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March 27, 2006
Instructional Design Skills and Techniques: How do you guarantee project success?
Summary: Instructional Design Skills and Techniques: How do you guarantee project success?
"If you are uncomfortable, then your skills are lacking and your technique needs practice."
- Grandfather Stalking Wolf about tracking and wilderness survival techniques
Our eLearning skills and techniques should firmly be rooted in good instructional technology skills and techniques. These skills and techniques require practice. Generally, the more we practice the easier things get.
Through our class project, we are not just studying eLearning concepts and techniques, we are immersed in them. We are using them and dealing with them in a job-specific, project-based exercise, which, according to research, is the best way for people to learn and apply knowledge. Some people are still skeptical, which is okay as this is a normal part of the learning process. Please remember this when you are out working with others that are also skeptical about the process. Remember to collaborate and always think win-win!
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Group 1 - What is eLearning?
Here are our ideas...
1945, Philadelphia - ENIAC
Machines for doing complex mathematical calculations have roots dating back many thousands of years to the Chinese abacus, a set of counting beads in rows on a frame. But by 1945, ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator - had been born. It took up a very large room and had its own air conditioner.
(http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html)
We think this is interesting because before this no one had any idea of creating a computer. What came first the bad sci-fi movies with robots or computers???
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Another Idea..."Birth of Automobile"
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France is considered to have been the first to build a true self-propelled vehicle. In 1769 he unveiled his model, a steam-powered tricycle which carried four passengers for 20 minutes at a top speed of 3.6 km/hr.
From this Henry Ford got the idea for his Model T in 1908.
Here are our ideas...
1945, Philadelphia - ENIAC
Machines for doing complex mathematical calculations have roots dating back many thousands of years to the Chinese abacus, a set of counting beads in rows on a frame. But by 1945, ENIAC - the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator - had been born. It took up a very large room and had its own air conditioner.
(http://www.cbc.ca/kids/general/the-lab/history-of-invention/default.html)
We think this is interesting because before this no one had any idea of creating a computer. What came first the bad sci-fi movies with robots or computers???
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Another Idea..."Birth of Automobile"
Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot of France is considered to have been the first to build a true self-propelled vehicle. In 1769 he unveiled his model, a steam-powered tricycle which carried four passengers for 20 minutes at a top speed of 3.6 km/hr.
From this Henry Ford got the idea for his Model T in 1908.
This story was discovered last Fall while listening to an interview on NPR. The interview is archived at this link.
<A HREF=”http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065810”>Colored Soap Bubbles</A>
Zubbles:
www.zubbles.com
Tim Kehoe was not a trained scientist! He actually works in marketing. About 11 years ago he decided to attempt to add color to soap bubbles. In his first several attempts he tried food coloring, art supplies, and hazardous chemicals in order to add the color to the bubble. After a lot of trial and error, he discovered a PROCESS that actually worked. He would document his tried processes with a notebook. The only drawback was that the color in the bubbles actually stained skin or clothes. Finally, he found that pigments worked and washed off of kids and their clothing. So he brought together a FOCUS GROUP of kids and their parents. He ran a bubble machine where the kids could run through all of the bubbles. He indicated that the parents were scared that the bubble stain wouldn’t wash off, but it did. Eventually, someone asked him to develop a colored soap bubble where the color disappears. He solicited the help of several scientists. Many said that disappearing color from soap bubbles was impossible. He found a chemist who said it could be done. Six months later the chemist had done it. Tim now owns several patients on colored soap bubbles as well as colored soap bubbles that disappear.
<A HREF=”http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5065810”>Colored Soap Bubbles</A>
Zubbles:
www.zubbles.com
Tim Kehoe was not a trained scientist! He actually works in marketing. About 11 years ago he decided to attempt to add color to soap bubbles. In his first several attempts he tried food coloring, art supplies, and hazardous chemicals in order to add the color to the bubble. After a lot of trial and error, he discovered a PROCESS that actually worked. He would document his tried processes with a notebook. The only drawback was that the color in the bubbles actually stained skin or clothes. Finally, he found that pigments worked and washed off of kids and their clothing. So he brought together a FOCUS GROUP of kids and their parents. He ran a bubble machine where the kids could run through all of the bubbles. He indicated that the parents were scared that the bubble stain wouldn’t wash off, but it did. Eventually, someone asked him to develop a colored soap bubble where the color disappears. He solicited the help of several scientists. Many said that disappearing color from soap bubbles was impossible. He found a chemist who said it could be done. Six months later the chemist had done it. Tim now owns several patients on colored soap bubbles as well as colored soap bubbles that disappear.
https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html
The above site introduces viewers to a genetics project. People can participate in this in order to track their genetic histories. The project is novel due to the concept, scope, and the logistics of putting it all together.
This project has a broader mission. Participants will gain understanding of their personal DNA history. In addition to that, if they elect to anonymously contribute their genetic results to the database, they will help define the vast scope of the human genetic journey.
The above site introduces viewers to a genetics project. People can participate in this in order to track their genetic histories. The project is novel due to the concept, scope, and the logistics of putting it all together.
This project has a broader mission. Participants will gain understanding of their personal DNA history. In addition to that, if they elect to anonymously contribute their genetic results to the database, they will help define the vast scope of the human genetic journey.
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,990878,00.html
Europe's Largest Water Bridge Opens
Engineers first thought of joining the Elbe-Havel canal to the Mittelland canal as far back as 1919. Construction of the bridge actually started in the 1930s, but was halted during the Second World War in 1942. Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the bridge will connect Berlin's inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river.
This bridge is being hailed as an engineering masterpiece, two important German shipping canals have been joined by a giant kilometer-long bathtub.
Europe's Largest Water Bridge Opens
Engineers first thought of joining the Elbe-Havel canal to the Mittelland canal as far back as 1919. Construction of the bridge actually started in the 1930s, but was halted during the Second World War in 1942. Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the bridge will connect Berlin's inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river.
This bridge is being hailed as an engineering masterpiece, two important German shipping canals have been joined by a giant kilometer-long bathtub.
The Dippin’ Dots® story brings together science, invention, entertainment, entrepreneurial spirit, and persistence.
Microbiologist Curt Jones first pursued the concept of ice cream innovation in 1987. Curt’s knowledge of cryogenic freezing methods led him to thoughts of creating an ice cream treat consumers would value as unusually fresh and flavorful. Experiments with cryogenically freezing an ice cream mix made from an old family recipe led to the flash-freezing of the very first tiny beads of ice cream. Curt’s theory proved to be true…flash-freezing does make richer, fresher tasting ice cream. Plus, because of the small round shape of the beads his little ‘dots’ were irresistibly fun to eat!
Microbiologist Curt Jones first pursued the concept of ice cream innovation in 1987. Curt’s knowledge of cryogenic freezing methods led him to thoughts of creating an ice cream treat consumers would value as unusually fresh and flavorful. Experiments with cryogenically freezing an ice cream mix made from an old family recipe led to the flash-freezing of the very first tiny beads of ice cream. Curt’s theory proved to be true…flash-freezing does make richer, fresher tasting ice cream. Plus, because of the small round shape of the beads his little ‘dots’ were irresistibly fun to eat!
Microbiologist Curt Jones first pursued the concept of ice cream innovation in 1987. Curt’s knowledge of cryogenic freezing methods led him to thoughts of creating an ice cream treat consumers would value as unusually fresh and flavorful.
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