My 15/5 of Week 13

My 15/5 of Week 13

Tasks I did	Time (hrs.)	Completion
Reviewing team documents and giving feedback	1	100%
Team meeting	0.5	100%
Preparing my part of the project video presentation	1	100%
Posting 15/5 blog	0.25	100%

Reflections:

Remembering:

I have done the tasks listed in the above table.

Understanding:

This week, I reviewed and gave my feedback of formative evaluation report and project evaluation.  I also prepared a video for my part of the project presentation.  Evaluation of the project was an opportunity to reflect back on our experience through each stage of the project. 

Applying:

Evaluation or reflecting back on one’s experience is an important skill one can apply in many situations.  Such reflection process helps to improve future experiences.   

Analyzing:

Project evaluation helps to analyze our experience in each phase of the project.  It gave me an opportunity to look back and see how each phase is related to other phases.  It also showed me that not every planned activity goes smoothly.  Thus, it is important to plan ahead alternative plans that can be used if unexpected things happen. 

Evaluating:

Our team was able to successfully complete the final product.  We also finalized the evaluation phase very well.  

Creating:

Our next steps are to finalize the team presentation video, take project quiz, and do some other tasks.

My 15/5 of Week 12

My 15/5 of Week 12

Tasks I did	Time (hrs.)	Completion
Reviewing team documents and giving feedback	0.5	100%
Team meeting	0.5	100%
Reading and responding emails, posts, and G+ discussions within our team	1	100%
Posting 15/5 blog	0.25	100%

Reflections:

Remembering:

I have done the tasks listed in the above table.

Understanding:

This week, I was involved in giving feedback on our treatment report.  Additionally, I also reviewed data that was collected by our team evaluator for the purpose of formative evaluation.  The evaluations came from one-on-one and small group participants.   

Applying:

After reviewing the comments from the participants, we made use of them to improve our product further.  Getting feedback from intended users of a product is a skill that can be transferred to different situations.   

Analyzing:

Feedback from users gives a completely different perspective than SME feedback. It is highly valuable because it gives us the opportunity to directly observe product-user interaction.  Such data can help to identify specific areas of improvement on the product. 

Evaluating:

Our team is doing well.  We are getting much closer to the final point.  I am very proud of our team for being able to produce the units of instruction in an organized manner. 

Creating:

Our next steps are to finalize the treatment or instructional product, continue working on the presentation video and start writing formative evaluation report.

My 15/5 of Week 11

My 15/5 of Week 11

Tasks I did	Time (hrs.)	Completion
Reviewing team documents and giving feedback	2	100%
Team meeting	1.5	100%
Reading and responding emails, posts, and G+ discussions within our team	1	100%
Submitted a short screencast video to our team site manager	0.25	100%
Posting 15/5 blog	0.25	100%

Reflections:

Remembering:

I have done the tasks listed in the above table.

Understanding:

This week I was primarily involved in reviewing documents and giving feedback.  I reviewed comments that our team received from the client. I tried my best to make meaning out of a very short feedback that we received from our client.  Accordingly, I suggested some changes we can make to accommodate the feedback.  I also reviewed and gave feedback on an outline of video presentation for our project.  This is a work-in-progress document.

Applying:

Revising documents and giving feedback is a versatile skill that can be transferred to many situations.  It is not attractive activity to do. However, it is significant because it makes documents better.  Especially, if different people review a document, the feedback process can benefit from different perspectives or view angles.   

Analyzing:

The major issue of the week was the feedback we received from our client.  This feedback was what is commonly known as SME evaluation.  It is one of the major components formative evaluation.  In my view, however, SME evaluation can be helpful only when it is very detailed.  It is only the details that can help developers to generate improvement ideas or actionable items. 

Evaluating:

As a team, we did our best to understand the needed improvements implied by our client’s feedback.  We would have liked very detailed description of the areas where our client wanted changes.  We hope, more improvement data will come from the next parts of the formative evaluation process. 

Creating:

Our next move is to continue the formative evaluation.  The next sources of data will come from one-on-one and small-group evaluation by intended learners of the instructional resource we are producing.