This is the final artifact from ETEC 540, where I looked at the evolution of the presentation (a topic very close to my heart, as I do all my lesson planning in PowerPoint). Looking back, this really did make me realize that it isn’t always the content of the course that makes it useful, but the flexibility in the assessments (actually allowing students to use their creativity to relay back what they know to you). I really enjoyed researching this topic, and found it incredibly interesting how much the past does influence the future (the original slide show projectors, i.e. square little films with some basic images/text on them is still how current presentation applications are structured!). Obviously, the content has evolved but the structure still remains.
Category Archives: Bargaining
The evolution of text in collaboration
This artifact is a prime example of my minds desire to bring application to theory. This again, was from ETEC 540, a course I struggled with the content but the professor’s choice of assessments really took me out of “shock” and into “bargaining”. Due to my technology background I kept trying to search for things to write about that would interest me and be somewhat applicable to the course. The result, was this assessment which was more a combination of technologies, rather than theory. I really enjoyed making this artifact as it was during the time I was experimenting with the slide master template in PowerPoint and this was a way to apply that knowledge into one of my MET courses.
The Columbian Printing Press (Video Documentary)
This artifact was a result of the course that I put in shock, but the way the assessments were structured it allowed me to go out of my comfort zone and produce something I was actually proud of. I have to say, that I had very little interest in the topic, I had never given much thought to early printing but the collection of the video clips and putting it together with a voice over script really was quite interesting. Now this artifact was quite early in my journey, and I find it very wordy and rough but it really was part of the bargaining that went through my head while taking the course.
Shock
Acceptance