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.