On the 25th of June Nina Volkinburg, Syahrizal Shafie and I met to discuss our interventions. This experience was eye-opening and reassuring to hear what my peers were doing and get some valued feedback. They expressed that they think my intervention is interesting and will make the student’s learning experiences more engaging. It was stated that making my resources more user-friendly for online would be a good thing to do as this automatically allows more students to access it rather than just being on paper onsite. They said to look into creating a mobile-friendly version as this is how most of the students access content.
Nina’s intervention has lots of similarities to mine. We are both adapting existing online resources to make them more accessible to a range of students. Nina is specifically mapping out the weekly learning timetable for her course’s first module: Block 1 unit “Fashion Marketing Strategies”. It is currently very wordy, like the 3D workshop resources I am currently working on. She intends to make them more visually engaging by embedding media through hyperlinks, Padlet forums, videos of herself explaining academic concepts, podcasts and other multi-media content. Creating a multifaceted platform for students helps to be more inclusive of different learning styles and positionalities. I want to take some of these concepts and apply them to the glossary of terms. It would be great to make it as interactive as possible and create a dynamic learning environment that keeps all students engaged. Again similar to Nina, I only teach face-to-face, however having a plethora of captivating content online with embedded technologies will complement the students’ onsite experience. Together our aims are to create content that supports students’ learning by making it more accessible and engaging.
