Hi Justin, excellent work on exploring ChatGPT, especially on The DALL-E; it is actually the AI drawing I want to try, but it asks for money to buy credits. I really like the way you are doing the ChatGPT project in Python, which supports your themes to satirically show that going for a walk in nature improves your mood. I find that a lot of the facial detail and background quality of your AI drawings often require a lot of tweaking to get a good rendering, whereas it would be rougher if you just typed in simple commands. So I think at this stage, AI drawing cannot completely replace human artistic ability, and at the same time, most AI drawings need to be modified later to achieve the desired effect. I agree with you on the reflection that we need to be aware of copyright and privacy in AI. It is a great post, and thank you for your work.
For this week’s module, I chose two text tools, ChatGPT 4.0 and QuillBot, to learn more about how AI tools work. First of all, ChatGPT aims to understand and generate human-like text by predicting the next word in a sentence based on the previous word in the sentence. This functionality allows it to perform a variety of tasks, such as translating, answering questions, and even creating content such as essays or poems. It is trained on a variety of Internet texts but is designed to avoid generating harmful or biased content. I will test ChatGPT 4.0 to compare responses and let it give variations of answers to different detail format questions on the same topic. Make judgments about the accuracy and usefulness of the different answers and analyses provided.
ChatGPT: compression between short and long question
Short question: How to prepare a report?
When asking a very broad and short question, Chatgpt4.0 usually gives a very general and brief overview that is helpful but without much detail (OpenAI, 2023).
Long question: I am preparing a PowerPoint presentation for my investors. How do I prepare this report?
When asking longer and more explicit questions and telling ChatGPT what we are really up to, it tends to be more helpful and detailed. However, there may be a lot of incorrect steps and steps that don’t necessarily need to be taken, which often require the user to make their own decision. Overall, asking clear, long questions to ChatGPT gives more deep and precise answers than short questions (OpenAI, 2023).
Different format questions on the same topic：
This is a very useful feature of ChatGPT. Asking questions in different formats can lead to detailed steps, depending on the user’s needs. Click on the blue arrow. It also shows the Python code for this sheet. It is considered extremely supportive for people who want to study computer science (OpenAI, 2023).
Continue to follow up and confirm the accuracy of theinformation:
Often the ChatGPT will give more evidence and information by asking repeatedly and ascertaining accuracy, but the user will also have to click on the quotation marks to check the source of the information to ensure that the information is professionally and reliably sourced.
Reflection Questions
What tools did you find useful in your explorations this week, and how did you use them? Which ones were not useful?
I find the ability of ChatGPT to connect to tools such as browsers to make it search the internet for up-to-date information particularly useful for problems that require up-to-date data or research. The Python tool allows us to perform calculations, analyze data, and generate visualizations. The Dalle tool helps users create images based on descriptive prompts, enriching responses with visual content. A lot of common sense and problems in life, such as recipes, travel plans, and savings planning, could benefit from ChatGPT’s input. Also, quickly create simple tables, schematics, etc. ChatGPTs are doing quite well on advice as well. However, I will not use ChatGPT to write research papers and conduct data searches because it often provides incorrect information and the research data is difficult to verify. It does not meet our requirements for research papers, and I think the main idea of the paper needs to be thought out and read carefully to get valid data and references to support it, and the level of the paper needs to be considered academic. Meanwhile, I tend to ask my family doctor rather than ChatGPT for recommendations on medications or health effects.
Where do you think these tools will be in their evolution in 2-3 years’ time?
I think 2 or 3 years later, AI tools are expected to possess a more sophisticated comprehension of user inquiries and a stronger grasp of context. More intricate, multi-turn discussions that more closely mirror human interactions may be handled by AI. By accommodating different user preferences and learning styles, they might provide more individualized experiences. They could respond with greater originality and have access to a larger variety of information, including real-time data. More sophisticated artificial intelligence systems and algorithms, like ChatGPT, will be implanted inside robots so they may become more involved in people’s daily lives. It will keep working to solve issues with bias in AI outputs and ethical issues. However, many people will lose their jobs, and some of their careers will be replaced by AI because it costs less money.
References
OpenAI. (2023, Nov. 22). [ChatGPT response to a prompt to how to prepare a report]. http://chat.openai.com/
OpenAI. (2023, Nov. 22). [ChatGPT response to a prompt to I am preparing a PowerPoint presentation for my investors. How do I prepare this report ]http://chat.openai.com/
OpenAI. (2023, Nov. 22). [ChatGPT response to a prompt to present the steps in a table ]http://chat.openai.com/
OpenAI. (2023, Nov. 22). [ChatGPT response to a prompt to how did chocolate make its way from civilization in the Americas to Europe and into the form we are familiar with today?]http://chat.openai.com/
OpenAI. (2023, Nov. 22). [ChatGPT response to a prompt to Please give me accurate and authentic sources or research]http://chat.openai.com/
This week we learned about several core concepts of modern educational design, including the strategy of reverse design, which is setting learning goals before designing assessments and learning activities; Merrill’s Five Principles of Teaching and Learning; and Bloom’s Taxonomy, which are principles and theories that emphasize the structure of the learning activity and the higher-order thinking skills of students. The difference between active and passive learning and how it can be done through multimedia and interactive tools So I am using H5P to make a how-to guide on buying discounted items on Black Friday to promote active participation and deeper learning, supporting the learning process through step-by-step tasks and feedback.
Lesson Plan: Learn how to shop for discounted items on Black Friday
Overview:
It will soon be the annual Black Friday. Many people will buy appliances, clothes, etc. In this lesson, students will learn how to tell which discount policies are a better deal, how to use different shopping apps and coupons for buying different items, and then make basic categorizations and decisions. Video and text tips are also provided for students to watch and read. This ensures that at the end of the lesson, they can learn how to buy and pick the best-discounted items at a good value for their money.
Lesson Objectives:
By the end of this lesson, learners will be able to:
Set a clear budget, research prices in advance, and prepare a specific shopping list.
Utilize social media and newsletters for exclusive deals, bookmark retailer websites, and understand their policies on price matching and returns.
Plan your shopping route to maximize efficiency, and use different shopping apps and coupon aggregators for the best deals
Discern the strength of the merchant’s discounts and understand the numbers game while calculating the strength of the discount.
Learn to spend rationally and pursue pragmatism without overspending.
(2–3 minutes read) Introduces the types of discounts and the main ways to get Black Friday deals and provides a discount calculator to do the calculations
This website provides many different shipping apps and helps students make comparisons and categorizations.
Content:
For someone who needs a new laptop, desktop, gaming PC, or tablet, Black Friday is the time to upgrade. Products will be on sale at retailers like Best Buy, Amazon, Walmart, etc.
For someone who needs small appliances, home goods products will be on sale at retailers like Home Depot, Walmart, Amazon, etc.
Application:
Reflection:
After completing the lesson, learners will participate in a group discussion forum to reflect on their experiences and learnings from this lesson. Discuss the three-question list below:
What kind of shopping discounts do you find most attractive to you, and why?
What do you need to do before you go shopping, and are your general reasons for shopping more rational or emotional?
From what you learned in this lesson, What knowledge works best in your shopping? The ones that you find most effective in saving money?
Complete H5P Activity: Multiple Choice/True or False Questionnaire
Complete H5P Activity: Summary
Post to the Discussion Forum: Post thoughts and reflections on the 3 discussion questions.
Reflection Questionson Module 4:
Q) What was your experience of trying out H5P? Which of the activities do you think you would make the most use of in your teaching context and what would you use them to do? Which ones do you think require the most resources to create?
I think it took me some time to learn how to use h5p at first, but once I got the hang of it, it helped enhance my teaching experience and helped me create a variety of interactive activities such as quizzes, multiple-choice questions, and drag-and-drop exercises to increase student engagement and test learning outcomes. I found the drag-and-drop images and multiple-choice questions to be the most helpful because my goal was for everyone to be able to compare and differentiate the final discounts of discounted items using different shopping platforms. I felt that the drag-and-drop images and their need for images and the names and categories of each platform and then categorizing them, although I used 5 shopping apps at this time. However, in a more complex scenario it could be 20 different types and resources of shopping sites and brands.
References:
What Is Scaffolding in Education and How Is It Applied? (2023, September 19). GCU. https://www.gcu.edu/blog/teaching-school-administration/what-scaffolding-in-education-how-applied
Black Friday Hacks — 5 Black Friday Tips and Tricks. (n.d.). Www.youtube.com. Retrieved November 11, 2023, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcmFzgOZ1Y4
12 Common Types of Discounts. (n.d.). Indeed Career Guide. https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/discounts-types
Black Friday Calculator – Check If a Deal Is Real. (n.d.). Www.omnicalculator.com. Retrieved November 11, 2023, from https://www.omnicalculator.com/finance/black-friday
From Amazon Canada To Our Place: Here Are All The Early Best Black Friday Sales To Shop. (n.d.). Www.ctvnews.ca. Retrieved November 11, 2023, from https://www.ctvnews.ca/shopping/articles/deals/best-early-black-friday-deals-2023.html
The best early Black Friday 2023 deals: Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and more. (n.d.). ZDNET. Retrieved November 11, 2023, from https://www.zdnet.com/article/best-early-black-friday-deals-2023/
Hi, Jaswant, I like your topic. I am also a fan of many sports, and this subject really appeals to me. At the same time, this lesson could help me understand your teachings about how sports can keep us physically and mentally fit while helping us positively improve our lives. I have experienced your H5P, and I think they may be a little too simple for me, but they are helpful for younger kids who want to learn how to spell the English names of different sports and how to distinguish between the different sports. However, I think the placement of your H5P should be in the middle of the application so that students can have a general understanding of what they are learning before they experience your H5P. Finally, I noticed that you have a problem with one of the video site links; it doesn’t take me to the address of the video. Overall, it was a good teaching experience, but some of the details could have been better.
Hello, everyone! So I talked about the construction of a badminton racket in molecule 1, and in my assignment 2, I want to talk more about the badminton rules. I am going to importing some badminton rules and the concept of the difference between the rules of single and double.
A brief look at the badminton court at Uvic
Okay, now I will take you guys to the badminton club of UVIC to analyze the structure of the badminton court and its use. Meanwhile, talk about the rules of each line (vertical and horizontal). Okay, so first of all we can see the white line in the video in the badminton court, and the badminton court is divided in two sides by one hundred and fifty-five centimeters in height and 6.1 meters wide. The badminton net on each side has three white horizontal lines and five vertical lines. So there are a total of six horizontal and six vertical lines.
The rules of each vertical line on the court By looking at the two sides of the vertical line, the outermost is the sideline. So the badminton landing point is outside the line, which means that the badminton shuttle is outside the boundary. The line is a little bit inside the single-sided line. So the single-field strategically is a little bit narrower than the double-player court. The last vertical line is the middle one is used to locate the serving areas and the server must have both feet on the left or right side of the middle vertical line. Meanwhile, the server must send the shuttle to the opposite side vertical lines of the court.
The rules of each horizontal line on the court
The last horizontal line on the court is a line for single and double outbound, and the second horizontal line is for doubles serves. So in a double match, serves over this line are direct points to the opponent, while a single serve can be sent to the baseline. The frontest horizontal line is the serving line. The player may not cross this line when serving, and the shuttle must be served across the opposite side of the serving line, which is to be considered a good serve. If it is not served to the opponent’s first white horizontal line, then the opponent gets one score.
Basic rules for scoring and serving
I recorded a video of my friends playing the games, and I will provide you guys with the basic rules of playing badminton. So first of all a twenty-point system, usually comes with two out of three games so if you win two games, you win the match. Scoring depends on two methods. The first one is the shuttle lands to which side of the field. The other side scored one point, and the other one is who hit the shuttle out of the court. the other side scored one point. So when the score is zero at the start of the game, or when the severing team has an even number of points, The server should serve from the right half of the court. When it is an odd number of points, the server should serve in the left half of the court. So if the server serving team scores a point they continue to serve in the next round and on the other hand, if the receiving team receives a point they will become the serving team in the next round. Moreover, when both player have twenty points the player who have two points ahead first wins the game. Last but not least, when both players have twenty nine points the first player to score thirty points win the match.
This video was recorded on my iPhone and edited on Premierpro and Imovie.
Reflection Questions
What is the learning purpose of your video?
Since there were a lot of classmates and teammates who commented on my badminton racket instruction video last time in my Assignment 1, I thought there were a lot of people who were interested in badminton, so this time I thought I like to go ahead and make an in-depth video instruction on the basic rules of the badminton court and the differences between singles and doubles. The purpose of my video is simply to get more people to understand and participate in the sport of badminton, and to ensure that anyone interested in badminton can quickly understand how the game is played and the rules associated with it. I believe that providing clear and concise explanations of the rules is especially helpful for beginners learning to play badminton, while the video serves as a tool to teach players about match play, scoring, serving rules, errors and all important aspects of the game. I hope that my videos will promote the sport and potentially attract new players and spectators.
Which of the principles we’ve covered this term (e.g., Mayer/Universal Design for Learning/Cognitive Load Theory) did you incorporate into your design and why?
Mayer’s Principles Dual Coding Theory : In my design, I used a mix of text, video images, and audio narration to ensure that they are integrated in a way that supports learning. For example, important information can be presented in both audio and visual formats without overwhelming the user with redundant information. The reason for this is that such multimedia design solutions are more in tune with how the human mind works, and in particular, the dual channels of auditory and visual information are more helpful to people’s learning.
Cognitive Load Theory (CLT): My videos use CLT to break down complex information into sections of video and explanation, gradually introducing learners to more complex material to avoid overwhelming them. In addition, knowledge information outside of the learning objectives is minimized. I believe this has prevented knowledge overload in my videos and avoided knowledge overflow.
Mayor’s Personalization Principle: The use of on-screen characters in multimedia learning environments is also covered by this concept, which suggests that their speech should be friendly and conversational. Speaking in a friendly manner makes the subject matter seem less complicated and more accessible, and reduces the cognitive load required to understand it. This idea can make the difference between an e-learning experience that feels personal and one that feels impersonal when developing multimedia instructional materials.
What was challenging about capturing your own video?
I think the hardest part is to starting to plan and finally putting all the audio, text and ideas into the video. But the hardest part was recording and watching the 30+ videos I took over and over again. For Recording, because English is my second language, I rarely communicated orally before I came to Canada to go to university, so my accent and grammar tend to not be as good as local students, so I had some long pauses and mispronunciation problems when I tried to speak on the recordings. I’ve tried many times without much improvement. The second thing is that it takes me 2 or 3 hours to conceptualize and edit the videos I make so that they are as close as possible to the same point in the text.
What did you find easiest?
It’s easiest for me to write the script because I have 5 years of experience playing badminton, and I played in the Victoria Open last year and an intra-club tournament in Vancouver. So I know all about badminton court rules, scoring, serves, etc. I don’t have to do much research and look up all of this to be able to speak very clearly.
How would you approach capturing video differently next time?
I think there’s a bit too much B-roll and not enough A-roll in the video, a big part of the reason is that I’m a bit camera shy and the English outtakes are very challenging and time consuming for me. So next time I’ll try to record myself more and find a friend to be the cameraman and analyze my movements and poses step by step on the badminton court to show a more infectious video.
Hi nataly, This is great work on your blog, especially on your Twine. You provide a good learning experience with all the music and images it has. Dananjaya Hettiarachchi is also the LED presentation that appealed to me and was compelling to me. I think the techniques are all shown in your explanation. However, the Twine is a little bit hard to play for me, so I did restart from the beginning twice. Overall, it is considered an excellent blog and Twine story.
This week I’ve been exploring Twine, an interesting, expandable, and creative platform that is not only an open-source tool for telling interactions but also for non-linear storytelling. Since I’ve been lost and sometimes depressed for a while now, I wanted to make an educational game on how to find happiness with Explore Twine. I hope everyone can think about what happiness is and how to get it in this process. By choosing to make decisions and answering interactive questions to achieve the purpose of my educational story.
What storytelling techniques have you used instinctively, and which ones require more work for you? Which techniques will you focus on moving forward?
I’m made to simplify difficult ideas so that knowledge is easier to understand. I’m trying to generate scenarios and ask questions that will require more research. Additionally, I drew people in by sharing my own narrative about how I came to understand happiness. Improving the capacity to produce stories that are more responsive and engaging, maybe by merging with Twine Meanwhile, I use different colors to show that I use different colors to categorize the components of happiness, which helps people remember and associate them. And I hope that people can associate more elements and possibilities of happiness by going over my definitions. So my twine is more about showing than telling the answer. I ended my Twine by giving the audience a positive takeaway about the emotional development of the answer to happiness.
Conclusion
I enjoyed the experience of creating this Twine. The investigation into Twine as a non-linear, interactive storytelling platform shows an innovative method of tackling difficult emotional ideas like happiness. Through the creation of an educational game that leads players through decision-making processes and contemplative queries, I hope it both clarifies complex concepts and promotes individual involvement with the material. My clever use of color and personal history to group ideas of happiness shows a natural command of storytelling strategies, intending to leave the user with lasting connections. My Twine project is proof of the potential of interactive storytelling in promoting emotional awareness and growth, even as we continue to hone our skills in creating responsive and captivating narratives.
In the assignment, I found that people use Canva as a tool to make their resume infographics. I think this is an opportunity to use the design principles (Mayer, 2012) I learned in these two weeks to try to make my resume infographic on Canva. Meanwhile, I will use Wave to analyze my infographic, find more areas for improvement, and summarize my result
Canva Infographic
Design Principles In My Infographic
The principle of alignment is extensively used in infographics. Correct alignment can make the text more readable and easier for everyone to understand. For example, I set my education to one row and my work experience to one row, which aligned the two rows left and right so people can easily find my content, and consistency helps reduce visual clutter.
Hierarchy: By deliberately enhancing readability, such as by distinguishing titles, subtitles, and body text, hierarchy improves the readability of content. Titles or important information can be in bold, large, or unique fonts. I also place them at the top or center of the design elements, or elements that follow the viewer’s natural reading path (e.g., left to right, top to bottom in many cultures) are seen first.
Color scheme: Use a consistent color scheme throughout the infographic. Since this is a resume in a formal format and reducing color noise is a must for a resume, I only used black and white with a dash of gray as the main colors to reduce information noise while bringing a sense of stability to the design, using repetitive and effective information that was quickly conveyed to the interviewer. My general introduction uses black as the background and white as the text to allow readers to quickly understand the important information I want to convey and my general outline.
Symmetrical balance (formal balance): elements are mirrored around a central axis. Draw a line in the middle of my design; the two sides will almost mirror each other. Disperse complex elements to avoid concentrating them in one area.
Graphic design is inherently visual; what additions or modifications could you make to ensure that learners with visual impairments have access to the same information in an infographic in an online setting?
Use high-contrast colors: Make sure there is enough contrast between the text and the background so that even people who are color blind or have low vision can see the content clearly. Avoid using indications based solely on color
Provide textual descriptions: Provide textual descriptions or alt text for graphics, pictures, or other key visual content.
Use semantic HTML: screen readers can interpret and read the content correctly.
Use audio and video: Provide audio or video content for learners who may have difficulty deciphering text or graphics.
Check test accessibility
wave
There is 1 error (empty link), 21 alerts (1 suspicious alternative text, 1 long alternative text, and 19 redundant links), 20 features, 47 structural elements, and 246 ARIAS.
Alt text is crucial for visually impaired users. I rely on screen readers to read the content of web pages aloud and to ensure that users who cannot see the image can still understand its message and content, I need to improve it.
An image may describe one thing, but alt text may convey false or misleading information, potentially guiding screen reader users’ interpretation in a deceptive manner.
Conclusion for Wave: Wave’s summary surprised me, and some of it is confusing. There are many details I still need to work on and improve on my blog. For the Aria, it is 246, and I still do not understand why there are so many ARIA compared with other classmates.
