Hi, my name is Yacheng Hou, please feel free to call me Kevin! This is my fourth year in UVIC, hope everything will go well. My major is Economic Business, but i also personally like learning other knowledge like history, Japanese, and photography etc. I am currently running my own blog on both 500px photography website and other social medias, which makes my life more interesting.
I have five courses this semester, which reduces my leisure time spending on gaming and taking photos. But after the hard works this term, i have a whole bunch of traveling plan. Not just in Canada, but also in America. I am currently playing the game “Black Myth: Wu kong”, which is a Chinese made video game, hope i could have enough time to enjoy this game.
After the study of our week 1 reading and watching materials, first of all, the distributed education for me is to use different technologies to let students learn and take the class from multiple loacation and under different different circumstances. This could include a recorded video, a free e-textbook, and even an asyncronous session. This differs from the traditional education which limits the students in the classroom. Nowadays, the technology advance let students learn with higher efficiency, online education and open resources on the internet allow students with a computer to learn from everywhere. Those free, online resources along with the asynchronous courses “reduces the barrier” of the study costs, which makes me feel better than the traditional education. But this does not mean that i don’t like face-to-face learning. Appropriately using face-to-face mode like taking the tests and meeting in the office also increase students’ learning quality, and can effectively avoid them from playgrism and negative study.
To me digital literacy means the skills that needed to get access to the open online resources on the internet. For example, i need several tools on the website to let me download the documents online, and record some videos for the future using. How to appropriate use those online tools, and where to get those resources, are the key points of digital literacy.
Finally, my role online is very close to who i am in the real world, but only a little bit more outgoing. By adding good personalities to my online identity, i also improve myself in the real world.
(My photo work taken in downtown Victoria)
October 1, 2024 at 10:22 pm
The photo you posted is very impressive!
I agree with you that it is less expensive to enroll in online classes than face to face classes. The flexibility of online learning where you can be practically anywhere in the world and yet be able to hear the same lectures across different time zones and geographical locations is indeed mind-boggling! You seem to be proficient in navigating and utilizing the digital ecosystem whereby you can pursue your photography passion as evidenced in your statement “How to appropriately use those online tools, and where to get those resources, are the key points of digital literacy.”