Analysis+Collaboration

= Analysis Collaboration =

Needs analysis:  During a needs analysis, four questions are typically addressed:

 1. What is the change being requested?

 2. Who is requesting this change?

 3. Where will this change need to take place?

 4. Is instruction the most appropriate means for bringing about the desired change?


 * Task analysis:**

1. It defines the content required to solve the performance problem or need.

2. Subtle steps are identified (by working with the subject matter expert)

3. Identify appropriate teaching strategies by viewing content from the learner's perspective. 

According to Dick, Carey and Carey, the following need to be addressed during the analysis of the learners:
 * Learner Analysis:**

1. Entry behaviors:

2. Prior knowledge of the topic area:

3. Attitudes toward the content:

4. Academic motivation:

5. Educational and ability levels:

6. General learning preferences:

7. Attitudes toward the organization giving the instruction:

8. Group characteristics:

Revisions and additions are in red... I have added notes in blue - Jen **Needs Analysis for TechsQuad Wiki Staff Development ** This staff development will focus on using and creating wikis at Charleston Day School, a private school in Charleston, SC for approximately 200 students in grades one through eight.  At this time, there is a faculty wiki started, CDSteach, http://cdsteach.wikispaces.com/ , with several different sections—Why Technology?, Our Needs, Setting Goals, Tips & Tutorials, Keyboarding, Educational Links, Digital Etiquette, Copyright, Web 2.0 Tools, Student Projects, About Computers, and References. The purpose of this wiki is to share information with our (I would suggest using third person throughout the analysis) faculty peers. Teachers can use this to find help to common technology issues or questions, providing a place for self-help. It can also be used to share information about our school technology policies or goals for each grade level, to obtain information about new technologies, to share technology ideas to use in classroom instruction, or simply to communicate information that faculty should know. This resource is limited to the imagination of the faculty members and users. As the technology coordinator at Charleston Day School, it is my goal to encourage faculty to use wikis. I was hired last year to teach technology skills to students in grades one through eight, to help faculty develop better technology skills, to work collaboratively with teachers, and to assist with the development of the school website. Creating wikis is probably an easier task than creating the faculty section of the school website, with all these other responsibilities that I have this year. Using more private, easy to use wikis, might help teachers buy into having a faculty section of the school website, a section that is probably open to the parents of our private school student population. Wikis can give us a place to develop some technology skills and tools, reflect on our needs, and grow in a less risky environment. When faculty are more comfortable with using and creating wikis, we can consider transferring information to a more formal section of the school website. Although the long term goal for this staff development is to have each teacher create his or her own wiki, it is unrealistic to think that all faculty members can successfully accomplish that at this time. ( <span style="color: #0000ff; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">Maybe reword the previous sentence to sound more positive. Such as: Although the long term goal for the staff at Charleston Day School is for all the teachers to create a wiki of their own, the teachers will need the proper training to accomplish this task. Since, many... <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Many of the teachers at the school are not comfortable using technology and neglect to use it any more than they have to use it. These teachers need more basic technology skill development but it is still important for them to see that they can use and contribute to this faculty tool. Recently, a teacher confessed that she has been using the power button to shut down her computer. She isn’t ready to create a wiki. As teachers become more comfortable using this faculty wiki tool, and see the how it can aid in their classrooms, they may be interested in taking the next step—creating a personal wiki for their students. A more realistic goal for Charleston Day School is to engage faculty in using and contributing to the school wiki and assist interested individuals in creating, improving, or elaborating on an individual teacher-made wiki. This diversification will allow for an introduction to wikis for some technology challenged faculty yet allow more technology advanced individuals to quench their thirst for new technology skills and ideas. There are two faculty members at the school who currently use wikis and a third teacher who is in the process of creating one.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Needs Analysis **

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Learners ** <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Although most of the teachers at the school are comfortable with MS Word, according to the results of an online survey, only half feel comfortable creating a basic PowerPoint slide show and less than half feel comfortable with creating a basic Excel spreadsheet. Even fewer use a Web 2.0 tool and most don’t feel comfortable teaching technology skills to students. One fourth said that they have never used a wiki and are not interested in learning about one. The remaining teachers are more open to learning about a wiki to see if it might be something that they could use in their classroom instruction. The thirty teaching faculty members at Charleston Day School is comprised of a variety of individuals, about half under and half over 40 years-old. Surprisingly, about one quarter of the teaching faculty are over 50. Fifteen percent are male. All teachers have school assigned laptops and access to SmartBoards when teaching in the classrooms. One faculty member is an advanced SmartBoard user, two teachers are enthusiastic users of technology in their instruction, the science teachers regularly use streamline and video in instruction, a middle school teacher is using Inspiration with her students, and one teacher is trying to use some online software to enhance math and history instruction. Many of the other teachers use the SmartBoard but don’t seem to use other technology in their instruction. Although teachers frequently ask for help with individual technology needs, few ask for more elaborate staff development. The two or three more advanced users of technology are eager to acquire new skills and technology tools. Along with the diverse technology backgrounds of the teachers, there is also a split in the administration’s attitudes towards technology. Although the headmaster suggests that he wants us to be more technology advanced and endorsed the purchase of some more powerful Dell Latitude laptops for students this year, the primary, intermediate and middle school division heads haven’t demonstrated equal technology support. When monthly Tech Tuesday staff development was suggested for this academic year, the division heads agreed that they could consider requiring that two sessions be mandatory for each staff member but would make the other technology sessions optional. With quickly changing technology, it seems that technology literacy gap is increasing, with many faculty members’ technology skills are falling further and further behind. Because the administration wants to create a faculty website, perhaps they may see this wiki staff development as a stepping stone towards their goal.

**<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">Task Analysis ** <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">1. Introduced to wikis by defining what a wiki is, what it can be used for, and how it can be developed. Several examples of wikis could be shared. 2. Show how to edit a wiki <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">a. Upload files b. Upload, insert, and resize images <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0.75in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">3. Faculty will use the discussion forum to respond to a question such as “How can I use technology in my teaching and learning?” 4. Prior to the staff development training, faculty will respond to a question, such as, “What is one thing that other teachers know about what I teach?” This will be written in MS Word. Working in small groups, faculty will format this according to the wiki guidelines of standard font size and style, and import this into the wiki. 5. Before departure, faculty will respond on the discussion board to one of these questions: <span style="display: block; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 1.25in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px;">a. How can I use this wiki? b. What would I like to see on this wiki? c. How could I use a wiki in my classroom instruction?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jen's Task Analysis for Instruction:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Task Analysis/Possible Sequence for Instruction:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Instruction will cover the following elements, not necessarily in this order:


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pre-Instruction: **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prior to the staff development training, faculty will respond to a question, such as, what is one thing that other teachers know about what I teach? This will be written in Word.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instruction: **


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Set Induction/Prompt (for teachers to respond to): “How can I use technology in my teaching or in my planning of instruction?”
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Introduction to wikispaces.com (What is a wiki?)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Using Wiki to Enhance Instruction and Learning
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">View example educational wikis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Prompt (teachers respond): How do you think you could use wiki in your teaching?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Discussion: Different ways to use wiki in the classroom (teachers share ideas)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Introduction to faculty wiki (http://cdsteach.wikispaces.com/)


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Joining wikispaces.com (setting up an account)
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Editing a wiki:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Adding text to pages
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Changing font style, color and size
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Adding tables
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Uploading documents and images
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Inserting/embedding document and images


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Working in small groups, faculty will format their Word response and import it into the staff wiki
 * <span style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Closure: Faculty will respond to one of these questions, in writing:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How can I use this wiki?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">What would I like to see on this wiki?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How could I use a wiki in my classroom instruction?

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Follow-Up/Techie Tuesday Session (optional session for interested users):


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How to begin/create your own wiki
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Adding new pages; editing navigation bar
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Adding a personal logo/changing the look and feel
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">How to embedded other media into the wiki (such as video from teachertube.com)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3em; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Question answering

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Task Analysis/Outline of what needs to be developed for Instruction: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our Task Analysis: **

<span style="color: black; display: block; font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 14px; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;">After staff development, it is hoped that teachers will use and add to the CDSteach faculty wiki, making it another tool for collaborative teaching and learning. One teacher has already suggested that he would like to add a section about proper grammar, especially for teacher-parent communication. If teachers begin using this tool for discussing various topics, book clubs, teaching tips, and more, then perhaps others will eventually see an opportunity to create a wiki for their students.


 * Data and Results Driven Pre-assessment**

Here is a link to a survey that I created for our teachers. <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-color: initial; background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat; padding-right: 10px;">[] [|Click here to take survey]

Hey Ladies,The changes made look really good. Also, in another class I created video tutorials for using wikispaces. I created them in one of the first classes of the Ed. Tech program, so I am not sure if they are very detailed. I will look for them tonight and get them posted asap. With a little work, I know they would be a good resource. -Latisha 9/27 Here is the final paper!