Week 7: Mobile and Handheld Technologies in Education

Consider the use of mobile technology in your school or workplace. Upload to group blog and present in class.


For my secondary school in Hong Kong:


Over 10 years ago, when I was secondary 1-3, me and classmates were using electronic dictionary for learning English vocabulary and doing assignment during or after class.

Something like this: (the picture is from the internet)

Later, when I was form5, I just use pocket PC and netbook to find information by using internet Wifi during class.

My pocket PC: (picture of my brother's mobile phone and my pocket PC 2003, it still works!)

However, Pocket PC in class will become... Solitarie.. as those were the time not yet web2.0, no wiki, just msn, yahoo, google...

ASUS EEE PC small netbook was so popular when I was secondary 6/7  around 5 years ago: (picture from internet, mine was sold already) those were the day Google and Wikipedia started getting popular! I can find a lot of information of the answer of my assignments and scientific laboratory report!! :P

Actually, I was not allowed to bring expensive item such as mobile phone or computer back to school. I just use it inside my drawer. The Wifi network is for testing purpose for teachers' use only. However, it is not password-protected and I just "hack" into it for my own use anyway.


For my undergraduate study in HKU:

iPhone3G is my gift from dad and mum for entering University for studying computer science! The professor also suggest me to purchase one! I use it to log in HKU portal to check email and class timetable from course website and GOOGLE/WIKI ANYTIME ANYWHER!. I was still using EEE PC for reading lecture notes in class but the screen is too small and later I purchase MacBook:

As I was an engineering student, i need high performance computers for programming jobs. I took the macbook everyday with me for doing project and presentation with classmates.

Also in HKU i sometimes find this: ( Information Kiosks for campus navigation in the main campus, photo from Computer center, HKU)

I ever touched it once with friends. But I find this is not very useful as the campus is too noisy to listen to it. And I found it when I had been very familiar with the campus already!)


Recently when I had class of MITE6023
We can have online distance learning (via webcam of iMac):

 

(from my iPhone4's screen shot)

Last time when I was late for the lesson:
(via webcam of iPhone4, me was on bus stuck in cross harbor tunnel at 5-6pm!)

(Ricky was in lecture room!)

This is the most memorial experience of me on mobile learning! Although is not very stable for the video/audio/lecture notes sharing. But it is completely a new experience of mine on mobile learning!


Thank you!


Ted (Ng Yan Kit), Group 3, MITE6024 

SHOW DIFFERENT PHOTOS WITH MUSIC AND INFORMATION TOGETHER

A tool to combine difficult photos with music and information convenient. It is in a few minutes to make people seeing many beautiful pictures.
And you can share this work to your friend in fackbook, renren, youtube and so on.


Thank you.


By Kingsley

Week 6: explaing how to use a Web 2.0 application

video tutorial explaing how to use a "scratch"



http://screencast.com/t/UVaxtLOyl1p

"Scratch" is a software development tool


It helps you create simple and interactive software like Game or animation.

You can share your created work with friends.

Easy and clear Graphic show the logic of running script.

It helps students learning beginner computer programming.


Scratch official websites:

http://scratch.mit.edu/





Ted (Ng Yan Kit), Group 3, MITE6024

Use Roxio to make a photoshow with information and music:



The result of the work:
http://www.photoshow.com/watch/rC3FB5Iz


I think it is a very convenient tool. You can easily and quickly edit photos, add more information, record your voice and upload it to your blog, facebook, etc. With only a few clicks, everyone can make his/her own video in just a minute.

Please feel free to give me some commons.
Thank you!

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by Ricky CHAN KWOON KAY

Week 5: Teaching in Experimential room

Would you like to teach here? What are the room’s affordances and what are its weaknesses and disadvantages?


I don't really want to teach here.


Weakness:

For learner:

Group discussion for whole class?
Across group?
Presentation?

For teacher:

Difficult to monitor
To know students' pace of learning
To know students' pace of understanding?
To know students' feedback?
Presenting idea?

For technical staff:
Difficult to set up?
Not flexible to move the chair, table and computers.



For budget:

It is of course expensive!



Ted (Ng Yan Kit), Group 3, MITE6024

Week 5: About experimental classroom

What do you think of this experimental classroom?

Physically:  

For audition :

First, from our classmates, the room kill sound, we cannot voice out the opinion to all people in the room easily.

For vision:

There are too many LCD display screen showing the same slide, pros is we can read the slide everywhere, cons is we cannot find a focus of the classroom. I don't know where should I look at when I often have not useful eye contact with each others. It is weird. 

For Smell:

Poor ventilation

For touch:

Crowded

For Space:

Separated, dispersed, isolated each group

For time:

is there any?

 

Mentally:

For learner:

Learner cant find the focus of the classroom

Learner cannot discuss freely across different groups

For teacher:

Teachers cannot monitor the class easily, need to walk around group by group
Teachers don't know if the student is attentive or not, difficult to know how student catch up with and understand the class.

For technical staff

Difficult to maintain the classroom by many complicated set up, many LCD and computers connected together for switching viewing the screen of many computers in each tables.

Ted (Ng Yan Kit), Group 3, MITE6024

Present a potential research topic that would be useful in providing a solution to an educational issue (should be relevant to IT):

Present a potential research topic that would be useful in providing a solution to an educational issue (should be relevant to IT):

I am particular interested in “Technology Integration” as I was engineering student.

I want to focus on “knowledge representation” and “Human computer interaction”.

I think this kind of research is “one suit fit all” for many subjects by using multi-media. For example, using “prezi”, “mind map” these kinds of web applications and iPhone applications can help on presenting idea for many subjects.

In the first place, online web applications with multi-media just help people access the information easily and in a cosy way. Learners have more “dimensions” on receiving information and have more “interaction” with the learning material- the software. 

Simple and intuitive design of software - it just enhances the learning-experience with less difficulty. Software is not just about functions it provide but also the User interface design which make user feel easy to adopt to it. It must save a lot of time for teacher and student to pick up the technical skill. For the current user-interface design, there is a lot more space to improve

Virtual social network –in web 2.0, it is not just interactions between human-to-computers but also human-to-human interaction through the computers. It just pulls closed between people by getting ride of distance and time. Like “prezi” , “google doc” with the support of “cloud computing”, we can share the presentation with teammates in quick easily. “Cloud computing” is just the most hottest topic in computer science world today.

Ted (Ng Yan Kit), Group 3, MITE6024