Week 10 - LTEC 5510

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Prompt: What is left to do? What challenges have you faced? Will you be able to meet your timeline for completion? Why or why not? Will you be able to implement? Evaluate?

To this point I have most of the “content” of the course created.  The content is covered and the course design has been tweaked enough, and currently lies at a point that I am comfortable with.  

The main thing I am now working on is trying to make the content more engaging.  A lot of work needs can be done to create a more engaging, and unique course.  I want to make more videos and graphics, and create more examples and exemplars for the course.  

A specific challenge I have recently overcome was one of order of instruction.  I was looking for a good place to introduce the final projects different types of media without adding too much to any one module.  I found I could tie in that subject with “linear vs non-linear media” module very easily.  The problem lied with that module was slated to be after I had already introduced the final project.  I solved this problem by moving the order of the modules to have this section be the first one after introducing the project.  This allows me to introduce the different kinds of final products the students can have at the end of the final project, right when I first give them time to work on the project.  

I have no doubts I will be able to finish the course in time, but I have had to change the personal timeline of what will be completed and when.  This project has shown me that creating things in a linear fashion is not my strongest suit.  I get more work done when I work on things in chunks, even if it is across the course.  

I will be able to implement the course, but it is unknown when.  Because of Covid, we don’t know what next semester will look like, and if I have to cut things due to lack of technology availability, then this course will have to dramatically change.  I’m hoping I will be able to use this course next year for sure, so the evaluation portion of the course will be delayed until it can be implemented fully.  

Even if this year won’t allow me use this course fully, I have been planning on ways to use parts of it in my teachings.  Creating assignments and projects that can stand alone, and aren’t just valuable to this specific course is a “cheat” I learned long ago.  This way I can take what works in the course, or even what I think might work, and then use it in other things.  

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