Lecture 8_Today I learn, Today I Question!

It's November already and mid-term. Time flew past so fast. I dread the end of the semester when this course will end. I haven't had so much fun in ages though of course it's hard work.

Lecture this week is on the various ID frameworks like ADDIE, Merrill’s First Principles of Instruction, Kemp and others. After reading through some materials on Instructional Design for e-Learning posted by Huey Zher and also the presentation by Jessica, I gathered that these are the steps that I must take to ensure a good design:
1. Perform a Needs Analysis based on curriculum requirements and the actual need for instruction. Check out the constraints/limitations and resources-make sure that the students don’t get lost in your design. We found out that our students did get lost so we have to narrow down the exercises on our wiki- in other words- redo =(( Time is also an important factor in ID. We must allocate enough time to design, develop and go-live.
2. Identify Instructional Goals and Analyse Tasks- break the goals and tasks into smaller, more manageable units according to outcomes and objectives.
3. Write the assessment for the design based on goals and objectives.
4. Choose teaching strategies and Instructional Media – determined by objectives and goals of instruction.
5. Teach the course.
And after that of course at the end of each lesson we have to analyse them. If something does not work out, we have to redesign, re-implement and re-evaluate. Evaluation can be in the form of facial/verbal clues and does not necessarily have to be tests/exams.

We also had an activity where we had to sum up what we’ve learned so far. This is our summary, using graphics. In our opinion, PLE is the final outcome, while the theories, TPACK and Model of Learning Engagement are the back bone. ADDIE and the aspects, visual of web-based learning will guide us in our design. Thus, the following graphic:

I also downloaded and installed JING recommended by Huey Zher. I find this software really useful because there's something wrong with my laptop printscreen function. See the image I made using Jing and Powerpoint below. I didn't use SnagIt because there's a trial period of 30 days so I suspect they will ask us to subscribe after that ;D.