Lauryn Davis

During my LDT 502 course, my team and I spent several weeks creating our first course. My team and I worked together to be able to design a course that helped school faculty learn how to use DaVinci Resolve 18 so that the faculty could increase their online presence with their students.  The design process took several weeks to fully complete, and we definitely experienced our fair share of roadblocks. However, I am ultimately happy with the end result of the course. Today I want to reflect on my experience designing the course and discuss the good and bad aspects of the project. The Challenge:   University School faculty were having trouble getting their online students to stay engaged and really grasp the course concepts in their classes online. The challenge was that we needed to train the school staff to use a program called DaVinci Resolve, which would help them be able to post videos into their Canvas courses so that they could increase their online presence and make ...

Reflecting on my time in LDT 506, I have seen many opportunities where I have been able to improve as a learning designer. I feel as though my time examining different evaluation practices has been meaningful, and I feel like I now have a new perspective on how to conduct proper evaluations, which I hope to be able to use in my future career. Overall, I am happy with the knowledge that I have gained through this course and can't wait to apply my knowledge of evaluations more often in the future. Most recently, I have taken a self-assessment about where I personally stand as an evaluator. The self-assessment made me think about where I am currently at with being able to conduct proper and meaningful evaluations. It was found that after some reflection, I would be at an advanced or expert level in most areas of the evaluation process. On my self-assessment, I gave myself mostly scores between 4-6, with most scores being 5 or 6, which would indicate me to be at an advanced or expert l...