Thank you..

It's quite a long time that I'm not update this blog..huhu..due to a lot lot lot of things to do. How can I manage it properly is always keep on my mind. But for sure, we finally finish 100 % of the web project and we have presented it yesterday. We're soooooooooooo glad about that. we got positive feedback from our classmates. Thanks guys..and not forget to dr. Zaida, with the good comments and encouragement...

Moreover, I think yesterday is the best class ever. We had a very enjoyable moment. We had eating session in the computer laboratory. No lecturer allowed us to do that before...of course when it come with KFC. While presenting, we also can have 'makan-makan'.hehe..Thank you very much dr. Hopefully, we can have this memorable class again...=)

Check out this cool video!!

Children's evaluation??

I just wanted to reflect on what I have learned in class. Dr. Zaida give us an article about “Evaluating the Usability of Educational Websites for Children”. The study examined the usability of educational websites for children. Children ages 7 - 11 performed seven search tasks. To further understand what aspects of educational websites influence performance and satisfaction, they evaluated childrens' success, navigational efficiency, and satisfaction with three educational websites which are Enchantedlearning.com, Factmonster.com and Infoplease.com's Homework Center.

Another thing that I don't know before, there is one scale to rate children satisfaction - "smiley-face" Likert scale. It looks interesting...


From the finding, one aspect that we usually didn't alert is children tended not to scroll down the page. In addition, the website for children has to consider:

• - page length is not too long
• - don't offer too many links, it's confusing
• - use simpler terminology
• - large font size and pictures
  

Overall, we can say that the website is good if the children can perform the entire task given. Due to task based question, the website must be similar and have the same content. "Time" is also very important as indicator of the website performance.

Source: Full Article

Instructional Design Model

Which one you prefer??

Instructional Design

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Tough Planning

A few days ago, I watched Geng: Upin dan Ipin movie with my friends (Betol..Betol..Betol)..haha.. I never thought it’s splendid, enjoyable and we are laughing till the end…I like!!!From the viewed that I heard and read, everybody agreed to give good comments and that’s the reason why I have to see the movie myself. I also recommend to you. I can bet you’ll never regret. Hence, this shows the development and new image of film industry in Malaysia…

Okey.. .that’s enough. Back to the topic - the web task. We have a discussion with dr. Zaida in the class because she want to know the progress in each group, where are we going right now…especially the paper work about the planning of our project. We have just started the engine. .hehe..One of the important parts is to choose an instructional design model. There are about 40 models and I only experienced using ADDIE model. It’s quite simple and easy to understand. However, for this task, me and my group members are looking for something new and suitable in web-based project. We have discuss for several times (day and night thou), but we still can’t decide which model that we want to use. Belum dapat 'petunjuk' lagi..It’s really tough…help!!!

Designing Web Template

Half lying on the bed, I kept thinking about the class on Wednesday...After presenting our all-night-work, slowly I started to get sore throat and badly headache due to hot weather lately. Luckily, the presentation is over and I’m getting better now. The task is, in a group, we have to develop a web template by integrating a learning approaches/theories. The funny is how come we forgot to change the background colour or even the font types. Then, we realize that our template is only black and white..haha..too much focusing on the strategy resulting: ‘the design is out!’ but as a student, we take the good comments to improve ourselves.

By the way, when you experienced yourself, you will find out that it is much different to apply the theory/approaches in the class and when you want to implement the theory/approaches in the webpage. In the class, we have the teacher to deliver the contents and tell the students what to do and then, the activities can be done. Unfortunately, in the webpage, the activities have to be well prepared, so that the student can interact and actively participate. Not just looking at the computer screen without doing anything (or sometimes staring into space). Moreover, in the template that we have to develop right now, we have to create a webpage whereas teacher (anyone) can use it to insert the activities based on the guide line we’ve made. See the differences??

From the several of instructional design, we have chosen Discovery Learning. This approach provides students with opportunities to develop hypotheses to answer questions and can contribute to the development of a lifelong love of learning. Students propose issues or problems, gather data and observations to develop hypotheses, confirm or refine their hypotheses, and explain or prove their problems.

From our readings, to integrate the discovery learning into this technology, we have found a few activities related such as

- simulations
- hypertext
- microworlds
- forums or Wiki


One interesting part that I like, the Discovery learning is based on this "Aha!" method. What is it??mm..discover yourself..hehe..=)

Web Project Management

A Web Team is responsible for the development and maintenance of a web site.

A Web Project Manager sees that this is accomplished in a well organized, timely, and appropriate fashion.

Does your Web Team have the required skills?
Possible skills needed:
- Design (HTML, graphics, interaction)
- Coding (HTML, scripting, programming)
- Content development (writing, editing)

What Makes a Great Web Site?
- Provide credible, original content.
- Provide valuable, timely information.
- Web sites should be updated regularly.
- For the information to be valuable it should be well-edited.
- Easy to download, particularly for those accessing the Internet with dial-up modems
- Be easy to read.
- Be well-organized.
- Dominate a subject area; become the site for that subject.
- Have a secure and automated server.
- Be worth visiting.
- Original content is important.

Triangular Time-Cost-Quality

When you are planning out your next design project, keep the graphic above in mind. The design triangle has three sides: Quality, Time, and Cost. Design takes time. Design takes money. And design is expected to be high quality. Unfortunately, it is nearly impossible to turnaround a great design fast and cheap.

Time
• Time is defined as a dimension that represents an opportunity to perform some useful activity such as adding to the wealth of an individual, a corporation or society as a whole. If time is of the essence, say the project is event driven, then the price may increase, or parts of the process must be skipped to meet the deadline. Skipping parts of the design process means that quality will suffer.

Cost
• Cost is defined as being the monetary amount paid for labour, plant, materials and
components, overheads and profit.If your piece must be mistake-free, then expect to spend more money for quality assurance. If the piece is going to be seen by the general public, this is an aspect you definitely should not cut corners on.

Quality
• Quality is viewed by the value specialist relates to the performance of functions, both use and aesthetic. If your budget is next to nothing and you don’t have a designer in your family to run to, then quality assurance will be lacking, and your project will become a lower priority compared to more profitable projects, therefore taking longer to complete.

While the goal of every job is to maximize all three of these factors, typically one suffers at the expense of the other two. You get what you pay for. Good design does not come cheap nor does it come quickly.

More:
Value Criteria
Fundamentals

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: Wow!!at this time, I only had use approximately 30% of this tools..hehe.. And the rest of it, I have never use or even heard about it…huhu..thank god PowerPoint is at number 8...it’s not that bad..

Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008

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http://www.janeknight.com/downloads/top100S08.pdf
http://www.beaufort.cc.nc.us/LRC/Distance/PDF/Top%20100%20Tools%202008.pdf

Friendster vs Education

Why do teacher has to learn the technology? Why can't they just standing in front of the class- talking..talking..and talking..then, the bell ring..finish..end of school for today..

Yesterday, me and my classmates have a group discussion. Suddently, kak Aza said,'how can we change the layouts, like we did in Friendster?'. We started to think. that was an interesting part. We upload photos, leave comments, bulletin boards, send message, create blogs, share videos and slideshows etc...It means that the social networking is wider and became part of our daily life compare to our parents time...sorry to say that. But it's true, right?? In this 21st century, all the learning approach also totally different like it used to be.

Mm..the question is how these things can be applied in education? How to use the tools of web 2.0 effectively...If the students can explore themselves like the way they did in Friendster, it is not possible they can do the same in context to apply it in education. Don't even think that students nowdays know 'nothing'. Many of them are expert that us. Downloading YouTube or Mp3 songs - they like to do this kind of things. Therefore, WE, as a teacher has to guide them to be in the right track. Show them how this technology can be useful in improving their learning, not only for entertainment.

Within higher education, at the State University of New York, the Geneseo Collaborative Writing Project deploys wikis for students to work together to interpret texts, author articles and essays, share ideas, and improve their research and communication skills collectively. Bryan Alexander (2006) describes social bookmarking experiments in some American educational research establishments and cites Harvard’s H2O as an exemplar project. Alexander also believes that wikis can be useful writing tools that aid composition practice, and that blogs are particularly useful for allowing students to follow stories over a period of time.

One Humanities lecturer is reported as having said:
“I found out all my students were looking at the material in the VLE but going straight to Facebook to use the discussion tools and discuss the material and the lectures. I thought I might as well join them and ask them questions in their preferred space.”

keys of web 2.0

Do you familiar with these words??

Wikis
Blogs
Tagging

Social bookmarking

Podcasts
Folksonomy
RSS

actually, i only heard some of it 2 or 3 months ago..
mm..its kinda new for me..maybe its not too late to learn about it..
but hurry...web 3.0 is coming!!

For further reading:
What is web 2.0
The best web 2.0

Home Kitchen Chemistry

Take a look at this volcano...is it for real??huhu..

http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemicalvolcanoes/ss/volcano.htm

it looks like delicious..yum..yumm..but NO..
not for eating..
but you can make it yourself..

The website About.com Guide to Chemistry
make us to think out of the box. It shows that chemistry is everywhere, anytime..at home..even become much more interesting.

It shows step by step the process in the project and shows the chemical equation for the reactions that occur.

Other than that, it is not only suitable for student and teacher who eager in chemistry field but also for children. You can see a lot of links to Science projects such as Chemistry Projects For Kids, Home Experiments and How to write a lab report..Furthermore.. the website contains the developer's blog and other links about chemistry.

Go to the main page: http://chemistry.about.com/

Besides that, one thing that i realize is about the pictures..static..Maybe, the developer can include some videos or simulations to show the demo of the project as well as to make the learning more effective. What do you think??

A few information about the developer: Anne Marie Helmenstine Ph.D., is an author and consultant with a broad scientific and medical background. She has bachelor of arts degrees in physics and mathematics with a minor in chemistry from Hastings College in Nebraska and a doctorate of philosophy in biomedical sciences from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.

The journey begins..

Hi there..
Welcome to de-Tour Web Development blog..
Thank God for His blessing..
This site was created due to the need to fulfill my coursework in Web-based multimedia development subject.

As you can see, it's all about..
Sharing thought..
Enhancing Technology..
Learning Together..

Nowdays..the impact of technology changed the trends in education towards more open and emphasis on lifelong learning, like a journey from one place to another places.
Therefore, don't be shy to contribute in this "weighted conversation" by jotting down your comments and share ideas with others..

Hopefully, the knowledge will let us getting a more realistic understanding of the role that web might play within education..

So..take a cup of coffee...enjoy the journey..!!