Monday, March 30, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Friday, March 20, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
LO exercise - 'The Think Principle"
‘The THINK Principle” by Rose Bunnow
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=CCS6308
The Author thinks that people of integrity are careful of what they say. She proposed a method called ‘The THINK Principles” to help people decide how to be more prudent in what they say or actually to say anything at all.
‘THINK’ is the acronyms of the 5 principles one should check against before one speaks. It stands for:
T: is it True
H: is it Helpful
I: is it Inspiring
N:is it Necessary
K: is it Kind
If I use Gagne’s 9 events of instruction to assess this LO, the author has done a good job to present her objective & 5 principles via good play on words & recall strategy. The pity is that after practices there is no feedback, no assessment & learners would not know if he has understood the principles & to what extent.
1 Gaining attention (reception) :The title is quite capturing ‘The THINK Principles’, simple words but could imply rich ideas, might lead people to have a look.
2 Informing learners of the objective (expectancy) –also cleverly stated by a play on words - learn how to ‘think before talk’ not ‘talk before think’.
3 stimulating recall of prior learning (retrieval) –an short recall test available of the principles but not prior learning retrieval
4 presenting the stimulus (selective perception) –3 exercises with are given & learners are asked to access the speakers statements against the 5 steps principles.
5 providing learning guidance (semantic encoding) –yes, instructions clear & direct. Also learners have to complete the exercises before moving on.
6 eliciting performance (responding) –yes, learners asked to provide written comments
7 providing feedback (reinforcement) – not available
8 assessing performance (retrieval) – not available
9 enhancing retention and transfer (generalization) – not available
http://www.wisc-online.com/objects/index_tj.asp?objID=CCS6308
The Author thinks that people of integrity are careful of what they say. She proposed a method called ‘The THINK Principles” to help people decide how to be more prudent in what they say or actually to say anything at all.
‘THINK’ is the acronyms of the 5 principles one should check against before one speaks. It stands for:
T: is it True
H: is it Helpful
I: is it Inspiring
N:is it Necessary
K: is it Kind
If I use Gagne’s 9 events of instruction to assess this LO, the author has done a good job to present her objective & 5 principles via good play on words & recall strategy. The pity is that after practices there is no feedback, no assessment & learners would not know if he has understood the principles & to what extent.
1 Gaining attention (reception) :The title is quite capturing ‘The THINK Principles’, simple words but could imply rich ideas, might lead people to have a look.
2 Informing learners of the objective (expectancy) –also cleverly stated by a play on words - learn how to ‘think before talk’ not ‘talk before think’.
3 stimulating recall of prior learning (retrieval) –an short recall test available of the principles but not prior learning retrieval
4 presenting the stimulus (selective perception) –3 exercises with are given & learners are asked to access the speakers statements against the 5 steps principles.
5 providing learning guidance (semantic encoding) –yes, instructions clear & direct. Also learners have to complete the exercises before moving on.
6 eliciting performance (responding) –yes, learners asked to provide written comments
7 providing feedback (reinforcement) – not available
8 assessing performance (retrieval) – not available
9 enhancing retention and transfer (generalization) – not available
Monday, March 9, 2009
Saturday, March 7, 2009
Review: A learning object on the skills of apologizing (by Yanchap)
After offending somebody, one should apologize in order to comfort the offended. However, the way one apologizes does matter - the use of appropriate tones and words determines whether the apology is successful in comforting the others or not.
In the learning object, the learners would be able to experience different ways of apology in the first person point of view.
At the very first screen of the object, learners are affirmed the importance of an appropriate apology. It states the goal of learning very clearly.
After the opening statements, learners come across some statements of apology. In this part, learners are able to hear the audio recordings of the particular statements and determine which of them are more pleasing. Due to the availability of the audio clips, learners can familiarize with the situation more easily.
After finishing the above-mentioned activity, learners are asked to enter their observations about the art of apologizing. It leads the learners to think in depth why different statements of apology could have different effects. However, the learning object could not provide any feedback on the comments from the learners, even the learning object could not output the entered text to a text document for the teacher to comment.
The last part of the object explains the effect of apology of different statements. It enables learners to consolidate what they have experienced in the previous activities.
In the learning object, the learners would be able to experience different ways of apology in the first person point of view.
At the very first screen of the object, learners are affirmed the importance of an appropriate apology. It states the goal of learning very clearly.
After the opening statements, learners come across some statements of apology. In this part, learners are able to hear the audio recordings of the particular statements and determine which of them are more pleasing. Due to the availability of the audio clips, learners can familiarize with the situation more easily.
After finishing the above-mentioned activity, learners are asked to enter their observations about the art of apologizing. It leads the learners to think in depth why different statements of apology could have different effects. However, the learning object could not provide any feedback on the comments from the learners, even the learning object could not output the entered text to a text document for the teacher to comment.
The last part of the object explains the effect of apology of different statements. It enables learners to consolidate what they have experienced in the previous activities.
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
An interactive learning object
This is a learning object for learners to learn the concepts and functions about cam, gears, levers and pulleys. It encourages learners to try to build a machine through using these tools. The reasons why I like it are as follows:
--Appropriate academic references are provided
--Clear learning objectives
--Clear instructions
--Help learners to engage effectively with the concept/skill/idea:
Illustrate concepts that are less easily explained through traditional teaching methods
--Easy to use:
Consideration of the general layout of the object, attention to the buttons, menus, text and types of user-object navigation
--User control and freedom:
If users choose a function by mistake, they can safely leave the unwanted state
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
About RISAL
Hi,
I can not add the asset via RISAL. When I click the button "continue", it says:
Error: '/home/risal/libs/../templates_c' is not writable! Please chmod this directory to 777
Please fix the above error(s), install halted!
Error: '/home/risal/libs/../cache' is not writable! Please chmod this directory to 777
Please fix the above error(s), install halted!
What about you? Can you add the asset successfully?
I can not add the asset via RISAL. When I click the button "continue", it says:
Error: '/home/risal/libs/../templates_c' is not writable! Please chmod this directory to 777
Please fix the above error(s), install halted!
Error: '/home/risal/libs/../cache' is not writable! Please chmod this directory to 777
Please fix the above error(s), install halted!
What about you? Can you add the asset successfully?
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