Month: May 2020

Week 1 Prompt

Behaviouralist, cognitivist, or constructivist are the three most practical and efficient learning methods. These learning methods can help people have a clearer understanding of new knowledge and can accept that knowledge faster.

First of all, different language environments are a big challenge for me. As an international student, when I came to Victoria in the first year, different languages and learning styles had some impact on me. At that time, I deeply remember a section of social science that helped me a lot. Since there were many international students in that class, the professor intended to pair each international student and local student in a group. This decision has forced international students to communicate with local students a lot, which has greatly helped our speaking ability. Also, most local students are willing to communicate with us and help us, although there are some difficulties in communication between us. The reason why I enjoy this learning process is that this grouping not only made me the first Canadian friend but also made me feel the friendliness and kindness of the people here.

Constructivism is one of the most effective ways of learning in my mind. When I was still in the language center, I was taught some information about Salmon reflow by using a study method which called constructivist. In order to give us a clearer understanding of salmon reflow; the English teacher took us to a field trip. The guide there not only explained the reasons for the return of salmon, the route, and the process of fish seedling growth. To give us a better understanding of salmon’s body structure, the tour guide even dissected a salmon that had just died. I was very impressed with the travel experience. If I only learned through books or videos, my impression of salmon return would definitely not be clear.

Self-Introduction

Hi there, I’m Alex Liang. I’m born and raised in Beijing, China. It’s my third year studying economics. I’m thinking of minoring education since I’m interested in teaching children K-12. Learning design looks like a fun class to take! Looking forward to working with all of you! 🙂

Welcome and Introduction

Before proceeding with this first blog post, we expect you to consider your privacy preferences carefully and that you have considered the following options:

  1. Do you want to be online vs. offline?
  2. Do you want to use your name (or part thereof) vs. a pseudonym (e.g., West Coast Teacher)?
  3. Do you want to have your blog public vs. private? (Note, you can set individual blog posts private or password protected or have an entire blog set to private)
  4. Have you considered whether you are posting within or outside of Canada? This blog on opened.ca is hosted within Canada. That said, any public blog posts can have its content aggregated/curated onto social networks outside of Canada.

First tasks you might explore with your new blog:

  • Go into its admin panel found by adding /wp-admin at the end of your blog’s URL
  • Add new category or tags to organize your blog posts – found under “Posts” (but do not remove the pre-existing “edci335” category).
  • See if your blog posts are appearing on the course website (you must have the the edci335 category assigned to a post first and have provided your instructor with your blog URL)
  • Add pages, if you like.
  • Include hyperlinks in your posts (select text and click on the link icon in the post toolbar)
  • Embed images or set featured images and embed video in blog posts and pages (can be your own media or that found on the internet, but consider free or creative commons licensed works). To embed a YouTube video, simply paste the URL on its own line.
  • Under Dashboard/Appearance,
    • Select your preferred website theme and customize to your preferences (New title, new header image, etc.)
    • Customize menus & navigation
    • Use widgets to customize blog content and features
  • Delete this starter post (or switch it to draft status if you want to keep it for reference)

Do consider creating categories for each course that you take should you wish to document your learning (or from professional learning activities outside of formal courses). Keep note, however, that you may wish to rename the label of the course category in menus (e.g., as we did where it shows “Learning Design” as the label for the “edci335” category menu.  This will enable readers not familiar with university course numbers to understand what to expect in the contents.

Lastly, as always, be aware of the FIPPA as it relates to privacy and share only those names/images that you have consent to use or are otherwise public figures. When in doubt, ask us.

Please also review the resources from our course website for getting started with blogging:

Test Learning Design Post

This post  will appear in a few places:

  1. in the blog feed on the front of your website
  2. in the Learning Design menu on your website. This is because we have applied the “edci335” category to this post and the menu item “Learning Design” has been created from the category “edci335.” For every post you make for this course, please assign the “edci335” category to it. You are welcome to use this blog for your personal hobbies or for other courses, in which case, you could create additional menu items and categories for them.
  3. if you give permission, your posts categorized “edci335” will be aggregated onto the Blog Feed on the EDCI 335 Course Website.

Feel free to delete this post once you understand this. If you have any questions, please reach out to your instructor.

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