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Assignment 4 Final Project
Group L members: Steven Luo, Ming Yang, Ri Zhou, Oliver Meng Why is group study important in university? Overview The application of the teaching mode of group study injects vitality into classroom teaching. It not only gives full play to the function of mutual collaboration between teachers and students, but also cultivates students’ sense of…
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W10 Blog
This week, we discussed the future of multimedia learning. It is hard to predict the future trends in today’s high-paced technology development. Artificial Intelligence AI plays a big part in enhancing the interactive experience in our daily life. Recently, I was looking for a live chat plug-in service for my website. I found this can…
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W9 Blog
In this week’s topic, we discussed active learning and passive learning. Active learning, as the name suggests, is an instructional strategy where students take an active role in their own learning, participating in activities and, reflecting on their learning(Sandercock, 2013). Watching Active Learning Overview amazed me that the course designed with active learning has a 12%…
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Assignment 3
For this assignment, I decided to look back into the Design Principles. I’m running a charger brand with my friends and we are currently selling on Amazon. In the e-commerce world, one way to attract customers is through good image design. In the past few weeks in this course, I learned the principles of design.…
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W7 Blog
In this week’s reading material, 7 Storytelling Techniques Used by the Most Inspiring TED Presenters, I found the most compelling TED presenter for me is Dananjaya Hettiarachchi. Metaphor At the beginning and end of this presentation, he used a rose to liken a human’s life, it draws the audience’s attention, which is connected to the whole…
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W6 Blog
-Backward Design We use a lot of backward designs in our daily life. The most common scene is before we go to the grocery store. Usually, we will design the menu before we go grocery shopping. This is similar to the backward design step — identify desired result. Then we will make a shopping list…
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W5 Blog
-Worst PowerPoint Presentations By looking at The World’s Worst Powerpoint Presentations, we can easily find out that all of the examples in the text have several common issues that a presenter will make: -mixing text and image: As the example in the text, it’s a bad idea to use an image as a background and all…
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W4 Blog
Disability isn’t a lack of ability, it’s a mismatch between a person’s abilities and their environment. KAT HOLMES As educators, we should provide a learning environment that can be adapted for most students. It can be achieved by using multimedia such as images, videos, and podcasts. Usually, when we get a pdf format lecture note,…
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W3 Blog
sketchnoting Sketchnoting reminds me of the mind map that I use to organize my notes. It really helps to categorize knowledge into different section and visualize it. I used to draw it on a paper, but nowadays we have an app like XMind so that we can work the mind map in a digital form.…
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W2 Blog
Limited capacity “As we saw last week, Sweller’s Cognitive Load Theory proposes that different types of memory have limited capacities.” This theory surprised me the most. With all these years of experiences, I thought human’s brain can handle a mix of different types of information, but we only have limited capacities for these pieces of…