Though anyone born after the year 1950 should not have any difficulty accessing and following the instructions given on my site, it seems that they should be presented as an irritating downloadable PDF file which is likely to confuse, if not just annoy, anyone trying to post to my site. If they cannot understand the instructions I have posted they most likely have some technology issues and the need to open external applications and/or browser windows is likely to give them some sort of brain haemorrhage due to extreme technical complexity.
However I have looked over the marking rubric for this task multiple times and I can't see anywhere that states the instructions should be external to your website. In fact I've made use of my new skills using Skitch to make a little annotated screenshot of the rubric:
Now I don't want to be big-headed and say my work is excellent. I would like to point out, however, that it does not say anywhere in the rubric that the instructions should be a PDF or annotated screencast. I see no point in including the same information I embedded into my website in a downloadable PDF. You are clearly going to be online if you are posting to my social media site and therefore the instructions do not need to be accessible offline. I worry that the assignment is being marked solely on using of a variety of multimedias, rather than our ability to use technology efficiently and in a way that we feel is appropriate for the task. There is no point demonstrating my ability to create and upload a PDF file to my site (as already demonstrated in Task 1 with the poster) if it is not relevant or necessary for the task at hand.
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