Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Class Five

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This is the fifth class. Today, we learned how to create a button!
To me, it's quite difficult to set the "Action fields". Luckily, it's now completed. ^_^
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Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Class Four

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Hello, here's a similar FLASH file created during the class.
CLICK the PLAY button and....enjoy the Sunshine.........!!
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Task 3 : Shape of Raindrop

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23 Mar 2007
THE ANIMATION HAS BEEN REVISED A BIT WITH YOUR PRECIOUS COMMENT! MANY THANKS!!
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Task 3: To design a simple learning object to help student understand what impacts shape of a rain drop.

This time, my groupmate (Ivan) and I disucssed about how to present the idea (i.e. the storyboard) and try to work out a separate design.
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Useful information can be found at:
http://weather.about.com/od/cloudsandprecipitation/a/rainburgers.htm
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/raindropshape.html
http://www.fluidmech.net/tutorials/raindrops/raindrop.htm
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/science_sky/91232
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain
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Tuesday, March 6, 2007

Third Class

Today, we're looking at the work (for task2) of our classmates. Many of the visual displays are very attractive and interesting.

When being asked to choose the best display, I had a query in my mind -- what's the function of the visual display? In case the design is for "promotion purpose" (like a poster to invite people to attend a seminar on the Earth's atmosphere), colorful graphics are preferred and long description of words may not be appropriate.

By the way, people have to use their own imagination to produce and understand a visual display. The learner may not make correct guess to each picture if text is missing. In case the design is for teaching, text description should not be omitted (but it's better in point form) for factual info which should have only one "right" answer.