Will it Work

This week was all about tying up loose ends and making adjustments based on client feedback.  What a push is was.  I spent a few days creating the slides for the videos and then recording them.  Because my kids are home for the summer and it is anything but quiet in my house, I spent a few hours in closets and bathrooms, trying to find quiet space to record.  Don’t worry there are no images of me talking.  I find narrating videos, quite challenging because you are talking to yourself.  I have used different programs over the years to create videos, and in all honesty I should have created a trial version of Articulate 360, but decided upon a free screen casting program, Loom.  While the quality of the video is excellent, at least to my standards, it does not allow the option to add captions.  I now have to go back and caption everything using Adobe Primer.  While this is more of a nuisance than anything it has taught me to do my research first and stick to the script.  I failed at that part.  While I did right everything down, I found it difficult, at least for me, to read the script while narrating.    I will now focus on listening to all of the videos and creating a script to create captions.  I think I will do some research this week on if there are any programs that can help me do this.  Again it is more of  nuisance than anything, but it will pay off in the long run.  Maybe I should not have read any of this because no you know the videos are not captioned, but they will be by the final submission.

Overall I feel good about the design.  The goal was to create a differentiated lesson based on the results of four pre-tests.  The questions within the pre-tests are divided by objectives.  The quiz is designed to instruct students to complete certain tasks/activities based on the feedback from the quiz.  In my head it is going to work beautifully, but I do not know if this will happen in reality.  The downfall may be that I put everything in as a mastery path also.  While in theory mastery paths are a good idea they are based off of score and not concepts.  A student may score below the desired 80% and based on the mastery path be assigned an activity on a concept they have mastered and not the one they are deficient at.  The goal is to assign based on deficits and not score alone, this is why the change was made to use the feedback from the quiz questions directly.  Students will be given an individual rotation playlist to help them track their “must do’s” and “may do’s”.  Only time will tell if it works as envisioned.