I found Udutu to be difficult to navigate, which in turn made creating my lesson harder than I had planned. It took me several days to set up my account, read through tutorials on the program, and then get my lesson up and running. Even after creating my lesson for this class, I am still feeling a bit confused by the Udutu program. Although I understand the concept of Udutu, I feel like there are probably other programs that I could use in order to create interactive lessons for my students that would be easier and more time-effective.
I would consider using Udutu in my classroom if some changes were made to the program, but at this point I can not see myself spending this much time and effort for a 5 min. lesson for my students.
@Abbie,
ReplyDeleteI have to agree with you about the difficulty with Udutu. It was extremely time consuming and even after publishing it is fraught with errors that I had to go back in and repair. I, like you, am really put off by the amount of time that it takes to construct a lesson that will be used once. I stopped using the SMARTboard for the very same reason.
I think that it would work best with a SCORM type atmosphere where the content would infrequently need to be updated or changed. I might have my students create Udutu lessons for their projects, or at least give them the option. As buggy as it was though, I don't know if I want the extra hassle, which is sad because it has such great potential.
I like how you included the ordering of steps as an assessment in your final piece.
@Abbie-
ReplyDeleteYour UDUTU lesson was nice in the fact that it went through step by step of the process of creating a ning site. If I might make one suggestion it would be to make the font a little smaller so that it fits on one screen. It seemed like I had to scroll a few times to be able to read all of the directions. Nice job!
@Abbie
ReplyDeleteI really liked how you incorporated the step by step process into your assessment tool at the end. To go along with your frustrating, one of the frustrating things I found with Udutu was the font size capabilities, or more precisely, the lack of capability. I went with the same font size you did and realized I had to shorten my sentences to make sure they would fit on one screen. I agree with you that this is something that has it uses but I will not be using it anytime soon again.
I agree with the others that you did a nice job breaking it down into steps, and ended with an assessment of just that. You said, “I can not see myself spending this much time and effort for a 5 min. lesson for my students.” It is very time consuming, but as with any new applications there is the learning curve factor. One of the advantages with Udutu is the content management of media assets, thereby making future course design potential quicker.
ReplyDelete~Larry
Abbie,
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your experience with Udutu. I've always enjoyed some degree of uniformity in graphics and animation programs. I want to be able to change everything: font, colors, artwork, background, etc. Long ago, I found that Macromedia (now Adobe) Flash does all that. So, now my only issue with using any other web 2.0 tool is inserting .swf files for embedded interactivity. I don't like having to learn entire new interfaces when you can learn one and then spend all your time coming up with the content instead of just figuring out how to deliver it.