Now that you have seen what other people did in creating their units, is there anything that you might do differently if you were to redesign your own unit?
After reviewing the the units from other students in the class, I see the variables and endless choices in creating an online course. As with other established online courses, they were all very rich in text and not visually attractive. I am a visual learner and tend to look at a glance and like to get an overview of what is expected and the goals. I like to call it a visual outline. Many of the courses were so rich in text that it was hard to determine what the goals, mission and course objectives were for the course. But, at the same time, I discovered some valuable activity tools that I did not think of to enrich our unit if it were to put into practice. Since, I am doing our unit in person with students in a few weeks for another course, I am eager to see how it works. I like that our course was set up as a synchronous course. I don't remember other units set up purposefully for complete video synchronous interaction. I would like to have the place where the information resides be more interactive than powerpoint, but sometimes the simplest form is the easiest to navigate. It is what the students say in discussion that will interest me, not what they do online. So, the integration of Museumbox, like Heather Saksa and Melinda Sloan incorporated in their unit, would be a good exercise for the students to integrate using tools online with the assignments and the platform is a virtual museum!!! A win/win/win!!
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