learning with technology

What is great master? Great master is the one that have thought before you think of and give you insight on your thinking. A day before I had a half-hour chance to chat with David Buckingham. I asked him a lot of questions on research methodology in visual analysis. He just gave me a mystery smile and said I had dug into a question that might not have any answers right now, but it is worth to explore. 3 hours after the meeting, Great Master sent me a e-mail attached with his unpublished Journal paper stating out all the possibilities, problems and proposals on media visual research methods, a comprehensive critical review on visual analysis research for the past ten years. What can I say? Thanks God.

It is a wonderful experience for the past 7 days. Through the Pop Culture conference in HKIEd, I attended a series of presentations by David Buckingham and various media educators. A lot of hot issues have been discussed inlcuding: media education 2.0, media literacy, multiple literacies, visual semiotics, blog, web2.0 etc. Yesterday, it is my pleasure for me to have a half hour consultation with David Buckingham. Prof Buckingham is full of wisdom and gave me a lot of reference readings upon my research agenda. To conclude, the visual analysis method on students' produced video is under development and the existing anaylsis tool is waiting for further research support. In view of the non-written mode IES in Liberal Studies on the NSS curriculum, it is still a challanging job to develop a valid assessment tool under the school based assessment.