LTEC 5110 - Curriculum Design and Instructional Resources

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  Sadly, I had an outdated camera, poor lighting and couldn’t get anyone to assist me in some of the shots.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 ...

This week’s project moved from image and text instruction to audio-only instruction.  I was dreading this part of the project because there isn’t anything I dislike more than the sound of my own voice.  Some people have the right voice for audio narration, I’m not one of those people.  Also, I am a bit self-conscious because I have a bit of an accent and it is very noticeable with certain words. What is different about developing instruction with audio? Is difficult to explain the difference between developing instruction with audio versus developing instruction with text or image.  The process and the applications used are totally different.  I needed to learn to use Audition, as I was new to this software and the process was long and tedious.  Between taking breaks from the Audition tutorials, I worked on my script.  Once I felt comfortable enough in the program, I was able to get started with the recordings fairly fast.  I did have to re-rec...