Wow, Learning Objects seem difficult to develop if you have to start from scratch. It appears that you need a lot of technical know-how to develop these learning objects that can meet the objectives of the instructional unit. Software programming is not my specialty by any means. “Flash” and me just don’t seem to get along so well…
Something that I noticed about Learning Objects is that many of the examples we were given seem to mirror individualized instructional units with some more thoroughly developed multimedia/software elements thrown in. I think the focus of implementing learning objects isn’t necessarily developing your own, but using what has already been developed out there and has already been “tagged” so that you can use it to accomplish an instructional goal. Or, if you do in fact create your own, it becomes far more useful if it is uploaded and tagged somewhere for other teachers to use, as well. That reminds me of one of the best things about the internet and how it relates to learning these days – teachers can easily communicate with one another and swap lesson ideas that have been tested in a class setting and have proven successful.
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Hi Paul,
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about the difficulty in creating learning objects. It seems well beyond my level of technical expertise too. I'm thinking about trying to incorporate some learning objects into a module. Candace mentions some additional resources on her blog post for this week.
Paul, I agree that "Flash" is a little difficult to understand. I tried to view a few tutorials on Macromedia Flash MX for module 4, but quickly decided that I did not have enough time!!
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