CS5_ADDIE Research

I have learned a great deal about the ADDIE model as to instructional design development.  ADDIE stands for analyze, design, develop, implement, evaluate.  It is the most common instructional design model out there for educators and trainers alike to develop accurate instruction.  Each stage of the ADDIE model is contingent on the success of the previous stages completion, meaning that each phase builds on top of the previous stage (Addie Process, n.d.). 

Phase one of the ADDIE process is analysis.  This is where the instructor or designer identifies the problem or the purpose of the project.  They lay out the instructional goals and objectives and identify the proper audience for instruction (ADDIE Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, n.d.).   In the analyze phase, the learning objectives are created and written and the materials list is generated.  The designer or teacher will begin to define measurable goals and objectives and define desired outcomes.  Often people will also call this phase the discovery stage.

The second stage is the design phase which is the user interface of the project.  This is where the instructor would define and strategize the design or course.  This is where the project gets organized and define the measurable assessments to follow (ADDIE Instructional Design Model | Presented by Intulogy, n.d).   This is also where the visual design of the project begins, such as the graphics and the layout.

The second “D” stands for develop, and is the development portion of the model.  This is where the prototype would be created and the blueprint would be established.  This is also the stage in the model where the testing occurs and the design is rolled out to different test groups to determine modifications needed to  implement toward finalizing the design or lesson (ADDIE Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, n.d.).

 The “I” in the ADDIE model stands for the implementation phase and is where the instruction takes place.  This is where all of the materials are delivered and distributed.  The implement phase is where the learning actually takes place.  This is where the planning and developing becomes a reality and the instruction comes together to teach and learn something ADDIE instructional design at GrayHarriman.com. (n.d.). 

Evaluate is the last phase of the ADDIE model and is broken down into two parts.  The first is the formative evaluation, which is qualitative feedback and testing.  This is where discussion and brainstorming is implemented and addressed to help determine what the learner learned in comparison to what the instructor intended to teach.  The second for of evaluation is the summative assessment.  This is where the quantitative and physical testing occurs to determine what was actually learned from the instructional design itself.  This last portion of the process identifies feedback for revisions needed for the design (Addie Process. (n.d.).

How I could apply info in my environment?  The ADDIE model can help with every training and instruction implemented in my department at work.  We, as team leaders create training materials and presentations on a weekly basis to better equipped our employees with the most up-to-date information and helpful tools.  Often, we are working on a time crunch to get information out in a timely manner while staying in compliance with standards. Therefore we tend to skip basic planning steps such as the analysis phase and end up giving instruction with inaccuracy.  I think that implementing the ADDIE model into all of our departmental trainings and seminars will help my department and my fellow team leaders to establish a better instruction to our employees.

ADDIE Instructional Design Model | Presented by Intulogy. (n.d.). Creative Outsource Training Solutions by Intulogy. Retrieved September 25, 2011, from http://www.intulogy.com/addie/

ADDIE Model - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. (n.d.). Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 25, 2011, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADDIE_Model

ADDIE instructional design at GrayHarriman.com. (n.d.). E-Learning Resources at Gray Harriman.com. Retrieved September 25, 2011, from http://www.grayharriman.com/ADDIE.htm

Addie Process. (n.d.). World News. Retrieved September 25, 2011, from http://wn.com/ADDIE_Process

BP9_RILS link to Wayne's Project

Follow this link to my comments on Wayne's RILS project.  He used Schoology, and has convinced me to give the tool a second try!

BP9_RILS link to Ari's Project

Follow this link to my comments on Ari's RILS project.


Ari worked his RILS project with Wikispaces.

BP8 RILS_Publication

Relevant and Innovative Learning Scenario

Erin Baxley

Brief Overview: This basic and easy to use tool built in Google Docs will help to simplify the job of an enrollment guide at Full Sail University.  It will house processes and procedures as well as blank documents for easy access and training slideshows/presentations that were presented for easy and efficient location and accessibility.  The tool offers a general instrument for instruction on identifying the normal questions asked by students and illustrating an easy-to-read and locate learning base for Guides to find general information to answer questions that arise during conversations with their students.

1. Target Audience – Online Enrollment Guides for Full Sail University
2. Materials –
1. Computer
2. Internet
3. Gmail accountPublish Post
4. Google Docs set up
3. Objectives –
1. Knowledge – Be able to recall and recognize the information found on the educational design tool (Google Docs), or be able to locate the information quickly to find the relevant information needed.
2. Comprehension – Understand the information provided on Google Docs and be able to summarize and translate it into their own words for explanation
3. Application – Take the information reviewed and be able to recite and differentiate the basic information in comparison to what actually needs to be explained to the student about the specific policy and or procedure and relate it to the students needs (replacing complex words and acronyms with actual names and student-friendly explanation)
4. Analysis – Distinguish and identify the question that is being asked from the student or that the Guide has so that they can outline the best topics to start on and continue to plan the answer from the information obtained
5. Evaluate – Describe a solid answer to a question, policy or procedure so that the student understands what is needed from them as well as gives them a reason why and leaves them feeling like they have been thoroughly helped.
4. Procedure –
1. Start up Web browser and go to Google Webpage
2. Create Gmail account (if already created you may use)
3. Click Log-In on top left panel of Google Homepage
4. Log in with Username and Password
5. On the top toolbar, click on “more” (next to Gmail) dropdown menu
6. Click on documents towards the bottom of the menu
7. Individual Google Docs will open
8. Click on My Collections and then Enrollment Guide FAQ’s tab
9. The intended document tool will open
5. Web 2.0 Tool – The Web 2.0 tool used in this project is Google Docs.  This tool has an easy navigation through the website and is easily accessible due to the Gmail account information being the login.  It has a simple to read interface with the right-side tab showing the documents available for view and is extremely easy to upload additional documents and slideshows through the few tools on the page. The “Collections shared” tab creates a viewable gallery for anyone using the tutorials with the shared guests.
6. Social Participation/Social Learning –  The social participation that it will take is for my employees to review the information provided on the tool and work with me on simplifying it and adding additional documents/presentations that they deem helpful for them.  This will increase knowledgeable communication between coworkers and will increase the information that they are building on for their job knowledge mastery.
7. Making Connections – The Guides will have an easily accessible and user-friendly informational tool to begin research on both common and intricate details of the enrollment process.  This tool is not meant to be a tutorial on how to do their job, rather a instrument to be able to effectively handle each situation as professionally as possible, as they will still have to fall back on their general financial and admissions knowledge of the process and how it works.  This tool will be a localized device that will house the documents that they frequent (so that they don’t have to search for them) as well as the training tools used to help equipped them with a better and more reliable file of all umbrella’s of information that they would normally have to search for, rather that be by asking a neighbor, supervisor, searching a computer drive, or the web for the information needed to help explain to the student.
8. Create/Produce – The learners, in this case my enrollment guide team will generate product knowledge of information that they may not memorize due to not using the information as frequently or not experiencing the problem/roadblock before.   They will be able to search for information about Financial Aid, Admissions, and process and procedure that could help them quickly answer the questions that their students are asking them in a manner of seconds.  This will help smooth their explanation through the enrollment process, as they will have the ability to pull up basic facts in an instant instead of having to search through files and folders to find the information that they might need to look for.
9. Assessment – My Guides will tell me if and what needs to be added to the culmination of information on the Google Doc shared content.  They will be able to use this tool as a search tool for information that they need/use daily in their everyday tasks.
10. Reflection –
1. Learner Reflection – There will be a general comments/feedback page for the team to elaborate on what is needed for improvement to the tool as well as corrected if they identify outdated information.
2. Educator/Trainer reflection – The trainer will continue to keep up with the comments/feedback section so that the proper updates can be made so that the tool continues to stay updated and accurate for all users.
1. Personally, after rolling Google Docs out to my team and showing them the benefits to the tool, my team couldn't wait to start picking through the tool. I had to remind them after about 10 minutes that they still had a job to do, as they immediately began playing with the tool and listing out documents, spreadsheets, and other tools that they use so that I could add them to the design. They really got into it. I enjoyed their enthusiasm, as quite often when management rolls out a new item, employees are reluctant to begin using it. They liked the usability of the tool and loved that they didn't have to read any real instructions to use it, as it is as easy as clicking the mouse to search.

And the RILS project revealed:

PE9_Keynote

I chose to watch and complete the Lynda.com instructional videos for Keynote Essentials, instructed by Craig Syverson.

Going with the theme of this week that I have been working on, I decided to continue on my quest to build a decent presentation.  As a former PC user (and I say that loosely, as I still love my PC) I grew to be extremely proficient in PowerPoint, as I have used the program since middle and high school.  When working on presentation for work, I find that most of the time (since I got my Mac for work) I end up creating them on the fly, and therefore don’t have time to really play with Keynote and make the presentation interesting and creative like in PowerPoint, so I often just stick with what I know.  I have dabbled in Keynote, but I say this knowing that my slides are extremely elementary as there are not any transitions nor are their movements to the slides. 

This being said, I am excited to start working with Keynote to become a bit more knowledgeable with the program, as my boss loves it, and works to create department meetings with it.  The transitions that I have seen Keynote able to work with are awesome, and the features and graphics, like all other Apple products tend to be outstanding, so this tutorial was extremely interesting to me, and the instructor Syverson was very helpful in keep pace but keeping the presentation slow enough to work with as well. 

Syverson developed the instructional clips to explain basic layout as well as elaborating on tables, charts, graphics, and even included multimedia files for more interesting presentations as it can become interactive. 

I started the presentation (which easily enough began the same way using PowerPoint) by adding slides and moving titles around to help build the presentation that I wanted.  I found a few graphics from the web and grabbed a few screenshots from my computer and followed through with content.  Once I was able to complete the basics of the presentation, I started adding transitions to the headlines and text throughout each slide.  I also began to work out the transitions between each slide so that the presentation was innovative and stimulating for my audience.  I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t too busy, but that the presentation had enough creativity to it that it kept my audience intrigued and listening so that they understood the content of the presentation and didn’t tune me out. 

I had to create a presentation for work about Supercoursers and decided that I would take on this undertaking using Keynote…YIKES!  

PE8_Indesign

I chose to get to know the InDesign application for this next project.  I watched the video tutorials: InDesign: Interactive Documents and Presentations from the Lynda.com website.  Since I am always looking for new and innovative ways to perform presentations in my job, I thought this would be a interesting program to use, and figured this would be a great tool to use moving forward with documents and creative designs for future presentations.

James Fritz taught the course and completed a task-by-task instruction of how to use this tool to its fullest.  As I walked through the course, I worked through the project myself so that I could get the most out of this course by actively working through the process with Fritz and could get the most out of his instruction.

 Fritz is a bit harder to watch and listen to in this video, as speaks very fact, and although he does speak clearly, it almost sounds like he is speaking in fast-forward.  This makes it a little more difficult to keep up with him when trying to work with his videos to see exactly what can be done with InDesign. 

I created a simple and easy document presentation for my first one, as I played a lot with all of the instructors clips on how to create hyperlinks, navigation systems, and dabbled in the animation function. 

I think that InDesign will be a great tool to use once I start playing around with it a bit more.  Because Fritz moved so quickly through each of the clips, I figured that I would make my first document pretty simple so that I was able to see what featured it had to move forward with.  I am in no way an expert with using InDesign, but I think I at least have a basic understanding to start from here. 

PE7_Garage Band

I have seen the GarageBand application on Mac’s over the past few years.  I have yet to use it due to not knowing anything about the program.  I figured this was the perfect chance to learn how to work this application.  I have a real passion for music…all kinds, and love what I have heard about GarageBand, so this is my chance to play. 

 I viewed the course from Lynda.com entitles GarageBand ’11 Essential Training.  Todd Howard the instructor, seemed very knowledgeable about the program, and broke the important pieces of the programing down into easy to listen to as well as informative clips.  Throughout the entire course, I found myself pausing the video tutorials to work with my own creation along with Howard, which I found to be helpful as to not miss anything from his instructions. 

Although I didn’t really have the instruments to create my own original soundtrack, I decided to work with what the program library offered by means of instrumental sound.  I played with the tempo’s to make them accurate and worked with the lengths of each instruments track so that I really understood the core ideals that he developed throughout the presentation as he added sounds and effects to his piece.  I also adjusted the equalizer pieces to each of the instrument sounds so that none of the instruments overpowered the other, and looped a few of the sounds so that the piece remained fluent and flowing.  I loved working on this project!

PE6_Excel Pivot Tables

Working with raw data and statistics on a normal basis, I have always watched my boss use Excel’s Pivot Tables to summarize, sort, and format data to help better understand our employee’s performance.  I recently started playing with Pivot Tables using data, however am not familiar with the tools nor am I comfortable with using the functions.  While looking through the offered trainings on Lynda.com, I came across this course: “Excel 2010: Pivot Tables in Depth” for Pivot Tables and that trains how to build, manipulate, and format tables to filter through higher quantities of data.  Not only will I be able to use this to help me in my position, my boss will be excited to see that I am able to use Pivot Tables to help manage my team through manipulating the data for coaching purposes as I will be able to identify trends once I become familiar with this tool.

Curt Frye instructed the course, and made the use of pivot tables extremely easy to understand as he cruised through the instructions of how to use these for basic functionality.  I imported raw data that I had from my team’s call stats into an excel spreadsheet so that I could begin working with the pivots.  I started manipulating the data by grabbing different titled columns and dragging them into the Pivot Table Builder under the different filters.  Once I got the data set to where it was easy to read and illustrate, I began to play with the charts to see what those could illustrate from my pivot table.  I also took the data that I manipulated and used some of the basic functionality of Excel by imputing the data into some different formulas to help illustrate my data by showing percentages on a performance level.

This course was extremely interesting and helpful, as it took me on a journey from creating the pivot, to sorting and filtering, to conditional formatting, to manipulating the date in the pivots so that I am able to control the results that come from raw data.  Often data sets in large quantities can be frightening to look at and attempt to analyze, but using pivot tables now will make my job much easier.  Excel proves one more time to me that its value is more than I like to give it credit for.

PE5_Google Docs

So, after deciding to create this design to help streamline my team’s day-to-day work strategies, I decided I am in way over my head!  The current files and folders we use in our database of information has been added to and grown over the last two plus years to become what it currently is today.  The folders have never been cleaned or cleared out as the files get old and obsolete, so sifting through the dates that the docs were added to the folders and files were time consuming.  I started to analyze all of the documents, spreadsheets, and data that would be beneficial to include, and my head started to explode thinking that it would take forever to develop this database of information. 

 I compiled all of the Admissions and Financial documents that my team would ever go over with their students, and then grew my database from there. I added daily policy and procedures as well as basic spreadsheets that they use for efficiency and accuracy.  I found the import tool on the site, and began adding the documents as I found them developing a catalog of accessible information to help my team easily navigate through a common phone call given the ability to find the answers to frequently asked questions as well as locating the spreadsheets and tools that they use on a daily basis. 

I worked on importing the documents rather quickly and though for a minute that this project was shaping up to be an easier project than expected, until I realized that the documents that I was uploading were not importing into the folders that I was meaning for them to be filed.  I expected the documents to be automatically accessible once I imported it, and found that instead, it can take a few minutes, and up to almost 30 minutes to actually be found in the file or folder intended.  Of course, I found this out the hard way, as I grew impatient, and continued to add the same documents into the same files and folder over and over, until I gave up for an hour or so.  When I came back to my project and clicked on each file, I had multiple duplicate documents, to which I then had to delete. 

As I pummeled through the project, I continued to add the files and name the folders like a standard outline to help differentiate the files and folders requested, so that I made the tool as user-friendly as possible.  I wanted to make sure that my team had no problem navigating the site so that they could access any document or tool in a matter of seconds after searching for what they were looking for.  Here is the interface of the Google Docs tool itself.  Although it looks rather simple, which is what I was going for, it is easy to navigate and easy to share with my team.

I can't wait to roll this tool out for my team.  I showed a few of the leaders my progress, and they have continued to encourage me to develop and evolve the project so that we can present this to the team and get their feedback.  This week is going to be exciting!

PE4_Google Docs

As a manager of a growing team of individuals, I started this project wanting to help my team of individuals to do their job with as efficiently and effectively as possible.  This being said, I searched for their struggles to determine an area of opportunity to help them grow and develop on a professional level.  After much thought and consideration, I decided to develop and design an instructional tool to help my employees do their jobs to the best of their ability.  I looked through a few different tools such as Schoology and UDUTU to help create an interface that was easy to use and interact with, and finally decided to run my RILS project using the Google Docs web 2.0 tool. 

I started by watching a few Youtube video clips on Google Docs to get my self more acclimated to the tool.  I wanted to make sure that this tool could be editable and updated as policies and procedures change on a frequent level in our world.  I also thought it would be best for 1 person to be held as the primary account so that when revisions are needed, the information could easily be updated. 

My team uses many different resources from a culmination of different websites and databases of files and folders updated by many different departments.  It is my thought and dream to create a one-stop-shop for all trainings, tutorials, and informational pieces to be housed in one designated device that everyone could use without having to search for information all over the companies network. 

This being said, I got to work on creating an educational design tool using Google Docs to house all of this information.  I started creating this tool by adding the first two folders like developing an outline and continued to grow outwards.  

BP7_OMM

Here is the Web 2.0 video that I created.  As a Cert Program student, I didn't have a camera to use, so I did the best that I could to create footage and clips from other forms.  I reviewed the Web 2.0 Prezi.

BP6_Link to Dana's Blog

Follow this link to Dana's Blog where she reviews Diigo as a Web 2.0 tool.

BP5_Link to Michael's Blog

Follow this link to see what you can do with a Web 2.0 tool called Tagxedo and see what you can do!

BP4_Web 2.0 #2 Review

I chose to use the Web 2.0 Tool Prezi.  I have seen it a few times in YouTube videos that I have watched for work meetings and conferences, but have never dabbled in it myself until now.  I actually assumed that it was a program for sale, which is true, but never knew that there was a free program out there on the web. 

As a manager, I am constantly looking into new ways to get information out to my team.  I find myself using Powerpoint and Keynote for presentations which can be enticing for a few slides, but I find myself embedding a lot of sound and other text effects to keep my team intrigued and paying attention to the updates and facts.  This is taxing, as the extra effects takes a decent amount of extra time to add these extra components to the presentation.  Using Prezi puts an extra component to it, as it is a clean cut presentation, as well as an attracting module that keeps the most unattached observer engaged in the learning prospect of the demonstration.

Prezi allows a few different preview settings, as you are able to set it for a timing factor for time-specific presentations, as well as the ability to move at your pace as the presenter.  It also gives the presenter or author the ability to add an additionally context to the piece, as you can create any sort of shape that the presentation is originally developed into, and creatively input a new facet on the appearance of the piece.  The idea behind Prezi is to make any corporate meeting intriguing and enticing for every audience.

PE3_iMovie

The instructor from Lynda.com definitely made this project look easier than it is. Since I don't yet have my camera, I took a video of my niece's 1st birthday that I had on my computer, and edited it into one of the movie trailers that were described and taught in the video tutorials.  I used about a 5 minute video that I had of her eating her cake and edited it into a few short clips to fit into the trailer.  Once I imported the video, I had to pick and choose the clips that I wanted to add into my project.  I also had to rename the headers of the trailer as the ones originally in the template did not apply.  It took a lot of editing, but I like the outcome.

PE2_iMovie

I completed the video tutorial of IMovie on Lynda.com.  This was very informative and definitely prepares you to start working with IMovie immediately.  As I was watching through the clips, I started thinking of ideas to implement in my first project.  I was told that once completing the course I would be getting some sort of certificate, however I am not sure where to find the certificate as I checked my email once the tutorial was finished and I can’t seem to find it anywhere.  Here is a screenshot showing that the course was completed.