Instructional Project

 Blog reflection on the process of this project as well as presentation. What was your thought process while choosing a topic? What was the most difficult part of the design process? What was the easiest part of the design process? How can you engage learners during a lesson? Do you feel you were able to engage your learners during the lesson? What surprised you when presenting the lesson?

This was easy to do but kind of not. Easy because we figured out the audience and what we were going to do. It was weird because there were two members not in class the day we chose what to do it on. Then once we chose the topic it was a free for all on adding things to the lesson plan that we shared via Google docs and the Wakelet we created. There were miscommunications it happens when communicating online we resolved it. When choosing a topic, it was a little hard but we thought about which ones are the most common programs that public libraries do. Food is a common theme that we thought of but how to go about presenting a tech aspect of it was the one that needed a little more thought. We decided on using Wakelet because it was something that we had learned in class and could be easily taught to the public.

One thing about presenting in class I thought of was how my library does it. If this had been a tech program that we had presented, there would have been either a handout or slideshow presentation. Which was something that I thought of as a handout but didn’t have time to do. Had a very busy weekend with work and other things that piled up. Then another group member sent us a slide show that they did so we could use it. Though it was shot down though I kind of wish we had used it because it had zoomed in to parts of the Wakelet that are kind of hard to see when presenting on Zoom. Plus, there wouldn’t be any worries if the Wakelet malfunctions or something doesn’t appear that usually do since we would have an image of what we are talking about.

Though something that was easy to do was the lesson plan. Which I haven't done but I have done very basic outlines of how a storytime will go. For me, it was kind of similar but we do storytime outlines for my library it is on a PowerPoint. So. if someone is off for some reason and was going to do a storytime that day anyone could do it. 

From having people send us their links to the Wakelets they created we were able to see that people were able to follow along with what we were doing. That is something that kind of sucks with doing an online program whether it is a class or an actual program for a library because you don’t know if people are actually listening as well as understanding. Though it went smoothly, at least it seemed like it did, we didn’t have much time to practice just an hour beforehand having divided who was doing what. We didn’t trip up on who was doing what and transiting to the next person was easy which really surprised me. Overall, this seemed easy to do. Here's a link to view the Wakelet we created for this fake program: Recipes for Your Busy Life. Hope everyone enjoyed the presentation.