Week 12

The group assignment should be submitted latest on Week 13 (26th December 2015) before Saturday midnight. We gradually completed the group assignments. Some part have not complete, about can finish the whole group assignment next week. 

The title of our group assignment is “Beginner’s Introduction to Photography”. This assignment is about the Basic photography online course, this project will teach learners about photography techniques, the use DSLR camera, editing photo in Adobe Photoshop and light room. This courses will help people interested to photography to be knowledgeable in the basic techniques in taking and editing photograph. The project aims to:

·       Arm learners with basic techniques in taking photo with DSLR camera

·       Enable learners to edit photo with Adobe Photoshop photo editing software

·       Let learners learn matters related to photography in a fun, convenient and affordable way.

This course is intended for people live too far to technique teaching institute and also people that don’t have enough time for learning, they can visit this web site any time and any place. Our target audience would be people interested to photography or wanted to improve their skill on photo shooting. This project targets people between 18 to 30 years old.

We plan 7 lesson to our target audience, that is:

lesson 1: Camera and lens 

lesson 2: Camera Settings 

lesson 3: Lighting 

lesson 4: Composition 

lesson 5: Format and software 

lesson 6: Equipment and software 

lesson 7: Tips and trick

In this 7 lesson, learner can easy understand because we use the presentation slide show and video to teaching. 

Week 11

Today, lecturer turn back the assignment 1 to us because we must redo the assignment 1. When I open the report, I have 11 mistake in my assignment but the bigger mistake is APA style. What is APA style? 

APA style is a format for academic documents such as journal articles and books. It is codified in the style guide of the American Psychological Association (APA), titled the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. The APA states that the guidelines were developed to assist reading comprehension in the social and behavioral sciences, for clarity of communication, and for "word choice that best reduces bias in language". APA style is widely used, either entirely or with modifications, by hundreds of other scientific journals (including medical and other public health journals), in many textbooks, and in academia (for papers written in classes). Along with AMA style and CSE style, it is one of the major style regimes for such work. Many publications have small local style guides that cascade over AMA, APA, or CSE style in a way analogous to how inline styles in HTML cascade over CSS styles (for example, "follow APA style unless otherwise specified herein" or "for issues not addressed herein, follow APA style").

In response to the growing complexities of scientific reporting, subsequent editions were released in 1974, 1983, 1994, and 2001. Primarily known for the simplicity of its reference citation style, the Publication Manualalso established standards for language use that had far-reaching effects. Particularly influential were the "Guidelines for Nonsexist Language in APA Journals," first published as a modification to the 1974 edition, which provided practical alternatives to sexist language then in common usage. The guidelines for reducing bias in language have been updated over the years and presently provide practical guidance for writing about race, ethnicity, age, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status.

After redo the assignment 1, I submit again the assignment in the Schoology.

Week 10

Online courses are well suited for motivated people want to learn new skills, advance their career did not give up their commitment to their work or family. Get education online will also save a lot of money. Although some people think that online education is just a terrible alternatives to traditional education because of the savings and convenience, in fact, there are many other advantages. Only online education fully integrated into today's education technology. Also more efficient fast, especially the motivation of learners, providing skills a lack of resources in the traditional education despite high demand from employers. Can even claim that online course is not an option, but a different path has its own reward.

A good online course must often upgrade when after half a year. After that, web designers must design a let learners can feel comfortable and convenient page. This can let learners often browsing this web page. In addition, web page design plays a very important role, web of good and bad can affect learners' psychology. 

A well-designed for online course nurtures both learners learning and learners retention. While ideal values will be from the start is designed to be an online course, the reality is that in the range of electronic learning, and there is a wide range of quality. As a result, almost every online course can benefit from periodic updates. Once the development and implementation of online courses, however, they of course could not be changed or updated for a period of time. Web designers will check the important cultural factors, the purpose of strengthening course and create it. Analysis in this level rich course has great potential.

Week 9

Digital writing here covers the conventions and principles of writing and adapting content for the digital environment, including blogs, website content, online learning materials, etc. In today's world of text messages, twitter, blog and social networking, young people write better than ever before. Students face many new cultural success in today's fast-paced, information rich world, however, most schools don't catch up with the digital reality, students in their daily life. Because digital writing problems, national writing a new book project , looking at what educators, parents, and policy makers can do to help the school to meet the challenges of the new digital culture and technology related students communication skills and equipment they need in school and in the global workplace.

Digital Writing Matters describes how. Digital writing is more than just a skill; it is a means of interfacing with ideas and with the world, a mode of thinking and expressing in all grades and disciplines. After that, digital writing can help students develop critical thinking skills and support learning across all subject areas and educators, community members, and policymakers must work together to promote technology development in schools to create learning environments that support digital literacy.

Week 8

After we submit the assignment 1, we must start the assignment 2. The title assignment 2 is develop digital instructional content for an online course. This is a project meant for a group of 3 – 4 students. In this project, we are to propose an online course and develop the digital instructional contents (instructional/ training materials) for the training course that is to be delivered to meet the needs of a specific target audience. It can be an online short course, MOOC or any particular programme’s course. We should come out with the course content/ syllabus and its supporting instructional/ training materials such presentations slides, video tutorial, application, or interactive eBook, etc. that can be uploaded to a learning platform. Our project should be planned and developed based on the theories, principles and concepts of instructional design and UX and psychology of interaction learned. Compose our product in such a manner that it will be easily used and upload to any learning platform. Limit our focus to 3 - 4 important topics of a course. We do not need to develop the digital instructional contents / materials for the entire course. Instead, focus on a specific set of topics and instructional materials to be used for those topics.

The weightage of this group project is 50% of the overall marks for the course. There are two parts

in this group project:

Part 1: Select a Course and Submit a Report

Submit a report on what course we proposed, how we will use the relevant theories, concepts and models related to instructional design and UX and psychology of interaction to design and develop the course. We should also include information about our course design and the use of an appropriate learning platform for our course.

Part 2: Design & Develop the Actual Instructional Content / Materials

Based on our planning and analysis, we are required to design and develop the actual digital instructional content / materials for the project.

Week 7

This week must submit the assignment 1 before Sunday midnight and the report must save document in Microsoft Word format and is to be named using the naming convention stated below: “Assignment1_<tutorial group number>_<student_name>”. e.g. Assignment1_M2RML1_Lam Siew Wen. 

After that, the report format must use 1.5 spacing and 12-point of Times New Roman font and the assignment should contain about 2000 – 2500 words. All parts of the assignment are to be submitted online through the course site at Schoology. The link of Schoology is https://app.schoology.com/course/384291683.

Week 6

Through the assignment 1, I know what is the user experience. With the change of the time the user's demand will be more and more high. Users will feel dissatisfied when a user in a web page to use for a long time for a long time. If our website no progress with times users will be less and less, because users will find a better network teaching. online teaching in addition to the teaching material should be enough to ensure each user can easy to use, each button allows the user to find the information they need and answer.In addition, the user experience is a domain extensions and extension in the field of usability, including the overall point of view a person the feeling of how to use the system. Focus on happiness and value and performance. The exact definition and framework elements and the user experience is still in development. Through the study, the user experience give me help in various aspects and can make me complete assignment 2.