Using the chart information, you will create a “pitch” to support your pod’s persona in your distributed and open learning classroom. Using UDL guidelines to frame your response, create a pitch to des
| | Name: Jack Gender: Male Age:23 Lives in: Canada Likes Movies, Guitar and Video Games |
| Education and experience | Jack has completed his economics degree at a local college. He currently is a full-time bank teller at TD bank, and has being working there for one and half years. |
| Roles and responsibilities | Jack goes to work at 8am and off from work at 5pm everyday from Monday to Friday. He lives at an apartment alone,but has a dog to take care. He needs to walk his dog for at least half hour after work. Living a monotonic daily routine makes Jack to want to make some improvements in his life. He is considering to do further education to advance his career. |
| Technical skills | Jack is good with basic computer technology. He is also a quick learner and able to quickly adopted new computer applications. |
| Subject domain skills and knowledge | Since he completed economics degree, he has basic financial knowledge and some basic understanding of the economy of Canada that he learned from school, however, he is lack of opportunities to put what he learned into practice at his current job. |
| Motivation and desires | He loves playing video games in his free time. Therefore, he wants to create a game and introduce his work to everyone. If possible, Jack also wants to start a business with the game he created. |
| Goals and expectations | His goal is to apply for a master degree in a top university as economics-related graduate students. After graduation, he hopes that he can find a job related to his hobby |
| Obstacles to their success | The main problem is he lack of friends and lacking of social skills. Since he spend most of the time to working, he don’t have enough time to maintain a healthy social life. In order to get success it is better to have more people to collaborate with. More brains always better than one. |
| Unique assets | He is a gifited in technology and computure using. |
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| Persona Characteristic | Barriers or Challenges | Distributed Environments | Open Environments |
| Lacking of time because of work | Will be challenging to arrange time to study new things | Distributed tool like google class room could have save him a lot time try to attend to the location for education. | Open tool like Chegg could help him to have a more flexible schedule, it is asynchronous, so he can study whenever he wants, without following the class’s schedule. |
| Introverted and lacking of social skills | Challenging to make friend and meet new people | Distributed tool like Blackboard could avoid most of face to face communicate, which will be easier for him to learn. | Open tool like Moodle could be helpful while he could just focusing on absorbing knowledges without interact with most of the classmates |
