Johnny's Web 2.0 Journey

I am an Instructional Designer, and I am also an International learner. I believe these identities allowed me to share my experience here with you about what should be considered in designing for International learners. First of all, we should consider their culture, history, political, and religion background. For example, if we design a course inserted some pattern or symbol which has bad means in some religions. That will hurt the learners. Secondly, we should consider what their learning styles and techniques are? Different country and region's learner have the different mix of learning styles preference. Based on their age, gender, growth environment, educational background and so on. The student has developed a learning mechanism that most suitable for themselves. Some learner prefers to learn combined words and pictures, but some may like voice and animation combination more. We should design for them based on which combination would be most suitable for them The last

Alright, our professor launched a challenge at Twitter - #eme6414 challenge. So, in this challenge, we need to blog about our plan for produsage project, tweet the URL and give each other feedbacks. I accepted this challenge. So, let's get started! So I want to create an informal learning environment and performance support system for my "learner." I would prefer to call them "friend" than "learner." A Chinese proverb said: in the company of three, one always can find a teacher. In my informal learning environment, my friends will be able to learn from each other and teach each other. My idea is to create a local trail running community for my friends on Slack. The purpose of this group is to help local (Tully) trail running lover find a place to share their running experience, improve running skills, find running partner, join trail running contest, and make friends. The anchor platform of my community would be Slack. Residents would be able to

I found IFTTT at the week 5 tool resources folder. Instructor suggests us to write a blog to share the experience with IFTTT. So, here is how I feel about IFTTT. IFTTT is a web-based application and also an app can run on ios and Andrew platform that allowed people to create chains of simple conditional statements which called applets. An applet is triggered by changes that occur within other web services such as Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest. IFTTT is an initialism for If This Then That. Before I tried IFTTT, I actually used another similar function app on my iPhone for a long time, which it called "Workflow". So if you enjoy your experience with IFTTT so far. I highly recommend you to play with "Workflow" on your iPhone, because "Workflow" will brings a new experience to you. To be honest, I think I like IFTTT a litter bit more for several reasons. First of all, with IFTTT, I set up my “recipes” to run automatically without even thin

I know, in this class, we should talk more related to the web 2.0 or social media. But I think game-based learning and design course with the game could be an interesting topic for you to read. I want to give you some ideas about what is the game based learning at the beginning. I found a video on the YouTube, you can watch it below to get some basic ideas about what is the game based learning. What is Game-based Learning? With the smart phone booming, more and more apps were developed. Game apps, as one of the biggest and most valuable categories in the smart phone app market, has been paid high attention to by the high-tech companies. Besides smart phone games, PS4 and X-Box, these home video game eco system getting popular around the world. In recent years, VR brings a new whole game opportunity and experience for us.  You may have one or two game apps on your smart phone, or maybe you are a gamer who fall in love with video games. Some research indicated that game

"2.0" seems to has become an indispensable element in this era.  Social media 2.0 blew our mind, changed our lives, and broaden the learning methods. Now, instructional design 2.0  (ID2.0)  may have changed our working routine or must-have skills quietly. ID 2.0 is the concept established beyond the social media 2.0, it more related to the social learning. Why should we need to pay some attentions to the ID 2.0 and social learning? Because, today, social learning has become an indispensable part of our daily life.  Social learning is all around us every day, from Facebook message conversations to ask your classmates for an opinion.  Social media 2.0 era provides us a lot of tools which allowed us to engage with learners, provide opportunities, and working in learning space in ways we never could before. It enables social learning to happen on a large scale.  In the past three weeks, I have been played with a lot of tools. I use  Google+  to participate in a social-media

In the past three weeks, I spent a lot of time to discover and explore the new social media tools and the new features in the social media tools I used in my daily life. This class gives me an impetus to get out of my "social media" comfort zone. I used to watch cooking, design and DIY tutorial videos, blogs, posts online. I discussed questioned on Zhihu, left and replied questions about academic hot points and trends on Sina Weibo. I did not realize I am part of social media learning environment. Through the three weeks course learning, social media showed a different side in front of me. Social media as the platform facilitated me to produce and share contents via web2.0 internet-based applications. Besides the basic social and net work features, social media provide another possible way for me to learn. With the development of social media, learning can not only take place in a classroom or at a training center. Today, learning is no long location bond. Social med