Nora L Cloonan
Crater Lake, Oregon
Development
Baking Biscotti Tutorial
Edit 6190E in the Spring of 2015, gave us our first exposure to creating instructional design materials. I created a tutorial on baking biscotti which is something I love to do but can be challenging to do well. There are many things I like about the tutorial, such as the inclusion of a pre-test to determine the level of expertise of a baker and a glossary of terms. I also made some mistakes, I would discover as my education progressed. I included a lot of extraneous information in the audio. I now know this can distract, cognitively, from the important learning goals. A better way to include some of the info might be in a “tips for success” section. I also used imbedded video to demonstrate techniques but hadn’t yet been through our video class so these are quite amateurish clips. I love my color scheme and the cute old-fashioned baking clip-art I found to accent the whole thing works well.
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The Ramble
I produced this jaunt through the time my husband and I spent living in the RV and exploring the western United States during the second semester I took Edit 6190E over the summer of 2015. This isn't especially deep in instructional content or objectives although I did include a lot of historical and some geographical content on the places we visited. My main purpose was to challenge myself to produce a module in Storyline that utilized a fairly complicated branching navigation in the background. I wanted the learner to be able to click around freely without having to return to main slides all the time so I gave each slide links to the others and vise versa. There are still items that gray out, letting the user know when they've viewed all of a particular section. Plus I included some, just for fun, quiz elements. I really enjoyed putting this together. If I could improve on it, I would actually add more to it. The previous year, we'd done a similar trip through South Dakota when we moved out to Oregon. Honestly, I just ran out of time!
