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The Do’s and Don’ts of Virtual Interviewing
As the weeks press on, I find myself marching into my final week of grad school. This is a time to reflect upon accomplishments as well as opening new doors. For me, grad school represents an opportunity for growth, change, and career transition, and that journey consists of polishing my interviewing skills. We’ve all seen…
Social Media as a Professional Career Tool
In today’s age of technology, social media has become ingrained into our daily lives in one format or another. Whether we use it to check the news, keep in contact with our friends, or as a marketing tool, this technology has created a paper free method of connecting the world together in an online platform.…
Facebook Privacy
In order to maintain a professional persona, we must take into account the “relaxed version” of ourselves that is often depicted on social media. Does this portray a side of ourselves that is less professional or more controversial, through the eyes of a potential employer? It’s important to be cognizant of these choices and reflect…
LinkedIn is a form of social media used for building and expanding your professional network. This platform is not used to exclusively connect you with your friends and family, but rather to connect you with other professionals beyond your personal network. The social component of LinkedIn may look like a job posting, news and announcements…
Writing Styles
Throughout history, civilizations have used numerous evolutions of writing systems as a method of communication and documentation of complex concepts and financial transactions. As people have evolved, so has our need for thorough methods of written communication. When we think about writing today, the genres and mediums where writing occurs appears to be vast and…
Career Goal Changes
Career changes are hard. I have been working in academia for over 15 years now, but not in the field of Instructional Design. Since I began the M.S. program in Learning Technologies, in August of 2019, I have been searching for my unique path in Instructional Design. As I peruse LinkedIn jobs in the field,…
Week 13- project reflection
Time marches on, and here we are, on week 13 out of 16! I can’t believe how fast this semester has flown by. While I still find myself chasing the hours in the day, to ensure that I finish this project, I am slowly but surely nearing the finish line. I have been polishing and…
Week 11 project reflection
What I’ve learned from this project development, is that time marches on swiftly! I am running a bit behind schedule on the completion of my course development. This week, we were scheduled to have 3/4 of our course completed, and I’ve developed 5 out of 8 of my learning modules so far, which puts me…
Week 10-project reflection
My project, self-care and self-regulation for metacognitive development in high school students, is moving along at a steady pace. The amount of writing is heavily weighted on the first four modules of my project, where vocabulary terms and introductions to key elements of the course are first being explored. These modules have required a high…
Week 8 Project reflection
My project is coming together nicely, in my opinion. I’ve received some excellent feedback from my peer reviewers, and I’m working on incorporating their suggestions into my content as I work through the project. Some of the constructive feedback which I’ve found most helpful was the suggestion to make my Piktochart graphics downloadable. I’ll have…
Layout and Style
The Impact of Visual Layout Factors on Performance in Web Pages: A Cross-Language Study The first article that I read, called ” The Impact of Visual Layout Factors on Performance in Web Pages: A Cross-Language Study,” examined the correlation between visual layout and website performance. Factors such as screen organization, alignment, consistency of location of…
Copyright and Web Content
Content distribution and copyright authentication based on combined indexing and watermarking This paper explored the topic of copyright issues on digital content. The paper is from 2012, but even then, it recognized the widespread distribution of multimedia content across the internet. The authors propose a content distribution and copyright authentication system based on media index…
Web Accessibility
The Relationship Between Web Content and Web Accessibility at Universities: The Influence of Social and Cultural Factors. This article examined the question of whether universities from varied cultures rank differently in regards to web accessibility (WA) and the quality of web content. Since universities are responsible for providing higher quality web content, this study was…
Week 7-LTEC 5510 Project Reflection
This project is keeping me on my toes! I feel as if I’m waking up, and going to bed every night, brainstorming about my project, and how I should incorporate the vast amounts of information into my course. I’ve started keeping a bullet journal, where I’m keeping ideas and concepts that I hear through the…
LTEC 5510 Project Reflection Week 6
This is the close of week 6, and I’m realizing what a monumental project 45 hours of instructional design will be! My project titled “Self-care and self-regulation for metacognitive development in high school students” is officially underway. This week I began uploading my course curriculum for module 1 of 8, and although I’m not as…
Empathic Instructional Design
This week, I conducted some research on the empathic instructional design model. An instructional design model is the systematic process of creating and organizing the instructional experiences for specific learning outcomes. An instructional design model will have roots in a guided learning theory, which provides a foundation for HOW the learner will engage with the…
LTEC 5510 Initial Peer Review Reflection
I blame it on COVID-brain, but I found myself really struggling to lock down a course topic for this project. I ran through several ideas that I have a personal interest in, but none of them felt like the right topic for this instructional module. I thought back through all of my classes that I’ve…
Week 1 Reflections
I found the reading this week to be quite interesting and diverse, and it promoted excitement within me, about incorporating these principles and frameworks into my future designs. In the article from class, titled “Problem Based Learning: An instructional model and its constructivist framework” the author details the framework of problem based learning environments. This…
How important is evaluation to the instructional design process and why?
While each step of the ADDIE framework is critical to the process of delivering an instructional design module, the evaluation process provides continuous feedback and helps determine the merit and effectiveness of the entire design. ISD models, such as ADDIE, are often thought of as a linear process, but the evaluation process is actually quite…
Discussion Topic: Seamless online/blended/MOOCs/ learning
submit a forum post with ideas on how these technologies can be used for educational purposes. Flickr: As a former Photography student myself, I see educational value in using a photo sharing platform, such as Flickr, to help students,and emerging artists, with organization and publication of their work. This platform provides a space for students…
Predetermined Objectives and Delivery Methods in Learning Outcomes.
Describe the importance of predetermined objectives and delivery methods of instruction prior to selecting course activities and assignments. Predetermined objectives and delivery methods are critical to the success of learning outcomes and pedagogical approaches in instructional design, and specifically in blended learning environments. This weeks reading emphasized the importance of this even further for me.…
Reflection-Project B
As I work towards finalizing my project B assignment, I am analyzing the principles of multimedia learning that I am incorporating into the project, in order to enhance learning outcomes. There are three assumptions about how people learn, according to Richard Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning (CTML) (Mayer, 2015). These three assumptions are :…
Week 14 Reflection Method of Loci – Take Two
In this weeks’ effort to sit quietly, and practice the Method of Loci, I took a different approach. The first time that I attempted this exercise, I was too literal with my visualization. I couldn’t separate my vision of the place that I was thinking about, from the exercise that I was working through. My…
Self-Regulation
What does it mean to manage/regulate yourself (self-regulate) and others during learning experiences? How does it bring you towards goals? How important is communication in this process and what helps/impedes it? Self-regulation is a critical component to the learning process, and a pivotal aspect to finding balance for successful outcomes in all areas of life.…
ADDIE Reflection
As I place the finishing touches on project A, and release her as a completed project, I am filled with feelings of satisfaction, relief, and gratitude. What a great accomplishment, to work through the steps of the ADDIE framework, and finalize an instructional project from concept to completion. My project was an instructional module and…
COVID 19
What a surreal and inimaginable twist that this semester has taken. I would have never imagined that a coronavirus, of this magnitude and mystery, would be sweeping through, continent after continent, wreaking havoc on thousands of people’s lives. As I wake each morning, over these past couple weeks, I find myself taking longer to bask…
Reflection: Method of Loci
I struggled with this process. That shouldn’t be the case, I’m a visual person, so this should come easy for me, but somewhere in the intricate wiring of my mind, my brain drifts off into the need to decorate the areas that I’m visualizing. The Method of Loci is based on the idea that you…
(ID) and Me
A simple question, “What do I think about Instructional Design so far?” This seems like a simple and benign question to pose, but as I reflect upon this, I find that it’s a much more complex topic. I came into this degree with a basic idea, that I would be incorporating technology into the learning…
Analysis + Design
As I reflect back upon the past couple weeks in class, our course objective has been the process of analyzing a clients’ needs for an instructional design project. I have felt challenged by this step in the process. It hasn’t been a challenge with presenting a concept, finding an issue, or proposing potential solutions. My…
Personal Theory of Learning
Learning is the cognitive process of inputing, rehearsing, and retaining various bits of information to be stored in our long term memory. It is built upon by use of tools, techniques, theories, and prior experiences, throughout our lives. As we go through each day of our life, we are inundated with information about various “things”,…
Real World Instructional Design
I’d like to start off by saying that I’m not a blogger. At least, not up until this point in my life. I do enjoy writing, but I can tell that this will be a challenge for me, getting started. This weeks’ task is to locate two examples of instructional design, in which the viewer…
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