The Instructional Technologist must have a firm grasp on the iterative process of Design and Development. Consequently, this section was designed to highlight one of my finer artifacts that demonstrate my understanding of this process.
Artifacts and Reflections
- ETEC 544: Flint and Steel Video Tutorial
- Explanation:The above link will take you to a video I created to demonstrate how to create fire with flint and steel. This project was created to provide a mock company, Mountain Men Inc., with a training resource needed to instruct counselors on how to create fire with flint, steel, char cloth, and a nest. This exercise simulates an on-the-job training resource that might be implemented for OJT trainers who are teaching a specific skill to others in the organization--in this case counselors of a camping organization to the campers they serve.
- Reflection:The assignment called for duplicating the skills needed to create fire from simple materials. I was given raw video and pictures of the process and asked to create an OJT-type module that would allow counselors in our mock business to learn the skill of creating fire with flint and steel. I decided a video training module would be most productive in this scenario as the stipulations was the business wanted to have a delivery method that would facilitate training counselors from remote locations. Consequently, a video would enable the business to ship via hard medium the training module or post it on the Internet to allow access to any satellite location they might have.