Week 7: Report

This week Remi, Ahram, HueiHsien, and Kazu worked on flowcharts for each of our 3 goals. There is some concern about the size of our content, which we will need to discuss as a group. We've decided on a direction for our treatment and Daisy has been developing those screens. Emily has been working on the flowchart of the online learning system and will be putting together our presentation for the studio briefing tomorrow night.
Our weekly assignments are posted here:

• Week 7: Assignments

Most of our documents and content have been uploaded to the documentation section of our blog:

• Documentation

Hopefully we will begin major development work on our module this next week. We are all beginning to feel the crunch at this point in our project and are anxious to see development underway.

Content

• Plant Pathology Module Outline
• Unit 1 - Basic Plant Pathology
• Unit 2 - Plant Science Investigation
• IPM Plant Disease Clinic Form
• Plant Pathology Images (refered to in unit material)

Week 7: Assignments

To do for next week:

• Flowchart of content and activities
  • Goals 1 & 3 (Ahram, Remi)
  • Goal 2 (HueiHsien, Kazu)
• Hardware/software specs edits (HueiHsien)
• Formative eval plan edits (Remi)
• Screen design (Daisy, Emily)
• Flowchart of online system (Emily)
• Group presentation PPT (Emily)
• Send to Holly, Duren (Emily)
  • Task analysis
  • Objectives
  • User profile

Team meeting, October 4:

• Review flowcharts for goals, system
• Review screen design
• Plan for
  • future screen development
  • distribution of graphic work
  • storyboarding
• other items of interest....

Upcoming work:

• Flowchart, storyboards (Nov 1)

Week 6

The ICC team has spent more time with the task analysis, performance objectives, and test items this week. After reviewing the ordered and somewhat revised content, a number of changes were needed to bring our tasks in line to the plant pathology content. The team has split into sub-groups to develop parts of this tasks and objectives. We will still request a review of this documentation before sending it to our client for sign-off.

Drafts of our formative evaluation plan, hardware/software specs, and user profile have been reviewed by our group, designated 6200 volunteer, and have been sent to Dr. Clinton for review.

An assignment list was not posted this week, although the following items were assigned:

• Ahram, Remi, Daisy review and develop tasks and objectives for:
  • 1a. plant disease
  • 1b. plant disease triangle
  • 1c. pathogen groups
  • 2a. communicating with clients
  • 2c. sample collection
• Emily, HueiHsien, Kazu - review and develop tasks and objectives for:
  • 1d. integrated pest management
  • 2d. sample submission
  • 2e. interpreting sample diagnoses and recommendations
• Myra review the following docs:
  • Formative evaluation draft (Remi)
  • User profile (Kazu)
• Notify 6200 consultants of duties, timelines
• Daisy develop screen design based on group direction in meeting
• Emily ask Duren about access to agents for evaluation
• Emily ask Holly about items for pre- and post-testing

Week 5

The team has been working on a number of documents this week, as outlined in our assignment list. Audra and Brent, two 6200 consultants, along with our SME Holly, have been helping Emily make the content more understandable and functional as lesson material.

• Week 5 Assignments

Duren approved the Scope document and Needs Assessment this week with few changes. He is concerned about CAES-OIT's commitment to developing the system we mock up and has contacted the OIT director with a formal request for service.

• Project Scope - 9/16/07
• Needs Assessment- 9/17/07

Our task analysis and performance objectives have been reviewed by Dr. Clinton. These should be ready to send to our client this weekend or early next week. Our plan is to share these with the SME first, as she is the expert on the subject.

Week 5: Assignments

To do for next week:
By Thursday, September 20 (unless otherwise noted)

• Edit content - ASAP (Emily)
  • Give to 6200 consultants for review with brief guidelines
  • 6200 consultants review by 9/18, 5pm (flexible?)
  • Send edited copy to team
• Project timeline: update timeline and brief report (Emily)
  • Daisy send example to Emily
• Ahram help review
• Hardware/software specs: draft (HueiHsien)
• User profile: draft (Kazu)
  • Emily send existing data to Kazu
• Formative evaluation plan: draft (Remi)
  • Daisy to help
• Screen specs/treatment: design ideas (Daisy)
  • Emily send web template screenshot
• Review content, bring ideas to next team meeting (all)

Team meeting, September 20:

• Clarify any unclear content areas
• Discuss content in context of screen specs and treatment, activities, etc.
• Start Screen Specs and Treatment Rationale docs as group in meeting
• Jobs for 6200 students (specifics or timeline of needs)
• Other items of interest...

Upcoming work: (to be reviewed and given to client)
See project management plan for suggested review process.

• Hardware/software specs
• Screen design specs
• Treatment rationale and description
• User profile
• Formative evaluation plan

Ongoing work:

• Use project activity logs
• Post completed documentation to blog

Week 4: Project Documentation

Team Meeting
The team discussion centered on documentation and on the content analysis from the client. The projects’ Instructional goals and objectives were narrowed down.
Team divided required deliverables.
HueiHsien made changes to the Scope document
Kazu made changes to the Needs Analysis document
Ahram Daisy and Remi continued development of the Objectives and Task analysis.
To do for next week: By Tuesday, September 18
Submission of earlier documents to Client for approval
User profile
Treatment Rationale and Description
Hardware/Software Specifications
Screen design Specifications
Formative Evaluation Plan