The ABC of Chinese Culture

It really took quite a considerable amount of the already scarce time of two language teachers to struggle with every little tiny technical riddles. Well, Here’s the project:
the-abc-of-chinese-culture.swf
… and I’ll never ever want to do it again.

Text with Supporting Visuals (The Prototype)

At last!
Sophie and I have just merged our individual works together. Please have a look and comment:
the-abc-of-chinese-culture.ppt
Needless to say, it is far from OK, especially for those who are more familiar with ICT than us.
It’s not always easy to convert information and knowledge into visuals, isn’t it?
And yes, ours is a big project. [...]

Textual Content (edited Draft)

We are still working on the project, making every effort to convert the information and knowledge into graphical representation, and interactive.
But here are what we have so far…
 storyboard-textual-content-edited.doc
storyboard-planning-draft.doc

Textual Content (1st Draft)

Dear friends,
Well, for representation, we’ll have graphics. But we gotta have some texts too.
So, here’s it: final-project-text-1st-draft.doc
I’m thinking of changing one of the proposed topics. Beijing Opera might be changed into Chinese Calligraphy. You see, it’s also a kind of graphic!
In the meantime, my teammate Sophie is collecting pictures and video.
Next, we’ll try [...]

A Learning Object for My Subject Teaching

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 [...]