Animoto: My e-learning design promo
I made a video on Animoto for my assignment, but I couldn’t think of a way to incorporate it except to say… this is a promo for my design. So… this is a promo for my design 
Also, I still can’t get videos to load here… so here’s the link
Embedding Youtube and Flickr
Once again, I am having troubles embedding these two … things … into my blog posts. I am really frustrated right now. I should have been in bed half an hour ago and I haven’t packed my bag, found clothes for tomorrow, had a shower, done my teeth or anything… purely because every time I try to embed something in this blog I cant do it. I’ve tried fifteen different ways, with different types of code (embed, link, just the plain url) with different types of embedding in edublogs and none of it is working!
I’m going to go to bed and leave this for tomorrow night… after work …
Is it Really a Storyboard? (2)
Good news! It is actually a storyboard, the way it is supposed to be done and it’s only missing two little boxes. Fantastic! One last screencap has to be started, but since it works on the same template as the others, it won’t take too long. And then all I have to do is write the 1000 word explanation/justification and I’m done. : )
One thing I am a little worried about is that it might be a little too large to embed directly into the assignment page I’ll create in my blog. From memory, any image in here can be followed back to its source (i.e. flickr) where it can be viewed in full size. If not, then I’ll see if I can post the image to my DeviantArt account and link to it in the assignment.
Is it Actually a Storyboard?
Today I’ve tried to finish both my storyboard and my screencaps for the final assignment, but I’ve had trouble figuring out the parameters of each of them. I’ve always looked at it as the storyboard is the process which the learner has to go through to accomplish the specified learning objectives. As in, first there’s pre-course training, then there’s a quiz to determine prior learning, which then tells learners if they need to participate in mod 1or wait for mod 2 or 3, etc.
But while the platform is designed to house the learning program, it has bits and pieces which are not reliant on the course. For instance, there is an area where learners can change their settings, such as background colours, patterns, headers, etc, if they want to explore and develop their technology skills. This has been incorporated as a way of facilitating development in a humanistic way and is in no way related to the course ’Understanding the Impact of Drugs and Alcohol’. So, my dilema is; if I am supposed to ‘imply’ the platform, does that mean that I have to put the settings page and the home page and things like that in the storyboard? And if I do that, then I’m not really storyboarding the program, I’m storyboarding the platform, so do I put things like ‘face to face interaction’ or ‘webinar’ in the storyboard as well?
I think I’m still a little bit confused. If we had been shown a completed ‘real’ storyboard or design or something, instead of the really basic, no-content ones we were shown at the beginning of module two, then I think I might have a better idea of what the storyboard is supposed to look like.
