Weijiao's Work

Hello, this is Huang Weijiao from Xi'an. It' s my pleasure to be part of MSc program.

I have to say every course in MITE satisfies my interest in Information Technology in Education; therefore, I believe I'll learn a lot from these courses. It's also a pleasure to study with all of my classmates. 

I hope we can help and learn from each other and do a great job together.

Session 1 Task 1
Three pieces of my multimedia learning materials:
1. https://www.edx.org/
2. HKU Moodle
3. Xuetangx(学堂在线)

Session 1 Task 2

I choose squid 3 as the best image for following reasons:
1. Information about squid in 3rd image is more comprehensive: it shows the main features, live areas and weight of squid.
2. More details than other images: each part of the squid body is explained quite clearly.
3. Color is quite simple and comfortable for reading.
4. More academic and professional.
5. Use comparison to explain squid's weight and where it lives.

Session 1 Task 3
My teaching aim is to introduce some basic information about typhoon and the effects of it. Although knowledges in first page are too much scientific, students need to learn them because they are very basic. To help students understand typhoon more easily and directly, I post some images about typhoon' s effect that student may experience in real life.

http://sciencing.om/effects-typhoons-606027

Session 2 Individual Task 

Session 3 Task 1

The 1st and 2nd LO of 6329 - design multimedia teaching and learning resources and design appropriate learning activities to use multimedia resources - meets the following criteria:

1. Develop students' multimedia-using skills and abilities

2.Students can grasp multimedia knowledge and their activities can be measured

3.Focus on use multimedia resources

4.Focus on student's learning outcomes

5.Focus on the learning resulting from an activity

6.Reflect the institution’s mission and the values it represents

7.Are in alignment at course, academic program, and institutional levels

Session 3 Task 2

1. LO: design multimedia teaching and learning resources

Skills: 1) Apply IT; 2) Design multimedia teaching and learning resources

Conditions: Use multimedia as a tool to improve teaching in class

Criteria: 1) Design a prototype of multimedia teaching and learning resource for supporting learning; 2) Essay writing in relation to the area of “Multimedia in Education”; 3) Class participation

2. Write down two examples of each of the domain

Cognitive domain: 1) Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of typewriting; 2) Explain the links between constructivism theory and schema theory 
Affective domain: 1) Demonstrate the development of MOOC; 2) Value the significance of IT in education
Psychomotor domain: 1) Create a building model 2) Learn how to drive a car     

Online Course 1 Task 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viHILXVY_eU&t=70

The aim of this video is to tell people what e-learning is and its advantages, although it is an advertisement actually. From my perspective, this learning resource achieves its goals to tell audiences definition and benefits of e-learning with applying following principles.

1. Coherence Principle – There is no extraneous words and unrelated pictures during the whole video. For example, when definite e-learning, only “electronic learning” occurs; when explain e-learning tools with pictures, only related images - audio, video, interactive games and simulations - on the screen.

2. Signaling Principle –  Some important informations are highlighted to make audiences learn better.

3. Redundancy Principle – No much texts on screen when explain why e-learning is more cost-saving than traditional class.

 

4. Spatial Contiguity Principle – E-learning learners can take courses from all around the world 24 hours a day and 24/7. The video-maker put words and pictures closer to help audiences understand better.

5. Temporal Contiguity Principle – When video-maker introduces the features of e-learning, he presents the related pictures simultaneously rather than show them at one time.

6. Segmenting Principle – This video follows the user-paced segments. For example, after video-maker says “ using e-learning in your business …”, a picture of business office is presented. The voice can give audiences a prediction about what image will come out, which can make people learn better.

7. Modality Principle – The video-maker uses lots of images and spoken words rather than written ones to introduce e-learning.

8. Multimedia Principle – Words and pictures are presented together rather than words alone.

9. Voice Principle – This video is spoken in a natural male voice rather than a machine voice.

Online Course Task 3

10.11 feedback:

add more info.: 1. class name 2.your target learners 3.brief description

delate repeated info.: 1. zpd in definition 2. words in pic

Session 5 Task 1

https://www.ielts-exam.net/

People:
1. Target learner: people who visit this web are almost IELTS learners and English learners
2. Motivation: to pass the IELTS
3. Physical characteristics: different age groups
4. Experience&Expectations: people expect to get more informations and skills to get a high mark in IELTS and most of them are IELTS beginners.
5. Homogenous: this web's users are normally homogenous.
6. Language: English
Activities:
1. Interrupted: Users can learn with their pace and stop anywhere
2. Task: People can choose each of the four parts - listening, reading, writing and speaking - as they want.
3. Individual work

Session 7 Task 1

Share two websites that you don’t like and two that you like to use (please explain why)

like: 

1. https://www.bilibili.com/video/ent.html

  This website has various kinds of video for customs to find what they want. Also, the website design is user-friendly and pictures of videos' covers are attracting.

2. https://www.edx.org/

This website offers lots of top universities' courses for learners to choose. The categories of courses and universities can be easily found. Besides, the picture of the homepage (girl's smile face) can let learners feel that study is an interesting thing.

dislike:

www.baidu.com

It always shows me some advertisement when I search information, which will distract me.

Session 7 Task 2

suggestion：

1.Maybe the company put cushions on the seat to let customs feel more comfortable.

2.Color change: Green and blue color give people relaxing and safe emotion.

Session 7 Task 3

Even the two posters are talking about the same messages - the new lipstick's products, but they are related and not redundancy because their foci are different. The left one can attract people with a model and some positive to engage people to buy the products, while the products' information only is shown at the right corner. The model in left one wants to show how beautiful ladies are if they use the new products, which can attract people. After getting people's attention, the right poster's focus is to show more detailed information about the lipsticks.

Session 7 Task 4

Session 8 Task 1

Wechat

1. Simple and clean: Wechat' s UI is clean and users can manipulate its function easily.

2. Joy: Users can share their life or everything enjoyable to their families and friends.

3. Gamification: 'Like' and emoji function offer a gamelike function let people communicate.

4. Memorable: Friend circle function can record users' life. Each time when users open friend circle, they can remember past things.

5. Sense of belonging: Users' image and each thing they post are about themselves. They also can make groups with friends, which can give users the sense of belonging.

Session 8 Task 2

Material : https://www.teachingchannel.org/

The Teaching Channel's K-12 educational video collection showcases effective teaching methods and techniques used by teachers in their classroom.

Reusability: it is a professional learning platform that provides continuous growth opportunities and various contents for educators in the different background, including administrators and teachers.

Motivation: Different disciplines' teaching resources can engage teachers and motivate their effective teaching.

Accessibility: Users can visit this website by computer, phone, and other digital devices. The size of files can be loaded. But, this web isn't applicable to disabled visitors.

Feedback and adaptation: Q&A function offers an area to different learners to communicate.

Presentation design: The design of visual and auditory information is simple for users to enhance effective learning. 

Session 8 Task 3

I still choose squid 3 as the best image for following reasons:

1. Signaling: Highlight the main features' names and show the 3-D body of squis to let audiences focus on important information.

2. Redundancy: there are no repeat when it shows the same information of squid in the form of texts and pictures.

3.Spatial contiguity: Post critical and related words next to images.

4. Emotional Interaction: blue color shows trust. This is an acedamical poster about squid, therefore the blue can give people a feeling of believable.

5. Use different types of sympols to present different animals instead of many texts, which can let audiences learner better.

TYPHOON

Reedit the first page as it has more information and problem.

Previous:

Reedited:

Althought the previous one has some highlight with different type of texts, but it still make people feel confused as there are too much white words. The new one use signaling and spatial contiguity principle: use orange to highlight important information and use arrow to show related part of typhoon.