The Most Memorable Online Learning Experience
In this reflection, we were told to write the most memorable experience of online learning. This immediately reminds me of another online course that I am taking this term which is called “Interactive Multimedia Learning” ( the official course website was attached). Before I decided to take that course I just barely had any learning experience from the online materials but as we are working approaching to the end of the term, what I learned from these online courses have really opened my eyes.
First of all, the very first challenge that I had in the course was we were asked to make a comics to tell a simple story. However, it was as difficult as rocket sciences to me, because I had absolutely zero experience on making animations and how can I even tell a story with it. When I was worrying about how to make the first step, some Online Educational Resources (OER) saved me. There is a software called ” Comic Life 3“(Official website was attached), which is a software that can be installed on your PC to assist you for doing some comic works and that absolutely helped me to make the whole thing easier.
Here is a video clip of how to “Comic Life 3” to crate your own comic works:
After I had an OER such as a tutorial video to assist me to do the whole works, I wrote myself a script and I tried to tell the story by using some pictures and texts in the software. Finally, after some hours of drawing, texting and combining the pictures. I had my first comics done. That tells a story about how a college student should make a financial plan in order to save up some money and obtain the goals.
My final comic works has uploaded to the post:
I have never learnt anything through this kind of method before and I was also surprised by what I accomplished when I was finishing the final version of the work. This strong feeling has pushed me to have a better understanding of our last week’s reading: “Understanding Technology In Education”. Internet is such a powerful tool that can make greater effect on education as a direct medium. Have a better understanding of the use of media and technology seemed very critical to all of us.
Furthermore, I have mastered the skill of screencasting and other things I did not have the chance to learn in the traditional class. By looking back to the most memorable online learning experience and what I have learned through this course so far, it is more like a phased summary to me. It reminds me how the theories I learned from this course to implement on the other learning obstacles.
References
A.w., Tony, & Bates. (2019, October 10). Chapter 7: Understanding technology in education. Retrieved March 6, 2020, from https://via.hypothes.is/https:/pressbooks.bccampus.ca/teachinginadigitalagev2/part/chapter-8-understanding-technology/