Assignment #3

LMS Content Module

Your content module should cover approximately a week or two of your course. It will be assessed for:

• A splash page with a customized GUI with at least four (4) navigational components – for Moodle;
• A banner with an embedded image – for BlackBoard Learn
• One  complete learning module with subject-specific content (module shells or placeholder pages not acceptable), largely based on HTML pages;
• Embedded digital story.

A complex digital story, educational in nature, using one of a range social media. Your story must:

• One additional general discussion forum topics;
• One group discussion forum for (at least) 2 groups (must set up groups; they need not be populated);
• A reflection upon your experience completing this assignment. Specifically, while addressing the work you have done on your digital story, reflect on
  • Why was this the right tool for you to use to tell your story, from a pedagogical perspective?
  • How did you purposefully select this for your storytelling tool, in pedagogical terms?
  • How would this story work within a course that you teach (or would like to teach) based on pedagogical arguments?
• Be sure to cite relevant literature.

Overall quality of work is also important, as per the overall standards listed above;

Note: some of these requirements are straightforward–others more challenging. The more challenging ones require both technical competencies and critical analysis of system functionality versus educational design requirements. Learning modules populated with a preponderance of attached files that download (i.e. pdfs, Word documents, Powerpoint presentations) rather than html pages that load within the LMS are not acceptable.

This assignment is worth 35 marks, or 35% of your final course grade.