Sunday, September 6, 2015

Blog Assignment 1 - Analysis

Week’s Summary
                   
This week, we worked on our course outline. For the course outline, we figured out some important aspects of our chosen course such as type of students we would teach and general goals of our chosen course. The main lesson this week was the analysis phase of the project which includes instructional goals, instructional analysis, learner analysis, and learner objectives.

Item of Interest

I enjoyed watching the ADDIE video on analysis. The information it had was insightful. I did not know that instructional analysis was so in-depth. I will keep it in mind when developing my course. My course is fundamentals of public speaking. At first, I dreaded public speaking, but now I love it. The skills I learned from public speaking proved to be useful. I have spoken at church events and school events. I even won an award for public speaking a couple years ago. Keeping in mind the instructional analysis phase of my course, I initially thought public speaking did not have many steps. However, once I did my course outline I realized it has several steps like using basic rules of grammar, constructing speech outlines, awareness of different writing techniques, and etc. Now, I understand that instructional analysis contains the building blocks that lead to having a successful course. To better understand instructional analysis, I found the site http://www.slideshare.net/BarbskiessHaug/conducting-instructional-analysis. It provides easy ways to construct an instructional analysis.

Problem or Concern

I could use assistance in knowing a better way of choosing general goals that are appropriate for my course I am developing. For instance, one of my course goals is for students to identify principles of audience for various speeches. However, I am not sure if I should be more specific about the types of various speeches that will be presented in my course. Any help would be appreciated.

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