This week was a pretty stressful one for our team. We worked very hard on planning out some interactions for our online modules, and then some communication from our client made us rethink the work we had done. One of our goals for this project is to create instruction that is based in situated cognition, and we realized this week just how difficult that can be in an online environment.
We had a productive meeting with Greg on Thursday and developed a plan of attack for our client meeting on Friday. Then, we worked on a new idea for the module. Our scenario is that the learners are whale tour guides in training, and we're going to take them on a "whale watching trip" using video. During the trip, they will experience Flash interactions that freeze the video and ask them questions, or give them information about the content. After each lesson, there will be a check-in/stopping point where the students will be given an activity that takes them away from the computer to either work in a group or blog about their experience. (We hope to give them an open-ended question to reflect on that incorporates some of the content they've been learning.)
We presented this idea to Dr. Schell on Friday and he really loved it. He gave us 32 mini-dv tapes of footage, and we've divided up the tapes so we can start going through it and finding appropriate clips for our project. We're meeting with Alissa tomorrow and we'll talk with her about this new idea, the content, and other things we'll need her help with (like developing some rubrics and open-ended questions).
So, it started out as a stressful week, but I think it resulted in a very dynamic and exciting framework for our project. We have a lot of development in our future, but I know we can do it.
To Do:
- Meet with Alissa Friday 3/7
- Review tapes and make notes of content/pull clips out
- 6200 consultant assignments
- Flash research (cue points, controlling video with Flash)
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