March 27, 2015 report

Taskstream Video Tutorial

Gretchen Fricke’s IT 598 Final Project

Spring 2015

March 27, 2015 report

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Again, it doesn’t seem like a lot of progress has been made.  I spent a good deal of time finalizing my jury 2 this past month. I feel like I’m progressing at a very slow rate on this project.  Here are the updates:

·         I met with another program director to get a different perspective of the problems students are experiencing.  The students in this other program are not experiencing any problems, but most students are using a smart phone, iPad or laptop.  That suggests to me that many of the problems students are having in the elementary program might be related to the cameras that are available for checkout (see my last report for my frustrating experience with those cameras).

·         After that meeting, I did a short survey of teacher education students coming into our office.  I asked “In order to complete an assignment that requires the creation of a video file, I would use the following equipment that I currently own.”  The responses broke down as follows:

iPhone/iPad	Smartphone	Laptop	Other	Do not own/need to check out
5	7	9	0	1

The student who marked “I do not own one of these and would need to check out equipment” also indicated they had a smartphone.  Several students indicated more than one option.  This leads me to believe very few students will actually need to check out the difficult to use equipment.  I discussed this with my client and will refocus the project accordingly.

·         I have completed the task analysis and am starting to write the script for the video tutorials.

·         Based on the task analysis, I developed storyboards and presented them to the client.  After some discussion, we have decided to break this project into two videos; one focusing on how to shoot the video and the second focusing on how to upload, edit, format and submit the video.  My revised storyboard follows:

·         A group of students just went through the process of shooting and uploading a video.  They will all be together on March 27.  In conjunction with the SME/client, we developed a survey to see where students found the most difficulty.  I will use the feedback from that survey to make adjustments as needed to the final project.

·         I’ve also revised the timeline:

Date	Completed	Task
February 15	ü	Obtain access to Taskstream. Understand issues facing student and faculty.
February 28	ü	Take sample video to test equipment and perform task analysis.
March 6 March 23	ü	Complete task analysis. Start storyboards to map out video tutorial.
March 13 March 30		Obtain faculty input on storyboards and make necessary adjustments. First prototype developed.
March 20 April 10		Faculty review of prototype. Think Aloud evaluation by 1-2 students.
March 27 April 15		Final prototype delivered.
April 15		Finish all project documentation.