Frazzled

Obviously, I am not keeping up with my postings on here. I feel like I'm just writing in a void. It might have been better to have paired up with someone for this ID blog. Maybe it's not too late. I could put the word out there, and see if anyone want to join me on my solo blog.

At any rate, I'm feeling rather frazzled. It's a simple case of information overload. If I'm not reading research and theoretical papers for my Project Design Document (PDD), then I'm working on the PDD itself. I just feel so rushed and so pressed for time. I have to begin with the end in mind, but since the technology I'll be using to design my ID project is so new to me, it's hard to visualize THE END product. Also, I haven't written the case based narratives yet that will anchor the simulations. I'm going to shoot to get at least the first of the three I'm planning to build into my ID project done tomorrow. Finally, academic writing is so droll and esoteric that I grasp what I'm reading in fits and starts. Definitely a case of bottom-up vs. top down processing of the readings. Whew! It's a lot to have on my plate.

Actually, I think my favorite part of the PDD process is the instructional design process itself. I suppose that's because it's the most familiar to me, and it has a pragmatic application. I'll start getting down and dirty with that tomorrow.