About ADDIE

ADDIE in our instructional design filed means Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Though having been knowing its importance and application to certain extent since entering EdTech Program, I myself seemed to experience this tonight while making some preparation for my planned study group.

I have thought forming an online English Study Group for a while, possibly as early as I was taking the comprehensive exam. As I have always been such a procrastinator, the plan was not realized until tonight I started to build a platform by Google Site. My intention of having Google Site as the platform, obviously, is to take its advantages of multifunctionality such as wiki, discussion forum, and easy-to-build-a-website feature. Yet there are always problems that I cannot fix, even though I tried to use its template. Finally, or I should say, for now, I stopped.

Stopping does not mean giving up. I paused a little bit and hold back, trying to contemplate what my purpose is to have a platform, how the study group may run, and what functions the platform may need. Having these questions in mind, all of sudden, reminds me of ADDIE, specifically, analysis. Now it seems so clear that what I need is not a Google Site, but a simple blog should be sufficient, as long as the platform can serve the function of providing spaces for participants to share information, make contribution, and raise questions.

The logic is so self-explanatory yet I was so attracted to the fancy functions and interface by a Google Site can offer. So now you see ADDIE is really simple but important. What's more, when it comes to put ADDIES into real practice, there seems to be always some awkwardness, which, I think, is something we need to overcome.

using google site to build up my website for resume

This is it: Gaze Upon Ying-Chu Liao (Angela Liao). Still under construction. Don't know when to finish, what to include, and how to build. Everything to me is still in the phase of exploration, though I used to use google site creating my learning object.

When it comes to why to build this website, what I have is nothing but maybe merely a vague attempt that I want to include all my relevant experiences and qualifications and accomplishments to win some offer from some employers. To some extent, I think the attempt itself is crystal clear. The purpose is self-explanatory enough to understand.

What is tricky is that what job I want to seek when becoming the job-seeker. All too often I have been bombarded with this hard-to-answer question, and all too often my answer is "as long as there is an employer who can offer me the opportunity". Such answer is practical, yet it is impractical as well, for it would be difficult to find a job you really want if one doesn't know what he or she wants to do. As I'm not clear about what job I will be looking forward to after graduation, I cannot set a specific direction for my resume website. Without the direction, I think what I do now is merely to repeat what I present in my paper-based resume, in a more detailed manner. However, I know that mere repetition wouldn't do me good for my job-hunting. From the resume I must show something more than paper resume and relevant to the job I will be seeking then.

That to clarify the direction really matters.