WebVR Room Project

WebVR Room: Look Around to Change the Room Color WebVR Room Project A scaffolded WebVR project to introduce students with WebVR programing Topics: JavaScript, WebVR, and Interactive Media Developed by Sa Liu and Charles Palmer for Interactive Meida Program @ Harrisburg University of Science and Technology Introduction This project was developed to motivate undergraduate freshman students …

The Power of R

Here I would like to share Five Steps in Twelve lines of R code to draw some plots, histograms, boxplot and pie chart (so many stuff!).  It is super easy and convenient! I am sure you will be impressed by the R power, just like I do. Environment: R Studio Data Source: Rdatasets (A great …

Sending Email by using Ajax in an React Contact Form

I have been working on an React site for a while, and I was so happy to finally figure out how to send an email by using ajax on this site. Thought I'd write it down for future/other references. Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions. Here is the interface for …

EdMedia 2015 @ Montréal, Québec, Canada

Our paper "Designing a New Media Enhanced Learning Environment: Our Development Model" got accepted to the EdMedia 2015 conference, so we got a chance to visit Montreal and present our work there. I also had the opportunity to interact with other researchers in the field and get some new idea. For example, i am partially …

Adventure in AERA 2015

It has been a great opportunity for me to attend the AERA annual meeting in Chicago last week. I would like to use three key words to summarize my experience as a first timer, Overwhelming, educational, and fun! Overwhelming is obvious, because of the over 15,000 attendees, four conference sites in different hotel, and thousands …

Top 5 unbelievable phenomenon about Education and Technologies.

No.5 You can not text student although they are using text most. Just as Barab, Gresalfi and Ingram-Goble (2010) mentioned that much of the social interaction among students now occurs through texting. Teenagers’ monthly average of text messages was 3,417—approximately seven messages per hour; they prefer texting over voice calling because it is faster (22%), …

15 Classroom Response System

You may have used iCliker or other physical classroom instant response system, but I would like to present these 15 web/app/virtual classroom response systems that I found somewhat useful for my personal future design or classroom use. Based on the functionality, User Interface(UI), User Experience (UX), they are rated from best to least. BTW, the …