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• Difficulty in fully understanding the module criteria, as it was unexplained at the beginning.
• Expected module outcomes, were unexplained.
  • Tricky to understand what was expected overall in the assignment,
  • Unaware that the assignment encompassed creating more than one resource, rather than just one resource,
  • Tricky to understand what was expected in/from each class,
  • Tricky to understand how each class related to the assignment.
• Difficulty when choosing my e-resource learning topic,
  • Unaware of what software I could use,
  • Difficulty in understanding limitations in relation to software, and what I could and couldn’t do with different software,
  • Due to limitations, it was difficult to narrow down activities, once I had decided on the topic.
• Found it easy to specify on my age range
  • As I will be starting teacher training in September 2017, the chosen age range is the same age that I will train to teach.
• My first time creating a blog…
  • Unsure of what to write and how to write,
  • Due to needing a 2:1 degree minimum, I felt there was extra pressure in writing my blog
    • due to the essay structure that I am typically used to.  I will draft, re-draft and re-draft until I am happy with the essay to submit it. But as this blog consists of many posts since the start of the module in September 2016, I was concerned that I may not write about everything that was expected, or write it in the expected way.
• Future challenge…
  • The learning objectives will stay the same or similar, but outcomes could change overtime, due to changes in curriculum and technology.

• No prior teacher training, as the BA course does not include any teacher training. Also doing PGCE next academic year. Therefore low understanding of the particular process to progress through
• Fluidity of technology – constant changes in technology, access, e-learning
• Consistency of topic, and changes in the topic over time
• similar learning objectives but outcomes could change overtime, e.g. age group or increased subtraction work instead of just addition.
• awareness of available technology
• narrowing down the specifics of activities
• user research – dont get to test the e-resources, unless I test them on my own accord.
• instructional video quality – uploaded to youtube and it re-renderes the video size and the quality reduces.
• colours on the interactive whiteboard
• computer issues experienced with recording the videos, especially when recording both visual and auditory.

• Prior to this module I had only used YouTube to watch videos and not create videos
• Prior to this module I have not use powerpoint animations before.  This was quite daunting to me, but after I had created the session 1 story, I felt really confident in myself that I could do it again and probably be more adventurous with the animations that I used.