15/5 Week Four

We are still hard at work on our Needs Assessment. At our team meeting last week, we began to edit and review our draft Needs Assessment. As it was written, the problem statement described a gap in the type of instruction occurring (a lack of situated cognition/contextual learning). After much discussion with the team and Greg, we decided that we needed to rework our problem statement to reflect a gap in knowledge, since that's what our module is addressing. We realized at our meeting that our project had the potential to be very challenging due to the dual nature of our client's goals (educate about whales AND provide instruction based in situated cognition).

After the meeting, we emailed Dr. Schell and Alissa and communicated with them about the change in the problem statement. They both offered feedback and Dr. Schell also sent us links to two articles that could help in writing our the verification section of the Needs Assessment. The team feels confident that they are okay with the change. We are currently working through the articles and hope to have the Needs Assessment completed by Monday. The team also decided to go ahead and create a separate Scope Document since the clarification of scope has come up several times already in our meetings.

We also divided several other tasks that are upcoming: Objectives List, Task Analysis, and Timeline. Our plan of attack is for one team member to create a draft version of the document (posting questions to the wiki as needed), and then we'll come together as a team to edit and finalize each piece.

We also divided up the projects that we need to review for the Blue Sock Award. It's been a busy week for Imaginative Designs - and there's more work on the way!

To Do:

• Blue Sock Judging (tomorrow)
• Complete Needs Assessment and Scope Doc (Monday)
• Complete drafts of Objectives/Task Analysis/Timeline