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LTEC 5510 Week 11


Week 11 Blog

By the end of this week, your full initial development must be completed. Were you able to finish according to your timeline? Why or why not?
What technology challenges have you faced? What “people” challenges have you faced? How have you sought to overcome these difficulties? What have you learned about completing a major project within a professional deadline? What will you do differently next time?
What were your strengths as a designer?
What do you need to improve?

What a difference a week makes. Due to COVID 19, I got furloughed for a few weeks.  Thus, I had a lot of free time this week, and I have been able to get a lot done. It is incredible how much I could get done when I don’t have a full-time job to worry about.

There are a lot of challenges in this course. My old teaching PowerPoints had a lot of breakpoints where I could ask the class a question, do demonstrate something. I had to spend a lot of time rewriting my PowerPoints. I also had difficulties with links. Canvas screens every site you put in as a link on the modules. My solution was to create assignments and add the links there.  While not currently a problem, I see creating job aides for each of these games will be difficult. I have already logged into Geniverse and taken screenshots on how to set up a class. 

While these games are a large portion of the course, I worry about depending too much on them. If the site is taken down, or if students are unable to access the game, that the course would no longer be useful. Thankfully I have added a whole lot of material.

As with most things in my life, I had a difficult time organizing my thoughts. I came in with so many different ideas to put down on paper, I never got to sit down to get things done.  I also didn’t spend enough time learning the canvas system. I wasted a lot of time recreating things that didn’t need to. My strength as an instructional designer is the opposite side of the coin with my weakness. Because I have so many ideas, when I can finally sit down and focus, I can make excellent material.  I also have a strong sense of design, which I have not been able to show much of.

Looking at my two partners’ sites, I really overthought this. My modules are overstuffed, where theirs seem to be appropriately sized.  Next time I create a course, I will create more modules and if I only have 6 weeks, I will just give students multiple modules a week. I also wasted a lot of time trying to put everything into the modules. A simple video page would probably have worked just fine. If an instructor wants to remove or add a video, on my current site, they would have to change the video in two places rather than one.

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