Thursday, January 22, 2015

Week 2 - Getting Started

Hello and welcome back to my blog for EDT 532 - Instructional Design and Technology.

Well, wow and whew.  Tonight's class was insightful, instructional, and jam packed with ideas and great information on how to create and design my first Moodle Learning Platform project. Yes!

This past week I posted my blog URL and idea for my Moodle Course. I decided to bring forward the Gayatri Mantra. The Gayatri Mantra is considered to be the Mother of all mantras and offers us illumination and enlightenment in this lifetime. Te long form of the Gayatri Mantra is designed to be either chanted in its entirety for an affect on all of the chakras (energy centers) or it can be worked with line by line to focus on one chakra at a time. So...that would easily be 10 sections.

When discussing our project topics in small break out groups the idea of using Vocaroo or Audacity or even Screencast-o-matic as an evaluation tool for my Moodle was suggested. These suggestions really got my wheels turning. I began to think that what I wanted to accomplish could be easier than I originally thought.

Yes, I could incorporate the different tools that we would be taught throughout the semester as requested but I could keep the overall theme simple by focusing on an audio delivery of my material and an audio delivery of the evaluation by the students. I like to keep it simple. And I like to give Mind a sense of structure, which I find a theme and a consistent format can provide.

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