Posted in affordance, media on Mar 10th, 2008 No Comments »
There is quite an interesting incident today. I switched cell phone with my husband today since his phone has the speaker. I need to record some phone conversation, so the solution I came up was: use a phone with a speaker coupled with a recorder. Then Angie mentioned that the phone has the inherent recording [...]
Posted in affordance, participation on Jul 7th, 2007 No Comments »
My mind has evolved on affordance for a while. Since according to my experience and many other study results, the main barrier to educational use of technology is not the technical skills, but the perceived affordance of the tool. It’s not just about using blogs, but also an issue of being comfortable with producing web-based [...]
Posted in affordance, blog on May 26th, 2007 No Comments »
Using Weblogs in Scholarship and Teaching.
The author felt that one major advantage of blogs over discussion forum is the affordance for permanence or continuity blogs afford. Unlike the online discussion enabled by Course Management System and confined to particular course, students can continue blogging beyond course. In this sense, the author became against [...]
