Session 8 - individual task 2 - Kevin Cheng

Session 8 - individual task 2 - Kevin Cheng

DSO Kids - https://www.mydso.com/dso-kids/learn-and-listen/instruments

1. Content quality - For kids learning the instruments, there is ample details with a picture, description, its family as well as an audio file of the instrument's sound.
2. Feedback and adaptation - There is a lack of feedback since this is a website with one-way communication only. There is a feedback section within the website, but we can imagine that the channel will be slow moving, where adaptation will be very sluggish and takes a long time to implement.
3. Motivation - There is good motivation, since the learning includes activities where kids can have hands-on activities to further enrich their learning.
4. Presentation design - There is a neat visual presentation with bright but not overwhelming colors to attract viewers. Auditory information is also present to enhance learning.
5. Interaction usability - The navigation of the website is generally simple and clear, for example clear font sizes and neat and clean design.
6. Accessibility - It doesn't cater for disabled viewers as it contains mainly visual information.
7. Reusability - Since it is very basic information and facts, it has high reusability for learners from different background. But it is in English so it is limited to viewers who understand English.

Engaging and motivating students - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=256&v=DvJuzE-g7OM

1. Content quality - The content is neatly presented in 2 parts
2. Feedback and adaptation - Since it is a video, there is a lack of feedback
3. Motivation - As it contains highly relevant information, it does increase intrinsic motivation
4. Presentation design - As a video, it is presented neatly with clear and high quality camera and clear labels
5. Interaction usability - There is interaction available from the comments section, which does provide quick time chat and discussion
6. Accessibility - As YouTube videos contain subtitles, it is accessible for both blind and deaf people
7. Reusability - As it contains general information, it should be reusable across the educational context

Guide to Grammar & Writing - http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm

1. Content quality - There is a lot of content teaching many aspects of writing
2. Feedback and adaptation - There is a lot of questions with answers for self evaluation. However since it is quite rigid in its design and activity choices, there is little adaptation to learner characteristics
3. Motivation - As the interface is very multimedia-heavy and contains a lot of different information, this might throw off learners and become distractions instead of attractions.
4. Presentation design - The quality of learning resources is high, and there are consideration for multimedia design, as signalling principle is apparent where texts will highlight in different colors if you hover over them
5. Interaction usability - User navigation is quite easy here, with a clear drop down menu to navigate to different pages and sections
6. Accessibility - This website did not take into consideration blind and deaf people, as there is no design that cater for these people
7. Reusability - As grammar and writing skills is very reusable across courses and contexts, there is great reusability