Final Project Idea

I have IDT540 course. At that course, I planed a Chinese Pinyin lesson within 

one hour. Now I’m trying to use multimedia sources and Web 2.0 technology 

to active my young learners.  For this final project, I will use PBWorks to help 

me facilitate knowledge to my learners at anywhere and anytime. 

In the workplace, I will post the text content about how to pronounce Chinese 

alphabets. Then I will give urls’ to pronunciation video that they can know if they 

say these alphabets in the right way. After they checked videos, they will give me audio or video feedback about their own sound. Secondly, I will post some quiz 

in the workplace. My young learners should do quiz that I can know if they really 

realize Pinyin. Also, I can correct their answers at the workplace.  They can ask me 

questions at the workplace after I give their sound feedback and quiz feedback.  

Also, they can share other helpful resources at this workplace. 

According to their activities at this workplace, I can know more 

specific information about my learners than traditional way.

Final Project Activity

My learners will listen sound audio to learn Chinese Pinyin (pronunciation) on PBWorks. They will know what initals and finals are and how to pronounce four tones.

Title: Chinese Pronunciation 

Concept: Learners will be able to learn Chinese pronunciation with Pinyin rules on the PBWorks.

General Goal: The goal of this activity is that learners will know how to pronounce 23 initials and 24 finals after this lesson. Also, they should know four tones when they pronounce finals.

Specific Learning Outcomes: After students learned this lesson, they should know how to identify 23 initials and 24 finals. And how to mark four tones for finals.

Characteristics of My Learners: My learners will be anyone who do not know how to speak Chinese. They do not know the foundational rules of Pinyin. This will be the first Chinese lesson for my learners. Also, they should know how to use PBWorks. 

Required Materials: PBWorks website, computer or laptop and e-mail account.

Introduction to the Activity:
My learners will use e-mail account to go to the group working area. They will find some sections in this group working area. They will view all sections in this area and do the quiz. After they did the quiz, I will give them the feedback.

Step-By-Step Procedures:

1. Go to PBWorks with your account
2. Find the lesson
3. Read the introduction words for each section before you star to listen the sound audio or video.
4. After finished all section, do the quiz.
5. I will out feedback after each student finished the quiz.

Assessment:
Learners will practice how to pronounce these alphbets when they listen the sound files, They will have a quiz at the last part. The feedback will give them some suggestion that they can enhance their knowledge.

Conclusion:
This is a good activity that learners can learn another language through PBWorks. They can follow the sound audio and video as many times as they can. They can view this lesson at anywhere. They can see the clear feedback from this group working area.       

Report

During this week, I finished my Chinese lesson and post it on PBWorks. Now I have two students enjoyed this activity now. This is the first time for them learned initials and finals. They followed the audio to practice how to pronounce these alphabets. Totally, there are 59 alphabets including initials and finals. They felt a little difficult to memorize the pronunciation of these alphabets when they first to listen the audio. They should listen again and again to remember them. I told them that I did the same way when I learned Pinyin through my childhood. They told me they will not do the quiz now, they want to do it after memorized initials and finals. So I gave them more time to prepare this quiz. Also, I will invite two more learners to join this activity. 


Update!


For this week, I found four learners to view this activity. Two are young kids and others are adult learners. The first student said to me that the quiz part will be better if it is the paper style. It is difficult to mark four tone on  wiki stage. The second student said that three videos really helps her lots about how to pronounce initials and finals. They told me that they need more time to practice and remember  these 58 syllables. This is a short activity, but my learners need more time to repeat and repeat that they can memorize these alphabets quickly. At the bottom, I gave them some links. They can view these websites. I think these links will give them more expanded ideas that they can help them easily recognize Chinese Pinyin.