MITE6024-Session2-Activity for group 1

Session2-Activity for group 1

Review some of these examples and then select one for your review. Provide brief review in your Blogs (you might be asked to present).

Review Example: Air Pollution

Firstly, the reason we chose this example to review is that the environment issues become more and more severe. Meantime, the air pollution is widely referred to. While, the air pollution issue in HongKong pay wide popular attention.

At the homepage of “Air Pollution”, I can quickly know what the page-designer want to describe. The designer gives a clear statement about these core contents-the causes, effects, and solutions of air pollution. Besides, the designer presents a figure to explain the relation between these three aspects and people’s action. It is a so good homepage. Although this page is comparatively simply, it gave readers a very clear impression on what the main contents. Therefore, I think that the design was based on the constructivism theory. The designer uses the knowledge through assimilation and understanding, and then constructs his own knowledge.

After readers click every button, they would enter subpages, in which they can get detail information about above four aspects. In every subpage, there contained some hyperlinks and further detail information. Meanwhile, the designer based on the fact and provided a larger number of data and vivid pictures to clearly describe the concept of air pollution. Indeed, the designer based on the fact and provided a larger number of data and vivid pictures to clearly describe the concept of air pollution. In this example, it is an active process which people need to further read and comprehend, and then to discovery their own cognition.

Through this webpage, the designer gives readers some room to think, helps them to develop thinking and search for some ways of problem solving. It is a quite good process to make connections between facts and getting knowledge. Moreover, the reader is not only the acceptor, but also a participant. In this leaning process, it is also a cognitive process. The designer use webpage to represent his mind, which based on the facts and manipulated by the mind. While, readers or learners can get and restructure their cognitive system with this concept, by processing these facts, figures and explanation. Therefore, through learning this topic, I find there are some relationship between the cognitivism and constructivism. To some extend, they are closely correlative.

On the whole, it is a good example, which give me the detail information what I want to get and want to know. While, the design defect I think is that when you open the homepage, it will simultaneity open a “Instrutions” page, which tell readers the main contents and aims about this topic and the contact to facilitator. My advice is that the design can create a dialog box when learners enter the homepage, rather than the single page.

In conclusion, it is a pretty and interactive example for E-learning.