Week+2+July6~July11,+2010

7/3~7/5美國國慶長假放完後，從7/6~7/9一連四天要到  Northern Virginia Community College Arlington Center上課.

 我們先是從宿舍搭乘學校的shuttle bus到metro station(Vienna/Fiarfax-GMU)，搭metro橘線到Ballston-MU站下車，出站後步行約十分鐘即可到達中心，旁邊有一間Holiday Inn，所以非常好找.

 (左到右)  圖一: metro卡，一張10USD(只有5USD的額度)，有點類似捷運悠遊卡  圖二: 買metro卡的機器  圖三: 大家正忙著儲值metro卡

我們上課的大樓，電腦教室在二樓. BACK

1. July06,2010

今天起的課程主要是參與星談計畫的研習，這是美國國防部針對戰略語言所支助經費辦的研習，由於參加的人數很多，主要的電腦教室坐不下，所以另闢兩間電腦教室上課，除了我們外，另一間是教阿拉伯語的老師.  一開始先是大致介紹該主網站內容並引導我們進入Voxopop註冊，然後錄下自我介紹，接著建立我們自己的wikispaces，這是類似部落格的形式，可以放進非常多的影音軟體，尤其是我們利用學過的線上軟體所製作出來的作品，都可以附加到wikispaces裡分享給其他人.  下面介紹一下我們今天學習到的線上小工具:

a. 合法取得照片資源的網站 --> link  b. google的Picasa相簿，可以做簡略的編輯並製作成影片檔 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> c. Photostory3的影音編輯軟體，操作非常簡單，幾分鐘內就可以做好短片

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">We attended NOVA Startalk worshop today. By attending this kind of workshop, it could benefit our teaching using technology tools. But how to incorporate all the tech tools while teaching? We might need to think about that or maybe learn more about that next couple of classes. These are the tech tools we’ve learned in today’s class:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">a. Introduction of NOVA Startalk website <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> b. sign-in Voxopop and leave self-introduction & start a talkgroup <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> c. create my own wikispaces <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> d. how & where to get legal images --> link <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> e. Introduction of Picasa <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> f. Introduction of Photostory3 & create my own video <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> g. how to embed files into wikispaces

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> After today’s class, I was so fascinated with these tech tools. I went home and kept making videos on my own all night! I bet if I use these tech tools to teach Chinese in the future, my students will feel the same way as well as I do.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">(左到右) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 圖一: 上課情形，老師介紹星談計畫的網站 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 圖二: 上課中，正在錄製自我介紹. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 圖三: 我自己的wikispace網頁，請多多指教.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 153.6%;">(左到右) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 153.6%;"> 圖一: 我和田老師的合照 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 153.6%;"> 圖二: 上課情形，大家都很認真唷!! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 26.624pt; text-align: right;">BACK

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">今天是研習的第二天，課程總負責人Dr. Laura Franklin集合所有學員，先是讓我們想想如何將昨天學過的Voxopop軟體應用於語言教學上，回饋內容除了有開啟對話群組外，可以讓學生依據提供的圖片辯論，增加學生課外練習的機會. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 接著她放了一段關於web2.0的影片，從影片中我們看到了網路多媒體的影響力是無遠弗屆的，在21世紀的課堂內教師若能結合網路多媒體教學，應更能有效提升學生學習的動力. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 爾後，我們回自己的電腦教室，早上和下午分別有兩位講師，一位是日本人，一位是中國人-遲老師授課. 下面是今天學習到的軟體內容:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> a. VoiceThread:類似Voxopop，教師開啟一個討論的議題，可以是一張圖片，也可以是一段影片，學生根據內容透過錄音或是打字給予評論 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> b. Toondoo: 可以製作線上的漫畫書，對話內容、場景、人物都可以自由創作，更可以製作個人的icon，當作學生課後得project應該會很有趣，因為能激發學生的創造力，我個人很喜歡.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Today is the second day of NOVA Startalk workshop. At the beginning of class, Dr. Laura Franklin who is a program director wants us to think about how we could apply Voxopop in the language classroom. In addition to start a talking group, we could debate; argue different ideas and so on. And then she shows us a video/the concept of web 2.0. It’s a fad of social network in the 21st century. Our morning instructor is a Japanese teacher and afternoon instructor is a Chinese teacher Dr. Chi. Here are the new tech tools we’ve learned today:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> a. Introduction of VoiceThread <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> b. Introduction of Toondoo & we make our own icon

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> Toondoon is kind of a good tech tool we could use to create a contextual dialogue. It’s more like an online comic book which might attracts your students very much. Besides, we could let students fill in their own dialogue inside of the blank bubbles in creative ways.

<span style="font-family: 標楷體; font-size: 16pt;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">(左到右) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 圖一: Dr. Laura Franklin，正在告訴我們Web2.0的驚人發展及影響力 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 圖二:教學很認真的日籍老師

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">我們的另一位老師，中國籍，她的姓很特別，姓"遲"， <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 教學非常認真，很希望我們有feedback， <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 搭了她兩次便車，謝謝老師!

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<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24pt;">3. July08,2010

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">進入第三天的課程，一開始老師提供給我們MERLOT的網站，並告訴我們裡面有很多免費的教師資源可以取用，例如教案範例、字卡圖片等等. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 以下是我們今天學習到的線上軟體:

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> a. Wordle: 可以打入很多詞彙，做成很酷的logo <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> b. Tagxedo:可以打入很多詞彙，做成互動性的logo，很適合讓學生做漢字認讀的練習 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> c. Prezi:可以做很炫的投影簡報檔，缺點是中文只支援一種介面 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> d. Voki:可以做自己的動畫小人物，並錄下自己的聲音，很適合讓學生做聽力測驗 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> e. Dropshop:一種線上的錄音軟體，可以讓學生做口說的練習或測驗 <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> f. Animoto:是線上的影音軟體，可以做成很酷的短片，缺點是只有30秒的限制，除非付費才能製作較長的影片

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Today is the third day of workshop. Mr. Gordon Brown, who is one of our instructors, came along with us. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> Below are what we did today: <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 1. Introduce some useful websites to us such as Free Tech for teachers, MERLOT, ect.. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 2. Introduction of Wordle <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 3. Introduction of Tagxedo <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 4. Introduction of Prezi <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 5. Introduction of Voki: we could make our own avatar, I like this one very much. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 6. Introduction of Dropshop: Teachers can ask your students to record their assignments online <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 7. Introduction of Animoto: You can make professional videos, but only 30 secs. Gotta pay $$ in order to make longer movies.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">老師與學員合影，幾天充實的課程下來，收穫滿滿! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8pt; text-align: right;">BACK

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24pt;">4. July09,2010

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">進入課程的最後一天，主要是學員的作品分享，因為我忙著寫這週的回家功課，所以沒能把自己的wikispaces完成跟大家分享，覺得很可惜!不過，未來幾天內我一定會把它慢慢建立起來，放入豐富的內容. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 約略中午的時候，是自己同學的分享，有些同學很有概念的結合一個主題，如台灣之美、美食、十二生肖等等，透過我們學習的軟體呈現出來，非常有意思. 午餐過後，我們到另一間電腦教室去聽阿拉伯文及中文老師的分享，他們都表現得非常好. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> 幾天下來，大家都滿載而歸，雖因時間控制不好，快要六點才全部結束，不過，手中拿著結業證書還是很高興.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">Today is the last day of workshop. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> Basically, there are no new tech tools to be taught. We need to work on our own project which is designing a complete lesson on wikispace in order to do our presentation during noontime. Because I was so busy working on my assignment yesterday, I couldn’t finish my wikispace on time. What a pity I can’t share it with other people. I’ll make sure to make it as better as I can on the next following weeks. After our presentation, we go to another computer lab to listen to the presentation of other participants who are also language teachers from Egypt, China and Russia. They all did a great job of making those tech tools effectively. At the end, we all get a certificate from NOVA Startalk Summer Institute. It's a long day though. (from 8:30~18:00) We all felt tired when we got back home.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">圖一&圖二: 學員的成果發表，大家都把這幾天所學展現在自己的網頁裡

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">拿到了NOVA的結業證書了!! 希望我能將這幾天學會的軟體充分應用在教學上~ <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20.8pt; text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 15.8pt;">BACK

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">I’ve made 4 videos about my trip to America by using photostory3 which I learned from NOVA Startalk workshop. I’m so proud of myself. I kinda like this way to share all my photos with my friends. The only thing I need to do is typing texts to describe the photos.

<span style="background-color: #ffff00; color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 24pt;">7. July11,2010

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;">My roommate and I went to church in the morning. We met lots of new friends and listened to a pastor’s preach who is famous in China. He told us we have to show our respect to who we often ignore like our closest lover. We need to say to each other like “I’m sorry.” “It’s all my fault.” “I love you.” everyday. Having those thoughts in our mind without saying out loud, your lover won’t know what exactly you are thinking. That’s somehow we Chinese people will do. We prefer to keep it secret. What he wanted us to do is to practice all the time. It’s always good to truly express how you feel from deep of your heart.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 150%;"> After lunch, we went to the center of Fairfax city to watch World Cup with crowd. The weather was very hot, but I think people really enjoyed sunshine. They brought their own lawn chair and picnic cloth. We just sat on the floor and enjoyed the game. It’s too bad Holland lost the game.

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