afternoon, about two quarters of the day through the school day (1:20-1:50). The behavior of the class declines as the hours pass. I think their halos fall off at recess?!?!?

Prior to the ID program, I rarely conducted a computer lesson. My students are expected to plug along on math and literacy programs in the lab, and our district takes growth on these programs very seriously. My principal charts the time each class spends on the program, and the students' growth, so there isn't really time for a lot extra assignments. ||
 * Dr. Ward || A well done project and presentation. Even though your presentation was done in separate segments it was cohesive due to the format and the presentation structure. Well explained ADDIE steps! ||  || Thank you, Dr. Ward. ||
 * Tawanna Hamm || Very nice I especially like you documents and the cohesiveness of your project presentations. I can definitely relate to your problem || What if any differences did you notice with the Stem students compared to other urban area school students ( Behavior etc,.) ? || I'm sorry, Tawanna. I'm not sure I understand your question. We are not the stem team...you might have clicked on the wrong page. ||
 * Kay Rentsch || This was a very good presentation. I like that everything was neat and well organized. I liked that you completed hands on activities with the students. || Would the students that were out of the classroom at the time of the post assessment be given the chance to do it at a later time? It might be interesting to see how they would have done also. ||  ||