Headspace...the final frontier

Jason's log, stardate 10082010.

Good grief, this all went really quickly. Just the other day one was wondering what to come up with. Having considered my average IT skills, the trepidation at the outset was somewhat overwhelming. Having ruminated and read around the ADDIE design model it slowl became manageable. The saying "How do you eat and elephant....one bite at a time" rang true during the journey through this module. The keep it simple principle also proved helpful. Bells and whistles might be very distracting in an e-learning undertaking and thinking about how to engage people in a cyberworld was a bit of a "kopkrapper" (for our non-Afrikaans speakers: head scratching stuff).

The design part of the process presented the biggest challenge during this exercise. Have to keep in mind the available resources (myself and my average IT skills)and the abilities of the target group (recently qualified midwives)to navigate the intended learning intervention on a PC-based platform. One does not wnat to however "dumb it down" and the line is fine between that perception and user-friendliness.

Engaging with the material over the last while has given me new insights into what one can do with the programmes readily available to us such as PowerPoint and the free software and applications available on the web. The only issue is knowing what you need and where to find it on the web. With all the skills we use in our professional daily lives, the more you do it the better you become at it, this is also true with being involved and working with e-learning.

So at the end of this module which has taken me out of my comfort zone, I wish all my fellow e-learning Jedi, may the force be with you. And in the words of master Yoda, blog you must.