LTEC 5110 - Curriculum Design and Instructional Resources

What have you learned in the course about designing instruction from a multimedia perspective? We have reached the end of this summer class and I am relieved.  This class was loaded with content and assignments and from week one, I knew I would have to organize my time well to make sure I kept up with the workload.  I have learned a lot from this class.  It has been so far the one class that has introduced me to designing instruction sets.  Although this class had so many parts to the project and we used multiple media programs, I am glad is done and my projects are complete.  I have learned a lot of theory as well as multiple applications.  The biggest lesson I take from this class is to stick with the project, even if it seems daunting and to be proud of the work I have produced.  From the readings and learned that sometimes using too many media applications to teach a topic can be redundant and overload the learner.  As Clark (1983)...

For this week’s assignment, we were asked to combine all our previous instructional sets into a multimedia set, as a single web page.  In this web page, we were to include audio, video, images, and text instructions as a single form.  The most challenging part of this last project was deciding what to include, which format to use without making the instructions redundant or overload the learner.  Overload of content is something that Lang (1995) warned us about as he described the limited-capacity of information processing that humans have. What have you learned thus far about designing instruction? I have learned a lot from this project.  I learned to use programs I had not used before and although I am not an expert at any of them, I’m glad I got introduced to them and I hope to use them in the near future.  I learned that different students learn with different types of instructions and if I take anything out of this class, is this.  I also learned t...

How has your journey of learning to use multi and single media to teach been so far? What have you learned?  My journey in using multi and single media to teach has been very rewarding and challenging at the same time.  Prior to this class, I did not have any previous experience using Audition, Premiere Pro, or InDesign.  Out of all the applications we used for our instructional design sets, I have to say that the hardest one to learn was hands down InDesign.  I think if I had taken this class during a full-term semester, I would have had the time to really learn InDesign and enjoy it a bit more.  I would recommend that this program not offered this course as an eight-week course.  Although I found it to be the hardest application to learn, I also found it to be the most rewarding.  In the end, I was really happy with my ‘Audio/Visual’ assignment for week 10. As far as the other applications, I was already familiar with Photoshop and with Dreamweav...

What have you learned thus far about designing instruction from a video media perspective? What was beneficial? What was difficult? How did it change the way you think about learning and teaching?  What is helpful about using video versus a single medium for delivering instruction? For this week’s assignment, my instructional set changed from text and audio to video only instructions.  Doing this video project made me realized that you have to have the right equipment, such as video camera, light, software, space, tripod, etc. in order for the project to turn up nicely.  Sadly, I had an outdated camera, poor lighting and couldn’t get anyone to assist me in some of the shots.  I also made the mistake of shooting some videos with an iPhone and some with my old camera and I didn’t realize the size of the videos were going to be different.  I had to re-shoot several of the videos due to this problem. Positives There are a lot of positives for using video for in...

What is different about developing instruction with both images and audio combined? Are there limitations? Benefits? If so, what are they? For this week’s assignments, we changed our instruction set to include text, audio, and images.  This has been so far the most challenging part of this project because InDesign is a program that cannot be learned in a matter of a couple of weeks and because the content is extensive.  Watching the training videos were not enough to understand how InDesign behaves, particularly how rollover and buttons behave.  InDesign is also a program that has so many options, menus, layers, etc. that it becomes daunting to get all the content to communicate properly with one another.  Having the limitation of working with only one page made the assignment a bit more difficult to manage as one has to repeatedly hide and unhide layers. Is it more efficient? Do you think about how you instruct someone differently? Using multimedia to create i...

What have you learned thus far about designing instruction from a multiple media perspective? What I have learned about designing instruction from a multiple media perspective is that if one doesn’t have a clear picture of how the multiple media aspects work and behave with one another, the work can become frustrating.  I would have liked to have had a better understanding of how roll over effects behave because this is the one area of this week’s assignment that I had the most trouble with. Looking back, I should have spent more time developing a sketch concept for each individual layer and one for the whole project. How do you think the use of audio-visual instruction will benefit teaching and learning? What do you think will be potential issues with the use of audio-visual instruction? Audio-visual instruction can benefit teaching and learning as it has the ability to reach different kinds of learners.  Some learners learn best visually while others do best ...