LTEC 5510 - Week 3 Blog - Thoughts on Revision.

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 Prompt: Based upon your experience revising your instructional design document this week, reflect on what you learned from your peer's feedback. What did you learn about your work? What did you change as a result? What did you not change? Why

I have always found that peer's feedback can be one of the most useful things in writing just about anything.  It is also one of the more difficult things for me to do as well.  The obvious chance for improvement before assessment or public viewing that peer feedback brings to the table is an invaluable part of the writing process.  

For this case, my peer review consisted of a couple of parts.  I exchanged my Design Document for the course I am working on with a few classmates, and I got a chance to review each of them.  While we are designing a course for this class, we are doing it on different subjects, and thus none of us are by no means experts on the others topic.  This allows us all to give honest feedback from a subject matter novice, but a course designer "expert."  

Some of the main things I noticed is the difference of formatting between the different classmates I reviewed.  I always considered these design documents as the first main thing a client sees, and the backbone of the course design itself.  So that always came with a little bit of “selling” to the client in my eyes.  I want a client to look at the Design Document and have a pretty clear expectation on what they were going to get form the course.  I err on the side of simplification, but include all of the things I will need to use this document as a blueprint.  

Getting the opportunity to look at several of my brilliant classmates have given me several ideas on how to accomplish both these goals within my design document.  Changing some things to make it easier to read, like how I suggest technologies, and changing some things to make it more robust as a design document, like putting in links to videos.  

The feedback from my peers have been incredibly useful.  It reassured some things that I was attempting to get across, like the accessibility and real world design focus.  It also gave me many ideas on how to bolsters things such as including a display "showcase" at the end of the course.  This will allow my students to "publish" their projects and do some peer reviewing of their own.  

There was not much that was criticized that I didn't think warranted at least a slight change.  Each of the comments and suggestions were poignant and welcomed.  

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