Sub-Badge 1: ID Professional Communicator

Challenge 1: Solicit, accept, and provide constructive feedback. 

Criteria for successful completion of this challenge: Evidence must demonstrate asking for, providing critique and utilizing feedback to improve one’s own performance or work.  

Reflection must address: How you have asked, utilized and provided feedback to others.   

Artifact

Discussion Document

Reflection

I have selected “Feedback discussion on instructional materials (EDCI 572, ‘Using Media and Visuals’ discussion posts)” as the artifact to demonstrate how I solicit, accept, and provide constructive feedback while designing and developing an instructional design project. I have selected this artifact because it clearly demonstrates how I asked for and incorporated peer feedback while designing media and visuals and also shows how I conducted thoughtful analysis and provided constructive feedback to peers on their media selections.

This competence is important because a real-world instructional design project relies heavily on peer feedback in every step of the process and collaboration among stakeholders. Examples of how this artifact demonstrates this competency include the following: For my media design, I received feedback including clearly showing where the artifact would be incorporated in the module, adding a guiding question to stimulate conversation, and adding a visual on safety aspects. I incorporated all these aspects into my final design on the PowerPoint slides, as shown in the artifact. In turn, I provided feedback to peers, emphasizing why their media choice was solid and how to correlates to important principles like behavior change.

My previous work experience in instructional design projects helped me navigate both giving and receiving feedback successfully, by adopting an open-minded approach to improve my project work to better suit learner’s needs. For example, in a previous project on creating a job aid for an SEL MoodMeter, I incorporated user feedback to re-arrange objects on the job aid to naturally improve workflow. Staying attentive to feedback helped me put the learner at the center of the design process.

The “Feedback discussion on instructional materials (EDCI 572, ‘Using Media and Visuals’ discussion posts” worked as a very appropriate artifact for feedback challenge because it clearly demonstrated and provided proof of soliciting and accepting feedback to improve performance. Some important things I learned while earning this challenge include how to structure feedback comments to maintain positivity and encouragement. In the future, I will use this competency extensively to make improvements to my instructional design projects and provide constructive feedback to peers.

Challenge 2: Write and edit messages that are clear, concise, and grammatically correct

Criteria for successful completion of this challenge: Evidence must demonstrate the conveying ideas in writing using effective techniques and formats suited to help the reader best understand; composes clear, concise and complete messages. 

Reflection must address: How your evidence meets the criteria listed above and any tools or methods you used to compose your communications.

Artifact

Reflection

I have selected my Instructional Design Timeline Infographic as the artifact to demonstrate how I write and edit messages that are clear, concise, and grammatically correct. I have selected this artifact because the Infographic contains a lot of verbiage which shows how I write with clarity and conciseness.

This competence is important because Instructional Design work involves a lot of writing, whether it is developing learning material, creating a design document, or communicating and collaborating with stakeholders. Examples of how this artifact demonstrates this competency include the following: I have clearly demarcated two areas which convey ideas about ID Media and ID Process. Under each area, I have concise sections for each decade, with sufficient verbiage to explain key information. Since each decade section has limited spacing, it was critical to use concise wording to clearly convey information.

My previous knowledge in strong communication in English, and a solid visual sense of how to place information to ensure clarity and readability, and knowledge of using Figma to place elements and text boxes effectively, helped me create this infographic successfully. Clear and concise writing skills have been useful for me in previous projects such as developing e-learning modules which require strategic placement of text content.

My ID Timeline Infographic worked as an appropriate artifact for ID Professional Communicator challenge because it covered all important aspects of written communication such as verbiage selection, clarity, conciseness and grammar. Some important things I learnt while earning this challenge include how to fit in concise verbiage into visually small spaces and clearly convey ideas and messages to the reader and learner. In the future, I will apply the knowledge gained through this competence to effectively communicate verbal information in ID projects.