Spanish Steps De-Brief
After completing the 6 hours of Spanish Steps, I feel as though I have learnt a lot about Spanish.
I found that the Administration of content into different forms of media such as sound files, video files, and flash games really added to my learning experience as they kept and maintained my attention.
I also found that the content was readily accessible with various links to “Help” options and “Grammar Tips”. The only problem that I experienced in completing this course was my rather slow bandwidth that, on a rare occasion impeded my learning. However, this Spanish Steps course greatly assists people with low bandwidths, allowing them the option to work with less interactive activities, such as the option to print out transcripts.
The online course also gave great feedback. Whenever the learner answers a question correctly, the online course provides positive feedback through sound files and texts in Spanish such as “Excelente!!”.
I also found that the layout of the content in this course to be logically sequenced, with different elements and games under certain Units (eg. Choosing clothes element under the Unit of Shopping). However, I would also recommend that there should be an Online User guide link in every activity in the course, to remind learners of the many features that they could take advantage of. I recommend this option because I didn’t notice features such as “Grammar Tips’ until I was half way through this course.
