Wednesday, November 25, 2015

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.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

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.


Sunday, November 15, 2015

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.


Monday, November 2, 2015

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.