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=Welcome to James McCuistion's EDUC 538 WikiPage! =

My name is James McCuistion. I'm a graduate student at Eastern Washington University. I'm currently pursuing a Masters Degree in Adult Education. This wikispace is created for Eastern's EDUC 538 class. EDUC 538 Wiki ==

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Identification of an appropriate Instructional Model

An appropriate instructional model is a model used to approach specific learning outcomes. Good instructors use a variety of instructional models to reach the variety of students that enter their classroom. Good instructors also repeat and continually work on their delivery of instructional models to master their deployment.

My goal as an instructor is to have my students become better thinkers. I challenge them to be creative and challenge existing thoughts and thought processes. I feel better thinking skills along with being more critical of things they see and experience will help them in the future, both in work and in everyday life.

Identification of a Framework for Analyzing & Evaluating Media

For evaluating and analyzing media that is appropriate for the classroom setting, criteria must be created to determine the value and whether specific media is appropriate or not. Criteria that I personally set for media that I use in the classroom is the following:

**Appropriateness:** Is the content appropriate for all audiences? Can everyone view the content and not feel offended or find something offensive?

**Ease of use:** Can everyone gain access to the content out of the classroom setting to share to others or refer to at a later date?

**Ease of understanding:** Is the content presented in the media appropriate for a classroom audience? Is the content so technically presented that only experts in the field would understand what is being shown?

**Relation to course content:** Does the content pertain to what is being learned in class?

**Credibility:** Is the content credible? Did someone just make it up or is there research and facts behind the information that is presented? Is the material accurate to date?

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