Session 4--A Digital Story of about 3 minutes length on any topic

Our group recomposed a funny story about the "i骨灰瓮", which played a small joke on Steve Jobs and his iphone. The video was made by the app of " Tom and Ben News" that can be downloaded from apple store for free! All the members of our group get together and cooperate on the video task, everyone has their own contribution.
More information can be seen on the vimeo, here is the link.
URL ：http://vimeo.com/31009642

Editor: Andy

Recording: Nebula

Script: Olivia, Rose

Material: Makino

Session 3----Web 2.0 application use in education

The advantage to using a tool like Twitter for education is that it’s instant and it’s to the point. There have been countless articles about whether or not social media makes us lazy, or whether it affects our attention spans. If that really is the case, why not use that to our advantage?
Our group has a great Presentation, click the link below
URL：voicethread.com/share/2304505/



Editor Andy
Recording Andy Olivia Nebula Makino Rose

Another introduction of Web 2.0 in innovative practice (by Nebula)

Here I ‘d like to introuduce some Web 2.0 application , which help students learning in a more innovative way.

As we see from the picture, here is hundreds of websites and application used in our daily life, some for searching information, like wiki, some for sharing information, like bogger, twitter, facebook and some for remembering events, like evernote. And Tody I will introduce 5 good tools for teaching and learning.

Session 2, Activity 2----Mindmap

Session 2, Activity 1----The discussion about “Learning Theories"

Among these web sites, our group are very interested in the "Learning Theories". We all go through it and shared some opinions about it.

From our perspectives, the "Learning Theories" has 6 columns: Introduction, Your Task, Learning Process ,Resources, Conclusion and Facilitatot's Guide. The Introduction and the Facilitatot's Guide tell us the goal and the summary of the web. We discussed the questions of "Your Task" and "Conclusion" and did the activities proposed in the "Learning Process". The "Resources" which we thought is very valuable gives us some information about the learning theories.

The learning theories we learned from the web are very important and we now use several of the in our class of HKU. For example, when attending MITE 6024, we've used Behaviorism, Cognitive and Constructivism. The class provides us a 3 hours in-class learning and teaching environment per week and in-class and online activities, such as online discussions. These kinds of stimulus events encourage students to exchange their knowledge to increase their cognitions. Also the stimulus events help students to build and construct related knowledge from actual experiences. Besides, from "Learning Theories" we found the four aspect- communication, assessment & feedback, study skills support, and learning resources- are also used in our courses.

However, in our opinions, the "Learning Theories" still has something to work on to make it more perfect. First is about the sequence of the columns. From left to right, it will be better to begin with "Introduction" as the summary and go deeper then the questions at last. Besides, we think the web should talk something about the learning environments which also belongs to learning theories and important. the design of learning environments need to be guided/grounded in the learning theories. The course MITE 6024 for example is utilizing all the three theories of learning covered: Behaviorism, Cognitive and Constructivism. There are few intuitivist aspects, which occur normally when the teacher gives us some instruction and elaborations about certain concepts or work to do. And it is very important to create an environment to teachers and students & students and students to interact and communicate. Teachers should not give everything to students, but to give them space and chance to think and exchange ideas. Lastly, we think the web should also contain something about using different types of learning activities which provide variety, otherwise it would be boring to students. Getting feedback from students on the learning activities, can modify or vary the activities - students are the ones who are taking the activities.

These are our own opinions about the web “Learning Theories” and some of them may not be true, any suggestion is welcomed, thank you!!!