EDLD 5363 - Week 5 Reflection

I expected to learn how to produce multimedia content and use those produced materials and educational tool. I suppose it was unfair of me to expect to learn much about video production. I already have fairly advanced knowledge of video editing. I’ve taken advanced digital film editing courses and train university faculty on how to edit every semester. The base level of knowledge for the rest of my classmates is probably much lower. Unfortunately I didn’t feel like the course offered much in the way of using multimedia to educate. I was hoping to at least learn best practices for producing multimedia content intended for use in a course.

I edit video on almost daily basis as part of my job. At Lamar we constantly try to convince our faculty to utilize multimedia content in their online courses. The learning outcomes of the course mostly covered topics I already had and advanced level of knowledge of coming into the course. The only outcome I didn’t achieve was participating in the optional web conference. This is only due to time and family restraints. I also wasn’t very motivated to participate. I provide training on using the acrobat connect system on a very frequent basis.

With the exception of the week 2 assignments the course work was very easy. Week 2 was not particularly hard, but I was very confusing.

My daily work is done in a collaborative environment. The application of the skills I’ve learned through past experience made working in a group for this course easy. We all worked well together. Everyone was willing to apply their full efforts. I love having an opportunity to work on creative projects. I essentially functioned as the creative director for the group. I’ve worked in this capacity professionally and very much enjoy in the process involved. The rapid birth and death ideas is very exciting to me.