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.