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Yahoo! has tried an interesting way of presenting information,
which is similar to the “News Headlines” example shown in Lecture #1
click to see the real Yahoo! results…

click the above picture to view in full size…

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Kenneth and me are going to do a project call Solar System.
Kenneth’s background:
- teaching in a secondary school
- teaching Computer and Maths.
Patrick’s (my) background:
- teaching in a Primary school
- teaching Computer, General Studies and Maths.
We found that it is hard to find a project to fit our students together.
So we choose this topic because most [...]

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After I have done the “Rain Drop” Task, I have the below reflections:
• As visual form representation gives audience a quick and important “first impression”, the correctness of the information represented is vital
• The importance of the above point is illustrated by the “shape of rain drop” example.
• The tear-drop shaped rain drop gives most people (including me) [...]

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“People can learn more deeply from words and pictures than from words alone”. (It is possibly because the learner can look at similar information twice – and in two different aspects or representation of data.)
Multimedia for learning should be designed in light of how the human mind works, (otherwise, people cannot understand it or can’t [...]

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Here is the Rain Drop Animation.

This Animation is produced by Kenneth Chan and Patrick Lai.
Please feel free to leave comments here. Thanks.

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Self-Reflections for Lesson #3
Your material should not be only a “teaching” tool, in addition, it should be a learning tool to stimulate students’ interests for them to learn deeper.
For example, a simple calculator can be used for students to investigate a lot of mathematical patterns / numeric trends quickly, e.g. decimal multiplication, addition, divisibility, etc….
The [...]

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A 1-Slide-PowerPoint File — Atmosphere

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Lesson #2 (Reflection)
After Lesson #2, I have got the below points:
(1) Feedback of Self-Intro PPT Slide:
when you design the slide, pls think of the ways for the people to read text and read image (e.g. the order to read: from left to right or vice versa, from top down or else?)
how you can use text [...]

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