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Analysis and Design - Project 1 LTEC 5210

Analysis and Design: Project 1
This project has been a little difficult for me. The first design idea did not pan out with the school library. The second project took forever to get approval.  It almost was rejected, but after some discussion with the digital learning specialist of my district were finally approved.  While not part of the school curriculum, I have learned a lot from this experience. I have learned to have a clearer idea of what I want before asking people for what I need.  I believe that my principal and the district thought I was doing a very difficult research project at my school when I actually wanted to make a short 5-minute lesson on how to log onto a computer.  This part of the semester, teaching has also been very difficult.  Like anything in the “real world”, people are required to juggle many priorities and projects at the same time.  As I will tell my students, it is good I can make the mistakes in school rather than in the real world.  There is some forgiveness for missing deadlines as a student. The “real world” is far less forgiving.  As for the idea for the lesson itself, I came up with a large percentage of the ideas I wanted to do running a 15K race.  Some of my running friends actually posted an article on our group’s discussion board page.  I learned when trying to come up with ideas under stress, sometimes it is important to do activities that help you unwind rather than trying to force the idea.

Analysis and design are major parts of a teacher’s life.  It is also something that we often neglect, especially when you have taught the same lesson over and over.  My goal ultimately is to move out of the science classroom, and I need to get my curriculum planning skills back into shape.  As mentioned in the Romiszowski article, training and teaching aren’t exactly the same thing. Education generally is broader, while training tends to be more focused.  I am guilty, trying to design my project before doing a careful analysis. Fortunately, I have seen many of these problems in my workplace so I have done a fair amount of informal analysis. That will not be the case for my next project. 


Finally, when watching the  R/Evolution video, I feel it is very similar to my current project.  Things seem to be changing so fast and things can be confusing. However, things work out.

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