Well, week one was underway in a flash. Teams were assigned by Dr. Martindale and individual roles were delegated within our team via Google Hangout on 8/30/16. The first virtual meeting went better than expected in the sense that we all selected our roles based on our strengths (e.g., Amy - project manager, Raquell - Lead eLearning Developer, me - Lead Instructional Designer, and Nicole - Lead Evaluator). We were all in agreement that the Lead Team Site Manager role would be absorbed by the project manager (PM) and the Lead eLearning Developer. On 8/31, our PM emailed our SME, Dr. Caniza, at St. Jude to arrange our first meeting. I also created this individual blog on weebly.com. I did some research before deciding on using weebly.com for my blog due to some recent corporate blocking of weebly.com domains due to reports of malware and viruses. After about 20 minutes of web searching and reading, I can to the conclusion that I will move forward with using weebly.com with sources reporting the corrupted subdomains causing the issues were false positives. Should any of you have problems accessing my blog at any point, please let me know and I will correct it promptly. Also on 8/31, I created some biographical information about me and forwarded the information to our PM, Amy Hall, for our team website. On the morning of 9/1 the team found out that Dr. M has reorganized our teams and we gained a new valuable team member, Michelle Bowen. This worked PERFECTLY for our team as Michelle has experience working with websites and was hoping for the Lead Team Site Manager role. We all meet again via Google Hangouts on 9/1/16.
So, my new role begins as Lead Instructional Designer (ID). In order to begin my role, I need to meet with our client to learn about the content of the instructional need. I have seen the basis of the content is Infection Control, which is somewhat familiar to me in my field of practice in acute care physical therapy. We have scheduled our meeting with our SME for Wednesday, 9/7/16 at 2:15pm at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I really can't get started on my role until I meet with our SME. I did assist with arranging the meeting by offering my available times, thus I feel my task as lead ID is 0.025% done (completely pulled out of nowhere). I feel I spent about 20 min. researching about my individual blog page and a total of 90 min. in communications with my team (2 Google Hangouts and email communications). I realize I am just beginning and have a long road ahead, but I am throughly looking forward to it. In short, here is my reflection based on Peter Pappas' taxonomy for the reflective student:
What did I do? I learned about my role as Lead ID and assisted in arranging to meet our SME with intent to learn about the content of our project.
What was important about it? It is important that I know what my role entails and that I collect accurate details on the content material rather quickly to begin initiating my job as Lead ID.
Where could I use this again? On any future team ID project I collaborate on, or any team project for that matter.
Do I see any patterns that I did? Well, since the process is just beginning I feel it is too early to identify any patterns. I look forward to uncovering any patterns as I move forward.
How well did I do? I think I did well for this early phase due to my promptness in communications and required tasks for this week in the course.
What should I do next? Prepare questions for our upcoming meeting with our SME, attend the meeting and gather details for the instructional product that we need to create.
And the journey begins...
So, my new role begins as Lead Instructional Designer (ID). In order to begin my role, I need to meet with our client to learn about the content of the instructional need. I have seen the basis of the content is Infection Control, which is somewhat familiar to me in my field of practice in acute care physical therapy. We have scheduled our meeting with our SME for Wednesday, 9/7/16 at 2:15pm at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. I really can't get started on my role until I meet with our SME. I did assist with arranging the meeting by offering my available times, thus I feel my task as lead ID is 0.025% done (completely pulled out of nowhere). I feel I spent about 20 min. researching about my individual blog page and a total of 90 min. in communications with my team (2 Google Hangouts and email communications). I realize I am just beginning and have a long road ahead, but I am throughly looking forward to it. In short, here is my reflection based on Peter Pappas' taxonomy for the reflective student:
What did I do? I learned about my role as Lead ID and assisted in arranging to meet our SME with intent to learn about the content of our project.
What was important about it? It is important that I know what my role entails and that I collect accurate details on the content material rather quickly to begin initiating my job as Lead ID.
Where could I use this again? On any future team ID project I collaborate on, or any team project for that matter.
Do I see any patterns that I did? Well, since the process is just beginning I feel it is too early to identify any patterns. I look forward to uncovering any patterns as I move forward.
How well did I do? I think I did well for this early phase due to my promptness in communications and required tasks for this week in the course.
What should I do next? Prepare questions for our upcoming meeting with our SME, attend the meeting and gather details for the instructional product that we need to create.
And the journey begins...