Week 4

ITED 521: Last week, we had a week off from coming to class, but that didn't keep me from forgetting and coming anyway. =/

Most of what we're doing is pretty easy to me, but it just takes a lot of time to complete the assignments. My time management skills (or lack thereof) are definitely being tested.

Speaking of time, I've put a considerable amount of it into how I want to redesign my e-portfolio. A part of me wants to go all out and make the major parts of it database driven, but at the same time I'm afraid that I won't have enough time to feasibly do this without suffering in other classes or on other assignments. At least I'm only worrying about changing the professional development section, as I am happy with the overall layout and navigation that I constructed in our previous course.

Today, we've talked some more about our studio time and how we're going to carry it out. Basically, during our scheduled week, we're supposed to schedule a meeting with the studio guy. Also during that week, we're supposed to complete about 10 minutes of video footage and about 5 minutes of audio. Each of these is free to be on whatever topic we want. My current ideas are: funny commercial, fake news report, or a computer hardware review. For my final instructional video, I'm thinking of showing how to build a new computer. Of course, this is just a thought and I'm not even sure if the topic will fit the assignment.

After we talked about the studio time, Dr. Bosede showed us what our WebCT tests will look like. I was worried all day that our test would be in class today, but thankfully it's going to be online later. =D

Finally, we talked about chapter 3 and chapter 4 stuff.

Weeks 2 & 3

ITED 521: Today in class we recapped some things from Chapter 1, and then we talked more about the time we'll spend in the film studio for our future multimedia project. Basically, we'll rotate weeks that we spend in the studio to learn how to use the equipment and ultimately produce and edit a short video about a topic of our choice. We then viewed some videos from previous students for example purposes.

Next, we reviewed Chapter 2 concepts, and I really didn't do a good job at taking notes here.

As is evident...

Notes: Static vs dynamic

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Spring Semester

Now that we're back from our break, we're beginning a new semester. With this semester comes three new courses at A&M:

• ITED 521 - Instructional Video and Multimedia: Production and Utilization
• AE 528 - Instructional Methods in Adult Education
• ITED 530 - Research Fundamentals and Technology
  

ITED 521: In the first week, we've covered the basics of multimedia and how it has many different forms and implementations. Our discussion covered the concepts in Chapter 1 which include (1) the definition of multimedia, (2) benefits of multimedia, (3) web-based multimedia categories, and (4) careers in web-based multimedia. The homework activities for this week required that we evaluate certain web sites and detail the different multimedia aspects that are contained within them.