Introduction
For my ETEC-578 course, we journaled our progress each week through a series of blogs which I have listed below:
At the beginning of our ETEC-578 course, we were instructed to choose a technology outside the Brightspace learning management system at TAMUC to begin weekly electronic journaling. This was to serve several purposes so that we could have access to our work outside of this course, and second, this allowed us to access this work after the course ends to either link to it or select entries from it for your program eportfolio. We were allowed to choose from various online tools: a blog, wiki, Sway, or any other tool in the TAMUC Microsoft Tool Stack. From there, I reviewed various online software applications to use. Still, later I decided to work with Google Blogspot because it was intuitive and did not include distracting advertisements within the sites like others did. our primary purpose in applying instructional design models or processes, such as the ADDIE model, is to solve some sort of problem. When introducing yourself to the class, you indicated your instructional design project's topic or subject area. For my first journal entry, I shared my thoughts on what problem my instructional design project will address. I used a systematic process for identifying the root cause of a problem; this process is known as the 5 Whys. The following link is the Google Blogspot I used and will direct you to the journaling Blogspot site, which includes my class work journaling assignment.
ETEC-578 Instructional Design & Development (ejournals-alstovall.blogspot.com)
Reflection
Reflecting on this course’s experience, I remember learning the systematic approaches needed to design and develop instruction. During this course, we explored the phases of the instructional design process, including analysis, design, development, implementation, and evaluation, which stands for ADDIE. Following up on this course’s completion, I learned instructional design processes. I shared the final project I created through planning and creating a needs assessment, established performance objectives, and instructional strategies, with instruction and evaluation methods. I journaled my learning experience processes and journeyed each week through a digital blog online. In addition, I engaged in weekly peer reviews of my learning experiences and feedback, where I refined the instructional design process of my project and ultimately completed and published my final project. This learning process through my graduate work was necessary, thorough, and meaningful, and I will be able to now take this knowledge and skills with me and use them in my current academic work as well as my future personal and professional endeavors.