Formative: Did the project get implemented as planned?
There were no major deviations from the original proposed plan. It was interesting to look at the feedback I had gotten about my plan however. It seemed clear that I had not explained as clearly as I could have the reasons for and ideas about how to implement my website. As of right now I have a lot of work to do to get this up and running for next year. There is a ton of content that needs to be written. Thankfully I have the help of the teacher that I will be working with next year.
Summative: Evidence of success in addressing the problem of practice.
This is a hard question to answer as this was not intended to go live until the '11-'12 school year. We plan to enlist the help of some students this summer in gauging their reactions to the work that has already been completed and how it can be bettered. This is really formative in nature but since I will have no other evidence of success it will have to serve as summative until I can see what really happens. I can say that my teaching partner for this project was really excited to see the work that I had done and was anxious to add to it.
How would you approach another project of this type differently given what you’ve learned here?
I don't think that I would go about doing much differently that I have. I believe strongly that this will be a exceptionally useful next year. For my personal sanity, I might have chosen a project with a smaller scope. It has been really difficult to deal with the vast number of things (different technologies, producing content, aesthetics...) required to produce this project. However, I think the fact that it was difficult and did force me to think about so many different aspects is what makes it a superior choice to an easier topic.
What are the lessons learned that others might benefit from knowing about?
I think the biggest lesson to be learned is that it is a bad idea to pick a technology and then try to wrap a context around it. From having watched my group members blog postings it seemed like many of them realized there were some issues with their chosen technology once they reached the TPACK phase of the assignment. TPACK obviously provided a reflective tool to evaluate whether a proposed solution was good or not. However, I think TPACK is much better used as a tool to guide me in the construction phase. I would prefer to see Part C of this assignment exchanged with part B for this reason.
In what ways will you endeavor to do the same project again, and what will you change or not do?
I have a feeling that I will be busy for some time completing the current project. I anticipate that it will be continuously revised and refined once we see it in action. In that sense I am not sure that I will move on to doing another project like this for quite a while.
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