Week 10 – Class In Review (14/05)
Virtual Worlds – Presented By Rashida, Anna, Mel & Adam
Was expecting another fun virtual world experimentation, but unfortunately, it was only presented through a powerpoint slide. Although I can understand how complicated it would be to prepare and organise for all students in the class to sign up for an account, log in and conquer the learning curve within the start of the presentation, I was hoping for at least something similar to what I saw at the beginning of the semester. This makes me realise that even though the potential is very great for the use of such a technology in learning. Likewise, if it was hard to setup and prepare a presentation to allow for everyone to just jump right into using it, then more so for a course, which might base itself entirely in a virtual world.
How you would connect everyone together? How would you ensure everyone is experiencing the same quality and level of content? Would broadband bandwidth play a huge impact on learning quality? The same issues keep arising, which makes me feel as a learner that there may be other learners that might find it hard to learn through virtual worlds.
Podcasting & Vodcasting – Presented By Sam’s group
Great preparation into some of the podcasts and vodcasts because it really gave a good feel for how some lectures in some universities would distribute and create podcasts. Like someone pointed out in class, being able to listen to a captivating voice also enhances the learning process, but I do feel that listening to audio, in particularly if it was a long one, to be very boring. Reason is because it only utilises one sense of the body and that’s hearing. Another downfall is not being able to jump to parts of a long podcast as easily, it becomes very disjointed when you try to and you can’t re-hear the content the same way as you can with re-reading a paragraph in a book.
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