Final Project Report

At this point the only thing left to do for the project is to finalize my report of the learning activity. Overall, the instruction went well. The learners seemed glad to have learned about piktochart and all said that they may well use it in the future. It was also neat to see how each individual learners piktocharts came out differently. Overall, this was a good way to get teaching experience and also expose others to a cool (and free!) software.

Final Project Status Update December 3rd

At this point in the final project I have:

- Scheduled the Web 2.0 Learning Activity (Piktochart) for Friday December 3rd

- Reviewed and revised all of the necessary documents in preparation for tomorrows lesson

- Prepped and gathered the necessary laptops, overhead projector, and printer for the presentation

That being said, I am excited and anxious to teach the lesson. I hope all goes well but am well aware of Murpy's Law. One thing that I am excited about is that none of my learners are familiar with Piktochart and I hope that they might use the software in the future. Judging from some of the feedback I have received from this blog, it seems as though many people in this course also are impressed with Piktochart and have or will use it in their professional life.

Wish me luck!,


Matt

Final Project status update #1

This week I have been spending time on the piktochart.com website familiarizing myself with the different options. I am doing this to better understand the options available to the learners when the instruction begins. I was somewhat disappointed to see that a lot of templates are not available unless you are a paid subscriber. At this point I am considering becoming a subscriber. Hopefully next week I will begin to develop instruction including creating hardcopy instructions.  

Final Project Proposal

       One thing that I have really enjoyed about my time in the IDT department is that from time to time I am exposed to new software that I find to be really interesting and worth sharing with others. The best of these software examples makes me think, "Boy, I wish I would have know about this last semester because I would have used it for communicating during the big group project" or "This software could have really given my presentation some eye popping visuals to grab my learner's attention". Some examples of the software that I been exposed to at WIU include; Google Docs, pbworks, and Prezi. Thanks to Dr. West's IDT 516 class I have another cool new software to add to my collection.....Piktochart.

       I think that Piktochart is easy to learn, provides eye popping graphic design and a lot of computer users might be interested in using it if they were exposed to it. So that leads me to the final project. I would like to create a tutorial on how to use Piktochart. I will explain what it is, what it can do and how to use it. I will provide learning goals and measure those goals using assessment criteria. I will use a web 2.0 medium to create step-by-step instruction and solicit feedback and encourage dialog amongst learners.

     Quite frankly I think that Piktochart is a great software and that a lot of people might choose to use it if they were aware of it and had a little instruction along the way.