Weekly Blog 8

How have you found the balance of passive and active learning in this course for your learning? How does it compare to your experience in other courses?

I found out the method I prefer to learn is first using passive learning and memorizing terminology of the course in order to gain a better foundation to start using active learning. I am able to engage more in active learning when I feel comfortable with my first level of understanding of the course. I think although active learning is more important than passive learning, without passive learning I become overwhelmed with information and tasks are very hard for me. I become extremely frustrated until I am in a comfortable place. The organization of this course helps put all terminology in each weeks reading and then we are asked to use active learning by involving ourselves in using say H5P for this week and other activities like Canva to incorporate what we have learned to design a better learning design. I now understand why some teachers teach better. It is how to channel the information from them to us by using a well design with good principles and theories used.

What was your experience of trying out H5P? Which of the activities do you think you would make 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 created a Drag the Words to help with learning terminology and to have a basic understanding of what we learned this week. I think activities that involve adding images, and sound would cost the most time to make. The more complicated the H5P the longer and more resources it requires to create. I also believe the more resources used to create an H5P would also mean more information being communicated towards learners. The one I used is fairly simple so that means it is fairly easy and considered to be an easy task.