As you go through the blog, please consider the following questions. These will be the basis of our class discussion. Jot down your ideas so you can refer to them during discussion and use them to complete tonight's homework. Tonight for homework, you will write a journal entry based on these questions and your observations. The entry will be at least three quarters of a page, typed, single space, font size 12, Times New Roman font with regular one-inch margins.
1. What are some of the features specific to blogs and other online materials? How do these enhance the instructions?
2. How are visuals used in a blog? What are the advantages to video? What are the disadvantages? Compare the visuals to the IKEA assembly instructions.
3. How are the videos shot? Why were they shot this way?
4. What reasons were the trick demonstration and the explanation broken into two parts?
5. How is the audio in the video similar to the text in written instructions? How is it different?
6. Why would there be links and references used in a blog?
7. What purpose do the History post and the About Me section serve? How do they enhance the blog? Are they necessary?
9. What advantages are there for putting instructions on a blog or on a website? Are there any potential drawbacks to having instructions online?
10. Visit YouTube and compare the card trick videos you find there with the one's I posted. How well shot were some of these videos? Be as specific as possible and be sure to include the names of the videos you used.
11. If I were to reshoot these videos. How might they be improved?
10. Visit YouTube and compare the card trick videos you find there with the one's I posted. How well shot were some of these videos? Be as specific as possible and be sure to include the names of the videos you used.
11. If I were to reshoot these videos. How might they be improved?