Starting the Design

My Project Time and Energy

The last two weeks working on the design of my course has been a little time consuming.  The design of the course and my web-page went great.  I feel I was able to create a very nice header and get the build done fairly quickly.  However, create the WBID plan took me quite of bit of work.  It just did not seem to come easy on how I wanted the design Analysis web-page.  It took me a great deal of time coming up with all the content for the course and understanding the material I need to cover from the questions in the book.  I am really glad there were examples in the book about the outline of what a WBID plan should look like.  I think my Homepage and Analysis web-pages turned out nice after all that work.   I am glad we had two weeks to complete this work.  I would have never been able to get this done in a week.  I think this is a lesson learned; when creating the Analysis of the course you’re going to design make sure you dedicate lot of time and energy drinks to it.

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My Problems and the Lack of Time

Here are a few words about my Learning Task Map project this week.  This part of the project was not fun at all!  Coming up with the content was no problem for me at all; it was using Word to create the flowchart.  Lesson learned; do not use Word to create flowcharts.  I thought it would just take me a few hours to get this done and it end up costing me my whole Sunday evening.  If there is a free tool for creating flowcharts, please send me the link.  I thought the Learn Task Map was going to be the end of me tonight but it final came together.  I will be looking for a new tool this week.

My Workload:

With the other class I am taking this quarter seems to be making it very hard for me to manage my time.  My online course design is working very well for my learning style.  I like to know what is expected of me for the whole quarter and have a little bit of ability to jump head in the reading.  However, my other class is making it very difficult for me to find the time to get through all the reading.  My assignments are not post until the middle of the week and I constantly need to check the site to find out when my assignments are due.  I find this a very good learning tool for myself when designing this course.  I will make sure I take into consideration that people having families, jobs and school.  You may not always have time to jump on a computer every day and check your assignments.  I kind of thought that was the point of online learning.  This is why all WBI courses should have a good course outline with deadlines for the student, so they can prepare there busy weeks ahead of time.