Monday, 14 December 2009
My Individual Assignment-Text Version
Kay Chan
2009873319
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcth9t5d_2hjrdc4cx (Text Version)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6fEDqikjp-UMTVjNWIwNDItYTk5Mi00YWMxLWJlMTQtOWE5MWIwNDNjMjdk&hl=en (PDF Version)
The paper may being fine tuned
The latest version will upload soon
2009873319
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dcth9t5d_2hjrdc4cx (Text Version)
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B6fEDqikjp-UMTVjNWIwNDItYTk5Mi00YWMxLWJlMTQtOWE5MWIwNDNjMjdk&hl=en (PDF Version)
The paper may being fine tuned
The latest version will upload soon
Sunday, 13 December 2009
Final Product
Although nothing is ever really finished, we have taken on board a lot of the comments we received and created a final version of our learning object. I'm sure group members will add their own thoughts in other blog posts, but for me this project has been invaluable. I learnt an incredible amount about using Flash to create learning objects simply through the (often frustrating) process of trying to make stuff work.
The ability to post regular updates to the blog was a good tool, as it provided plenty of feedback and offered impetus to keep on improving. As I said before, there are things which I am happy with, and things which I would improve given unlimited time and skills. Overall, though, I'm happy with the way the project has turned out. I believe we made a good effort at incorporating the theory of creating learning objects into the presentation. I'd love to add some more game-style interactivity, but I'm afraid my programming wasn't up to it. I think that the major areas for improvement are cosmetic, thanks to the group's not great artistic talents! Oh well, maybe in the future. Enough of that, here's the presentation:
Movie
Source
The ability to post regular updates to the blog was a good tool, as it provided plenty of feedback and offered impetus to keep on improving. As I said before, there are things which I am happy with, and things which I would improve given unlimited time and skills. Overall, though, I'm happy with the way the project has turned out. I believe we made a good effort at incorporating the theory of creating learning objects into the presentation. I'd love to add some more game-style interactivity, but I'm afraid my programming wasn't up to it. I think that the major areas for improvement are cosmetic, thanks to the group's not great artistic talents! Oh well, maybe in the future. Enough of that, here's the presentation:
Movie
Source
Final Reflection
The use of blogger
BLOG acts as a learning platform for us. We can show what we have learnt, share ideas and experiences among other through this powerful platform. Many colleagues have given me valuable ideas and suggestions and I would like to thank all of them.
Also, we learn a lot from other colleagues work. Many of their work is excellent and make us force ourselves to do better.
Weekly Task
The weekly task forces us to learn something, do something and show what we have done before the following lesson. we can keep on learning new things throughout this module. Those tasks can arouse our interest in visual representation and different kinds of IT tools.
Reflection on Final Assignment
Thanks to all for giving us so much positive feedbacks to improve our work! We finally finish our learning object. According to Daniel’s suggestion, a single interface acts as one access point to most information was regarded as the best design in learning objects. Thus, we did our best to put everything into one interace. The most difficult part is how to make the interface look entertaining and with educational purpose.
Designing different kinds of learning resources is a part of our daily work. However, we do not know whether they are really effective or not as they are always be produced in hurry and we have no time to evaluate every piece of work we produced. In this time, we have to design and produce a learning object step by step. Therefore, we can think thoroughly and modify our work during different stages of our work.
Daniel and colleagues' suggestions and opinions do help us a lot. Through the use of BLOG, we can share our experiences and ideas with others freely and openly. We received many useful suggestions form colleagues and they did help us a lot. Quality of our learning object was improving and our final product was produced finally.
We are satisfied with the quality of our work but we know that there are still many rooms from improvement. We had tried our best to design and draw using the software to accomplish this task. With the idea of Daniel’s demo and technical support from a friend of ours, eventually we have got it!
BLOG acts as a learning platform for us. We can show what we have learnt, share ideas and experiences among other through this powerful platform. Many colleagues have given me valuable ideas and suggestions and I would like to thank all of them.
Also, we learn a lot from other colleagues work. Many of their work is excellent and make us force ourselves to do better.
Weekly Task
The weekly task forces us to learn something, do something and show what we have done before the following lesson. we can keep on learning new things throughout this module. Those tasks can arouse our interest in visual representation and different kinds of IT tools.
Reflection on Final Assignment
Thanks to all for giving us so much positive feedbacks to improve our work! We finally finish our learning object. According to Daniel’s suggestion, a single interface acts as one access point to most information was regarded as the best design in learning objects. Thus, we did our best to put everything into one interace. The most difficult part is how to make the interface look entertaining and with educational purpose.
Designing different kinds of learning resources is a part of our daily work. However, we do not know whether they are really effective or not as they are always be produced in hurry and we have no time to evaluate every piece of work we produced. In this time, we have to design and produce a learning object step by step. Therefore, we can think thoroughly and modify our work during different stages of our work.
Daniel and colleagues' suggestions and opinions do help us a lot. Through the use of BLOG, we can share our experiences and ideas with others freely and openly. We received many useful suggestions form colleagues and they did help us a lot. Quality of our learning object was improving and our final product was produced finally.
We are satisfied with the quality of our work but we know that there are still many rooms from improvement. We had tried our best to design and draw using the software to accomplish this task. With the idea of Daniel’s demo and technical support from a friend of ours, eventually we have got it!
Monday, 30 November 2009
Changes Based on Comments
Thanks very much to everyone who commented, and to all groups for putting up their learning objects for us to take a look at. Based on the comments and our own thoughts, here are the things that we are going to attempt to change:
1. Include more labels to let the learners know what the buttons do before they press them. I'd also like to include mouseover suggestions.
2. Label some of the key features: subductive plate, etc.
3. Finish adding a links section.
4. Improve the maps with the addition of the amount that the sea level is rising.
5. Maybe add some sound effects/voiceover.
6. Slow down the animation- we can experiment with dropping the framerate.
Anything I've missed?
PS: if anyone is interested in trying out Google Wave and hasn't got an invite, let me know.
1. Include more labels to let the learners know what the buttons do before they press them. I'd also like to include mouseover suggestions.
2. Label some of the key features: subductive plate, etc.
3. Finish adding a links section.
4. Improve the maps with the addition of the amount that the sea level is rising.
5. Maybe add some sound effects/voiceover.
6. Slow down the animation- we can experiment with dropping the framerate.
Anything I've missed?
PS: if anyone is interested in trying out Google Wave and hasn't got an invite, let me know.
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