Taking the First Steps

Part I

This week was all about setting up blogs, websites, posts, and reading getting started chapters. I have accomplished all of it. Reading chapters 1-3 took the longest amount of time. I read for 3.5 hours which included posts from others, content pages in ecourseware. I Spent 15 minutes watching videos, and about 30 minutes writing responses in the community. I am the lead evaluator. I will primarily oversee the needs analysis and formative evaluation of the eLearning product. This week I spent a lot of time reading.

 Part II

I read assigned chapters as well as information posted in Google community by team awesome. This was important because I am setting the ground work for the project that is ahead. I understand how this connects. Initiating the project is an important first step in which the ground work is laid and roles and responsibilities are established. I have never done anything like this before in that I have not had a real client. I have gone through the instructional design process before with a hypothetical client. But I did not do a project initiation. I understand that I am making the first steps in a project management process. I know that I will be refining as I go along. I think I did okay on the assignment. I really did not have much to do other than read. I connected with my team members as well. I think that is important. I was worried about how we were going to work with a team member being a distant student. But I realize that this is done all the time because there are a lot of companies who have employees that work remotely. I have learned that we have to have established roles and responsibilities and carry them. We have to stay connected through email, video conference and phone. We have assigned roles, so we will move into next weeks assignment ready with set dates and meeting times.