25/10/2022

( 24-30 October ) Multimedia Design / Week 5

 Multimedia Design

In the first lesson of this week, our teacher started the lesson with a training consisting of general principles about visual design. In this course, which we have covered over the slide, we have covered the basic needs of visual design under the following headings:



  • First, we talked about alignment. Alignment is a title used in graphic design to ensure that the elements in a design are in a certain order, look visually pleasing, and take on an official format. The basis here is the arrangement of the work done as part of a whole. It prevents irrelevant and inappropriate uses.



  •  Our second topic is the contrast. Contrast can be defined as the difference between two or more elements. The contrast in itself can be divided into a contrast of size, color , shape and type. Each of these is used by graphic designers in different studies.


  •  Our other topic, the emphasis, is the subtitle, which aims to draw the viewer's attention to a specific point in the design. We see that emphasis is used in most areas of design, including architecture, landscape design and fashion design. Attention will be drawn here, so the item to be highlighted can be anything. Graphic designers can do this as I will show in the examples :



  • The last subtitle we are dealing with this week is the unity of multimedia design. Unity means that all parts of the design belong to each other and look in harmony. At the same time, it is the design principle that combines all other principles on one work and makes it pleasing to the eye.




  • In addition, our teacher touched on some more important points in addition to the slide. The presentation to be created should have a design in the center, this design should be determined according to the topic and slides should be created in accordance with the design. Items must be placed in a layout. Design should play a complementary role in the learning experience. The elements used in the presentation should not only be visual, but useful and connected with the topic. At the same time, these items should not be distracting and distracting things from the subject. Here are the principles of multimedia design in general terms and its place in education this week we have processed in this way.



  • This picture is from our teacher's presentation. It is very helpful to learning of slide design. For this reason I want to share it in my blog.

Coursera Part

I will talk about the third and fourth week of the training that we follow in parallel with the lesson on the Coursera website in my article this week. The module starts with an information section that gives an overview of the three weeks. In summary, the topic to be explained is explained as follows: this section will contribute to creating an educational environment diversified and enabled by technology. The first part of third week's education, is emphasizes the design and technology part of the theme of which this lesson cover. If I may mention the things that remain in my mind and what I have learned, although the integration of e-learning and technology into education has been tried many times, problems have been encountered, as a result of which the topic of learning motivation has come to the agenda and has become the subject of research. When designing a learning environment, participation and motivation in this learning process should be taken into account. Another factor is the environment. The environment should be in a position that allows students to learn about the learning activities, learning outcomes and relevance during the teaching process, and the student should believe in the environment. Students want to feel that they belong to the learning process, they want to be satisfied with the result that will come out at the end of the process. When these are counted, students will be able to be motivated spontaneously.In the second video of the third week, topics such as the meaning of transactional distance, conceptual elements of the theory, its principles and application were discussed.This theory has been seen as the framework for distance learning, online courses and programs. In fact, the emphasis mentioned here is on moving away from face-to-face training in the classroom and training conducted on servers at the computer.In addition, the transactional distance theory consists of three main topics: structure, autonomy and dialogue, and these factors are mentioned with examples in the video.In another video, the main types of disabilities and AT were mentioned. In fact, the main issue that was asked to be given here was that disabled people should also receive their share of these technological developments that are integrated into education in today's developing and changing world. It was talked about what should be done and how to make technology effective not only for the education of healthy students, but also for students with disabilities.As another topic, in the last video, the statistical data of research conducted in America about the Internet use of individuals over the age of sixty-five, and in the light of these data, it is mentioned that the use of social media and the Internet is also useful at this age. Technology has a benefit not only for young people, but for people of all ages. For example, the following example in the video seemed very reasonable to me, elderly people who cannot travel easily can make instant video calls with their relatives living miles away thanks to technology and social media. Telknology also has a very important position in the prevention and treatment of physical, neurological, psychological and many other kinds of disorders related to aging.In addition, this section also contained information about how a learning environment should be created when the target audience is the elderly.













20/10/2022

(17-23 October) Instructional Software for 21st Century Teaching / Week 4

 Instructional Software for 21st Century Teaching  

  

  •   Hello again, in this week I will write about our weekly lesson. This week we learned the instructional software for the 21st century teaching.
  •     First, if we need to look at what instructional software is, instructional software is supportive software that has been created to increase and benefit students' participation and learning skills. These programs have been developed to explain some specific topics in general.




  •     We also talked about the Logo programming language. Logo application is a general purpose language developed by Seymour Papert in 1967. This language works on the visualization of various movement and drawing commands by a robot named Turtle. It is also possible to explain this language through a Constructivist approach. 



  •     Our teacher mentioned about the Drill and Practice also. This software allows students to solve problems, while at the same time contributing to the student with quick feedback and evaluations. In addition, as an example of this topic, we researched flash card activity from google and found out what kind of application it is. A good example of this topic is the flash card activity.


  •     I also learned about tutorial software in this course. These software programs are organized in the same way that students study systematically depending on the curriculum and teacher at school. By using them, the student can easily understand the topic without receiving extra support. The PhysicsClasroom website, which my teacher put as an example, also helped me understand the topic, and I think it is a very good example of this software.

  •     Simulation software is also among the things I learned from this course.  These softwares are animation programs that cannot be shown in a physical environment or are based on keeping the demonstrate in a computer environment for limited situations. For example, the Digital Frog website tells students that a lot of things, such as frogs, are biological, chemical, etc. hosts videos of its use in experiments for lectures.

  •     Instructional game and problem solving software were also included in this course. Instructional games are basically motivation-enhancing software that combines the lesson and the game to add Decisiveness to the work and guide the student to the lesson. Problem solving software is a kind of software that transfers critical thinking, basic concepts of problem solving to the student, and develops thinking about meeting difficulties.
    
  •     Integrated learning systems are hardware/software solutions designed to deliver instructional content. The effective delivery of that content is measured, monitored, and maintained with an array of assessment and management tools that may also be part of that system. (Wikipedia. 2021. Integrated Learning Systems )These systems, which are usually used in the educational and academic fields, are becoming increasingly popular. The layout of the subject to be taught works in the form of implementation and student report.



    Coursera Part    

Apart from what our teacher did in class this week, the topic of Learning Technologies Foundations and Applications from the Coursera site is 1. and 2. he also wanted us to complete the activities that took place during the week. On this site, the lesson appeared to me in modules. In the first module, there was a general information about the course. I came across keywords and concepts. When I started the first lesson, I listened to topics such as course overview, achievements, teamwork and the online homework section of the site.I listened to the basics of the subject of "learning" from the instructor, such as what learning is, how it was designed. I also learned the basic goals and scope of E-Learning in this video. In the continuation of the course, we saw some of the results, causes and scopes of the interaction of man and technology. In the other video, the roles of instructional technologies for individual and organizational users were mentioned. We have seen the order of these in the articles. The second week's trainings started with the definition and objectives of technology. Technology is a concept that facilitates human life, serves to achieve goals more comfortably and is becoming more integrated into life day by day.In the video the term of learning technology is describing like that :"Learning technology is the broad range of communication, information, and related technologies that can be used to support learning, teaching, and assessment.( Association for Learning Technology)". This is the briefly explanation of my first coursera experiment. Actually I can not understand the whole topic but I listen the lesson and watch videos.











13/10/2022

(10-16 October) Introducing Myself / Week 3

Introducing Myself

 Hello again. My name is Emir Mert. I am second class Guidance and Psychological Counseling student. I am Studying in TED University for three years. Actually, I can't say that I like the chapter I'm reading too much, but I'm obliged to read it because I have to. I have wanted to be a soldier or a policeman since I was a child and I hope I will fulfill this dream after graduation. I am very interested in outdoor sports. That's why I'm serving as the vice president of the outdoor sports community at my school. I enjoy doing activities such as camping and hiking with my society very much. I identify nature very much with my own self. Therefore, I can say that nature is my second home. I have also been involved in other sports professionally in the past, but I finally found myself here. I hope that one day I will realize my professional dream and continue this hobby in better conditions. This is the really short introduction of myself. I hope you are enjoy.



11/10/2022

Entrance (3-9 October) / Week 2

Hi, this is my first blogging experience. I will share my experiences weekly in the instructional technology course on my page. I believe it will be a good experience for me.See you soon, do not forget to follow me.

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