LANA GARNER
PROGRAMMATIC THEMES
FOUNDATIONS
Although many foundational topics about instructional technology were covered throughout the program, the first semester really focused on providing students with some important basic content knowledge about the history and best practices of the educational world. The video to the right is one I made for Edit 6100: Introduction to Instructional Technology. I found it particularly interesting to learn more about how new types of media affected educational practices through the 40s and 50s due to the invention of the television.
ANALYSIS
In the spring of 2015, in Edit 6170: Introduction to Instructional Design, Dr. Gregory Clinton took us through the entire process of designing and developing curriculum using the ADDIE model. As a part of a team consisting of Jessica McCrea, Rosa Vestal and Clay McElheny, we set out to provide teacher technology training for my colleagues at work. The document attached to the icon at the right links to the final report which contains the Needs Assessment and other items related to analysis. Although the process was not without flaw, the excellent feedback and guidance provided throughout the term really made it an impactful learning experience.
DESIGN
The video to the left shows a module I created where I pushed myself in the area of design for this culminating project for Edit 6200: Learning Environment Design I. For this project, I worked with a client at my own school, the vice principal, to design a unique way to communicate discipline protocol to faculty. Instead of simply presenting the information and regulations in a basic slide presentation, I designed the module in the graphic novel style where learners make decisions that affect the feedback they get in the module. Although the video to the right is simply a promotional trailer, you may click on the icon below to interact with the actual module. It was inspired by a module we were shown in class titled "The Broken Coworker". This is the product I am most proud of creating during my entire time in the IDD program.
DEVELOPMENT
Working with the Design Divas (Tracy Arner, Nora Cloonan, Megan Bracewell and Cheri Tenhouse) during the Spring of 2016 was an excellent opportunity for growth. For this project, we worked with The Carl Vinson Institute of Government to create a training module. Recognizing my own proclivity toward development, I volunteered to be the Graphic Artist and Lead Programmer. This was one of my first opportunities to take someone else's design and bring it to life through the development of the module. It was an interesting experience to try to please everybody, but given the organization of my teammates and an excellent tool to work with, it turned out great.
IMPLEMENTATION
EVALUATION
The artifact displayed at the right links to a project that I did along with Nora Cloonan and Cheri Tenhouse for Edit 7350: Evaluation and Assessment in the spring of 2016. For this project, we worked with a client, Cheryl Varnadoe to provide feedback about a maintenance evaluation we performed on a module that was being used with the 4H program in Georgia. Although the data we gathered was not always productive or showed positive information for the client, we were able to serve her and learn about the correct processes to go through when performing this type of evaluation.
The video to the left, although parts of it (the sound in particular) make me cringe since I made it before taking the video production course, is evidence of implementation that I performed for Edit 6170: Introduction to Instructional Design. After analysing the needs of the learners, designing the curriculum and objectives, developing the tools for the instruction, it was time to begin implementation with the learners. There were two parts to this implementation. First of all, the learners needed to setup an account with quia.com before they would be prepared to move forward with the instruction that was given in a face-to-face setting.
The video on the left showcases the design skills that I honed in Edit 6500: Video Production. One of the projects that we were tasked with during that course was creating a PSA. While the tone of the video is somewhat comical and lighthearted, the message delivered was important and you can see evidence of important design features including storyboarding, lighting, sound and shot composition.
On this page, as you scroll down, you will see evidence of all the major themes displayed in different artifacts that I made throughout the program. Some show the progress of how much I have learned during the program, and others show how much I grew from one semester of study to the next.
Another artifact I made for Edit 6100 that showcases foundational learning about instructional technology is the paper that can be viewed by clicking on the icon at the right. This paper compares major learning paradigms. I particularly enjoyed reading about them in an interesting article that compared behaviorism, cognitivism and constructivism through the lenses of Profesor Higgins and Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady.
The video on the right is another artifact that shows evidence of developmental skills that were cultivated in Edit 6500: Video Production. This educational video, which offers character descriptions of the most important people in a movie shown in my Spanish class, was the culminating project for the course. It shows evidence of my ability to take all the different elements that make up a good video and convert them from the planning stages of a storyboard into a video that is ready to be used to boost a learners comprehension of material presented in class.
Although the video on the left was not made as a project for the IDD program, it was a video I made for fellow teachers at my school to help them understand the proper protocol for turning in assessments to test makeup. I was able to use skills in design and development to make the video and the implementation of the video was well received by the faculty. It was distributed via an inner office email and posted on the school web site. The video is evidence of how skills learned in this program have already begun to affect my products at my workplace.
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The two modules below showcase how the look of my modules changed from one semester to the next. The module on the left is the one I created the very first semester I learned how to use Articulate Storyline in the spring of 2015. Although it is nicely organized and special attention is given to spacing and color scheme, it is not nearly as professional looking at the module on the right, which I created the following semester after learning how to use templates and tweaking one that I found on the eLearning Heroes site. The animation of the slides in the module on the right really gives it an extra polish that is lacking in the module on the left.
