DONE with My Final!

Words cannot express my relief at having this final behind me. Shades of the GRE... that clock ticking down in the corner of the screen, moments of panic as my mind goes completely blank. Somehow I pulled it off. I hope I did OK. I wore my Lucky shirt (thanks, Suzy). I get a whole month off now! Where's the party? Isn't that what you do when you finish your finals? I guess I could do an undie run down "K" street...

Web 2.0 in Case You Didn't Know

I found this interesting. So I'm sharing it with you.

Anjelah Johnson is in my Graduate Class!

Actually, this video, which I had seen before, is part of my practice final. The assignment is to improve customer service at King Burger through systematic instructional design. I don't know if there is really any hope for Bon Qui Qui.

My New Friend ADDIE

These are the key course objectives I am studying in preparation for my final exam which is this Tuesday:

1. define educational, instructional, and performance technology
2. describe the implications of cognitive and behavioral psychology, adult learning theory, systems, and communications technologies for education and training
3. describe a systematic approach to the design of instruction presented in the ADDIE model
4. state reasons for using a systematic approach to the design of instruction
5. describe how a systematic approach might change the way you provide instruction
6. describe analyses and ways of approaching given needs and challenges
7. use performance analysis and goal analysis to approach given needs and challenges
8. define differences between performance analysis, needs assessment, goal, task, audience and subject matter analysis and ways you might use them to launch projects
9. from given missions and challenges, conduct lean analysis and design stages of ISD
10. identify the characteristics of a "well-formed" instructional objective
11. rewrite objectives that are ill-formed
12. generate well-formed objectives from given goals
13. compare and contrast criterion-referenced and norm-referenced testing
14. determine whether a given test item matches a given instructional objective
15. describe Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction and their implications for design of instruction
16. differentiate between instruction and information (job aids)
17. describe conditions that make job aids an effective way to improve performance
18. comment on information and instructional combinations with potential for improving performance
19. design and develop a job aid that focuses on the needs of an audience
20. write a brief report detailing the audience, need, format, and rationale
21. describe, and differentiate between, the basic attributes of different learning theories and instructional design theories
22. list the features of the ARCS model of motivational design and describe how you would use this model to enhance strategy

I actually think I am starting to understand it...