Designing is Awesome

First, let me clarify that I use the word "Awesome" a little too often.  But during this process of creating my Storyline project, I have really begun to enjoy designing.  And, as I figured, I would want to create a completely different project.  For the purpose of this class, I am continuing with my Stride presentation (I am a little too far along in the process to throw it away), but I am also creating a "Masters Golf Tournament Introduction" for my kids where I will teach them about each hole of the Masters.  The idea is to teach them the basics of golf while "playing" each hole at Augusta National.  If they get a golf fact question correct (Which club should you use on the tee-box on number 1?) they will hit the ball to the correct location and score well.  If not, they will have a high score.  I am very excited about this!

Back to my current project:  Creating the prototype was a great way to get me to sit down and create the flow of the project.  It forced me to ask "Where is this going and why?".  I love the variables capability because it gives ownership to the learner of the design as well as integrating basic quizzes.  It seems as if the possibilities are endless with the design.  I am still a little stuck on whether to use the cartoon design or photoshopped pictures of actual people.  I have received differing opinions so that is no help haha!

I enjoyed Hong, Clinton, and Rieber's thoughts on inspiring to learn, or "aspiring to inspire".  My goal in life is to inspire my children to do great things.  That is one of the biggest reasons of why I have enjoyed Storyline.  My 4th grade daughter is wanting to create a lesson for her class using the program and I get to teach her through the process.  She wants to do all the design and information, but wants me to watch the Lynda videos with her and oversee her process.  I plan to send her final project over to Orey to see what he thinks.

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Journal #4 Design Flow

This project has been a little more complicated than I originally imagined.  Ten years ago, I worked in Athletic Media Relations and would create media guides and designs pretty frequently.  Now that feels like a lifetime ago.  That being said, I appreciate the design of this class, as it is walking me through designing my project.  I like the build up of learning each skill one by one in order to create a better project.  It has caused me to go back and "redesign" several times.  My biggest fear is that I will get to mid April and want to scratch my entire design for a new idea.

Where I am now:  I am still building my project off the Broken CoWorker design.  I enjoyed many of the templates that were offered, but I am contemplating creating my own.  My wife is a photographer, so I plan to have her take a few pictures of a principal and teacher that I know.  This is the current idea, but I am afraid it may be a little time consuming.  There was a template that I liked from ELearningBrothers "circle spider graph" that I will try to find a free download of.  If not, I don't think it will be very difficult to replicate.  

I find myself wanting perfection with my project... perfect design, perfect instruction.  This is something that I plan to send to schools across the country as an introduction to my company.  It needs to make a good impression.