Monday, August 25, 2008

Soundtrack of Your Life activity

During the first week, folks completed the Soundtrack of Your Life activity. This went over very well. It worked as an alternative to bios, and -- hopefully -- it also achieved two important instructional message design objectives too:

* To remind everyone of the potential of audio -- including music -- as a layer in an instructional message...a layer that enhances the message, makes it richer, more memorable, more engaging.

* That as the designers of instructional messages we need to think beyond convention. We need to think about things differently, allow ourselves to be creative and unique.

I hope that the activity was successful in conveying those messages...I really want this course to not only provide the necessary foundation to be great instructional message designers, but to also free everyone to explore and try new things.

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