IDT516 - Final Project Blog

As of today, I have completed my project and submitted my final report for evaluation.  Overall, I felt my project was a failure as it did not deliver what I would consider acceptable results.  The primary reason I feel this way is that I had very low participation in the lesson and believe that this may be the result of poor instructions on how to complete the class.  If I were to redo this course, I would put more detailed instructions on what the learner needs to accomplish and also include a means to reinforce that the lesson needs to be completed. With regards to the learners that did complete the lesson, two of them did meet the assessment requirements and were able to explain the key concepts in the video.  I don't think the video achieved its tertiary goal of inspiring either of them to want to learn more about mass spec, but they did walk away knowing what mass spec is about.  As for my third learner, and only remote learner, I did not get any feedb...

This week's status update is a big one as I have completed my video and am preparing to launch it to my audience.  I feel the overall quality of it is fine, but do admit it feels a little shallow in terms of actual information.  If I had more time and resources, I believe I would have fleshed out some of the information more and added one or two more animated videos to better convey some of the information. When it comes to the audience for my course, I am just sharing it with a few select friends and family.  Most of them do not have a background in chemistry, so I am not expecting the level of feedback I would receive from my co-workers.  If anything, I am expecting the feedback to focus more on the cosmetics of the course.  When it came to the audio track, I used a Blue Yeti microphone to record my script using Audacity.  Once each slide's audio was recorded, I would edit it in Audacity to remove background noise, mouse clicks, and the sound of me ta...