Final Stages

Team Meeting: 2 hours.

Working on pretest/posttest in Quizmaker: 2 hours.

Reviewing scenario and design: 0.5 hour.



During the team meeting, the discussion revolved around the documentation that needed to be submitted as well as the prototype of the unit created. As far as documentation, work is still being done on editing and reviewing. As for the prototype, the team manager updated the team on her meeting with the client during which she presented to him the prototype. The client was pleased with the prototype and suggested minor additions. Both of my teammates are now working on finalizing the rest of the scenarios, designing, and developing the rest of the subunits. As we proceed through this stage, each subunit is being sent to the team members for feedback. The first subunit looks really good. However, I felt that the second subunit deviated from the objectives, scenario, and strategy that we have originally agreed upon and subsequently, the design of the second subunit changed as well. I expressed that in my feedback: we have to stay aligned with objectives and instructional strategy. My role in putting the pretest and posttest in Quizmaker was relatively simple. However, since my free trial has expired on my laptop, I had to download it again on my home computer and work from there. One feature I do not like about Quizmaker is that it shuffles the questions and the answers within each question by default. However, by trying to go around that, I learned more about Quizmaker and Articulate and this was a plus. Our pretest/posttest cannot be shuffled because we have tried to simulate a problem-solving approach by developing questions around one scenario that progress through the process of using the leadership values to solve problems.

Reflections: More lessons learned about group dynamics. Reflecting on the last team meeting, I felt that I have learned more about myself. I have to work very hard on taming my frustrations when my expectations of work ethics and quality of work are not met. I still get sensitive towards non-constructive criticism and I have to thicken my skin and not show emotions in the meeting because it does not lead anywhere. However, at this point, I am concerned about more disagreement that will jeopardize the timely submission of the required materials of the project. I hope my next blog post will announce the finalization of the development project and the formative evaluation plan.