3.+Designovation



"Never before in history has innovation offered promise of so much to so many in so short a time." Bill Gates

==**Meet the **Designovation Team **: **==

Hi! I am currently a 6th grade math teacher at Woodridge Middle School in Peninsula, Ohio. This is my 6th year of teaching and I really enjoy what I am teaching. This is my second semester in the Instructional Design Program. || Hello! I am nearing the end of my Instructional Technology program here at The University of Akron. I have one class left after this semester! I am currently not teaching in a classroom of my own, but I do work as a Substitute Teacher in Northeast Ohio and also as a Drama Club Advisor and Director for a local high school. I am enjoying this program and am looking forward to what we will accomplish together as a team! || Greetings! I'm currently a Sr Applications Systems Analyst in the Office of Computer Based Assessment and Evaluation - a unit of Instructional Services and a division of Information Technology Services at The University of Akron. I am also an Adjunct Instructor at Stark State College, currently teaching an online course in web design and development. This is my third semester in the Instructional Technology Program, taking one class at a time, and I am currently approaching the 50%completion mark. It has been a positive educational, enriching experience so far, and I look forward to the remainder of the program and what it has to offer. || Hello! I'm currently instructing French at the University of Akron after 13 years of high school teaching. I'm enjoying the freedom to explore technology and think about how to use it efficiently in my classes. I'm British - which explains any odd spellings you may see ... and my accent. I became an American citizen in 2000. Contact Deborah ||
 * [[image:instructionaldesignspring11/summer 031 21-14-10.jpg width="147" height="244" align="center"]] || Angela Macak-Milosovic
 * [[image:instructionaldesignspring11/Simmons.jpg width="127" height="191"]] || Chris Simmons
 * [[image:instructionaldesignspring11/cjh.JPG width="143" height="191"]] || Chris Harrigan
 * [[image:instructionaldesignspring11/Deb_profileimage.jpg width="140" height="140"]] || Deborah Monroy


 * **Instructional Design Problem****New Standards Alignment and Communication Tool****SME Dr. Cheryl Ward, Instructional Technology Master’s Program****The University of Akron****Department: Educational Foundations and Leadership-Instructional Technology** **What is the need for this instruction?** The ISTE standards are changing for the Instructional Technology Master’s program and for the Ohio K-12 Computer Endorsement. The Instructional Technology Department and educators in most all capacities need to understand the alignment of the new “coach” standards to the old “technology facilitation” standards. In addition, an online communication resource is necessary as a novel method to inform all current and new students about the standards change and what that means.
 * Who is the target audience (and other potential audiences**)? Instructional Technology Master’s students, teachers in school districts who want to be able to effectively integrate technology, instructional designers, and possibly others comprise of the target audience.
 * What is the anticipated size/scope of the project?** Instructional project may consist of a single lesson, sequence of lessons, learning module, or a learning object.
 * Are there known delivery constraints?** Delivery of the content must be online.
 * 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. A target audience of peers consisting of IT Master’s students and fellow colleagues in a work environment. ||
 * 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. A target audience of peers consisting of IT Master’s students and fellow colleagues in a work environment. ||


 * **Initial Status Report** ||
 * [[file:InitialStatusReport.pdf]] ||

= Final project: UA Instructional Technology & ISTE NETS-C Standards Learning Module= = Survey report: ****= = Final paper: =
 * **Team Progress Reports** ||
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 * 3.)[[file:ProgressReport3.pdf]] ||
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 * Embed Final Team Presentation Here ||
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 * Please question or comment in response to our presentation below. Feel free to add more rows if needed. ||

The video are impressive. It looks like your team worked well on your project. Including Dr. Ward on your "About" page was nice. Good Job! || Why did you create your site with WiX? I have never heard of this shareware before. || I did a search in blogs I follow and discovered a list of the "Ten best websites" to use. I went through systematically and liked the look of Wix and the fact that it was free. I then chose a template and played with it a little and found it easy to work with. The team liked Wix and the template, and Chris Harrigan was our site designer.(Deborah)
 * Your Name: || Comment: || Question: || Team's Response: ||
 * Emma Campbell || I liked how your group did the transition for ISTE NETS-C Standards.

Wix was a great find by Deborah. Kudos to Deborah! After evaluating Google Sites and Yola as well, we found Wix offered much more with outstanding templates - giving websites a great look and feel. In terms of site development, Wix was intuitive with a simple to use interface and no coding, allowing for rapid design, development, maintenance and publishing of website. Very good question, Emma. Thank you. (Chris H) ||
 * Susan Martin || I cannot begin to tell you how much you helped me complete my ePortfolio for Multimedia/Hypermedia. As one of those transition students from TF to C, I needed your website to help me align my design document to my actual website. I used many of the resources that you provided to match my potential field experience with the new standards. I found what I needed very quickly on the web page for current students. Thank you. || I see that you were expecting a 5% return on the surveys, and, of course, this part of the evaluation was out of your hands, but did the 6% return make it more difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of your website? || Thank you for your feedback Susan. We're glad to hear you found the site helpful and beneficial in completing your ePortfolio for your M/H class. In response to your question, we found the 6% return rate, or even a higher rate, would have been more beneficial and possibly make it more accurate in evaluating website effectiveness. Excellent question, Susan. Thank you. (Chris H)

I echo Chris' thanks! So nice to know we've helped you out and hope it will help others too. As to the 6%: a higher percentage would have been better, but 6% really did start to show a pattern. This was not really the case at 3% on an earlier report.(Deborah) || Hamilton-Ford || Your report, site, and Prezi are all done impeccably well and very thorough. Also, your inclusion of printable documents was a great idea because someone like me is obsessed with paper! Great job! || Would it be possible to create a "hotsheet" (cheatsheet) for clear changes in the standards and what we will need to do because of the change. I understand you have some documents already on the site but something with less wording possibly? || Thank you, Jessica. We did try to be very thorough as we know it is important for everyone to get it right. The "hotsheet" is an interesting idea - certainly one for the group to discuss. I'll bring it up at our meeting tonight. (Deborah)
 * Jessica

Thank you for the feedback. I agree that a sort of cheatsheet that would point out just the changes in a clear and straight to the point fashion could be beneficial. It is definitely something we could consider. (Chris S) ||
 * Jen Wilson || The intro video was super clear and very organized. It moved at a slower pace, but I think it was helpful. Deborah you did an awesome job narrating it. (Angela, you have a great speaking voice as well- very clear!) For Deborah's video, it may have been more effective to put the goal statement at the beginning of the presentation instead of the last thing that was said. The site was SUPER professional and easy to navigate. I loved the color and pictures added into the site. Your team did a fantastic job! || I noticed that Deborah's Prezi was one three of the pages, and Angela's Prezi was on two of the pages. What was the reasoning behind it?

Why did your group decide to use Prezi over iMovie, Keynote, PowerPoint, etc.?

Did you make the PDFs? (They're super professional.) || Hi, Jen! Lots of good comments and suggestions. I'll answer the part about the Prezi. We wanted something that we could all work on simultaneously as a team and it was also felt that our audience would prefer be able to see the presentation at their own pace, rather than taken through with a video and narration. The Prezi template seemed ideal. I just added an extra part and some arrows to make it a good graphic representation of the ADDIE process. (Deborah)

Jen-Thanks for your feedback. In regards to the Prezi's/Videos since we had two audiences we knew the information was important for both current students and new students in the program. (Angela)

Jen - Great feedback! Thank you. We did make several of the documents provided on our site. We created the standards comparison document as well as the new alignment document for the portfolio. The PDFs on the website detailing the new standards were resources we gathered from ISTE. (Chris S) ||
 * Melissa Tillison || This site look so professional your team did an excellent job of putting it together. I need this website when I took one of my classes learning the standards. I enjoyed how you had the video's the narretting was super excellent love the voice.Just wanted to say again great job! I will refer back to it as I need to. || How did your group come up with the idea how you were going to lay out the foundation of the project when starting? || Melissa-Thank you for your feedback! We knew before we started that we had to analyze the standards which was going to be the foundation of this project. After we analyzed the standards we met with Dr. Ward who then led our to the second task which was our learning module. (Angela)

Thank you Melissa! We approached every step of this project collaboratively. We broke down the standards to analyze as a team and provided feedback to each other throughout the whole process. Everything from the initial analysis to the presentation and the final paper has been done as a team. It has been a great working environment! (Chris S)

Excellent question Melissa. From the start our SME Dr.Ward provided exemplary information about the project, and clearly communicated its requirements, which allowed us to "hit the ground running" in developing the foundation for the project using the ADDIE process. Thank you for nice comments and question. (Chris H)

Thanks, Melissa. I can really only echo the comments of the rest of my team. This really was a team that pulled together and this really helped us achieve our objectives. (Deborah) ||
 * Lonnel Bush || Very well done… I really like the Prezi design. The project provides a clear explanation of the standards and the reasons for the changes. || How was it working with Prezi? || Prezi is an easy program once you understand the path and zooming features. Great product when multiple people need to edit and it was nice to have a web based program to edit any place at anytime. (Angela)

There are a lot of wonderful features in Prezi, and that can make it appear complicated to work with. But it only takes a few minutes to get a feel for the program and then you are off and running. It is a great collaborative tool and has a lot of benefits when you are working with a team. (Chris S)

Thanks, Lonnel. I like Prezi and the latest version seems to have cleared up some of the problems I found with it previously (centering slides, for example). I like the range of templates offered and found it easy to adapt a template so that there were five sections (rather than four) to cover all the stages of ADDIE. (Deborah) ||
 * Dr. Ward || AS the SME and the course instructor, I had a dual view of the working of this group. One of the most collaborative, smart, and hard working groups I have had the pleasure to work with. From the work on the alignment to the detail they put into the website, this team understood the importance of this work for their colleagues and their own use--all this added to their motivation to do a super duper job! So impressive! Great presentation and product! || What advice do you have for others in working together in such a short timeframe with such an important real world project that you know your classmates will need to use?? || My advice to others would be to meet often. We met twice a week once we began this process. We would meet typically on a Thursday and Sunday. This helped us help each other and make sure progress was being made. We also found it helpful to assign tasks and constantly communicate with each other. Finally, we also loved getting to know each other. This helped us value each others opinions and make better decisions for a better over all end product. (Angela)

I completely agree with Angela! I could not have asked for a better team to work with. I agree with all of Angela's points. To add onto it, I would say to be sure to express your opinions. And on the other side, to be accepting of all opinions. By being so open and accepting it really allowed for a purely collaborative atmosphere and that really benefited the quality of the work produced. I am very proud of the work we were able to accomplish together. (Chris S)

I echo Angela and Chris S, and my advice I would like to add is to embrace both technology and Web 2.0 tools as they are also instrumental in being productive and meeting project deadlines in a short time frame. Google Docs and Microsoft Office products were solid, reliable tools in allowing us to plan and organize our project workload effectively, while Blackboard Collaborate permitted us to conveniently meet online, giving us more time to work on the project. In addition, Web 2.0 tools were invaluable. Prezi was important in developing our presentation, YouTube was significant in presenting learning videos online, while Wix allowed for rapid design and development of an online learning module with a professional appearance. The Qualtrics Survey instrument was effective as well with the design, delivery, data collection,and reporting of results. Also, it is important to note our knowledge and experience with technology tools and resources, including our willingness to learn some of these tools new to us, along with other factors played a major contribution to the successful delivery of this project on schedule. (Chris H)

I can agree with all of the above and add that I think one of the main things is having respect and patience in a group. We are all busy working professionals, so understanding for the different demands of our schedules was imperative. Having said that, I can add that I had no difficulty respecting the members of my group - wonderful people! As Angela said, getting to know one another was very important. That made us relaxed around one another and able to joke around a little - helpful when you're getting stressed. Lots of "LOLs" were flying backward and forward. (Deborah) || Also is, Deborah available to do voiceovers on my future flipped classroom lesson segments? Or maybe a voicemail prompt? Everyone was clear and well-paced, but it's the accent that gets me! || I'm laughing as I read your post ! Thanks for the kinds words. Good point about transferring the site. We haven't considered that and my tech skills are certainly not that advanced and I hadn't even realized that was a possibility. Now you pointed that out I will, of course, not rest until I find out how to do that! As to the voiceovers, by all means! Sounds like fun. Feel like I learned a lot from your comments during the course and the links you added. It would be nice to pay back :) (Deb) ||
 * Alisa Barrett || Fantastic job Designovation! The site you created is very professional, clean, and effective in presenting the detailed information that goes into transitioning to the new standards. I thought the extra resources you added to the site were very helpful. I especially liked the quizlet that you added! I will be referencing your site often over the next year! Thank you! || It would be very helpful to add to the new Coaching Alignment document where each project from the Master's program fits, as is done with the TF Alignment document. I imagine though as with any transition to new standards, it is a process and the University may have not finalized this part yet. Just a suggestion of what might help in the future. Thank you again for such an informative resource! || Alisa - Thank you for the feedback! In regards to the Alignment Document for the NETS-C Standards, we did upload a blank version of the document. We felt that since completing the Alignment Document in line with the standards is an assignment in the Intro to IT course, that we did not want to upload the completed document to the site. We did complete the document as part of our process for this project to make sure all the artifacts align to the new standards, but we want new students coming into the program and the Intro course to be able to use our resources and comparison documents to complete the new Alignment Document for themselves. (Chris S) ||
 * Barret Bills || Well, I said it after your previous presentation and I'll say it again, this project affects everyone in our program, and I'm glad you chose it. tremendous job, this will be a vital resource not only for my graduation requirements but in explaining my training and purpose in future employment in IT. Very grateful to you all. || Although I do not foresee it being a critical issue, did your group discuss the possibility of transferring the site content to a U of A site from Wix?
 * Matt Mele || What a great presentation! Your website is very impressive, and easy to navigate. I have to say that I was really impressed most by the email that I received from your team to my U Akron email. I like how your group was able to create a formal no-reply email address to send out this communication. The videos were well done and I think they help to explain the change from TF to C easily. || Did you partner with the UA webservice team to create the email? Also, will your website eventually have a place on the UA website or our programs Springboard homepage? ||  ||