5minutelesson

For your work plan, you are to develop as a group and submit documentation of the following:

Schedule: A schedule outlining the work to be done, who will do what, and when it will be completed. Don't forget to build in time for drafts, peer review, etc. You may wish to use a table to make it easy to read. Set up a regular communication schedule for your team as well - a time to report back to the group about what progress you have made. If you have any times up ahead where you know you'll be out of town or unable to work, be sure to document that so everyone on the team is aware.
Deliverables: A list of all deliverables you will create for this instruction and their format (instructor manuals, powerpoint slides, web sites, etc.) and a brief description of their purpose/contents - this will be different for each group based on the context in which their instruction is being developed and implemented. Everyone should have some form of instructor materials, learner materials and evaluation materials. Most likely you will have materials such as projected media and activity materials as well.
Outline: An outline of the content (as best you can do at this time; I know some things will evolve/change) that each person is responsible for developing. Be sure to include a listing of what activities you'll create and what media you think you'll need.
Style sheets: Design specifications/style sheets for documentation in all media that will be used. You'll want to determine as a group how you plan to lay out and design pages, what fonts you'll use, etc. Again, some of this may evolve or change a bit over time, but you'll need to make changes as a group so all parts look consistent, so you'll want to start out with a consistent plan right now.

Upon completion of the work plan, you'll like start to work on your individual parts. This work plan will help to ensure that everyone's expectations are met.

I do not expect you to go overboard on the work plan; part of the goal of this assignment is for your team to identify what is a reasonable and useful level of detail at this point in time. (The other part is to encourage good planning and team communication.) At the same time, you should have enough detail so that all members involve have a clear sense of expectations.

What to turn in: Submit a word document titled "work_plan.doc" to your group's work space and send an e-mail once it is submitted and ready to be reviewed.

One page of schedule
One page of deliverables
One page per module/person of outline
One or two pages of style information; if you're really gung-ho, you may create a few sample layout documents or templates with dummy text in them (but this won't affect your grade; I don't want to send everyone into a production frenzy this week!)

This is just a basic guideline to let you know my expectations; there is no "correct" model of a work plan that you must follow. The most important thing is that all issues be addressed clearly and in a way that is acceptable to all group members.

Final Project: Work PLan