April+13+Suzan

I would like to say that I enjoyed Tekleab, Watsatree, and Miriam’s presentations. Tekleab provided good examples in discussing the strategies for teaching declarative knowledge. I really liked the portion about pneumonic devices. The examples were nice and helpful. Watsatree provided good examples about the effective procedures in teaching how to make Pad Thai. Miriam’s exercise was good, too. I remembered my classes when I first came her to the CIE. It was all about teaching principles. I think that we are doing well in the group project. I applied many things that I have learned from my classes last semester and this semester. I am glad to be able to apply the things that I have learned because it makes things make more sense to me. What Linda said about the Diamond Shape is really important. I use that in my every day life when I coordinate my whole look (clothes, accessories, shoes …etc) or in my house and my furniture. I like to share some points that I have read in //Creating Graphics for Learning and Performance// by Linda Lohr. 1. Know your users 2. Keep navigation clear 3. Provide one menu with many links rather than many menus and submenus of fewer links. 4. Keep the time it takes to load your Web page to minimum. 5. Design for simplicity, using the same grid structure and layouts. 6. Make sure you give visual feedback to any action users take. 7. Make sure you consider handicapped users. I am so excited to do the final video. I hope that we will achieve great results, since we have been working hard for them. :-)
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