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Week 14 - Final Blog, We Made it to the End!

It has been almost two months since the last time I wrote a blog for this class and so many things have transpired since then.  Our group project is just about finished, we are only waiting on our client’s notes so that we can do final revisions.  We had our group presentation last Thursday and there were so many great presentations.  The only negative thing I have to say about it is that the group presentations went over the 15-minute maximum time.  We were told to keep our presentation to 15 minutes and since we were four people in our team, my part of the presentation was limited to three minutes.  Although I went by the time restrictions, watching other speak for long periods of time made me feel guilty for not having presented longer.

So what have I learned since my last blog post?  I have learned that group projects can wear me down a bit.  I felt that this project went on for way too long.  Part of the problem is that we were working with the same client and the same topic as project A, except this time we worked on the whole course.  Looking back, I believe having a different client would have been a pleasant experience and would have brought a fresh energy into the group.  I also have learned that I don’t like doing homework on the weekends as I work very hard at my job and at school during the weekdays so that I can have the weekends off.  Unfortunately, my group could only meet on the weekends due to everyone’s hectic schedule but ‘flexibility’ is part of being in a group. 

Through this project, I have learned so much, particularly about the analysis part of developing new course training material.  I had little to no experience working on needs analysis and had a tough time wrapping my head around it at first.  I also learned a lot about Canvas since I was brand new to this LMS.  At first, I was a bit disoriented but once I got to building modules and adding content pages I really started liking Canvas.  I think is a great LMS and would be excited if my school moved away from using Blackboard to Canvas.  Having had the opportunity to build two courses, one in this course and the second one in 5510, I now feel a lot more confident in my Canvas skills.  


To wrap things up, I was very happy with this course because it had a lot of great assignments and because I got a chance to be introduced to new tools and new ideas.  Anyone interested in taking this course will not be disappointed.  I’m relieved that the work is done and that we made it out of such big project.

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