Twitter Chat Experience

It seems fierce while I am joining the topic What is School on twitter today from 5pm-6pm. My twitter was registered in 2010, but never got chance to twit anything. Within the one hour, I have twitted 21 twits and following four cool guys from this topic, simultaneously, the number of followers increased to 21.

There are six questions relating to the topic: What is School? (http://mrkempnz.com/2015/02/what-is-school-ethical-and-safe-learning-environments.html)

1) What are the most important elements of a safe & ethical learning environment?

2) What does your current learning environment look and feel like?

3) What does your ideal/dream learning environment look and feel like?

4) What ethical considerations are important when establishing a learning environment?

5) How do you ensure your learning environment is safe for everyone?

6) How can you use student voice to create the ‘ultimate learning environment’?

My twitter responses: 

It was an enjoyable experience of discussing with twitter. I have subscribed this topic and followed this person, Craig Kemp. Highly recommend! 

Worked Examples with Spontaneous Projects

              This week in my class, we have talked about the principles of worked examples. From the reading we did before the class, The Worked Examples Principle in Multimedia Learning by Alexander Renkl (University of Freiburg), which lists six principles of utilizing multimedia in classes design as attached below.

            Based on the principles,  students are encouraged to make an introduction video with iMovie. They have the flexibility to choose what topic they like to present in the classes. In the aim to create spontaneous projects, students have to master the principles listed in the reading and apply them to the video projects. Simultaneously,  I tried the  websites of spontaneous projects listed in the article Preparing Students for the 21st Century, and Kidproj stimulate an idea that my students could share their video projects with the real-field teachers there. And the website offers many professional topics:
http://kidlink.org and teachers could join the discussion in specific Facebook groups.

In this way, they are not get ideas from class readings, but also could get connection with teachers all over the world. I am looking forward to see how it works in my class.