ReflectionInteractive learning objects have been used in education for a long time. Most of the education settings are well equipped with multi-media information technology that initiated the use of visual and interactive presentation. In primary schools, the commonly used software for designing learning objects are Microsoft powerpoint and Macromedia flash where the later one requires more technical skills. In my experience, using flash presentation is interactive and attractive. The multi functional characteristic of flash enables teachers to design learning objects in different areas of learning. Students are usually more on-task with interactive presentation. It is not difficult to design a learning object but it is time consuming to put it in action. When using flash, you should know a variety of imaging principles. Moreover, the techniques of writing action script can only be mastered after a long time practice and lots of failure.In this project, I spent hundreds of hours on learning flash. The result was not a satisfied one. The outcome was greatly different from what we have designed. We should have changed our mind a month ago. We insisted to use flash to present our idea was finally proved to be a mistake. There are many ways of presentation and we shouldn’t limit our choice of design.

It’s another learning object that presented by ppt.

It’s very useful in fact. I think it is not the matter of using what kind of presentation but it is the matter of how much it brought.

http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/slchow/sophiecsl/???????.ppt

This may not be an exciting one, I hope you will like it.

Instruction for using the representation:

1. It is a speaking exercise for secondary students.

2. Use the entire information to indroduce chinese culture in English.

3. The movie can be an reader friendly visual introduction.

4. Simply clip on the buttons to see the content.

Our presentation is quite simple. But I can assure you that I used thousand of hours to over come the difficulties. Help!!

It’s really a difficult job!

I’d spent thousands of hours but the work was still unfinishedThose action keys are quite difficult to manage and I still cannot solve the problem for showing different objects in different time.

By the way it was a very good experience that make me rethink for several times. For teachers with limited technical skill in creating learning objects, really need a good technical assistant at thier right of left hand side.

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