Lab(Hot Potato)

Hot POTATO

It is really a great experience for me at this lab time. I think it is because I was attracted to this teaching material, news broadcasting. And the task combining the news reports with English learning definitely make me active to learn.

First of all, my partner, Vercy and I quickly chose the news article about consumption behavior from CNN. And next we respectively read this article and looked up the words of this report we do not know in the online dictionary. And next we discussed the broadcasting draft and finish other assignments teacher gave us together. We were excited in writing our notes by every means to imitate StudioClassroom. It is a really glad process to be with my partner to together design our assessment.

Finally, we downloaded the program, “Hot Potato” to study how it works for finishing our assessment. The items teacher required us of were divided into two parts for us to collaborate. I followed Chinese version’s instructions to complete my part, “JCross” and “JMix” step by step. But while I had made the setting done, I soon met problems with “JCross” and “JMix” to block up my path in finishing these tasks.

At the “JCross,” I just could not add more grids to fill with vocabulary we chose from this article, and “Hot Potato” merely wanted me to register for making a larger crossword. At the “JMix,” I still could not figure out what is the “Alternate Sentences” Chinese version does not mention, so since I had set up a webpage about “JMix”, I exactly had no way to carry out this program.

Yes, it is an unsuccessful learning experience again. However, I do not give up continually manipulating this program. I think these may be just little problems, not systematic problems, like “Schmooze”, in this way; I am still interested in and confident in this program for designing truly effective and efficient assessments.

Lab(schmooze)

Schmooze

This lab experience really disappointed me. During three hours, I just could not figure out how to make right orders to let this programming work and finish tasks teacher gave us. Honestly speaking, I really did not like this feeling that I spent three hours working with this unfriendly, infeasible and inflexible programming. Trying again and again to read carefully its instructions and give right orders to just meet the key words built on this programming is an inefficient learning experience.

I must apologize for not finishing any tasks teacher assigned to us. In this lab time, I just can enter the library, the cafeteria, the student union, the dancing floor and Bar to read introductions of their virtual realities, but did not know how to speak to people there. They just repeated what they had said when I entered this section. Sometimes I could not move my position, even if I really press E, W, S and N to get what place I want to.

I think it may be a different experience that makes us realize it could be possible to encounter troubles technologies make. Or maybe it is really true that we cannot overly depend on technologies not being human, we should design relatively reliable leaning materials regarded as a main core, and match technological designs considered an assistant.

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!