Quacking in Unison
I am currently making great strides in realising that despite how much I want to be Superwoman and get everything accomplished, that's simply not possible. This is mostly due to the fact that balancing mother-hood, wife-hood, self-hood, career-hood, community-hood, and enjoying friendships cannot be done perfectly. I was talking to my boss about some issues we're having right now in the "career-hood" section of my life, and she made a great statement that we should all remember with humour.
"Some day I'll have all my ducks in a row quacking at the same time!"
Amen Sista.
04 April 2008
New Job - More Ownership
Performing the functions of instructional designer at an university in Ohio was more than just architecting coursework for a degree program. This university did not have anything regarding an online program, so I was in at the bottom floor. There is a feeling of ownership and pride to have developed the standardization for the format, assessments, rubrics, presentation, and writing procedures from nothing into a two full blown Associate degrees. I definitely wasn't alone in this, but I was heavily involved and in many cases had to just take the initiative given the level of growth the program was experiencing.
Now I get much more ownership over the online program as a salaried employee (part time) that is additionally responsible for the hiring and assigning of writer's for new courses, the training and professionalism of our facilitators, coordinator between the online program, technology director, library, facilitator and students, as well as the always present trouble-shooter of problems that may crop up from any of those areas.
Previously I was just a contractor that earned a check when a course was complete, but now I feel that I have made a step up professionally, taking more responsibility for the success of the program as a whole, not just responsibility for the curriculum quality.
I'm really honoured that my bosses think I'm ready for this, and it's such a win/win situation for me because the flexibility remains. I imagine being 200 miles away adds to the need for the flexibility, but it's the flexible attitude of the department as a whole that makes me feel like I can fit well. Also, I'll get more satisfaction with my own goals and accomplishments than simply being an instructional designer.
Performing the functions of instructional designer at an university in Ohio was more than just architecting coursework for a degree program. This university did not have anything regarding an online program, so I was in at the bottom floor. There is a feeling of ownership and pride to have developed the standardization for the format, assessments, rubrics, presentation, and writing procedures from nothing into a two full blown Associate degrees. I definitely wasn't alone in this, but I was heavily involved and in many cases had to just take the initiative given the level of growth the program was experiencing.
Now I get much more ownership over the online program as a salaried employee (part time) that is additionally responsible for the hiring and assigning of writer's for new courses, the training and professionalism of our facilitators, coordinator between the online program, technology director, library, facilitator and students, as well as the always present trouble-shooter of problems that may crop up from any of those areas.
Previously I was just a contractor that earned a check when a course was complete, but now I feel that I have made a step up professionally, taking more responsibility for the success of the program as a whole, not just responsibility for the curriculum quality.
I'm really honoured that my bosses think I'm ready for this, and it's such a win/win situation for me because the flexibility remains. I imagine being 200 miles away adds to the need for the flexibility, but it's the flexible attitude of the department as a whole that makes me feel like I can fit well. Also, I'll get more satisfaction with my own goals and accomplishments than simply being an instructional designer.
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