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Evaluation
The assignment as whole
This assignment set out to
educate young people about how to improve their well-being using an E-learning
package and a presentation. Another aim of this assignment was to encourage teachers to use
electronic learning by telling them the number of advantages that there are for
them and their students.
To
meet the criteria for this assignment I needed to plan the assignment, create
my own assets, produce an E-learning package for 14 to 17 year olds, create a
movie to promote electronic learning to teachers, create a presentation for 10
to 11 year olds and acknowledge any assets used, whether they are primary or
secondary.
Before I started this
assignment I planned what I needed to complete in the time that I had. After
producing a plan, which was to a sensible time scale and which I believed I
could use accurately to complete all the necessary tasks in the time I had. I
then started the assignment trying the follow the plan I produce to keep me on
track of what needed to be done and when it needed to be completed. There were
quite a few times when I was ahead of what needed to be done, so I created a
document called “tasks ahead of schedule” to log this and explain why I was
ahead of schedule. There were also a few tasks that were not complete on time,
because of this I made a record of them in a document named “tasks off
schedule” and I scheduled a new data for the tasks to be completed this was
successful and I managed to complete the tasks to the new deadlines set.
Overall I was able to keep to my action plan and so was successful in my time
management organisational skills.
The main problem that I faced whilst working on this assignment was trying to gain permission to use other people’s assets. The majority of people that I E-mailed for permission never replied, the course of this meant that I had to compromise and either had to create my own assets or I had to find others. Another major problem that I faced was not being able to record a movie clip for use in the movie for teachers. This was because the college did not have a video recorder that I could use, as a result of this I do not believe that my movie is to the standard that it would have been had I had access to a video recorder on the date that I had planned to begin making the movie clip. Another problem that I faced while creating the movie was when I tried importing the movie clip that I recorded into Flash. This reduced the quality of the movie so much that you could not make out what the movie clip was about and as a result I had to come up with a different approach, which I managed to do. Something else that posed a problem to me while working on this assignment arose when I was creating the quizzes for the E-learning package, I added a feature that when a question was answered incorrectly a link would appear which would sent the user to the page of the E-learning package where they could find the answer to the question that they had got wrong. I thought I would have to remove this feature because when I uploaded my assignment onto a secure network address, the file directories changed and the links then did not work. I managed to overcome this problem by changing some of the settings.
Although the links in the quizzes caused me problems, once I managed to sort those problems out I feel that the links were a valuable part of the quizzes. They made the e-learning package much more professional and if the e-learning package was to be used by teens I feel that this is a feature that would really help them to take in the information.
If I were to do this assignment again I would spend more time editing and creating my own assets, as believe that I could have created more complimentary assets for use with the text and for the target audience.
If I had more time to
do this assignment I would have examined more E-learning packages, to give me a
better insight to how others have been created, structured and to see how they
have incorporated assets into their packages.
Publications
I had my peers check
the work that I produced for this assignment. When asking my peer to evaluate
my work, I tried to make it as easy as possible for them by giving them
questions to answer, this also worked well for me because it meant that I got
feedback on the areas that I needed. I used the feedback I received to help me
to complete my Eportfoilo to a higher standard. All the tests users that I
asked to give me feedback gave me helpful feedback, which I have recorded in my
Eportfoilo. Links to the feedback I received are below.
I received feedback on my designs for each product
before I created the final product.
Evaluation of my
E-learning package
I believe that the colours that have been used I this e-learning package are not discriminative to either sexes or any age ranges. I believe that the animated gifs that I created to be used as links worked well because they added some movement into the package and made the learning process seem less daunting and more interesting. I also believe that the links that I inserted in my quizzes worked well, although the links in the quizzes caused me problems, once I managed to sort those problems out I feel that the links were a valuable part of the quizzes. They made the e-learning package much more professional and if the e-learning package was to be used by teens I feel that this is a feature that would really help them to take in the information.
I also feel that giving
the user the choice to create there own path of learning will keep their
attention as they can change between topics and can skip and topic or sub topic
that they already know about. I have inserted images where I felt they were
appropriate I did not want to bombard the user with too much text but at the
same time I did not want to distract the user’s attention with images.
Evaluation of my movie
I have tried to use two
colours in this movie black for the background and yellow for the text I
believe that these colours work well together as the black background
intensifies the yellow text and is appropriate of an adult audience. I believe that my movie has been let down by
the quality of the clip, but out of the different ways that I tried to present
my movie this was the best quality that I could achieve. I have not inserted
any images into the movie, as I did not want to distract the audience
attention. The movie clip that has been used in the move, I believe was the
best way to demonstrate an E-learning package to the audience I also fell that
the sound that I used to accompany the movie clip worked well because if I had
not narrated the movie clip I don’t believe that it would have been understood.
Evaluation of my
presentation
The colours that I
have used in this presentation are aimed at a young audience. I also believe
that the background colour works well with the text colour and the slide
template that I have used. I add images on most of the slides as an attempt to
keep the audiences attention. If I had more time to complete this assignment I
would have narrated every as I believe that this would have been more suitable
for the target audience.
My progress though this assignment
I did not let working
on this assignment interfered with any other lessons or work that was in
progress at the same time as this assignment.
I found this
assignment relatively easy to understand, but I do not feel that it was easy to
complete in the time I was allocated. I believe that I found this assignment
easy to understand because I had already done a number of website design
courses prior to the DiDA course. I also think that having completed the GNVQ
ICT foundation course last year I had a good understanding of how assignments
need to be presented and the information that needs to go in to them.