Desk crit for Hollingsworth

Date Reviewed: Oct 30, 2008
Creator:Hollingsworth, Gretchen
URL: http://gannon32.myweb.uga.edu/edit6200/rtiforteachers/index.html

I like that each lesson has an appropriate assessment to review and reflect what the user learn. Also, blog might be a useful tool to allow the learners to reflect what they learn. Your website follows a good approach in term of learning design and assessment. In addition, this website is easy to navigate.

For design of website, it might be better if you added more images and color.
Also, for beginners who first use blog, it would be better if you included some instruction on how to use blog.

Great job!!

desk crit for Sabrina

Date Reviewed: Oct 30, 2008
Creator:Rabsatt, Sabrina
URL: http://ldtstudio.coe.uga.edu/file.php/33/project/index.html

Hi, Sabrina.
Your project is practical. It might be useful for beginners who want to learn how to sew. It is well-organized and easy to navigate. Also, it provides the users with basic knowledge and authentic experiences in sewing.

You need to include a section for reference of your project on the website.
For the page “the online fabric store”,
When clicking the links, it would be better to open up in a new window. So, the users will be able to just close it and go back to your website, without using the browser back button.

For the page below, text on the photo is hard to read because it is small and its color is not good. It would be better to increase font size and change font color.
http://srabsatt.myweb.uga.edu/project/tutorialmaterials.html

Great job!!

Service Hour

08/18/08-5hrs Audio Editing for M.O.M. (non-profit organization)
10/01/08- 2hrs Mentoring
10/15/08-2hrs Mentoring
10/23/08 -1hrs. Mentoring
10/23/08 -1hrs. Research interview
10/24/08-1hrs. Research interview
10/29/08-1hrs. Research interview
10/30/08- 2 hrs. Studio Project Day

Week 13

Last week was the dress rehearsal for our team project. After presentation, we got feedback from studio folks and professors. The feedback is useful to prepare for a better presentation in the Showcase in December. I was nervous when presenting my part. I should have spent more time preparing for the presentation. But it was good experience to figure out my problem.
I saw many project other studio folks have developed. Most of them are great. I'm really impressived with thier projects.

We met online Sunday to discuss what we will do. We assigned tasks to each member and my assigned task is to develop video/photo gallery HTML template.

I finished editing a video for the culture shock section of our online module last Friday. Also, I am working on the screen design of the gallery and video section of our module. Trudian gave me her idea about the design.

Week 12

Tomorrow is the dress rehearsal! I can’t believe it. We developed lesson 1 through 3. I spent time editing videos this week.
Trudian assigned each part to each team member for our team presentation at the dress rehearsal. My part is to show and explain screen designs and some interaction of the module. We had a meeting tonight to prepare for tomorrow presentation. Each team member explained her part and we shared opinions about each part. I’m nervous about the presentation. I wonder what kinds of feedback we get from other folks in the studio. We will be able to improve our module from their various feedback.

After the dress rehearsal, we plan to:

• Figure out how to allow everyone else on the team access to the remote server
• Complete the remaining 4 (or 3) sections
• Make revisions (based on feedback) to lessons 1-3
• Begin and finalize the photo and video galleries
• Create transcripts for all the remaining videos
• Conduct evaluations
• Complete remaining documentation

Week 11

I had the comprehensive exam on Monday. By preparing for the exam, I got insight of instructional design and development. The article I chose is “Designing Authentic Activities in Web-Based Courses.” I really enjoyed reading it. It gave me guidelines and examples of authentic activities in web-based courses. I’d like to apply what I learned from the article to our module.
This week I worked on video editing with Sunny by using Final Cut. Also, I revised the animation according to Trudian’s feedback.
I attend the AECT conference in Orlando. It’s my first experience of attendance of conference. So, I am really exciting. I plan to attend several sessions related to online learning.
I’ll continue animation production and video editing.

Week 10

Last Thursday I met with my mentee, Jungrok for 1 hour. We discussed about her project layout and flow. I showed my previous project to explain action script including drag and drop function. I think her project is exciting and meaningful. She is developing the puzzle site for her daughter.

Our team had a meeting last Thursday to discuss the layout of content and animations for the module. I created some animation and got feedback from our team members. Since we work individually, there is an issue about cohesive format of the module. As a team, we need a constant layout of the module. We exchange each opinion for the cohesive layout and style after creating some material. I continue to work on animations and will start video editing. For dress rehearsal, our team need to speed up with the project.

In the next week we plan to:1. Wrap-up animation development2. Finish content layout3. Continue video editing4. Begin creating transcripts for some of the completed videos5. Input completed animations and videos in HTML pages6. Upload HTML pages to russia.uga server7. Upload completed videos to UGA streaming server8. Get ready for dress rehearsal