Management
“It involves controlling Instructional Technology through planning, organizing, coordinating, and supervising” (Seems & Richey, 1994, p. 49). The domain of management includes four subdomains of theory and practice: Project Management, Resource Management, Delivery System Management, and Information Management.
Having 15 years of experience in a managerial role at an academic facility, I have always attempted to be as organized as possible and pay attention to how resources and time are used and accounted for, especially in the team environment. However, in building instructional materials and learning what goes into producing quality instructional materials through ITMA courses like Applied ID Theory and Program and Product Evaluation, I gained a new level of appreciation for the management that needs to take place in order for everything to be completed in a timely and effective manner. Additionally, when it came to managing a website for essentially the first time, on my own, I learned valuable information about exactly what I was needing to manage and the time and effort that had to be applied to make that happen.
Project Management
"Project management involves planning, monitoring, and controlling instructional and development projects" (Seels & Richey, 1994, p.50).
For this assignment, I planned out and filmed a 2 minute video that was shot using over 10 different photographic angles in order to convey a short story that could be understood by an audience. In order to accomplish this, I had to plan out every shot, monitor how each shot met the next, and control how every angle was created in order to produce a video that encompassed very little sound, while still getting the point across. When I started this project, I was honestly not sure how it would progress. However, with the use of carefully created storyboards and a patient actor, I was pleasantly surprised with the end product.
Resource Management
"Resource management involves planning, monitoring, and controlling resource support systems and services" (Seels & Richey, 1994, p.51).
This time log was used to track the time I spent planning, analyzing, and completing other tasks associated with writing the research paper titled, “The Effectiveness of Using Lightboard Videos on Student Learning and Their Overall Perceptions in an Asynchronous Online Freshmen Level Mathematics Course Taught at the Math Emporium,” for Project and Report. This time log is a perfect example of resource management because it illustrates how I divided my time throughout this project and how I was able to organize my time throughout the semester in order to watch over 63 light board videos, analyze them and complete other pieces of the project before the submission deadline.
Delivery System Management
"Delivery system management involves planning, monitoring, and controlling 'the method by which distribution of instructional materials is organized'... [it is] a combination of medium and method of usage that is employed to present instructional information to a learner" (Seels & Richey, 1994, p.51).
One of my responsibilities at the Math Emporium is to manage the facility’s website and the instructional materials contained within it so that they are organized and easily viewed by both instructors and students throughout a given semester. My work in overseeing the management of this website illustrates delivery system management because there is a lot of necessary planning that goes into maintaining a website like this and as one of the website managers, I am constantly having to monitor its content and make changes based on the current semester, the needs of the students, and any updates that become necessary to support the facility’s online instructional model.
Information Management
"Information management involves planning, monitoring, and controlling the storage, transfer, or processing of information in order to provide resources of learning" (Seels & Richey, 1994, p.51).
This is an image showcasing how I organized the content I used to build a website using Adobe Dreamweaver for Applied ID Theory. Because I built this website from scratch and didn’t utilize a webpage editor to assist in its development, it was very important that all of my files were constructed in a particular way to ensure that each html page worked as it was intended and the flow of the website was maintained. I initially decided to build this website in Dreamweaver out of a desire to learn more about coding, but in the end I learned so much more and I now have a deeper appreciation for managing information that was intricately woven into this project. For there were definitely times when I wanted to just throw a file into a miscellaneous folder and be done with it, but couldn’t because of the impact it would have when I needed to retrieve it for a piece of code on three different html pages.