Online Learning Website(Ch7)

http://www.cnn.com/

The global Cable News Network is definitely one of the most popular news websites in the world. Ther are rich databases containing various catagories of news, such as World, U.S. Weather, Business, Sports, Analysis, Politics, Law, and so on in five languages. Users can just click links, and then further attain much information. For example, if we choose “World” to get more, we quickly see six columns to show other news about other places, like Europe, Asia, Africa, Middle East, Americas, and U.S. Further we are allowed to depend on our interests to see these related articles, like Business, Technology, Travel, and etc.

In addition to these articles, this website not only offers advances learning inspiring reader to forward think, and then rise the dicussion about certain issue, but also provides readers with side-resources to do the research comprehasively, like Time Asia.

Especially mentioned are that in this website there are many useful tools only on CNN. One of most famous program is “CNN Pipeline” which is a video news service providing both live and on-demand video to subscribers' computers via Internet connections.

Back to my experience of learning language from CNN.com. I am really glad to commend this website to every learners. Fistly, CNN offers balenced platform to present news from all over the world, and readers must know great events in fair view rather than in a biased view. Secondly, readers are allowed to get relevanted information to discuss, so that it come to public opinions to put pressure under the work of goverments. In this process, readers are trained for gurther being active to use language to do something meaningful. Finally, with advanced technology of CNN.com, we are gradually used to manipulate media to learn language lively and broadly.

Online Learning Website (Ch4)

As the text describe, the discussion forum provide users with a place to post our opinions and reply to others’ thoughts. In this way, teachers can use it to inspire students to online communicate with one other at certain topic after class.

http://www.blackboard.com

Here is a commercial courseware package, Backboard. The website not only supplies users with academic suite, but also commerce suite. And it offers users Blackboard training to make Blackboard even easier to use by sharing best practices for teaching and learning online. Next, the website gives users a look for how this suite enables education institutions to get with this current of innovative way in communication and collaboration through the world by the way of posting related case studies and testimonials.

Furthermore, there is a place to let users post their suggestions for Blackboard, and make this package more perfect and useful. Extending the Blackboard using, users can follow information that others share their software experience to build users their own. Certainly, this website has a huge support of knowledge in using Blackboard for users.

Above mentioned are the basic aid this package offers in the Blackboard system and in the Blackboard content. Now we are ready to see how really Blackboard Academic Suite does work.

http://bb.ncu.edu.tw/

On seeing this website, we must login in to browse through its designs. In Blackboard, there are four different links, “My Institution,” “Course,” “ebrary,” and “Scholar.” In the “My Institution” part, users can briefly view what courses he or she take, and what announcements have been posted. On the left-hand column, Blackboard provides us users with some tools, like calendar, task and email to help us in learning. For example, using task tool, it will give should do things priority for you. Once you are used to check the list of priority this tool offers, you are hard to get rid of doing things on time. And in this part, I almost clearly see the information about Blackboard Academic Suite from company. It has many animated guides to teach not only teachers how to create new teaching materials in promoting broad learning methods but also students how to manipulate these learning systems.
Another part is “Course.” Here is course catalog to browse your all courses in using Blackboard period, and you just click in one of courses to get more details about this course. The left-hand column has nine clicks to further enter, like Announcements, Course Information, Staff Information, Course Documents, Assignments, Communication, Discussion Board, External Links and Tools. Among these items, “Communication” and “Discussion Board” are the most feasible learning systems in communication and collaboration. In “Communication,” we students have Lecture Hall and Office Hours to online finish group project together and anytime send-receive email to get the first-hand information. And in “Discussion Board,” we students really use it thoroughly. Students are required to post their thoughts on Discussion Board after class, and also make a comment on other classmates’ opinions to finish a complete communication and interaction process.

The third and fourth parts are “ebrary” and “Scholar.” They both belong to provide users another broad database to search more information about what users learn. We just type key words to find relevant resources, save and classify our searches as well as share resources with our classmates and teachers by using them.

With the development of Internet, we has explored some innovative ways to reach communication and collaboration goals. Students just sit in front of computer, get it online, right away communicate with others from other cultures around the world, and absorb in knowledge immense Internet offers. Therefore, this Blackboard system of course is a good initiation into being active for us students.

Online Learning Website(Ch6)

http://www.tomsnyder.com/

This website makes use of technology in the classroom to enhance teaching and learning. It shares with us users in much software covering many areas, like science, math and social studies. Helping teachers meet teaching goals and improving student performance and understanding are this website main functions.
We at will click one software there to receive some information, such as features of this software, the teaching goal of this software and instructions of this software. Furthermore, the website provides users with some sample screenshots to easily understand how to use it and some technique information what kinds of system requirement users should fill.

According other users’ sharing and lesson ideas, users should be allowed to refer to those resources in teaching and learning. In this way, it can cause users to interact with one other. Especially mention that this website help users challenge various teaching and learning skills putting into practice together, like projectors and whiteboards. It encourages teaching and learning to try manipulating rich tools, and then makes teaching and learning processes have more fun

Finally, Students will build reading comprehension strategies and develop understanding of scientific processes, mathematical concepts, sharpen geography skills, and comprehend historical events and patterns through this website. Like the website say, “students develop higher-level thinking and problem-solving skills in math, science, social studies, and language arts.”

Reflection of Lab Activity

This is the first time for lab activity. All the class really enjoyed the wonderful time that day. It is new and interesting activity for me that we students can learn to use multimedia by ourselves in learning.

In class, we are asked for giving other classmates feedbacks about the weekly discussions on bb firstly. This activity provides us with opportunities to see the views of others’ clearly, and make responses to get the goal about interaction between others and ourselves.

And then, we are allowed to work on our blogs. From designs of blog to editing of those articles in the blog, we exerted ourselves to make our blogs more beautiful and professional. In this activity, to be honest, I am not familiar with these manipulations of blog design, so that I just browse through other classmates’ blogs to modify my blog a little bit rather than create new display in my original thought with unfamiliar editing instruments.

Moreover, it is cool for me to use Microsoft Front Page to make a diagram about what we have discussed last week to post on teacher’s blog. We this group tried some ways which transform picture format into HTML format to let our delicate diagram put on class blog. This experience makes me realize not only the pleasure of trying multimedia to create, but also the importance of collaboration that every group member attempt to finish the task in ways of efficiency and result.

At the end of that class, we are taught by teacher to login in the tapped-in website to know another learning platform well. We entered our own office to proceed our learning activities as well as other classmates’ office to discuss the final project online. We spent a lot of time discussing which options of final project we prefer to, what kinds of website purpose, and something about details in designing our website.

This joyful and fruitful time for lab activity certainly make me expect for next lab time!