April Kong

In my article critique assignment, I analyze an article about digital literacies: “Digital Media Literacies: rethinking media education in the age of the Internet” by David Buckingham (2007). Thanks for the feedback from my classmates! I will combine some of your questions and answer it in this blog post. I would like to answer questions from Lingjun and Katrina: 1. (For general learning) "Based on the research, how to create effective learning experiences through media production?" (Lingjun) 2. "Do you foresee any challenges when we adopt media production in schools' curriculum - starting with abilities of teachers in the classroom to facilitate this learning?" (Katrina) Based on the questions, I want to discuss how to create effective learning experiences through media production and the challenges of putting media production in the formal curriculum.  In the article, the author first tries to define digital literacy. Based on previous studies,  Buck...

I want to design a debating website for college students , which can function as a personal learning environment (PLE) . Through this platform, students can join an online debating activity by writing down their thoughts on a popular topic and sharing their answer with other users.  My design is basically a website which can be created by Javascript. It needs a cloud space to store and manage the user information and questions. Here is a brief layout of my design: On this website, students can choose from many popular questions or start a new question according to their course requirement or personal interests. Under each question, they can choose a standpoint and write down the reasons. Students can also view other answers and the total voting results of each question. Besides, the user account on this website can link to other social media accounts , so students can share the content on Facebook, Twitter, Wechat and other social media platforms. The primary r...

When thinking of my identities online, the messaging tools on my mobile phone and computer first come to my mind, namely Wechat and Gmail. I view the two applications as the most important online tools since I use them mainly for talking about urgent matters in daily life: sending course files, contact families and friends, receive notifications from the college... I think this kind of tools helps people fulfill the needs of communication which closely link to real-life matters. In the communities of my WeChat friends and Gmail contacts, my online identity is nearly the same as the offline social identity: a college student, an intern, a member of a student society... An example of WeChat Another important online platform in my life is the different social media applications, such as Instagram, Facebook, WeChat Moments, Weibo… Posting on social media accounts mostly follows my personal interests. For instance, I like to post traveling pictures on Instagram or collect news ...