I believe I met this standard of being an Innovative Designer because I had to undergo a week-long design process to layout and create my eBook. I had to be critical with it and make sure I included information that would be important to the argumentative essay unit I would be teaching. I revised my eBook several times and had my CT help with some of the revisions by giving me feedback on what to add, change, etc. in hopes to continually improve my eBook. I had to deal with some imaging errors when adding in images to certain sections, but overall the design process was rewarding and the outcome was well-worth the wait.

I would use an eBook in times where a lot of reading and learning occurs. I used it during the argumentative unit during my student teaching as a workbook. I think I'd use it more when introducing a topic rather than just piling the entire topic and workspaces into one. I feel like the eBook would be most useful, again, when introducing a topic and especially when working through previous knowledge and relating it back to why we're learning it now, etc.

I have a lot to say about my eBook. First and foremost, I got a lot of hate for it. Like, a lot. Like, I had students telling me to my face that I wasted my time and that they hated it. And I had a lot of talks with my CT, asking if I should just scrap it because the students hate it; but, she told me that some of the students do love it, and that instead of making it a requirement for them all, let it be a crutch for those that need it and use it as extra credit for those that do it, or at least sections of it. My CT did also give me some advice. Instead of giving them all 50 pages upfront, I could break it down and chunk it, releasing it to students in pieces accordingly to their appropriate steps. That way, students won’t feel overwhelmed when they’re not given it all at once, because as soon as I introduced the eBook, students immediately went “50 pages!?” and closed their Chromebooks. I think there are a lot of lessons to learn about my eBook. I think it was helpful, and many students did benefit from it, and I’m glad I switched to just using it for extra credit than requiring students to do it because some just downright hated it and wouldn’t do it at all, and assigning it for 100 points originally only made them more mad. And my CT approved this, obviously. All in all, I’m proud of what I came up with, but I would write it in a different format where all my images would stay in place and spacing issues didn’t exist.