3rd Week in EDT 532

3rd Week In EDT 532

This week I have learned a few things.  Dr. Sponder showed us a good tool to get link for image, imgur.com.  The website can turn any image with url code.   This will be great to use if I find a image that I do not have a link to.  I also found out that a GIF image has 256 colors, it is easier to use GIF image on the web or something small.    Voice thread is another tool that you can do your presentation in, you can talk or comment over picture slides.  For students do not have voice recorder, they can even phone in their messages, even using land phones.  I thought this is great, now students do not have excuse to say "I do not have voice recorder."  The other very useful tool is thing link, where hotspots can be pin it on to a pictures.

I still have to think about topic for web-ex lesson.  I am thinking maybe I could teach a lesson on Chinese number 1-10.

Topics Is Finally Settled

Well, I went back to course syllabus and read it once more.  I realized that my project is not a unit, it is a whole course for moodle site.  Off course, I did not have enough topic if I just work on one unit.  Luckily it is not too late now.  I wrote a short list for 7th grade Themes and curium list, this should give a good overview for my moodle site.  I finally have a good idea on what I am going to do.  I may have to change some of performance task and some of order of lesson.  But at least I am settle on what to do after two weeks.

2nd Week In Class

Through group discussion, I realized why I did not have enough topics for my moodle site.  It is because I was thinking of making a unit worth of materials to add on Moodle site.  This Moodle project is asking for a bigger topic such as one online course, not just one unit.  After I saw some examples of other people's Moodle project, I was really inspired to change topic for my Moodle site.  I will create a Moodle website for my 1st year Chinese students to use.  I think once this topic is set, I should be able to come up with more ideas to put in and more subsections for this topics.
Dr. Sponder also mention that we should be create more than 80% of stuff on Moodle, I think I a few projects that I use and want to create.  I want to included the Movenote project that I had my students created.  Dr. Sponder also ask us to do a short introduction presentation.  I had a goal of mastering Powtoon, I think I want to polish the introduction that I created using Powtoon and learned how to master Powtoon.

             January 21th,  2015
         
            The possible topic is Chinese pictography
                               
             Topic one, I could talk about what is pictography, how is pictography written, evaluation of pictograph and little bit of history of Chinese pictography. (TED.ED evolutions of pictography)

             Topic two, I could talk about recognizing pictography and introduce a few Chinese pictography and show how these evolved over time.  How these pictographs are being used as radicals  ( sun, moon, field, up, down, left, right, mountain, )

             Topic three, I can show a few new characters and have students identify its resembling picture.
         
             Topic four, follow stroke order to write a few pictography characters. (creating practice worksheet using henxion.com, animations to show stroke orders)

             Topic five, Watch a video and have students identify characters. (36 characters story, youtube, ted lesson)

               Topic six, turn complex character using pictures.  (project, creating rubric using rubric star)
             

1st blog

Introduction to Chinese Pictography 

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