What Technologies I have learnt.
Technological skills are important for IT major's learners because IT major emphasis using technological methodologies facilitating performance of teaching and absorbing. Therefore, I have learnt couples of technological skills that associate with education field, such as video products creating/editing, graphic product design/editing and website editing.
Website editing/development
The way to edit personal host website could be easy by professional website editing software. There are two kinds of website editing software I used to create and edit my e-portfolio website, which URL is mengzhewang.weebly.com.
- WebSite Creator by CM4all, which is a website creating and editing software. This software divides several website templates to different using categories for users, but it only contains one template for each using category. After choosing the using category, the user could edit page numbers, and then the user could change colors, main graphic for each page and edit content for his/her own website. However, the CM4all also had significant weakness that is it’s too simple for professional website design propose. It only has some basic functions for website editing, such as color change.
- Weebly is a more professional and complicate website editing software. It makes all functions of website editing become modularized. By this way, the user of Weebly could have more flexible space to make every idea or design of personal website come true. According to my own experience, I designed my second edition of e-portfolio successfully using Weebly.
Video products creating/editing
Video products creating/editing skill already became a trend of educational skill instead of image editing skill because of the convenience of intelligent devices and the developed Internet. By this way, I have learnt some software about video creating/editing to make me adapt the IT trend, such as iMovie and YouTube.
- iMovie is a creative and convenient graph and video editing software invented by Apple Corporation. iMovie for iOS excels at letting you quickly assemble video that you've just captured (Carlson, 2012). In other words, the most basic function of iMovie is integrating graph or video fragments to complete video product. Therefore, even if this feature of iMovie is simple, it’s practical function for instructional designer.
- YouTube is a popular video website, it give a chance that makes people share and view video product online for free. By this way, an educator should have the ability that sharing video product via YouTube.
- QuickTime in not only a media player but also is a practical video creating software, I used to utilize QuickTime to do screen record and voice record as my e-Learning materials.
Graphic product design/editing
Instructional designer might be required to design visual aid in his/her project, such as storyboard. Therefore, the skill of graphic products design/development is very important in IT field. As a student who major in IT, I have learnt how to use PowerPoint to make graphic products.
- PowerPoint is a practical software to edit graphic products for online learning. I have created a storyboard for online training via PowerPoint, and I feel it's very useful and convenient for both educator and learners.
References
Carlson, L. , Carlson, . , & Hurley, J. (2012). In vitro reconstitution of the ordered assembly of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport at membrane-bound hiv-1 gag clusters. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States, 109(42), 16928.