IDT300x
This course explores various Digital Media, New Tools, and Technology one can implement in online course design. Digital media assets, or digital learning objects, include audio and video components, images, screencasts, and interactive media. The IDD sets the criteria and stage for these elements.
Week 2
Digital Document
This week's digital document supports a foundational concept offered by my microlearning course, Bento Journey, a course in traditional Japanese cuisine, bento style. Explore the five principles of washoku, which covers food presentation, philosophy, nutrition, composition, and ritual...
Kaiseki photo + lettering by Yoko Ichikawa at Matsuzakaya Honten
Week 3
Digital Image
This week is an exploration of image creation sources available to the digital producer: from Creative Commons, to royalty-free image banks to artificial intelligence to subscription based apps that help you remix images with "free tools." Pre-fabricated components automate and speed up visual communication.
Hakone, Japan, photo by Yoko Ichikawa with leaf texture by Karolina Grabowska
Week 4
Minicourse Video
This week covered the many ways instructional videos engage the learner over textual content and even traditional lectures. We explored different video genres available to the creator: explainer or animated videos, demos, scenario-based or simulations, and talking head videos with the potential to interview subject matter experts.
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Further, understanding cognitive theory in multimedia learning led me to employ signaling, segmenting, weeding (in some instances), and matching modality. Finally, considering closed captions and text-based formats to ensure the broadest accessibility completed its upload. Youtube is the best for copyright, segmenting, and tracking video views, so that's where I posted my video, Welcome to My Bento Journey,
Week 5
Screencast | Animation
Minicourse Video
This week explored the ins and outs of screencasting and animation as two options for providing explainer or step-by-step videos. I opted to screencast My Bento Journey's Five Washoku Principles. In it, I attempted to animate one of my infographics by revealing content in stages.
Week 6
Interactive Module Storyboard Draft
This week's storyboard reflects the lesson's criteria for organizing the interactive module. The storyboard serves as a roadmap to Module 1 Introduction to Washoku & Bento. Because I am still figuring out each scene in Module 1, I used the most direct tools: pencil and paper and made sure I incorporated how each one is fulfilling a course or weekly learning outcome. The previous two week's videos will be incorporated into this module and thus appear in the storyboard.
Week 7
Interactive Course Design
This week was an intensive on course authoring tools. Differentiating between Authoring Tools and Learning Management Systems was important before storyboarding to ensure proper visualization was taking place and one understood what a scene was. Mayer's 12 principles of Multimedia Authoring are important to keep in sight as well.
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This week I authored my 8-scene module on Five Principles of Washoku with fits and starts. I managed to soldier through crashes and hundreds of microtweaks to get a finished product!
Week 8
Digital Audio
This week was a zoom in on the audio aspects of course authoring. Ambient noise and environment as well as most equipment play key roles in audio quality. The importance of audio cannot be overlooked in creating clear, professional high quality products and communication.
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This week I created the next lesson promised at the tail end of my interactive course: ichijuusansai. I focused on the lesson as an audio standalone. It was recorded and mixed with light music using Audacity.
