Comments on: ELD 1 http://psalter.edublogs.org technology in education and general musings Wed, 02 Dec 2009 10:45:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 By: Tips http://psalter.edublogs.org/eld/comment-page-1/#comment-73 Tips Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:54:14 +0000 http://psalter.edublogs.org/?page_id=85#comment-73 Lots of useful information. Very nice looking website also. Thanks and keep up the great work. Lots of useful information. Very nice looking website also. Thanks and keep up the great work.

]]> By: Eileen http://psalter.edublogs.org/eld/comment-page-1/#comment-63 Eileen Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:33:20 +0000 http://psalter.edublogs.org/?page_id=85#comment-63 Prue, you’ve done well in covering most of the major considerations. Areas needing further thought, work and exploration: • the first of the two concerns you nominated for justifying a new direction (hence an e-/technology-driven approach) in your business - you may reach a wider audience, but beware of compromising the ‘quality’ or ‘richness’ of what’s on offer. The ideal is achieving both ‘reach and richness’ or some sort of balance between the two depending on whose interest is prioritized. Suggestion: Work out what strategies/tools can you implement to address this. • It is fine to sort of reverse engineer with a twist (ie assuming you haven’t created the online study skills handbook). However, your design model will vary depending on the nature of the content of the handbook, how it is being used, and your target users (teachers & students accessing different sections? Teachers only? Students only? Parents & students? All of the above at varying levels and areas?) • You’ve done a good job in identifying all the stakeholders and naming their interest/stake in the ‘solution’. The way forward will be to clarify the level of actual involvement of each group in the design/implementation process. Guess what I’m driving at is whether you’re planning on involving/consulting any of the stakeholders and if so, how? • It doesn’t matter whether you call it a ‘pilot study’ or not. The important task is to collect and learn from the feedback (that’s going to be the major component of Assessment Task 2). Hence your next step should be working out how you’ll collect, collate, analyse the feedback and building up a mechanism for feeding the lessons learnt back into the ‘solution’. I’m assuming you’re putting your ‘solution’ on a website as you mentioned that ‘the site is created, people start using it...’ • You’ll need to describe briefly what your ‘solution’ will look like and what you plan to achieve by developing it, eg the content, sections/areas/media etc. You’ll probably need to describe and define in greater detail for your eL Technologies subject. • Graphical representation - good to start with students’ learning needs - looks like the designer/creator is the CPU, but have you thought about facilitating conversations among stakeholder groups (perhaps 1 or 2 sessions) regarding their expectations? That would increase understanding of differences (if not resolution of conflicts of interest). The ‘solution’ may well be more widely accepted. Besides get ting new perspectives/ideas from them, you’ll also have the opportunity to ‘sell’ your design - more has to be indicated in the ‘Evaluation Mode’ – the what and how of evaluation - is assessment of students included or is this done separately? In most cases, you evaluate the ‘system’/’solution’, but you assess student performance. However, student performance is often a major indicator of the effectiveness of the system. Prue, you’ve done well in covering most of the major considerations.
Areas needing further thought, work and exploration:
• the first of the two concerns you nominated for justifying a new direction (hence an e-/technology-driven approach) in your business – you may reach a wider audience, but beware of compromising the ‘quality’ or ‘richness’ of what’s on offer. The ideal is achieving both ‘reach and richness’ or some sort of balance between the two depending on whose interest is prioritized.
Suggestion: Work out what strategies/tools can you implement to address this.
• It is fine to sort of reverse engineer with a twist (ie assuming you haven’t created the online study skills handbook). However, your design model will vary depending on the nature of the content of the handbook, how it is being used, and your target users (teachers & students accessing different sections? Teachers only? Students only? Parents & students? All of the above at varying levels and areas?)
• You’ve done a good job in identifying all the stakeholders and naming their interest/stake in the ‘solution’. The way forward will be to clarify the level of actual involvement of each group in the design/implementation process. Guess what I’m driving at is whether you’re planning on involving/consulting any of the stakeholders and if so, how?
• It doesn’t matter whether you call it a ‘pilot study’ or not. The important task is to collect and learn from the feedback (that’s going to be the major component of Assessment Task 2). Hence your next step should be working out how you’ll collect, collate, analyse the feedback and building up a mechanism for feeding the lessons learnt back into the ‘solution’. I’m assuming you’re putting your ‘solution’ on a website as you mentioned that ‘the site is created, people start using it…’
• You’ll need to describe briefly what your ‘solution’ will look like and what you plan to achieve by developing it, eg the content, sections/areas/media etc. You’ll probably need to describe and define in greater detail for your eL Technologies subject.
• Graphical representation
- good to start with students’ learning needs
- looks like the designer/creator is the CPU, but have you thought about facilitating conversations among stakeholder groups (perhaps 1 or 2 sessions) regarding their expectations? That would increase understanding of differences (if not resolution of conflicts of interest). The ‘solution’ may well be more widely accepted. Besides get ting new perspectives/ideas from them, you’ll also have the opportunity to ‘sell’ your design
- more has to be indicated in the ‘Evaluation Mode’ – the what and how of evaluation – is assessment of students included or is this done separately? In most cases, you evaluate the ‘system’/’solution’, but you assess student performance. However, student performance is often a major indicator of the effectiveness of the system.

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