EME5054 Presentation

Brooke- Instructional Design
As someone who is going to be engaging in instructional design for the college of ed next semester, I found this website very helpful as a review of the basics and an introduction to the next level. Some interesting parts of Brooke's presentation for me were that there are 40+ models of ID.

The review of ADDIE helped as well as the activities related to the two models discussed: Dick and Carey and Kemp Morrison and Ross. In the activity we were told to create Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwiches, our group using the Dick and Carey Method which we found out is very linear, constraining, inflexible and involves front end processing assuming that your hypothesis is correct

The Kemp, Morrison and Ross model however is flexible, encourages revision, lets you skip around to different parts of the model and is not systematic.

There is no 1 right model.

Michiko's presentation on Gerentology is something I'd never really thought about as being an issue in Ed tech when it comes to the elderly. I was very interested in her use of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs in Gerentology as my RPG book creates a similar hierarchy related to Role Playing Games (See my Book Review on Swords and Circuitry)




Maslow's Hierarchy in Gerentology Linquistics
Basic Life Needs- In america learning English
Safety
Love and Belonging
Self Esteem
Personal Growth and Fulfillment- In Japan learning English

Vasa's presentation on SQL and password protection left me a little frightened. I can't believe how easy it was for him to hack into accounts, yes I know it was fake but still a scary thought. Although I didn't quite get the whole coding situation, I got the point of the presentation and applaud Vasa on such a difficult project.

Denise's presentation on Culturally Relevant Teaching reminded me of my time at Metcalfe. A lot of what she said was extremely relevant to even Gainesville.

Critical Article of Technology

Integrating technology into teacher education: a critical framework for implementing reform. Valerie Otero, Dominic Peressini, Kirsten Anderson Meymaris, Pamela Ford, Tabitha Garvin, Danielle Harlow, Michelle Reidel, Bryan Waite and Carolyn Mears.
Journal of Teacher Education 56.1 (Jan-Feb 2005): p8(16).

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EME5054 Positioning Projects

As stated in my last post, I thought it would be interesting to see everyone else's positioning assignments. So getting feedback from classmates saying the same, I made a wiki to post our projects... http://positioningprojects.pbwiki.com If you'd like the password, please either ask me or email me and I'll let you know. ^_^

Peer Reviews

With our final projects in the Positioning Yourself in the Field complete, last night we finished our peer reviews of up to three of our classmates' projects as well as our self evaluation. I found it very interesting to see the fruits of our labors in final form, and really enjoyed learning about Instructional Design a little more from Brooke, Information Architecture from Ben, and although it was a little over my head, trying to learn about physiological and socio-cognitive changes produced by exposure to virtual environments.

I'm not sure what they thought of my game (or if it even worked for them... I know Ben had problems opening it), but I really enjoyed looking through Brooke and Ben's websites (Great jobs designing both of you!), and reading through Baird's Lit Review.

I'd be interested in seeing the rest of my classmates' projects as well... Maybe we could start a class wiki with links to each of them. ^_^

Progress! Lots of Progress!

Just a quick 3:30 AM update on Sunday night. Lots of progress this weekend even with taking Saturday night off to get a little culture in my otherwise work filled weekend (If you haven't seen A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, I'm not sure if it's still playing or not after Thanksgiving Break, but it was hilarious!) Anyway I've finished my Positioning Yourself in the Field assignment which includes the Introduction and first chapter of the Role Playing Game. It can be found at actsoup.net/FCAT.zip It is a zip file, and includes the game, a ReadMe and my Purpose, Coverage, Synthesis and Application paper. Hopefully I'll be able to add some more to the game for my presentation but I'm going to be spending a great deal of time on trying to get a school to let me do any kind of test of the game because there's no way I'm going to make it back down to Tampa by the end of semester.

Anyway it's nearly 4AM and I have to teach at 9:30 so I better head off to bed, just wanted to blog my excitement at having progress this weekend. It's still not what I hoped for the semester but as previously stated, I bit off way more than I could chew and I feel like I'm back on track now. ^_^

Biting off more than I can chew

Strep has prevented me from doing much work this week. I feel like I've slept from the time that I left Norman right before class last Thursday until this Wednesday, and because of that I'm way behind again. Darn you stupid sickness!

Anyway this weekend I caught up on my online course and finished everything from it. Of course that's after spending until 5Am last night toiling with Javascript. Now on to finish reading Swords and Circuitry and keep building the game. I've completely finished the introduction and am in the process of Paul Revere's Ride, but I have to get something in by tomorrow night for Dr. Dawson's class including what I used from my annotated bilbiography to make the game. There's no way I'll have a completed product or even a completed part of the product that I'm testing for Dr. Ferdig's class, but at least I'll have something that I can show my classmates... I hope. ^_^

Anyway enough of a break from reading and building the game. Time to get back to work. STRESSED!!!!!! Can't wait for Thanksgiving.

Professional Web Presence

Just a quick update that my Professional Web Presence has been updated and moved to a new server. I'm having problems with my domain name however and geocities won't let me move it to my new webhost yet. So for the time being my PWP is at http://actsoup.dreamhosters.com/KeithNewhouse. Over December break I'm going to revamp the site completely, but for now I've just updated it with my current projects, and fixed up my CV.

A special thank you to Bryan for letting me know about dreamhost, who I'm also working with to finish our Contribution to the Department project. I'll post that today when we finish it.

No Significant Difference

For the No Significant Difference and Media Debate article, I chose Effective Student Outcomes: A Comparison of Online and Face-to-Face Delivery Modes by Jane M. Carey (http://www.ed.psu.edu/acsde/deos/deosnews/deosnews11_9.asp). The article compares learning by asynchronous web based classes and synchronous face-to-face. I found the article to be well written from it's first sentence of the introduction, "A myriad of studies have concluded that there is no significant difference in the learning outcomes of online students and face-to-face students" for which Carey cites multiple authors (Russell 1999; Barry and Runyan 1995; Cheng, Lehman, and Armstrong 1991; Martin and Rainey 1993; Moore et al. 1990), to Carey's lack of ego in realizing that so many others have written similar ideas and she is only adding her feeling to the fray.

Carey like her predecessors found that through her studies there was no significant difference in learning from a face-to-face encounter versus an online class. She bases her findings on outcome measures that include gain scores (difference between pretest and posttest knowledge), grade expressed as a percentage, and student satisfaction as demonstrated by a course in management information systems.

Social Networking for Jade

For my blog post for Jade I looked at an article called "Should You Join a Social Networking Website?". It can be found at http://socialnetworking.knowhow-now.com/blog/are-you-interested-in-meeting-new-people-online-if-so-there-is-a-good-chance-that-you-have-heard-of-social-networking-websites-before-social-networking-websites-are-in-a-way-like-a-community-they-allo/ . Except for the fact that the article has the longest web adress known to man, I found it to be a good introductory source for those taking the first steps toward joining a social networking website. It gives a basic understanding to what social network sites are as well as reasons to join and a few examples.

Presentations

Two great presentations on 11/2. Just a few things about each that I found interesting:

Dan talked about Merlot and Reusable Learning Objects: Learning Objectified. I really liked his definition of RLO- Any digital resource that can be reused in the service of education or training that supports a learning objective.

Very detailed presentation, and got me thinking about my former 2nd grade class and my SmartBoard. I wondered if he did any research on using RLO's with SmartBoards etc?

Kathryn did her presentation on Lifelong Learning and Personal Learning Objectives. In small groups we looked at what Lifelong learning meant to us. Our group came up with various definitions and anectodes:

We figure that everyone is participating in some kind of lifelong learning because you are learning no matter what you do. For example, Ben likes to read the newspaper because he learns, but some people also do lifelong learning through National Enquirer. Learning about JLo's latest love affair may not be as important to some people as learning about World Affairs, but you're still learning about something that can create a social connection.

Another anectode involved my watching and learning what happens on One Tree Hill, and then transferring my learning to Jade. Even just biting down on chocolate taught Mary that eating chocolate with caramel before having to speak is not a great idea. ^_^

In Kathryn's presentation I also really enjoyed her Instructional Designer Role Play. My partner Denise asked me as Instructional Designer to help her get her photos online, and I asked Denise how to make a movie. I was much more impressed with her Instructional Design than what I said to do. She gave me multiple options, and was very confident with her solutions. This may be something I need to work on, especially as my iMovie lesson blew up in my face today from technological problems.