As of the writing of this last post, our project is pretty much finished. We are collecting the data from our online survey and are planning to analyze it in the next couple of days, especially since our instructor is going to be evaluating this project web site soon.
On an interesting note, we got some publicity on [...]
Archive for December, 2007
Project Wrap-up
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Instructor Evaluation
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Jeff, Gerry:
Thanks for your well developed, designed and presented technology demonstration tonight. You were well prepared and did an excellent job of presenting the capabilities of WiZiQ and compare it with those of Adobe Connect.
I bookmarked WiZiQ to show it to one of my consulting clients. They are using Desire2Learn for their LMS. D2L’s “LiveRoom” [...]
Self-Reflection: Gerry
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Surprisingly, I thought our presentation went very well. It was somewhat of a surprise because Jeff and I only did one partial run-through of the presentation. But I believe the strength of our presentation lies in the instructional design work behind this project. We followed the ADDIE model very closely throughout the entire process. ADDIE [...]
Self-Reflection: Jeff
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Gerry and I have finally completed our technology demonstration for EDTEC 550: Introduction to Distance Education. We chose early on in the semester to compare two online conferencing systems. We chose Adobe Connect (the system we use for our synchronous class meetings) and WiZiQ, a new web-based, free online conferencing system. Neither one of us [...]
Survey
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Design and Development Process
To design, develop, and implement the post-demonstration survey tool, we followed the following process:
Conduct online teleconference to determine survey questions and technical requirements
Write survey questions
Create draft of electronic survey on Survey Monkey
Edit survey questions
Finalize survey questions
Launch survey
Administer survey after the live demonstration on December 12, 2007
Analyze responses using analysis tools provided on [...]
Web Site
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This web site was created to document our progress during the course of the technology demonstration project. Originally, we had a Blogger web site, but I (Gerry) believed that Blogger was not as versatile for the requirements of this project, not to mention that most Blogger sites are just plain ugly.
Based on my (Gerry) experience with WordPress blogs, I knew that [...]
Live Demonstration
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Now that we have finished the Rapid Prototype and submitted it for evaluation to our class web site, we then developed an outline for our Live Demonstration. After writing the outline, we then set up a time to teleconference to go over last-minute technical details in the LMS environments and go through a dry run. [...]
Rapid Prototype: PowerPoint Slide
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After we created the three different storyboards, we began building slides in PowerPoint. Visual content for the slides came from screen captures taken from our online collaboration while working in the LMS environments of WiZiQ and Adobe Connect.
Based on the features of each of the four functions (voice / video, text / chat, whiteboard, [...]
Rapid Prototype: Storyboard
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After creating the initial “paper and pencil” sketches, we transferred our concept to a PowerPoint slide to create a storyboard. We developed three storyboards to match each type of sketch. There were three types of storyboards / slides:
Slide containing a large graphic.
Slide containing a graphic with text box.
Slide containing two columns (to be used to [...]
Rapid Prototype: Initial Storyboard Sketches
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Jeff worked up three initial sketches for the Rapid Prototype (PowerPoint):
Slide containing a large graphic
Slide containing a graphic with text box
Slide containing two columns (to be used to compare the two LMSs)
Sketch 1Sketch 2Sketch 3
