The journey that I’ve taken throughout this semester in Advanced Hypermedia Design & Development, IT 644 has been amazing. IT 644 is an advanced course in the development and use of interactive, animated hypermedia products for use in instructional design projects, lectures, presentations, and multimedia events. There is an emphasis on producing applications incorporating text, audio, graphics, animation and digitized video which effectively communicate to the user. I’ve taken a number of online courses but never have I taken one that was as organized and effectively planned as this course. The format of the course made taking this class online very easy. Everything needed to be successful in this course was readily available on the course site. As a result I have gained a tremendous amount of knowledge as it pertains to the use of technology in education.
Blog
I really enjoyed this portion of this course. The various functions offered to create the blog, such as layout, font and inserting links were very useful in making it look professional. Due to my past experiences using www.blogger.com creating the blog for this course was very easy. Even though I’d previously used blogger there were many functions that I had not had the opportunity to fully utilize. This course offered several opportunities to use each and every component available in blogger. For example in my past creations of blogs I was never required to embed anything to the blog. As a result of taking this course now I have a lot of experience with embedding documents within the blog.
Discussion
The threaded discussions offered a great form of unified communication. I loved the way we were able to view the thoughts of other students. There were times when I may have had a question about a topic that another student had already asked. I found this to be very useful form of clarification. The listserv was fairly easy to create. But I didn’t find it as useful as some of the other online tools.
Hands on Projects
We were required to complete a number of hands on projects in this course. All of the projects challenged my creative abilities and introduced new tools. I learned how to create a variety of items that will be helpful in creating professionally designed products. The prompt manner in which Dr. Yuen responded to our projects with constructive criticism also aided in the successful completion of this course
I agree with you I took a couple of online courses and they were not as organized as this class. Dr. Yuen was well organized and I like the way that he quickly gave us positive and negative feedback on all the assignments. Great job on your blogfolio.
ReplyDeleteI love the red color, the layout and graphics on this blog! Now I wish I had done mine like this :D
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