Pod 5’s Interactive Learning Resource:

Chinese Tea Culture – Asian Studies (K-12) (opened.ca)

Excellent work Pod 5, reading about Chinese tea culture was a pleasure and your interactive learning resource did a wonderful job teaching it. 

Very well done resource draft overall. The site is very aesthetically pleasing and easy to use. However, due to a few of the category’s titles bringing you to a page that only contains the page’s title, I found it slightly awkward to navigate through the site. I think including some information or a picture on these pages could help to make navigation a bit smoother. 

Topics

Topics are well laid out and easy to understand. Learning outcomes match content nicely with good use of paragraph headers showing where the information related to the learning outcomes can be found. Pictures make pages appealing and break up the text well, making it easier to read.

Learning Assessments

The assessments chosen for this topic are great. I think using online quizzes is an excellent way for students to quickly figure out how well they are retaining the information. But, looking through the assessment section, I was only able to find where 50% of the grade was coming from. Perhaps putting a grade breakdown page somewhere showing where all the grade percentages come from would make it easier for students to find this information. It also appears that topic 4 doesn’t have an assessment, though this may be to give students time for the summative assessment, you may want to consider adding another assessment for this topic.

Design for Inclusion of Diverse Learners

I found the first paragraph under “Design for Inclusion of Diverse Learners” to be difficult to follow and had to read it over a few times. Perhaps adjusting some of the wording would make the paragraph flow a bit better. I also noticed that although you mention how the resource helps those with mobility issues it wasn’t very clear how it works for those with colour blindness, it may help to go over this in more detail.

Overall, Pod 5 has crafted an excellent draft that is visually appealing and educational.