Session 6

Session 6: Development Process Overview

 According to our text student learn by completing learning activities. The usual types of activities are:

1.      The student absorbs the knowledge by reading, listening, or seeing information on the subject.

2.      The student does hand on or practice activities.

3.      The student connects with the subject with real personal or work environment.

(Horton, 2012, p. 9)

In this session our assignment was to select a learning objective from our course plan and describe an activity for each learning activity type: “Absorb”, “Do”, and “Connect”.

I chose to describe what I would do given the same objective for each activity type.

Objective: Upon completion of this course student will be able to define the three types of business ownership structures.

 

1. Describe an "Absorb" type activity for one of the objectives in your course plan.

I intend to use a slide presentation allowing the student to “absorb” the information on the three types of business ownership structures. The presentation would include a voice over narrative corresponding to each slide.
 

2. Describe a "Do" type activity for one of the objectives in your course plan.

In intend to use a game in the “Jeopardy” style that allows the student to “Do” a review the content presented in the previous PowerPoint presentation. The game will engaging and cover all the material presented.
 

3. Describe a "Connect" type activity for one of the objectives in your course plan.

I intend to use a writing assignment asking students to respond in their own words to questions such as:  

·       What are the advantages to each business ownership structures?

·       How a sole proprietorship does differs from a partnership?

·       What are limited partners?

Their answers will be shared with the rest of the class on a discussion board where comments from fellow classmates will be solicited.

 

4. Choose one of the above activities and discuss the process you would use to create this presentation. For this task assume that you have no additional assistance other than the instructor who would be able to write content as you describe it and perform for a recording as needed.

For the activity I described in item one, the goal is to create a slide presentation from the content provided from a designated instructor.

a.       Confer with instructor to write the content narrative needed to communicate the elements of the presentation.

b.      Create a storyboard of each slide describing text, animation, and images to support the narrative.

c.       Write an audio script to match each slide in the presentation. To comply with ADA requirements, this audio script will be available with a text description of any slides that need further explanation.

d.      Select a slide presentation software. Although there are a number of free presentation software I would probably use Office Mix, an add-on to PowerPoint, which allows the user to create, record and publish engaging slide presentations.   An introduction to this add-on is available at: https://mix.office.com/watch/7o6kt118pguk .

e.      I would prepare the PowerPoint slide presentation using the storyboard and record the presentation and voiceover using the narrative script with Office Mix. For the voice recording I would use a BlueParrott® B250-XT headset.

f.        I usually save files with as complete as file name as I can. An example for the file name presentation would be Intro_to_accntng_ownrtype.pptx. I would store this in a special folder on my personal computer and on a special external hard drive.

5. Discuss how your approach, for the above task, would be different if you were directing the development efforts of a team that included a graphic designer, a video editor and a web programmer along with all of the tools that such a team would typically use.

When doing a project where you perform all the tasks, you have all the control along with all the responsibility.  When heading a project team you can delegate tasks but you cannot delegate responsibilities. It is necessary that you insure tasks are completed and are on time.  In addition, when working alone you have to rely on your own knowledge and resource. However, working in a team greatly expands the resources that can be utilized. 

a.       Meet with development team to discuss presentation elements of concept, content, software and media. Items to accomplish in this meeting may be:

1)      Create a timeline and assign area of responsibility to each team member for the following.

·  Creation of storyboard and audio script.

·  Selection of slide presentation software

·  Preparation slide presentation

·  Create or Select online environment

2)      Develop file naming and back-up procedures

3)      Discuss requirement needed to comply with ADA.

b.      Meet periodically development team to status of each task

c.       Review presentation and make adjustments

d.      Submit final presentation for publication.

 6. The text presents test types and presents a list of common types of test questions. In light of these, describe a test that would be appropriate for the class your team planned in the previous session

Test questions can either be objective or subjective. Subjective questions require human judgment to evaluate the answer while objective questions have a clear standard for correctness and can offer a choice for the learner (Horton, 2012). Since I wanted a computer, not a human, to evaluate the correctness of the responses and receive immediate feedback, I choose objective test questions such as the following:

Example 1) True of False

Stockholders of a corporation share unlimited liability for debts of the corporation.  True or False

Example 2) Multiple Choice

A corporation is owned by: a) two or more partners, b) stockholders, c) a single individual, d) one or more government agencies, e) auditors

 

References:

Horton, W. (2012). E-leaning by design, 2nd ed. San Francisco: Pfeiffer.

Newberry, D. B. (n.d.). Producing eLearning Resources [Recorded by D. B. Newberry].