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IDT 7095/8095 Project Showcase

Michael M Grant — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:13:44 +0000

Tonight is the project showcase for my IDT 7095/8095: Developing Interactive Learning Environments II course. The overwhelming majority of this course is based in working with a “live” external client. At the beginning of the semester, student teams select clients from proposals I have received. Then students work all semester with the client to analyze, design, develop, implement and evaluate a solution to the proposed problem. As part of the showcase, student teams will present an executive summary of their projects’ problems, solutions and evaluations. This semester there are four strong teams.

CBL Designs repurposed text-based instructional job aids for shortening maintenance currently in use at most Long John Silver’s restaurant locations. This redesign incorporated the use of multimedia to attract and motivate learners from 16-25 years old. Their client is Maredith Adsit, Training Developer for Long John Silver’s Restaurant, based in Louisville, Kentucky. CBL Designs combines the expertises of Kristy Conger, Amanda Bevis, and Jeremy Larson.

Design Domicile created a Web-based course to teach written and audio medical terms in Spanish used in a clinical setting. Their client is Dr. William Brescia, the Director of Instructional Technology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center – College of Medicine. Design Domicile’s primaries are Carmen Weaver, Stacy Clayton, and Joey Weaver.

Innovative Design Taskforce developed Web-based, self-paced, and on-demand training that equips subject matter experts at International Paper to write adequate and well-structured assessment items. Deborah Adams, Manager for Enterprise Learning Services, is their client. Innovative Design Taskforce employs Terica Butler, Federico Gomez, and Dot Hale.

Top Stone created a refresher course for Leadership Values for managers to review instructional material and modeling videos through AutoZone’s learning management system. Their client is Kevin Thorn, the LMS administrator at AutoZone. Top Stone’s team includes Linda Sadler, Luther Bradfute, and Suha Tamim.

In addition to the primary project, students are also learning project management. We follow Lynch and Roecker’s (2007) Project Managing e-Learning: A Handbook for Successful Design, Delivery and Management, which is based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK). In addition, we supplement with the Fast Forward MBA in Project Management, which has a wealth of examples and templates built in.

On top of the instructional design models from previous courses, including Morrison, Ross and Kemp and Dick, Carey and Carey, we emphasize rapid prototyping as a development model. So, you can see that students are doing a tremendous amount of work and learning.

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Project Showcase April 22 at 6:00 pm in 301 Ball Hall

Michael M Grant — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 17:15:23 +0000

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IDT 7095/8095 Project Showcase
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM, April 22, 2009
Location: 301 Ball Hall

Dear friends,
I would like for you to add April 22 at 6:00 pm in 301 Ball Hall on the University of Memphis campus to your calendars. Within our Instructional Design & Technology 7095/8095, project teams will be presenting synopses of their projects for this semester in a Project Showcase of live clients. Their work represents approximately $15,000 – 20,000 worth of instructional development. In the showcase, each team of students will present a 15-minute overview of their project and product. This is a professional presentation, and the content of this presentation will represent an executive summary of their projects. I particularly encourage current students in our programs to attend in order to have a stronger vision of the requirements of the course and how your coursework prepares you for this course.

This semester there are four strong teams.

Along with the IDT faculty and the project clients, I hope you can make it.
~michael

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Bookmarks for January 20th through January 21st

Michael M Grant — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 16:08:06 +0000

These are my Jumptags for January 20th through January 21st:

The Simplicity of Helvetica | Webdesigner Depot – Helvetica is one of the most popular typefaces in the world. Technically speaking, it's a sans serif Grotesque typeface, inspired by and based on the
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Free Project Based Learning Resources That Will Place Students At The Center Of Learning « 21 st Century Educational Technology and Learning – A post with a lot of project based learning resources.

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Bookmarks for January 11th through January 12th

Michael M Grant — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 22:03:26 +0000

These are my Jumptags for January 11th through January 12th:

Browsershots – Check browser compatibility, cross platform browser test
Notable | Easiest way for teams to provide feedback on websites. – Notable allows you to quickly and easily give feedback on design, content, and code on any page of a website or application without leaving your browser.
fivesecondtest – Have users provide quick feedback on your design.
Apollo – easy online image proofing – documents, graphic designs, web designs, maps, photographs, and more… – 27stars – Get feedback and annotations on documents, graphics, and websites.
Project Bubble | Simple, Free Project Management and Invoicing Tool – Project Bubble is an easy-to-use project management tool. Easily organise, manage, invoice and share personal or freelance projects.
How Fonts Take a Starring Role in Your E-Learning Courses » The Rapid eLearning Blog – Tom Kuhlmann offers some insight and suggestions for selecting typefaces.
Usabilla – Transparent Usability: Lean and mean testing – Remote usability testing to collect feedback on a webpage,mockup,sketch or image.

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Bookmarks for December 9th through December 10th

Michael M Grant — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:05:00 +0000

These are my Jumptags for December 9th through December 10th:

How To Explain To Clients That They Are Wrong – Smashing Magazine – GIFs of spinning s on the Contact us page. Common usability mistakes for the sake of visual appeal. Splash pages. Fancy search box. No whitespace. Music on page load….
How to Deal with Feature Creep | Webdesigner Depot – If any assumption is safe, it’s that six months after launching a website (or sooner?), its owners will have a list of things they want to change, from minor
Project Timeline (Marine Theme) – Google Docs Templates – This is a template for Google Docs for project schedule tracking.
Cover it Live – TBR08 – Michael Grant – Barry Dahl covered my keynote live and I didn't even know it.
6 Hilarious Social Media Motivational Posters – These posters are not the usual motivational posters you see hanging around offices. In fact, the little quotes we see on them aren’t exactly motivating and might even be insulting to social media users. Any offense is obviously intentional, but it’s…
Sketchy Web Icons: 30 Hand Drawn Icon Pack | Tutorial9 – This Icon Pack includes 30 Hand-Drawn Web Design Icons. This is the perfect set for adding that handmade feel to your own creations online.
Secrets to a Faster and Attractive Web Site Design Revealed | Web Design | instantShift – A web designer has many challenges to tackle. The creation of an attractive web site is as important as sending the message across effectively. After all, a web , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
Evaluation Wiki – Mlawiki – This wiki is an ongoing project initiated by the MLA Committee on Information Technology (CIT) as a way for the academic community to develop, gather, and share materials about the evaluation of work in digital media for purposes of tenure and promot…
How Getting An F On Your School Paper Makes You A Better Blogger – This guest post was written by Rob Sutton from Ramped Reviews. Image by kharied. This comes to be a surprise …
HOW TO: Manage Successful Social Media Promotions – Retailers are getting more traffic and sales from social media sites. Here are some great tips for turning social media buzz into social shopping buy.
Easy front-end framework – Easy front-end framework is all in one front-end solution. It includes CSS, HTML and JavaScript predefined code that you can easily use and reuse on your projects.
50 High-Quality Free Fonts for Professional Design – Designers love to have a lot of quality fonts available to them, and fortunately there are some very good free fonts out there. In this post we'll feature some of the best free fonts that can be used in your commercial designs. If you're looking for …
22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks | Tutorials | instantShift – WordPress needs no introduction among designers and writers. It’s usually known as a synonym for blogging. Now days every other WordPress blogs look more or , Daily Resource for Web Designers and Developers.
From Blank Screen To Web Design In 5 Easy Steps – Learn a simple, five-step web design process to make sure you include the basic elements every website needs while freeing your mind to be more creative.
New Branding Revealed For Winter Olympics 2014 – The official logo for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics was revealed last week. This is the first winter games to be held in Russia and it is the first Olympic logo to include an internet URL.

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Bookmarks for October 13th through October 15th

Michael M Grant — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 08:05:00 +0000

These are my Jumptags for October 13th through October 15th:

Weebly – Create a free website and a free blog – Weebly has now added an education section. Weebly is perfect for creating classroom websites, student e-portfolios, and websites for assigned projects.
Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial for Creating Layouts in Dreamweaver | Layers Magazine – This tutorial covers the process of building a CSS-based layout from scratch using Dreamweaver. Great beginner tutorial.
Free Adobe Dreamweaver Tutorial | CSS Tutorial – Basics of Working with Cascading Style Sheets | Layers Magazine – This tutorial covers the basics of creating CSS in Dreamweaver using the CSS Rule dialog. Great intro.
Adobe Flash Tutorial | Creating an interactive story in Adobe Flash part 2 – A simple tutorial for moving around Flash CS3. Part 2.
Adobe Flash Tutorial | Creating an interactive story in Adobe Flash – A simple tutorial in two parts for moving around Flash CS3.
Flash CS4 |Timeline Animation | Motion Editor | Layers Magazine – With Flash CS4 now has auto-keyframing, a full-featured motion editor, and—most importantly—the ability to animate each property of an object separately from one another.
Open Access Educational Technology journals – George Veletsianos – One of the resources developed for my students is a listing of open access journals (name, url, and RSS feed) that publish papers on the nexus between technology and education (educational technology, instructional design, e-learning, online distance…
Best Time-Tracking Application: Klok – Time management – Lifehacker – Earlier last week we asked you to share your favorite time-tracking applications and then we rounded them up for your review.
The speed of information – The speed of information between neurons.
33 Websites For Vector Images Download | Pro Blog Design – Here is a list of free vector images for download, if you're designer and look for vector images for your design project, you can simply download this…
3 Ways To Find The Best Website Color Scheme – Learn how to pick a website color scheme that keeps visitors engaged. Includes a list of questions to ask clients and a color psychology cheat sheet.
Using John Keller’s ARCS model to motivate online learners « Onlignment – ARCS provides a good summary of the issues to be considered when designing a learning intervention. In particular it makes sense to me when putting together a live online learning event.
Live Online Learning – a facilitators guide « Onlignment – To download your free copy of “Live Online Learning – a facilitator’s guide” just sign up for the free newsletter.
Healthcare Napkins wins World’s Best Presentation Contest 2009 | SlideShare Blog – Thousands of presentations are uploaded to SlideShare everyday. But some catch your eye from the moment they get uploaded. Tha's the case with the winning
5 Steps to Slide Design for Non-Designers by Ellen Finkelstein | SlideShare Blog – I’ve come up with 5 steps that you can take to create a presentation that will work, even if you’re not a designer.

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