Elizabeth McAlister

Tag: Design-Development

  • Performance Analysis Graphic

    Course: Performance System Technology. Spring 2020

    Assignment: Design a graphic organizer to compare and contrast and share what you have learned in your reading regarding the following: performance analysis, organizational analysis, environmental analysis, gap analysis, cause analysis.

    Response: From the readings, I got the impression that the organizational, environmental, gap, and cause analyses were all part of the Performance Analysis. In analyzing performance, you look at the organization (its vision, mission, etc.) and the environment (influences from society, culture, skill level, etc.) to determine the desired and actual performances. From there, the gap analysis is done in order to identify the difference between the desired and actual performances, and lastly, a cause analysis to determine why that gap exists. I’m honestly not sure how to “compare and contrast” – They’re alike in that they are all analyzing aspects of performance process, but each analyzes a different aspect and they join together as the overall performance analysis.

    Van Tiem, D., Moseley, J. L., & Dessinger, J. C. (2012). Fundamentals of Performance Improvement: Optimizing Results through People, Process, and Organizations (3rd Ed.). Pfeiffer.

  • Service-Learning Project: Genetic Counseling

    March 2, 2020: This was a group project in which we worked with a client, Dr. Danielle Monteil, a geneticist at the US Naval Medical Center in Portsmouth, Virginia, to create a booklet to help her guide her patients through the process of deciding whether or not to have genetic testing done for hereditary cancer. After seeing how the color version printed out in grayscale, we opted to create a pure black and white copy and deliver both to our client for her to decide which she’d prefer to use.

    My partners for this project were Victoria Dawkins and Melissa Simpson.

    Goal Statement: Using the provided patient resource the patient will be able to explain the basic concepts associated with using genetic testing to predict hereditary cancer.

    The following documents include the full design and analysis report, the final product (color and black & white), and the final report which was a reflection on the project.

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  • Instructional Goals for Learning Domains

    Course: Instructional Design (specifically, the Dick & Carey approach)

    Assignment: Provide a sample instructional goal for each of the 4 learning domains (psychomotor skills, intellectual skills, verbal information, and attitude) discussed in our text book.  Also provide a rational and real world examples or experience for each.

    I went back to my music roots for this one.

    Psychomotor skills:

    • Sample instructional goal – Play a C Major scale using proper hand placement and technique
    • Rationale – Requires mental planning (identify middle C, proper hand placement, technique) followed by the physical activity of actually playing the scale.
    • Example/Experience – One of the first lessons is focused only on middle-C and gradually adds notes, working up to a full scale.

    Verbal information:

    • Sample instructional goal – Name the notes in a C Major scale
    • Rationale – Requires a specific response to a specific question
    • Example/Experience – Taking piano lessons, this was one of the first scales learned – all white keys, C D E F G A B C.

    Intellectual skills:

    • Sample instructional goal – Identify the interval between two notes being played individually.
    • Rationale – Requires learner to use previously learned theory and listening skills to correctly identify the intervals between two notes.
    • Example/Experience – Ear training. I hated ear training. Common ascending intervals most musicians “just know”: 2nd (C-D), 3rd (C-E), 5th (C-G), Octave (C-C). Intervals that took tricks for me to learn: 4th (C-F) “Here comes the bride”; 6th (C-A) “My Bon”nie lies over the ocean”; 7th (C-B) Just itches to move on up to that C.

    Attitude:

    • Sample instructional goal – Demonstrate an appreciation of different styles of music
    • Rationale – Requires learner to listen to various styles of music, identify their differences, and “appreciate” those differences.
    • Example/Experience – Basically, I thought of Music Appreciation. As a junior in college, having to take Music Appreciation was sometimes painful. For instance, I don’t particularly care for Ravel’s “Bolero” because it’s so repetitive, but I do understand how it could help in listening skills (it starts with one instrument and gradually adds more). For me, learning the structure of a sonata gave me a deeper appreciation for the style. Beethoven’s 5th Symphony, 1st movement, for example. Exposition– initial themes or motifs are “announced”; Development – motifs are altered (inverted, key change, etc.); Recapitulation – return to initial motifs (and key); Coda – not a normal part of a sonata, but essentially an ending. Beethoven was a master at passing up perfectly good spots to END ALREADY!

  • Job Aid: Adding a YouTube Video to Kaltura

    Course: Universal Differentiated Instructional Design and Development

    Assignment: Create a job-aid for UAB Teaching Faculty that provides step-by-step instructions for technology they are likely to use.

    In my initial iteration of this assignment (November 2019), I didn’t care for the layout or size of the images. I had done them based on my understanding of the template and instructions. The below is a version I’m more comfortable sharing with the world.

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  • Developing Training Programs

    Course: Trends and Issues in Instructional Design

    1. Develop a plan for integrating refugees from the Middle East into the Europeans vocational systems, identify and discuss ethical, legal, and political dimensions of my plan.
    2. Design a training program aimed at reducing medical errors in patient charting.

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