Friday, December 19, 2008
Monday, December 8, 2008
Career Reports 2
Seth Sorenson - Julie Burningham
Nebo School District - Educational Assessment
Visits with teachers, students
International Society for Technology in Education
Mike Johnson - Matt Guinn
Instructional Designer at BYU Center for Teaching and Learning
Works with clients ona wide variety of instructional projects
PhD would be required to be a director at the CTL
Masters is required to be an Instructional Designer
Rick Ott, Director of Research and evaluation at the MTC - Carrie and Sara
Does a lot with data, numbers, etc.
"It is fun to write assessments!"
Doesn't consider himself a manager. But he is. "He's not an administrator."
Lots of meetings, writing, etc.
Salary Range: between $40 and 90 K
Bachelor's in English
Master's in Linguistics
PhD in Instructional Psychology
Started working for MTC right at graduation, been there for 34 years
Mike Bush - Anneke Majors
Really liked his idea of keeping a journal about whatever you're learning.
Independent Studies Instructional Designers - Jana Chapman
Project Management
Organization
Research
Optimism
Problem-solving
Familiarty with Instructional Design principles
Ability to communicate with faculty, etc.
Salary Range - $45 - 65K per year
Dani Jorgensen
Trying to put instructional materials into the hands of everyone in the world using the connecting technologies that we have now.
Need the Spirit, revelation
Jason Mitchell - Manager of Training at the MTC - Daryl and Rob
Oversees the training of missionaries.
Has coordinators under him, who work with the teachers.
Does Large Group Meetings at the MTC.
3/4 of the day consists of meetings
Spends some time proselyting with missionaries.
Training seminars through BYU, some subscription services
American society of training and development
Skills:
Resource management
Curriculum development
TEaching experience
Steve Hume at IM Flash Technologies - Neil Bly
No real "typical" day at work.
Helping people use training curriculum that was developed by people with no real background in instructional technology.
Creating assessments
Auditing
Improving curriculum
$43 - 70K salary
Nebo School District - Educational Assessment
Visits with teachers, students
International Society for Technology in Education
Mike Johnson - Matt Guinn
Instructional Designer at BYU Center for Teaching and Learning
Works with clients ona wide variety of instructional projects
PhD would be required to be a director at the CTL
Masters is required to be an Instructional Designer
Rick Ott, Director of Research and evaluation at the MTC - Carrie and Sara
Does a lot with data, numbers, etc.
"It is fun to write assessments!"
Doesn't consider himself a manager. But he is. "He's not an administrator."
Lots of meetings, writing, etc.
Salary Range: between $40 and 90 K
Bachelor's in English
Master's in Linguistics
PhD in Instructional Psychology
Started working for MTC right at graduation, been there for 34 years
Mike Bush - Anneke Majors
Really liked his idea of keeping a journal about whatever you're learning.
Independent Studies Instructional Designers - Jana Chapman
Project Management
Organization
Research
Optimism
Problem-solving
Familiarty with Instructional Design principles
Ability to communicate with faculty, etc.
Salary Range - $45 - 65K per year
Dani Jorgensen
Trying to put instructional materials into the hands of everyone in the world using the connecting technologies that we have now.
Need the Spirit, revelation
Jason Mitchell - Manager of Training at the MTC - Daryl and Rob
Oversees the training of missionaries.
Has coordinators under him, who work with the teachers.
Does Large Group Meetings at the MTC.
3/4 of the day consists of meetings
Spends some time proselyting with missionaries.
Training seminars through BYU, some subscription services
American society of training and development
Skills:
Resource management
Curriculum development
TEaching experience
Steve Hume at IM Flash Technologies - Neil Bly
No real "typical" day at work.
Helping people use training curriculum that was developed by people with no real background in instructional technology.
Creating assessments
Auditing
Improving curriculum
$43 - 70K salary
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Career Reports
Bryce Bunting, Brian Chantry - Larry Seawright, Evaluator Extraordinaire
Interesting to me that you can take an evaluation certificate course during a week-long seminar.
Do these certificate programs give that much credibility to someone who possesses a certificate? Will this really get you a better job?
Jon Spackman - Steve Gutke, Intrepid Instructional Designer
A lot of management work! Actually, I seem to remember somebody telling me that as an instructional designer, you will probably find your way into a management position (despite all your best efforts to avoid it.) When you are able to speak everybody else's language and understand what needs to be done to produce quality instructional materials, you are likely to become a manager.
Small sampling of requirements from some of the jobs:
Task / Project Management
Teamwork
Writing Skills
Oral Communication Skills
Will be conducting training
Critical Thinking
"Influence the culture of our company"
Salary Range - $45 - 65K
Shelley Keyser - Nigel Bristo, Expert Entrepreneur "Targeted Learning"
Salary Range - For someone who starts their own company? Yeah.
For instructional designers:
Listening Skills
Write, write, and rewrite
Stay abreast of new technologies
Gain new skills
Nigel had no formal background in instructional design. Business background with emphasis in organizational behavior.
Nicky Burgoyne - Steve Leatham, Professional Professor
Difficulties with getting a job as faculty in math education? Pretty easy. There is a shortage of people to fill these positions.
On-the-job training? At BYU, you get a faculty mentor for about a year. Writing circles, etc.
To be successful? Get tenure. But don't disappear.
30% doing service,
30% doing research
30% doing teaching
10% doing stuff
= 90%
Keep things balanced.
Interesting to me that you can take an evaluation certificate course during a week-long seminar.
Do these certificate programs give that much credibility to someone who possesses a certificate? Will this really get you a better job?
Jon Spackman - Steve Gutke, Intrepid Instructional Designer
A lot of management work! Actually, I seem to remember somebody telling me that as an instructional designer, you will probably find your way into a management position (despite all your best efforts to avoid it.) When you are able to speak everybody else's language and understand what needs to be done to produce quality instructional materials, you are likely to become a manager.
Small sampling of requirements from some of the jobs:
Task / Project Management
Teamwork
Writing Skills
Oral Communication Skills
Will be conducting training
Critical Thinking
"Influence the culture of our company"
Salary Range - $45 - 65K
Shelley Keyser - Nigel Bristo, Expert Entrepreneur "Targeted Learning"
Salary Range - For someone who starts their own company? Yeah.
For instructional designers:
Listening Skills
Write, write, and rewrite
Stay abreast of new technologies
Gain new skills
Nigel had no formal background in instructional design. Business background with emphasis in organizational behavior.
Nicky Burgoyne - Steve Leatham, Professional Professor
Difficulties with getting a job as faculty in math education? Pretty easy. There is a shortage of people to fill these positions.
On-the-job training? At BYU, you get a faculty mentor for about a year. Writing circles, etc.
To be successful? Get tenure. But don't disappear.
30% doing service,
30% doing research
30% doing teaching
10% doing stuff
= 90%
Keep things balanced.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Mon, Nov 24 - Issue Presentations
L2 Language Acquisition
Immersion classrooms versus traditional grammarian approach:
Total Immersion vs. Partial Immersion
Bilingual or Two-Way Immersion
There are, however, some concerns about the child's L1 acquisition. Many times we find that children are lacking comparable competency in either of the languages learned. However, after a few years, these children generally catch up to grade level and sometimes even excel their peers.
Perceived Immersion
(Imagined immersion based on mental imagery)
"Memory characteristics of recently imagined events"
After one week, students who had had the real experience remembered it only as intensely as those who had imagined it.
So the idea is that if we can get students to imagine a situation well enough, they may be able to learn from it as well as if the experience were real.
Independent Study, Japan 43 - Pretend Trip to Japan
Rosetta Stone
"Dynamic Immersion"
Live Mocha
Tandem e-learning to help each other learn languages. Have to earn credits to keep using the site by helping other people learn your native language.
www.mangolanguages.com
Second Life
The Influence of Music on Learning
Music and Memory
Music and Spatial Task Performance
Music and Mood
Mozart Effect
Rats who listen to Mozart perform better in mazes.
This type of highly structured music increases ability in spatial tasks.
Interesting questions raised about the ability to use music in instruction.
This worked well with our experience in Anneke, Greg, and Rob's L2 Language Acquisition. We used "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes" to learn some Japanese words. It worked out much better than for the people
Learning Management Systems
All of these thousands of PLEs, MLEs, VLEs, LMSs, are VLEs - Virtual Learning Environments.
Software system designed to support teaching and learning by giving a consistent method for accessing class information, etc.
VLE
Immersion classrooms versus traditional grammarian approach:
Total Immersion vs. Partial Immersion
Bilingual or Two-Way Immersion
There are, however, some concerns about the child's L1 acquisition. Many times we find that children are lacking comparable competency in either of the languages learned. However, after a few years, these children generally catch up to grade level and sometimes even excel their peers.
Perceived Immersion
(Imagined immersion based on mental imagery)
"Memory characteristics of recently imagined events"
After one week, students who had had the real experience remembered it only as intensely as those who had imagined it.
So the idea is that if we can get students to imagine a situation well enough, they may be able to learn from it as well as if the experience were real.
Independent Study, Japan 43 - Pretend Trip to Japan
Rosetta Stone
"Dynamic Immersion"
Live Mocha
Tandem e-learning to help each other learn languages. Have to earn credits to keep using the site by helping other people learn your native language.
www.mangolanguages.com
Second Life
The Influence of Music on Learning
Music and Memory
Music and Spatial Task Performance
Music and Mood
Mozart Effect
Rats who listen to Mozart perform better in mazes.
This type of highly structured music increases ability in spatial tasks.
Interesting questions raised about the ability to use music in instruction.
This worked well with our experience in Anneke, Greg, and Rob's L2 Language Acquisition. We used "Head, shoulders, knees, and toes" to learn some Japanese words. It worked out much better than for the people
Learning Management Systems
All of these thousands of PLEs, MLEs, VLEs, LMSs, are VLEs - Virtual Learning Environments.
Software system designed to support teaching and learning by giving a consistent method for accessing class information, etc.
VLE
- LMS - Learning Management System
- LCMS - Learning Content Management System
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Weds, 19 Nov 2008
Web 2.0 in the Workplace
Interesting issue raised: do Web 2.0 technologies actually have a legitimate place in the working environment? Some people don't think so.
However, there are some problems that it solves:
Delicious:
Interesting issue raised: do Web 2.0 technologies actually have a legitimate place in the working environment? Some people don't think so.
However, there are some problems that it solves:
- Tribal Knowledge (Searching for expertise): Wikis, Facebook, etc. can be used to supercede the company employee directory to ehlp people find the right person for a particular issue much more quickly.
- Expertise drain: People retire. When people dump all of their knowledge on wikis, then you've got that expertise even after the experts are gone.
- Wikis allow multiple people to access, edit, revise the same information. There is less bottlenecking, because you don't have to wait on the one person whose official job it is to actually make the changes to the company intranet.
- A complete record, beginning to end, of all of the issues, decisions, viewpoints, etc. of everything in a project. Easily distributable, easily searchable, easily updated. The conversation never ends.
Delicious:
- Can help us prevent the duplication of work.
- Thousands of man hours spent researching things.
- Not just one employee needs information.
- Intellectual capital can be leveraged instead of reinventing the wheel every day.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Mon, 17 Nov 2008
Collaboration
Participation - equal among group members
Interaction - Group members actively respond to one another
Synthesis - the product is a synthesis of ideas and input from all members of the group
Collaboration - no individual break up of work, organic, everyone has responsibility for the whole.
Those were really good activities to demonstrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of collaboration vs. cooperation.
Participation - equal among group members
Interaction - Group members actively respond to one another
Synthesis - the product is a synthesis of ideas and input from all members of the group
Collaboration - no individual break up of work, organic, everyone has responsibility for the whole.
- interdependence among group members
- common purpose goal
- all group members contribute to all significant aspects of the work
Those were really good activities to demonstrate the relative strengths and weaknesses of collaboration vs. cooperation.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Wed, 12 Nov 08 - Journal Presentations
TechTrends
CarrieThompson
Bryan Chantry
Sara Moulton
Daryl Glazier
CarrieThompson
- Using media in the classroom for educational purposes
- Four types of disabilities: Their impact on learning
- 8.5% of Americans have a disability that restricts their usage of the computers and internet
- Very practical information, no research articles
Bryan Chantry
- Journal for members of the AEA
- Solicited articles
Sara Moulton
- Topic: Dealing with competing stakeholders
- This is exciting
- Very broad scope, covering everything from intelligent tutors to courseware design
- Something for everyone
Daryl Glazier
- A lot of exciting projects going on, I think I would like to find out more about them.
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