Completed this week
Turn in proposal.  I also found an interesting grant that may be related to my study. 


http://www.instructure.com/press-releases/canvas-grants-announcement

The categories are:

HIGHER ED CATEGORIESFor Higher Ed, Canvas is offering five grants of $10K apiece. Can’t find a category that fits your idea? Just pick the closest one. We want the best ideas, whether or not they fit into our tidy little boxes.

• Facilitating competency-based learning
• Engaging students throughout the course of their education
• Blending online and face-to-face courses
• New models of content and curriculum development and sharing
• Applying universal design to online learning

Social media and/or gaming could be a focus in the grant.

To do this week
I am looking into this grant to see if this is something that would fit with my study.  I will also work on the pretest.

Completed this week

Completed this week

Completed this week
Updated proposal.  Created sample game for Level 1 to get an idea of how students could move throughout the game.  The sample game is inside of a free Canvas course that can be used for the study or copied into a new course.  Updated pretest.

To do this week
Complete proposal and follow guidelines:
 
"Writing a Master’s Thesis is a privilege that is available to students who demonstrate excellence in their writing abilities and in their ability to do rigorous academic research. Before a student is allowed to enroll in thesis credit, Spanish 5950, and to work with a thesis director, there are several steps the student must take: The student will write a 10-15 page thesis prospectus in which the student outlines the topic of study and gives a coherent, well researched thesis statement and initial development. In addition, the student will write a bibliography of at least 12 secondary sources. It is recommended that the student develop the proposal with direction from one or more Spanish professors, but only once the student’s prospectus has been approved by the Spanish Graduate Faculty will the student be able to officially work with a Thesis Advisor. If the written prospectus is approved by the graduate faculty for defense, the student will then be given the opportunity to defend the prospectus in an oral presentation before the Spanish faculty, who will then decide whether the student may proceed with the thesis. If a student’s prospectus is turned down, the student may continue with the Non-thesis Option and will be expected to take the M.A. Comprehensive Exams.

• November 1st is the deadline for those students planning to enroll in thesis credit for spring semester. The defense must take place no later than November 15th.

Once the prospectus has been defended and approved, then the student will select a Thesis Advisor and choose a thesis committee. At that point the student may enroll in Spanish 5950."
 

 

Completed this week
Updated proposal.  I worked with Adobe Captivate and tested out 1 game design.  So far Captivate is a great choice for a practice activity.  I also tested out a claymation character.  I am pleased with the looks of the character.  Now on to the challenge of how to move a claymation character in various positions, like jumping.  Sent draft of 1st lesson video script.

To do this week
Updating proposal more.  Completing the game for the sample game.  Update the pretest/posttest.

Completed this week
Updated proposal and sent to Thesis advisor for review.
For the content lesson videos, I am looking into claymation videos.  I put together a draft of the lesson video and found songs for several of the Spanish commands.
I completed the training courses for the IRB process.

To do this week
Work on Pretest; take other IRB course through the university next week

Completed this week

Updated proposal

Downloaded trial version of Captivate, but I'm having trouble accessing it. I'm trying to contact their Helpdesk on this.

To do this week

Update pretest

Complete IRB online course

Completed this week

I finished up a draft of the pretest:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/16rVnK5dwSxhi0HCFg_9nVVTgumul_Dch4_4YCuja0Jc/viewform

There are only about 10 vocabulary words on there right now. I wanted to double check how the questions look and the types of questions before fully finishing the pretest. Also I have added a test image, not a real one. I will be using images from the dance video I create.

To do this week

Update the pretest and proposal

Completed this week
I created a new Twitter account for the study so that I could track all my followers more specific to this study.  Here is my new Twitter account: 
https://twitter.com/NaomiWahls.
I've completed one of the training courses from IRB and half of the other.

To do next week
Work on the pretest

This week-

Started web page for study on my Spanish portfolio site.

Requested my POI number for COMIRB and added the course trainings for COMIRB.

I also started the survey in Google and added the link to it on the study web page.

To do next week

Start the training pages

Complete the forms online

Complete the Google Survey for the pretest