The Reading

It's now week 4 (or is it 5?) of the first semester of the IDET program and this is my second blog post. I enjoy classes a lot (are you reading this, Dr. Monson?) and as you can see, I also enjoy using parentheses (but not as much as I enjoy this class).

I have a great team and we showed that we can work really well together, even when one of us (not me) had a baby the day after we completed the ADDIE assignment.

I do want to write about something that kind of bothers me with the Dick and Carey book. First of all, I want to mention that I'm in this program because I like instructional design and want to learn to do it better. Keeping that in mind, you would think the reading could hold my interest for more than 30 seconds at a time before my mind wanders off topic making it necessary to re-read large portions of the chapter.


I can't be the only one thinking this. Isn't it ironic that the book that is supposed to teach the reader to be better at instructional design is a disaster as far as holding the attention of the audience? It's not even so much the writing style (even though it is dull and extremely boring), it's the DESIGN. The DESIGN is what's killing me! There's little to no white-space, there are very few images besides box after box after box of endless ways to map out a design plan, and there's far too much talk and not enough show.

I just realized I'm ranting. Oh well; it's my blog.

I do have faith that I'm going to learn what I need and want to learn, I just wish the reading would help me on that journey.