Evaluation.

At my 1st post, I mentioned I would have an evaluation to check if my previous thoughts of what elearning is has changed throughout the whole course of NM3204. Well, one thing that really struck me for this module is that E learning is really not as easy and simple that I thought it was! To teach others something, it's not as easy as just getting the materials that you want to teach and just present it to the learner. It really takes alot of effort and time to create a learning and instructional design, going through various tedious steps and stages. Learners should really appreciate the lesson plan that the teachers created for the module. I realised that after creating the webquest project, as our group spent alot of time trying to create the task, processes, evaluations,etc. So, I do hope that if anyone (hopefully someone..~) gets the opportunity to try our webquest, please do appreciate the hard work we put in!
To conclude, I think E learning will be increasingly important in future education. Perhaps one day it will even take over most of traditional classroom setting learning? Not only will it be important in schools, but even in the business industry, where training and skill enhancement is pertinent to do well or survive in the industry.
If I do become a teacher in future, I believe that I can definitely make use of what I have acquired from this module.

reading wk

Its mid of reading week and I think I've finished studying for e learning. The last few readings were really awful, repititive and the words are really small! Had a hard time getting clear the differences between principles and procedures..So I conclude that (1)procedures can be part of a principle, but principles are not part of a procedure. (2) procedures are about knowing how something works, and principles are about knowing why it works that way. (3)procedures emphasize on simplicity while principles emphasize on the meaningfulness and breadth of application.

Shall dedicate another day for Needs Assessment! Very important! 15marks!

Learning really isn't that easy. So many steps! so many tasks! so many things to prepare beforehand!

i need more SoC friends

we just got feedback for our webquest.. the content seems fine, but the aesthetics of it is quite bad... maybe more than quite. And we saw the webquest presentations by the other groups were so fantastic, the graphics, webpage design... So we tried asking them how they did it and realised they didnt use exe. but another software called dreamweaver. However, my soc friend advised us to not use it because its difficult to use. But still, shall dl the free trial version to test it abit. Doubt me ting or ning, 3 computer idiots can use it, so have to think of plan B fast! We thought of doing all e content on sth else, then save it as a picture file and put it on exe. Hope it works!

Tutorial presentation!

Finally week 12 and its time to present our webquest. After consulting Elmie and Alfred last week in the lecture, we realised there some problems with our task as it lacked interactivity. Hence we spent quite some time to edit it and changed our task to creating blogs instead of brochures. By using blogs, there will be more input on the student's side, which uses the cognitive learning, where students get to learn and explore on their own.
Also, while trying to improve the aesthetics of our webquest, we found it difficult as the exe software was quite limiting to how we can design the interface of it.
We're going to present soon, and I'm looking forward to feedbacks for us to improve it further.

1 more week of school left!