Week 4

My presentation Windows Movie Maker is postponed till this week. For demo purpose I use a lot of screen shots. This is different from other classmates’ presentations. By doing so I don’t need to open the application, click here and there, and perhaps try to find the feature that I forget how to get to. I believe this will improve the flow of my presentation. After I reviewed all slides I found the order of the screen shots is not quite right. I spent some time to revise the presentation so it should make more sense to our classmates. Hopefully everthing will be going just fine.

This week we didn’t do much for our project. I sent an email to Limei asking her to get the student demographic information. I also told her to ask the school to install Photo Story 3 for Windows in the computer lab. I will then prepare the directions/tutorial for the students. Next week we shall start planning our lesson.

Week 3

Yesterday (9/12) I met the Chinese language instructor Limei. We have dicussed about the project. I demonstrated the tools described in my week 2 blog – Moodle, Windows Movie Maker, Photo Story 3 for Windows. She really likes the idea of having students creating video book using Photo Story 3 for Windows. So we decided to go for it.

We will be starting collecting students’ demographic information, investigating their knowledeg about Chinese language and how well they know computer, asking school’s permission (help) to install necessary software in their computers, revising lesson plan to accommodate the proejct, and finally, we shall meet at least once a week (either face to face, via IM or phone). It will be fun!