Week 6

For my design project, there are unsolved existing problems which are the major content will be delivered with pre-recorded videos and the learners have no chance of face-to-face interaction with the instructors. My client and I have discussed about the limitation and both agree with the current plan for the learning expectations, the activities and timeline. We are planning to implement this training for next school year; therefore, we still have some time to discuss the assessment and evaluation.  For peer reflection, I think it takes some time for classmates to understand my project and give feedback.

Job Aid for Client

Launch Date: 10/5/2011 

Implementation Period: every Wednesday, during 10/25~11/23/2011

Job Aid

When	What
5 Weeks Before Launch Date	▪ Eduphoria (Denton ISD Professional Development Management System) Administrative Set Up ▪ Email Notification: Inform all Ann Windle staff the training program and encourage registration ▪ Reserve room and equipment for all training sessions ▪ Set up Outlook schedule auto reminders for registration deadline and each training session. ▪ Prepare training materials including videos, quizzes, survey and sign-in sheet
1 Week Before Launch Date	▪ Email Notification: Final call for the up-coming training ▪ Go through all the needed resources and make sure everything is under control – Meeting room is booked, equipment is in good working condition, needed printed outs are ready, forethought of introduction and panel discussion topics
Week 1 ~ 7	▪ One hour before meeting: Get all meeting seats and equipment set up and checked, and all the materials ready ▪ Control time wisely and flexible ▪ Participants sign in ▪ Give an overview of the training course (Week 1 only) ▪ Give an brief instruction of the facilitator and the instructors in the videos (Week 1 only) ▪ Give an idea of the topics of the week and rundown of the day ▪ Start viewing video of the session ▪ Q & A ▪ Conduct panel discussion related to the viewed video or classroom teaching examples ▪ Quiz ▪ Dismissal
Week 8	▪ One hour before meeting: Get all meeting seats and equipment set up and checked, and all the materials ready ▪ Control time wisely and flexible ▪ Participants sign in ▪ Give an idea of the topics of the week (Natural Environment Teaching & Social Skills Programming) and rundown of the day ▪ Start viewing video of the week ▪ Q & A ▪ Conduct panel discussion related to the viewed video or classroom teaching examples ▪ Participant self-reflection on the training ▪ Quiz ▪ Dismissal
After all sessions finished	▪ Analysis the attendance of trainees, the quiz results, the participant and class reaction sheets and the guided panel discussion record ▪ On-going observation: How the participants transfer acquired knowledge and skills from the training to their job and improve their job performance ▪ Conduct different version of survey for those who don’t attend the training to find out the needs and adjustments for next training plan ▪ Training Evaluation Report ▪ Issue Certification for full-participated trainees

Timeline and weekly topics

Week	Date	Main Topics
Week 1	10.05.11	▪ Autism Overview ▪ ABA Overview ▪ Common ABA Approaches ▪ Verbal Behavior Analysis
Week 2	10.12.11	▪ Prompting ▪ Fading ▪ Shaping ▪ Errorless Teaching
Week 3	10.19.11	▪ Reinforcement
Week 4	10.26.11	▪ Discrete Trial Teaching ▪ Therapy Checklist ▪ Behavioral Momentum
Week 5	11.02.11	▪ Graphing & Data Collection
Week 6	11.09.11	▪ ABA Set Up
Week 7	11.16.11	▪ Behavior Management
Week 8	11.23.11	▪ Natural Environment Teaching ▪ Social Skills Programming

Week 5 Acitivity

My blog partner Lorri responded my blog post with a clarification of the relationship of Analysis and Design which is the “what” and “how” and she also reminded me the Spiral Model from our textbook which combines analysis and Design stages into Define phase. Beth, the course instructor, gave a positive comment on my project. The combined responses seem indicate my work is coming together fine.  The changes I have made mostly are based on the weekly course instruction. With the help of learning module guidelines and discussion forum, I have been able to reform my learning goals and objectives and develop corresponding activities, assessment, evaluation and timeline.  

It is a positive learning process for me through the input from peers and instructor which helped me clarify my prior and new obtained knowledge. The weekly instruction design reexamination also helps me a lot to create a concise plan.   

Analysis and Design

For me, analysis and design are closely related in the whole instruction process. In ADDIE model, analysis is in the first phase of process because it is the base of the whole. An instruction or training program may get involved with a wide range of audience of different ages and different background with various needs and desired goals. A descent design must take into account a wide range of information gathered during analysis. Without analysis aimed at a target population and setting certain objectives for existing problem-solving soultions, instruction design is prone to fail.  

The Information R/Evolution by Michael Wesch gave a general picture of the change of the ways we find, store, create, critique, and share information. The video suggested we have to rethink information from different point of view which concept fits the needs for analysis well, in my humble opinion. With all gathered information in hand for analysis, it requires expertise and various perspective considerations to design an in-depth, effective and efficient plan.  

Analysis of Two Videos

How useful is video for analysis?

Video can be a very useful tool for analysis. It is powerful for data collection and can interpret the messages more precisely than any other methodologies like note taking, audio recording, interview or observation…etc. Video can also combine the elements of graphics, animation, texts, music, sound effects to enrich the content and hold the viewers’ interest for more effective and efficient learning.  

  

Does each employ a form of analysis? How why? What would you design with the findings from some of these analysis?

The Machine is Us/ing Us by Michael Wesch is an outstanding, well produced and powerful video demonstrating the impacts that tech tools have had on our life.  I wouldn’t think Mr. Wesch’s video employed any form of analysis. According to Allison Rossett & Kendra Sheldon (2001), analysis is the study we do in order to figure out what to do. The Machine is Us/ing us did make its points that web 2.0 could be used in flexible formats by anyone and occurred anywhere.  However, it didn’t apply the mechanisms that we can use to analyze learning and come up with some suggestions for further learning. 

Bigfoot- Sasquatch evidence analysis, as its title suggested, it is a type of analysis. It analyzed on collected evidences to prove the existence of Sasquatch. Although some of interviewees in the video debated credibility of the evidences, the debate of the proofs could be a critical learning for viewers. It would be a good practice for my instructional design by applying the analysis from different perspectives.