In EDCI 67200 - Advanced Practices in Learning Systems Design, we were required to contribute to a weekly Lessons Learned wiki. Instructions were to:
"After reflecting on all that has been addressed in our healthy, robust discussions each week, identifying lessons learned can be helpful. Each week, please post your key "take-aways" from the discussion. The idea here is to consider where/when in the discussion you may have experienced an "ah-ha" moment, or a lesson learned, that you'd like to tuck in your back pocket to recall during some future devilish project you are assigned to work on. "
I included this lessons learned as it relates to the previous month's blog topic.
"After reflecting on all that has been addressed in our healthy, robust discussions each week, identifying lessons learned can be helpful. Each week, please post your key "take-aways" from the discussion. The idea here is to consider where/when in the discussion you may have experienced an "ah-ha" moment, or a lesson learned, that you'd like to tuck in your back pocket to recall during some future devilish project you are assigned to work on. "
I included this lessons learned as it relates to the previous month's blog topic.
- One thing I kept in mind as I was creating the mock up of the kiosk interface was that the images, static or animated needed to have a referential representation to the learning rather than a decorative one. "Animated images provide an external model for mental representation" (Höffer, et. al., 2007, p.723). So I was careful as to what image or animation I included in the kiosk, I wanted it to be meaningful and to serve a purpose in order for it to effect a learning outcome. In the past I recall throwing images or little tweaks or technology in to make a presentation/learning interesting. I soon started to make fun of myself (in front of my learners) oh here is my attempt to do this, or t do that… I learned that all content needs to be meaningful or at least representational to the learning outcome.
- I also learned that I really enjoy structuring information; leading the learner to a pool of information. Navigation is not as easy as it looks. There was lots of research, testing, and failures that goes into a “simple” kiosk at a bus station or museum. In thinking about navigation, you have to think about the enduser, who they are and what are their expectations, what do they already know? I enjoyed creating each screen while going through this process. I saw some of my cohorts, draw with a writing utensil and paper. It’s important to map out a plan for the navigation, doesn’t matter the method.
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