HKU MITE6323

Ancient Egypt Technology

The two learning objects that have been developed are:

1.  Shadow Clock (download: Shadow Clock Flash File)

2. The Great Pyramid (download: Great Pyramid Flash File)

Overall Experience of the Course

In this course, I must say I have learnt some very useful skills on developing visual representations that I can use to facilitate my teaching.  These include:
- use of concise and simple texts
- careful blending of colours, images, pictures, videos and text to achieve the goals
- use of interactivities
- use of music when necessary

I have also gained some new valuable experiences in this course.  These include:
a. The use of blog as part of my study.  
This is the very first time that I used blog in my study.   I enjoy giving comments to others and receiving comments from others as well.  The blog has provided a convenient platform for sharing ideas and opinions.  The course has showed me a different dimension of using blog in teaching and learning.

b.  The use of Flash. 
There are many tools that we can use for developing visuals, such as PowerPoint and Authorware.  I’m glad that I’ve the opportunity to learn the use of Flash to develop visual representation.  To me, while this software is not a easy to use, I found it very powerful. 

I enjoyed participating all the activities, such as looking into the shape of raindrop, discussion of giant squid poster, completing the final assignment in the course.  For me, being able to participate, exchange ideas and work collaborately are the best ways of learning. 

Thanks to Dr Churchill for preparing us such a rich and enjoyable course!  You’ve demonstrated good practices for us on teaching and learning.