Week 16, May 7 - 12, 2006

We've been working diligiently on the final presentation. Did a run through with Kevin and Nada this week. Got great feedback. I think once I calm down and practice, the final presentation will be great!

Week 15, May 1 - 5

We are in presentation mode. Tim and I worked on the final powerpoint presentation, which we will deliver to Dr. Clark on May 11th.

I am working on completing my EDIT 590 project, I must tabulate the result of the survey. It is funny. I thought I was not understanding anything from the class, but was able to complete the interim test, which actually proved to me that I do understand what Dr. Kelly was teaching.

Qualitative research can be said to have been used by T/TAC during the needs,task and performance analaysis

Quantitative research can be said to have been used during our learning analysis.

I finally got that. Now, to use it on the job.

Week 14, April 24 - 28, 2006

Things are coming along. We are in the final stages of development. We had several iterations of usability testing or as we say in ISD, formative evaluaiton.

I spent the weekend tabulating the usability results. The testing helped us fine tune the EPSS. This definately a must. Without formative evaluation a system could be launced that is the exact opposite of what is needed. Our testing generated enough comments to help us make changes such as enlarging fonts and logon screen. Adding text to navigation and other functionality changes. We probably would not have implemented most of the changes without the usability testing. It was a step in the model that can be overlooked, but that is why we are in this program to know what to do, and when to do it. We got great feedback.

It's so interesting to see how all of the steps in the ISD process worked for our project. Without the needs analysis, performance analysis, learner analysis and task analysis, we would not have been able to understand fully the needs of the user. Especially since the client was asking for a community of practice. We were on that route for awhile before we finally were able to convince the client that we were not developing a Community of Practice and persuade them that we were actually developing an EPSS or a performance support system. It actually feels good to develop a system that gives the user what they need to do their job. The process works when followed.

Week 13, April 17 - 21, 2006

Sick all week!