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Week 11 Blog By the end of this week, your full initial development must be completed. Were you able to finish according to your timeline? Why or why not? What technology challenges have you faced? What “people” challenges have you faced? How have you sought to overcome these difficulties? What have you learned about completing a major project within a professional deadline? What will you do differently next time? What were your strengths as a designer? What do you need to improve? What a difference a week makes. Due to COVID 19, I got furloughed for a few weeks.   Thus, I had a lot of free time this week, and I have been able to get a lot done. It is incredible how much I could get done when I don’t have a full-time job to worry about. There are a lot of challenges in this course. My old teaching PowerPoints had a lot of breakpoints where I could ask the class a question, do demonstrate something. I had to spend a lot of time rewriting my PowerPoin...

LTEC 5510 Week 10 There is not much time left in the session to complete your project, so it is a good time to think about what needs to be done. What is left to do? What challenges have you faced? Will you be able to meet your timeline for completion? Why or why not? Will you be able to implement? Evaluate? This project has had its ups and downs.  Time management has been difficult. With all the coronavirus shelter in place mess, I haven’t been able to focus on grad school as much as I would like. I am someone who goes places like a Starbucks or the Library to get my homework done. I don’t want to be at home, because it is so distracting.  I am finally getting the hang of working with my messy desk and the TV on in the background. It is incredible what you can do when you have to do it. One of my partners, Leonard, has called this class a godsend.  He has had to convert his in-person instructional course into an online course. If I were still a teacher, I would sa...

Week 8: LTEC 5510 What feedback have you received and what have you done as a result? Why? Given that many standard corporate ID projects last about 3 weeks and this is week 8 of the session, how do you feel about working on a professional timeline? The peer review of my instructional design piece, by Leonard Ehlalt, was very informative.   He seems to have pointed out several bugs and typos in my design.   I have fixed the typos.   I need to give students more instructions on how to use Quizlet and Genevese. I planned on doing in later, but now is as good a time as any.   There also seems to be several bugs in the videos.   I probably need to have alternative means of getting to them.   More navigation aids on the main page are also things I plan on adding to my page. Leonard’s question about “on level” is understandable. However, that is educational vernacular that probably should be clarified, but not removed. I have all three discussion quest...

Week 7 Blog You have completed a rough version of ½ of your full course now. Have you had to make revisions to your design based on the structure of the LMS? How well is the design model working for you? I have made several revisions based on the structure of the Canvas LMS. The standard 16-week master’s degree course in the UNT Learning Technologies program requires a lot less per module than my 6-week course.  I have found that I need section headers for each module just to divide all the assignments.  I might take each subdivision and just create a module a day. One of the other challenges when creating this online course is that I am technically only the designer of the course. I can not think of myself as an instructor. Eventually, I will create job aids for future instructors, but I am creating this course with the idea that it will be modified, often extensively. The planning that I put into the instructional design document has been helpful. It prov...

Week 6 Blog In your Blog reflect on the following items: You have begun putting together your full course. What has gone well? What has challenged you? What feedback have you received? What feedback have you given? What have you learned from the process of developing instruction in an LMS? Creating an online course has a bit of a learning curve.  Converting old lesson plans from my teaching days to online learning has been challenging.  My PowerPoint presentations turned screencasts are good examples of these differences. In a face to face classroom, it is good to have lots of questions while lecturing. This keeps the audience participating and interested. With video, that option is not available.  I also miss the verbal and non-verbal feedback I got from the classroom. Those cues helped me know what parts of the presentation to skip, and which parts to go in more detail.  Perhaps, using synchronous sessions could bring back that element of teaching. Writing ...

Week 4 Blog Using UNT libraries databases locate an instructional design model with which you are not currently familiar. In your Blog answer and discuss the following: ·          What was the model ·          What is the point of the model? ·          How is the model different from what you already know? How is it the same? ·          Is this model something you may use? Why or why not? ·          How is an ID model different from a theoretical model (i.e. social constructivism)? Why is this distinction important? ·          Do you think such a differentiation will matter for a client? The ASIE model is designed to help students develop “21 st -century” learning skills (Zain, 2017) . These skills can be summed up i...