Blog 4 — Organization and Advanced Searching

Orga­ni­za­tion is cru­cial when cre­at­ing con­tent for oth­ers. If you are not orga­nized, then the infor­ma­tion will not be com­mu­ni­cat­ed smooth­ly and those con­sum­ing will have a dif­fi­cult time under­stand­ing the main mes­sages. Going through the process with the eyes of both how the infor­ma­tion will be received, and how to best com­mu­ni­cate that infor­ma­tion, may point out gaps in a les­son. It is impos­si­ble to plan for every sce­nario that might arise when teach­ing live ses­sions, yet orga­niz­ing the key objec­tives can negate pos­si­ble confusion.

When cre­at­ing mul­ti­me­dia con­tent it can be easy to get off-track and include infor­ma­tion that is not cru­cial to the les­son. This makes the job of the cre­ator hard­er as they would have to edit and explain more than nec­es­sary. Dis­tract­ing learn­ers with an abun­dance of infor­ma­tion takes away from the effec­tive­ness of a les­son. A les­son plan allows for more stream­line con­tent that can be referred to over time.

While orga­niz­ing and plan­ning for future con­tent, it is impor­tant to under­stand it may not ful­ly achieve every­thing that it’s set out to. It’s ben­e­fi­cial to have a sol­id plan, even if when cre­at­ing it may not be able to come to fruition. Flex­i­bil­i­ty, espe­cial­ly with tech­nol­o­gy based learn­ing, is a skill to best adapt depend­ing on the circumstances.