learning with technology

Visual Art blogging

2011-12-15T09:03:00.001+08:00

Very interesting blog.

http://s1102436visualarts.blogspot.com/

For Skepe user

2011-11-21T08:43:00.002+08:00

Just receive some email promotion on web2.0 product, seems quite convenient.

Skype Call Recorder

Riviera for Skype is a Skype call recorder. It automatically records Skype calls and conversations to MP3 files.
Very convenient for recording interviews, tech talks, conferences, audio casts, pod casts for learning later, etc.

New experience of reading: shifting from printed to screen

2011-04-13T16:00:00.002+08:00

eBook reader: Kindle and iBook

View more presentations from Vincent Hung.

P6 students give me a big surprise

2011-04-02T11:12:00.000+08:00

This morning four P6 students from an International School interviewed me about the impact of technology to our life. They used notebook computer to instantly note down my answers, from Cantonese to English, still camera to take pictures, camcorder to take video and iPhone to record the whole interview. They said they would produce a multimedia presentation on the topic. They really scare me as they are doing what I have done in University.

Number of visit to my blog for the past 12 months

2011-03-23T09:31:00.001+08:00

Visit from MITE

2011-03-22T15:13:00.001+08:00

Hi HKU classmates, I find my blog have a number of HKU visitors, especially on the video about Stephen Heppell. Feel free to give some feedback, I am still a HKU student right now.

http://mite.cite.hku.hk/login/index.php

Virtual Learning Spaces

2011-02-28T13:28:00.000+08:00

A very brief introduction of virtual learning space and flexible learning, created by Mike Keppell.

Learning Space Design Summit

View more presentations from Mike Keppell.

My New Journal Reading experience

2010-12-12T23:35:00.000+08:00

Previously when I found some relevant and interesting Journal papers, I printed all of them, read them and highlighted with sighted pen. From time to time, I kept a great amount of printed journal papers and it costed me a lot of time and space to category and file them.

Now with iPad, just click the pdf file button from the Journal sites with my library search, the pdf is then transferred to my iBook. All my relevant and interesting Journal papers are now in my iBook of iPad. It changes my reading habbit.

HKAECT 2010 conference

2010-11-21T15:49:00.000+08:00

終於落實21世紀多元素養(multiliteracies)座談會細節，參與講者包括游走於文字和電子媒介的林超榮，由電視製作轉到新媒體教育工作的翁偉微，致力於資訊科技教育的臨床心理學家簡子杰，媒體和傳意先驅任伯江博士和香港大學教育學院袁海球博士。如欲參與，請到以下網址登記
http://www.hkaect.org/

iPad experience

2010-10-13T09:09:00.002+08:00

I received my iPad for week and it really creates a new learning experience to me. For social networking and Internet browsing, it is really the most convenient tool I ever used, on condition to wi fi connection.In reading e-mail, all attached MS office document are readable. with it's big screen, iPhone can't be compaired.

At the same time, with some freeware, I can convert all my must-be-reading papers into ebook format, which can be viewed and annotated by iBook apps. It is meaningless that if I can only view but not making any highlight of important points. In addition, all iBook files are linked to google search and wikipidia. While reading, just double click a word, automatically you can search either google or wikipedia on the meaning or background information.

Of course, not to mention to the so many apple apps covering various interests. With the apps, you can change iPad to whatever purposes you like.

HKAECT 2010 Conference

2010-09-06T21:16:00.000+08:00

Build a Wall and let people post feedback on you

2010-07-28T09:42:00.001+08:00

Feel free to post any feedback to my Wall, an intereting free site for visual sharing.

Visual Posting sharing on Wall

2010-07-22T17:12:00.000+08:00

Great wAll for friends to post different messages

Big Word Posting by vhung

From MS Word to Blog

2010-05-16T10:15:00.002+08:00

Blogs function in MS Word 2007

I am now writing on MS Word 2007 while it has a new function to connect to blogger. After some login procedure, it seems I can write on my Word and then no need to go to blogger.

Should we need to invent to develop our own digital learning platform

2010-04-09T10:43:00.003+08:00

Three Univeristies are going to purchase iPad and giving to students for mobile learning. CourseSmart is a app in iPhone, now iPad which provides a a lot of text book online. Students can easily download the textbook and view on the big screen iPad. Since the technology is so advance, should HK government build their own platform for e-learning? Do they think they will create platform better than Apple? Take a look the link and the embedded video, it is really e-learning at any time and any place.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/04/ipad-textbooks/

Online highlight and annotation

2010-03-08T10:34:00.002+08:00

Last week I attended HKU CITE 2010 symposium on the topic about Learning 2.0. One of the secondary teachers presented a freeware IE plugin Diigo which can highlight webpages and make annotation. He applied the tool for students make note of online newspaper reading and then students can share and categorize each other annotation on news. It is a wonderfull tool for teaching Liberal Studies.

http://www.diigo.com/09rpk

New ebook from Gee cost me US$2.0

2010-02-18T12:59:00.004+08:00

Still playing with my new toy, I got a new book from kindle, Gee, J.P. (2010), New Digital Media and Learning as an emerging area and worked examples...., Just cost me US$2.0, by one click the latest publication is download to my iPod touch and PC as well. Wonderful.

learning at new digital world

2010-02-15T11:25:00.002+08:00

iPad might be to large for mobile. During the lunar new year, I need to visit a lot of people. Just before the new year, I download Kindle into my iPod touch, and brought the latest book on "Multimodility" by Gunther Kress. Then during the lunar new year, I read my new book through iPod touch during all my travelling. I like it very much as I can highlight manin points, and made notes on my reading. When I reached my friends home, I took out the iPod touch and the kids liked to play with the games. Both Kindle or iPad might be too large for me if I needed to bring my umbella and some presensts to my friends. I like my iPod tocuh. It is really a e-learning, game and social networking platform.

Participatory culture

2010-02-01T10:49:00.003+08:00

A lot of people are discussing those Post 80. People argue that there is no definition on Post 80, and the group size is small and should not be the topic of discussion.

I am not in a position to define and comment on. However, I like to mention Participatory culture, web 2.0 (O'Reilly, 2003) and Digital Natives (Prensky, 2001). Reveiwing the blogs of Henry Jenkins, he has tried to relate O'Reilly web2.0 with the participatory culture. Jenkins defined the Participatory culture as

"A participatory culture is a culture with relatively low barriers to artistic expression and civic engagement, strong support for creating and sharing one's creations, and some type of informal mentorship whereby what is known by the most experienced is passed along to novices. A participatory culture is also one in which members believe their contributions matter, and feel some degree of social connection with one another. Participatory culture shifts the focus of literacy from one of individual expression to community involvement."

http://henryjenkins.org/2009/04/what_went_wrong_with_web_20_cr.html

Reveiwing some past soical issues in HK, starting from Bus Uncle, it marked out the convergence of YouTube web2.0 technology and participation by various YouTube fans. Then the WHO, Queen Piar, different Youtubes' version on debate segment in Legistative council, and those independent media (inmediahk). All match with the defintion of Participartory culture proposed by Jenkins. Post 80 might not be the point of discussion, but pariticpatory culture should be the focus in related to digital natives and web 2.0 technology. If you have faceboook account, have your own blogs and have posted video to YouTube, congratulation, you are in the participatory culture.

Stephen Heppell: Railway as school, going the wrong way

2010-01-18T10:58:00.007+08:00

Hong Kong people are having hot debate on building a great railway costing 68 billion. The so called Post 80 (those born after 80') strongly against the railway as it is too expensive and not necesary. Stephen Heppell, famous ICT scholar, gave a speech about Learning at 2016, mentioned that a few years ago UK built a perfect railway but however, people brought their own cars. Stephen mentioned our school is same as the railway, mobile learning is having great breakthrough on learning while we still regard our school as a perfect railway. Part of Stephen's speech is attached as some hints about railway, school and the pattern of post 80 learning.

Full version of Stephen speech
http://www.teachers.tv/video/4957

Wonderful MacBook Pro

2010-01-12T14:02:00.004+08:00

MacBook Pro is really an up-to-date technology. I just uploaded all my cat's photos into Mac, used iPhoto face recognized function to categorize all my cat's photos under one folder. Just clicked on SlideShow function, all the photos were then sent to a defaut slide show template, I can even choose my faviourte music. Besides shifting between different templates, I can choose between duration of each photos or fit to the selected music duration. Finally, the whole photo MV can be output to mp4 and then uploaded to YouTube. All the process is within one or two hours, mostly were on selection of photos and the sequence of photos. Since the mp4 is stored in iTunes, of course it can be downloaded to my iPod Touch. What should I say?

What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media

2009-11-17T10:21:00.002+08:00

A trying to post from other site into my blog.

Simply go to the milestone paper about Web2.0, there is a lot of web2.0 buttons. Just click share to my blogger, the whole paper link is posted to my blog. Technology is changing our saving habbit.

What Is Web 2.0 - O'Reilly Media

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iTouch-new platform for learning

2009-10-07T18:34:00.002+08:00

Back to my notebook and continue my sharing.

Actually it is not purely about iTouch, it is about iTunes. Last month I met a friend using iPhone, but seldom use iTunes. He is losing a great fruitfull learning resources for connecting to huge resources of learning materials.

From iTunes, you can access US site and then iTunes U. In the iTunes U, you will find that a lot of World top Unveristies has created a lot of free audio or video learning materials there, including Oxford, MIT, Open U etc. If you subscripe those audo or video learning materials, those newly produced episodes will automaticaly download to your computer. You do not need to go to that sites, the materials go to your computer instead.

Out of your expectation, RTHK has uploaded a lot of programmes in iTunes U of US site, you can then subscribe RTHK with your iTunes.

The most amazing part is that the iTunes software is free for download. You do not need to buy any i-pod/iTouch/iPhone, you can use iTunes in your PC. Of course, if you have those i-Apple family, your mobile device can automatically have those famous Univeristies learning materials. Your mobile learning is on your hand.

The millionth English word "web2.0"

2009-06-11T08:52:00.003+08:00

I am the one who has contributed to the first millionth English word. Reviewing my blog, I have 3 tagging of "web2.0". In my del.icio.us, I have 20 tagging of using "web2.0". I never think of making a record by individual contribution. However, this is what the mindset of "web2.0" about, everyone can contribute, share and at the end, knowledge is constructed. Now web2.0 is collaboratively constructed as the millionth English word. Great.

Integrating Popper three world perspectives with Bereiter’s knowledge building and conceptual learning into CSCL learning environment for knowledge co

2009-05-12T10:40:00.002+08:00

Online discussion has been implemented in higher education sectors for many years but how students can learn with on-line discussion is still under debate. A phenomenographic research conducted by Goodyear and Zenior has provided some insight for further discussion. However, I like their contribution in integrating Popper three world perspectives with Bereiter’s knowledge building and conceptual learning into the explanation of learning through online discussion.

According to Bereiter (2002), Popper (1972) has defined three world of knowledge:
World I: the objective physical world
World II: the subjective inner world of mental states, feelings and beliefs
World III: world of ideas

Bereiter further elaborated that student learning at school mostly is under world II. Both WI and WII assumed that mind is like a container where knowledge is something that can be moved from teacher’s mind to student’s mind under the industrial age society. The world I objective physical knowledge has been transformed into book and knowledge in school and taught by teacher to individual mind as individual knowledge under world II. However, world I and world II cannot explain progressive knowledge development which can’t be located in world I or world II. Bereiter introduced conceptual artifacts under three basic assumptions of knowledge in the knowledge age:

World 3 are entirely human creations
These human creations are fallible but improvable, knowledge becomes something you can work with
These human creations take on a life of their own, independent of their creators

Goodyear and Zenios highlighted that WII learning is personal while WIII is about knowledge building which is public. Conceptual learning is about the development of individual learning in WII but the knowledge learned is not enough for students to create new knowledge in the ever changing knowledge based society. As a result, collaborative online discussion is a way to engage students moving from individual WII individual learning to WIII collaborative knowledge construction on discourses production which is a kind of conceptual artifacts co-constructed by students.

Goodyear Zenios remarked that text is the main mode of discourse used in the production of conceptual artifacts in the online discussion platform. It is wonder whether multimode discourses (Jewitt, 2008) can be treated as conceptual artifacts triggering collaborative knowledge construction among students in the digital age society.

Invisible learning and Visible Learning

2009-04-18T10:56:00.002+08:00

What is invisible learning?

Academic Commons ( http://academiccommons.org/) provide a valuable resources about invisible learning and visible learning. In their project "A collaborative case study on technology and learning, from the Visible knowledge project", a lot of research reports are given showing the importance of inquiry, new ICT platform and evidence of leanring.

In traditional classroom, teachers design a teaching objective, with appropriate teaching strategies then students demonstrate their learning in assessment. We only know that students' learning through assessment, the learning process is invisible.

Academic Commons claim that the new ICT platfrom provide an important platform turns the invisible learning into visible knowledge which demonstrates the evidence of learning. With inquiry on current issue, we are shifting students to learn with multidisplincies and all the learned knowledge can be recorded and stored in the latest technological platform.

A very good research project linking technology, learning and knowledge.

Learning with multimodes?

2009-04-08T11:20:00.005+08:00

How to learn with multimodes?

It is quite difficult to explain. However, shifting to the digital world with the powerful and convenient of Internet, a lot of learning opportunities are created. Just look at this link.

http://tts.imtranslator.net/3lKN

This is really learning with multomodality. You can learn with ICT technology, learn native English access, learn with visual and audio and even write your own essay and read by native speaker.

What a wonderful world.

New way of learning?

2009-03-19T08:37:00.002+08:00

It is under hot discussion whether there is new way of learning.

At the beginning of March, CITE of HKU organized a 3-day Research Symposium: Learning Communities and Technology. On the second day eight presenters gave various speech about using Web2.0 for teaching and learning activities. The Q&A time raised a hot debate on whether there is a new way of learning. Of course, all Web2.0 is about user generated knowledge rather than knowledge transmission. It will of course trigger a lot of disucssion as most of the teachers in HK get used to tradition instructional approach, using web2.0 for knowledge construction is out of their comfort zone.

Yesterday, Prof Nicola Yelland gave a speech in my Institute on topic about "Critical issues for learning in the 21st Century: Multiliteracies, new technologies and knowledge building". Nicola also touched on the issue about new way of learning. Our education system is mainly developed for industrial age, should we consider to change our education system to fit for the new technological age. Nicola proposed that the curriculum should be shifted to knowledge generation under the digital technology trend. She also mentioned Literacy, Literacies and Multilieracies proposed by New London Group. Today kids are quite different as before and a new multimodality re-mix culture is emerging.

Of course, after the presentation, there was some debate on the new way of learning. Some academics insisted that traditional literacy should still be the main learning objective.

The debate will keep on though digital age has been developed far from we could re-think. To my opinion, 21st Century skills have proposed the essential skills for a digital society, though no concrete assessment to 21st Century skills have been proposed.

New platform provides integrated functions on learning objects, social bookmarking and Facebook

2009-03-09T16:17:00.008+08:00

HKU has developed a new platform called RISAL which combined learning objects, social bookmarking and social networking functions. An integrated platform that can share bookmarking, audio, video and files to each other while at the same time, it can perform similar function as Facebook.

http://risal.cite.hku.hk/?view=recent

The posting in this platform can have an embedded link back to blog, here is my posting in embedded blog link.

Multimodality shifts new definiton of literacies and learning

2009-02-20T08:33:00.009+08:00

Jewitt (2008) has made it very clear that multimodality has redefined the concept of literacies and learning. In traditional classrooms, literacy refers to learning with written mode. Students learn from verbal teaching, text books and express themselves in verbal presentation and written examination. Language is the major mode for teaching and learning. Student learning is conducted by verbal communication and written examination. Literacy is defined as the competency to express oneself knowledge in language (Jewitt, 2008).

Shifting to the ICT world, the context has been changed. Students are not limited to express themselves in traditional language mode (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006; Yue & Yuen, 2005). Nowadays students are called digital natives (Prensky, 2001) as they are actively participating in producing visual and media artefacts out of their school lives (Burn & Durran, 2007; Jenkins, 2006; Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006). Kress & van Leeuwen (2001) named the new way of expressing oneself as Multimodal Discourse. Meaning expression is situated at various modes including image, gesture, gaze, body posture, sound, writing, music, speech and so on. Language is just one of the various modes for meaning expression. We, in fact, communicate with multimodality in the digital world. Language might still be the dominant mode, but images, audio and video are getting important gradually. Blog, YouTube and Facebook provide a lot of good examples about effective communication in multiple modes. Multiliteracies are then defined as the literacies in managing multimodality to communicate with each others (Jewitt, 2008). Or simply we call the multiliteracies “new literacies” or “literacies” (Lankshear & Knobel, 2006).

From literacy to multimodality and literacies, should leaning be re-defined under the digital world? Jewitt (2008) suggested hypertext has redefined the relationships between reader, author and text. The shifting is from collection to connection. It opens a new horizon in the production of complex hybrid semiotic systems and new competency of literacies. Meaning expression is not limited to pure text, but a linkage of text to audio, video, graphic and web link, etc. (Jewitt, 2008). In contrast to the traditional taxonomies of print-based expression skills, Jewitt (2008) defined learning as process that “involves students in working across different sites of expression, negotiating and creating new flexible spaces for planning, thinking, hypothesizing, testing, designing, and realizing ideas."

With the new definitions of literacies and learning, the pedagogy in classroom should also be changed accordingly. Teachers are suggested to focus on pedagogic design on students learning processes. Students should be shifted to meaning construction that is related to their knowledge, experiences and interests. Meaning construction here includes engaging students in building multiple modes stories integrating their lives, experiences and cultural forms of representation. Cross-curricular multimode project involving student’s everyday knowledge and context-based learning might be one of the directions (Jewitt, 2008).

Putting these new concept of literacies, multimodality and learning into HK context, the new Senior Secondary School curriculum proposed Liberal Studies as the core subject. Under the Liberal Studies, students can select a non-written mode Independent Enquiry Project as a final school-based assessment. It is interesting that there seems some similar rationales behind the literacies, multimodality, learning and local non-written IES project.

Chatting with Roland van Oostveen

2009-01-16T09:02:00.002+08:00

Roland, a ed tech scholar from Canada, visited our Institute in this week and we had a short sharing with him. He is a fully student-centered scholar and very keen on talking about the nature of knowledge. He adapted a full framework from Carl Bereiter as there are three knowledge of world. World one is the physical world and we can learn from experience. World two is the conceptual world that we learned from schools and books. World three is the artifacts that we built from interaction with W1 and W2. Under this framework, our teaching and learning should be shifted from teacher-centerd focusing on W1 and W2 to student-centered on W3 faciliating students to create their own knowledge by constructing artifacts.

How can the teachers in HK can adapt such framwork? Roladn said he faces the same problem in Canada as in HK, but it is his belief.

Meeting the Great Master

2008-12-18T13:28:00.004+08:00

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.

Chatting with David Buckingham

2008-12-17T08:50:00.002+08:00

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.

Visual semiotics: Pop culture education conference

2008-12-13T11:22:00.003+08:00

Thanks for Jan Connelly shared with us such wonderful advsertisement demonstrating visual semiotics and intertextual meanings. David Buckingham in the pre-conference workshop expressed that visual semiotics and multimodality are using the methods of textual analysis but with new invented wordings. Here Jan presented "intertextual meanings" and made use of this to analyses with visual semiotics. To me, intertextual meanings" might have similar meaning as multimodality, both are talking the text, visual,sound and with social embedded meaning for interpretation. I like Jan's perspectives in "read with the text", "read across the text" and "read against the text". Social semiotcs are playing a role in interpretation. In fact, the following video is wonderful. Can you guess the product while watching the video?

Multiliteracies

2008-12-09T09:43:00.003+08:00

In addition to New Literacies, New London Group (1996) introduced the term multiliteracies in response to the changing social conditions of global capitalism, especially on the new demands on the job markets. Jewitt (2008) summarized Multiliteracies as literacies beyond traditional written and spoken litearcy to expressing ourselves with multiple and multimodal texts. Situated in the digital word, we communicate not limited to text, but visual, audio, video and all other new modes such as in Facebook and blog etc. We are expressing ourselves in Multimodal Discourse (Kress and van Leeuwen, 2001). In summary, Jewitt (2008) remarked that multimodality is about meaning making through the situated configurations across image, gesture, gaze, body posture, sound , writing, music, speech ....

Next time don't blame that the youth are getting worse in expressing themselves in written or spoken language. They might be expert in expressing themselve in Facebook and YouTube.

New Literacies

2008-11-27T09:25:00.004+08:00

Here comes the plural "New Literacies" again. Some people commended on the YouTube that why the New Media Literacies created new word "Literacies" and did not know what it is about.

However, more and more academics are using Literacies instead of literacy. In more simple words, under the digital world, we should have our competency to express ourselves beyond the traditional printed mode. Literacy is referring to the traditional competency in read, write and communicate with text. However, nowadays, we communicate and express ourselves in Facebook, Blog and all sorts of web2.0 technology beyond text, scuh as hypertext, sound, image manipulation, embedded video etc. The competency to communicate in these multimodalities is named as new literacies.

Here comes a video inspired by Gunther Kress about New Literacies.

New Media Literacies

2008-11-24T11:16:00.003+08:00

We have two mindsets in facing the new brave technological world. Last week I attended seminar from a History subject professor about outcome-based learning on communciation, problem solving, critical thinking etc. Henry Jenkins from MIT proposed new media literacies developed from multiple literacies where literacies are more than one literacy. Under 21st century, a new 21st century literacies are developing with the integration of technology, outcome-based and literacies....... What am I talking?

Oh, you can see Henry Jenkins in this video.

New mindset or existing mindset in Great Brave Technological World

2008-11-18T13:52:00.003+08:00

Knobel and Lankshear (2007) in their book "A new literacies sampler" regard there are two mindsets for people approaching the contemporary world.

Physical-industrial mindset
We are in modern-industrial period, only the technology is new and advanced. There are no big change in economic, cultural, social world that has evolved throughout the modern era. We should treat technology as the same as before in all aspects such as bodies, materials, property and forms of ownership, industrial techniques and principles, physical texts, face to face dealings .....

Cyberspatial postindustrial mindset
The contemporary world is different to how it has been for 30 years. The great difference is basically from digital technologies and electronic network. People should have new ways of doing things and new ways of being that are made possible by new tools and techniques, rather than using new technologies to do familiar things in more "technologized" ways (first mindset).

What kind of mindsets should be adapted in education?

kitten video by animoto

2008-11-12T11:13:00.001+08:00

Bubbl.us again

2008-11-05T17:20:00.001+08:00

A video showing step-by-step procedure of drawing with Bubbl.us, a concept map drawing tool.

Education for the 21st Century

2008-10-31T08:38:00.006+08:00

This is really a big topic. No can can say he or she will get all right in this aspect. However, we should explore otherwise we do not know what we are.

Here is a so called a e-book "Education for the 21st Century: the basic". It mentions the basic principle of 21st century skills, the famous "digital natives", problem of assessment, bloom's taxonomy and the 21st learning spaces. It is really a basic understanding of the integration ICT with teaching and learning.

http://newbay.ebookhost.net/tl/21cc/2/

Why can't I save this file?

2008-10-24T11:22:00.006+08:00

The video was produced five years ago. A lot of friends are now teachers. A problem-based approach video covers a lof of technical issues in video production.

Teenager knows a lot.

2008-10-11T09:53:00.002+08:00

Last night, a friend who is a primary school teacher, asked me what is Facebook. When I wanted to explain to her, my F3 son started to talk about. I never know he knows Facebook. At the same time, my son then told me he can classify all his teachers into three categories.
1. Speak all the time, do not like student talk and discuss
2. Like to ask questions, or telling jokes, however, most of time talking by oneself and don't let students answer. And the jokes are in fact not so good.
3. Really engage students to talk and discuss.

Interesting.

Further discussion on Podcasting

2008-10-03T13:45:00.005+08:00

I always say that Podcasting is far more complicated than expected. Here is an article written by a teacher telling his experience of creating Podcasting. Reading through the lines, you will find that it is challanging and interesting to create your own Podcasting, however, Hong Kong teachers might find it complicated. Is there any more easy way to make it?

http://techlearning.com/story/showArticle.php?articleID=196605453

Web2.0

2008-09-23T11:34:00.010+08:00

Web2.0 becomes a jargon now. Everyone is talking about Web2.0, Web3.0 is even coming. No matter what webN.0 (N>2) is coming, I find this website is an excellent introduction of web2.0. All the basic concepts and their application in teaching and learning are shown. The paper is called "Web2.0: From curious to competent".

TeacherTube

2008-09-16T14:10:00.005+08:00

Many people heard of YouTube, how about TeacherTube? It looks very similar to YouTube except it was created by a lot of teachers. You can also upload the video for sharing and making comment. However, you need to declare the video is for teaching and learning purpose only and copyright free. It is more safe to view TeacherTube in classroom.

Here is a video from TeacherTube. It is a quick look about a street in Nanjing, with the viewpoint from Western people. They descirbed this as a teaching material in school.

Mind map

2008-09-10T13:34:00.009+08:00

There is a lot of freeware that can support collaborative drawing of Mind map. Bubbl.us is one of the most simple concept map drawing that can support multiple users.

Hers is a drawing produced with bubbl.us.

More about Podcasting: itune

2008-09-09T08:52:00.005+08:00

The concept of Podcasting is easy to understand but far more difficult to implement, produce and publish.

For receiving Podcasting materials, the most easy way is to downloand itune from http://www.apple.com/itunes/ and then you can subscribe a lot of interesting podcasting materials, such as CNN, BBC and other Pop songs. Some are free and some are marked with price for subscription.

However, if you want to produce your own Podcasting station and for others to subscribe. You need to have some basic knowledge in audio recording, mixing and podcasting. Audacity (http://audacity.sf.net)is a easy-to-use and powerful freeware for audio recording and mixing. After producing your mp3, you need to upload the mp3 to a server and then you can make use of itune to podcast your mp3. The logistis is simple but difficult to a lot of beginners.

A trial on podcasting

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Podcasting is to broadcast your mp3 to the people who has subscribed. Most of the time it is combined with the function of RSS, Really Simple Syndication.

Here is one of the examples.

How to capture your voice into Windows Movie Maker.

mp3

What is a blog?

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You are browsing a blog and I am sure you should know what is a blog. Here is a simple and easy to be understood video about blog.

Social Bookmarking

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Social Bookmarking

Del.icio.us is a wonderful social bookmarking freeware for you to share your favourite websites to others. Similar to other web 2.0 technology, keyword tagging is applied for easy categorisation and information retrieval.

Here is my del.icio.us.

People having same interest might group into a community to share their bookmarking, with the function of subscribion and RSS, latest updating can be shared without delay.

Here is an example called markazine created by a group of Hong Kong media people.

A place for romance

2008-08-27T09:17:00.008+08:00

Armidale of Australia, located midway between Sydney and Brisbane, is a place full of red leaves during April.

Hi

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Nice to develop a place for sharing.