Week 4 Reflections - Action Plan Refinement

In my meeting with my site supervisor, I gleaned several suggestions which have impacted my action plan.  One adjustment which I have made to my plan is making some slight changes to the timeline.  I also added another evaluation element into the project in the form of an analysis of webinar recordings.  A final point of our discussion was the development of norms for webinar conduct.  These will be developed from information on the pre-survey and researched based information.  Ms. Sellhorn also advised me to inform our clerk of the additional responsibilities with more webinars than usual.  He sets up the webinar rooms and moderates the webinars.  He will have to learn to adjust to the levels of moderation depending on if the webinar has a straightforward audio presentation or is two-way audio enabled.  Finally, we discussed some particulars of the professional development that we will provide after the pre-survey.  Those specifics included choice of levels of moderation, how to control documents during webinars, and how to annotate on PDF documents effectively.  After meeting with Ms. Sellhorn, I feel that my plan is refined and will better meet the needs of the education specialists.

Week 3 Reflections

Having settled on my action research question, I set out to construct my plan.  Setting a timeline became my outline and then I started plugging in the various activiities which will drive the progress of the project.  I found that the readings from the books, along with the discussions with the course's instructors helped to clarify some of the areas which were still vague to me.  I hope to have more feedback for my plan which is posted on this blog that will help me to refine my plan.  I have already thought of a few more ways to "tweak" my action research to make it more effective.

Action Research Plan_Barbara Grayson

Action Research Plan 7.1 Tool Barbara Sue Grayson  EDLD 5301–Research –ET8027 – Cohort 16
Goals:  -       Identify skill set for conducting effective webinars. -       Develop appropriate staff development opportunities to teach the skill set to education specialists in the regional service center -       Increase the skills of education specialists in delivery of webinars
Action Steps	Persons Responsible	Timeline: Start/End	Resources	Evaluation
1.  Discuss goals of action research, set audience, determine timeline	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn	November – December , 2010	Notes on discussion progression, laptop	Determination of action research goal, audience, timeline
2.  Construct pre-survey	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn	January 2011	Schoolwires Survey Tool access, internet access, collected research on webinars, laptop	Review by site supervisor, coordinator
3.  Administer pre-survey	B. Grayson	January 2011	Online survey, internet access, education specialists	Survey completion within time frame
4.  Evaluation of pre-survey resulting in grouping of education specialists by level of proficiency	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn	January 2011	Online survey results, reports, internet access, laptop	Report with listing of education specialists by proficiency level
5.  Formulation of professional development sessions for webinar implementation to support curriculum	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn R. Rodriguez	January 2011	Laptop/desktop, internet access, online professional development system, survey analysis	Professional development session descriptions, workshop setups, webinar setups
6.  Implementation of professional development sessions for webinar implementation	E. Sellhorn R. Rodriguez	February 2011	Evaluation data, laptop, internet access, online professional development system, administrative rights to Adobe Connect Room, Region One DL Studio	Tracking sheet for frequency of webinar occurrence
7.  Webinar sessions to be conducted by education specialists to support core subject area curriculum	Education specialists Teacher/ Administrative Participants B. Grayson E. Sellhorn R. Rodriguez	Will be scheduled between February –May 2011	Laptop/, internet access, Adobe Connect Rooms,  DL Studio as needed	Completion of scheduled webinars
8.  Conduct post-survey	Education specialists B. Grayson E. Sellhorn	June 2011	Laptop/desktop, internet access	Completion of post-survey
9.  Analyze post-survey, webinar evaluations	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn	July 2011	Webinar evaluations, post-survey results, laptop, internet access, presentation	Analysis report
10.  Share results of analysis	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn H. Hesbrook E. Cancino Department Coordinators	August 2011	Meeting room, laptop, projector, presentation, analysis report, workshop frequency report	Collection of feedback from administrators and coordinators
11.  Determine “What’s Next?” for webinar use for education specialists	B. Grayson E. Sellhorn H. Hesbrook E. Cancino Department Coordinators	August 2011	Laptop	List of possibilities