Design Journal 9/18/06

Today I had the realization that I had almost forgotten everything that this program is trying to teach me. I sat down and just started to create instruction. I was into it about an hour when I realized that I was not applying anything I had learned. I decided to go back and look at my books and refresh myself as to how to go about actually creating instruction. After a short search I soon came across our favorite book, "The Systematic Design of Instruction". I really liked this book; it was very helpful to me. I have again started developing instruction, except that know I am actually creating my goals first. So to make a long story short, tonight I worked on hammering out the exact learning goals that I want to use to create my first unit of instruction. With these in hand, I can now move on to the next steps.

Lesson learned- All that we have learned so far is actually VERY useful, and really not to hard to follow.

Actual progress- very little when it comes to useable product, but tons when it comes to research and development.