Interactive Representations of Information and Knowledge

Chinese Culture … talk about it (in English!)

English Learning

• I teach English and my students know it is important.
• But they learn it just to pass the subject exam.
• So, there is not much excitement in the learning or teaching of it.

English Learning for…

• I used to preach that English is not just for finding a better job.
• It can be for enjoying a movie, a good song or a joke.
• Ultimately, it is for communication, and with people from other cultures.

English Learning for Intercultural Communication

• But are we familiar with our own culture?
• When needed, are we able to talk something about it in English?
• So why not learn and teach something interesting about Chinese culture in English?

Therefore, for my learning object, I am thinking of having it as layers of a few topics about Chinese culture in English.

• There will be pictures, texts for reading (knowledge), and hopefully, recording for listening and reading aloud (language skills).
• The topics could be Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chinese Kung Fu, and Beijing Opera.
• Taking into account also the copyrights issue, hyperlinks to the internet will be provided.

In short, my learning object in mind is a mix of Information, Presentation and Practice ones.

But I really wonder, to produce something creatively, just how much I can attain when learning and manipulating computer technologies in such a short time. Those amazing examples shown in the last session must have taken a whole team of professionals to create and maintain.

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