Yesterday was the deadline for the multimedia module of the renown stress-management course DiDA. I have not known such a feeling of freedom for weeks.
For the D202 module, which was based on ‘energizing your life’, we had to produce:
- An eLearning package (a bit like MyMaths) aimed at 14 to 17 year olds;
- A promotional movie for the eLearning package aimed at teachers;
- A 6-slide looping presentation to be used at secondary school induction days;
- A multimedia-centric ePortfolio (website);
- Backup materials such as commentaries, a journal, assets tables, a review, etc.
The products and backup materials were by far the easy part. The problem with the DiDA course is the bizarre mark-scheme that grades you only get something like 9 out of 42 possible marks for the quality of your products – the brunt of the marking is for planning, reviewing, getting feedback and acting on feedback.
Anyway, I now have a fortnight of relative doss before the next SPB starts. Now I only have business coursework, a trial SPB, maths coursework and revised drafts of English coursework – wow, it will be almost like a holiday!
Hey, i’ve just finished my DiDA D201 and moving on to D202 now, any tips for the project??
I presume you’ll be doing the 2007 SPB then? I don’t know what that’s like, but some general pointers:
God, how annoying is this comment system? I’m going to have to improve this. Hope that helps, anyway?
Hey im doin the dida d202 course at the minute and im way behind. im only on the elearning package and the whole thing has got to be finished by beginnin gof feb. How long did ur movie take you and basically how do u make the storyboard for it.
I would really appreciate if u wud write back
thankz X
Hey im doin the dida d202 course at the minute and im way behind. im only on the elearning package and the whole thing has got to be finished by beginnin gof feb. How long did ur movie take you and basically how do u make the storyboard for it.
I would really appreciate if u wud write back
thankz lily X
Hey there…
It depends on how you work. The thing you have to remember with DiDA is that you cannot finish everything on time if you only work inside of class time. If you planned your movie tomorrow night and rang up some people asking them to do some video feedback on your eLearning package for your movie, you could probably have the footage by Friday. Putting it together takes maybe between 4 and 6 hours of class time.
I did my planning on a whiteboard that I use for planning stuff, and took photos of it (it makes my project more ‘multimedia-ery’, heh), but you can basically do the same thing spread out over a few sheets of paper and scan them in. It’s basically a flow-chart with notes on transitions, music, effects… that sort of thing.
Good luck! I’m doing D204 atm.
hey i got 25 for my d201, just sayin…im on d202 now and im finding it to be a good allround subject!
hey i got 25 for my d201, just sayin…im on d202 now and im finding it to be a good allround subject! 😛
I went from 1 to 40 in D201, no idea how!
on D202 now, don’t get all worked up about it or anything, D202 is the easiest of them all. Good luck! 😀