Reflections on Session Nine

After discussing with our group members about the contents of our project last week, we decided to change the topic's name, which is called “On the Farm” at this moment. We made the above decision for enhancing our lower-class students' learning motivation and their interest. Besides, we hope that this project can be used to teach students to learn English in an enjoyable way, and help them to learn the language structure through a song (The Education and Manpower Bureau, 1990). For achieving our objective, we want to embed a song to our product for helping our students easy to follow, making learning English an enjoyable task. We selected the song “Old Macdonald had a farm” because it is melodious and easy to follow (The Education and Manpower Bureau, 1999). Besides, according to the Education and Manpower Bureau's English Language Syllable, lower-class students have to learn some domestic animals at Primary Level such as cat, cow, duck, hen, pig and so on. For making learning English more fun, we also want to design those animals in motion for drawing our students' attention on singing. In the process of making our product, we met some difficulties, for examples: we cannot embed the above song to our interactive representation and design the animals in motion. On the coming week, we shall try to do it again. We hope to complete the task as soon as possible.

The possible solution of the problem
After presenting our storyboard in our blog, Ryan gave us some good suggestions. He advised us to learn how to insert music to our final product from the following websites.

1. http://www.5sec.com/support/help_document/how_to_import_music_for_your_flash_file.html
2. http://www.flash-template-design.com/insert_music.php

For solving the above-mentioned problems, we shall learn how to insert music firstly. Next, we shall try to insert a song to our product on the coming week. Really, we hope to complete this task as soon as possible so that we shall give all of our classmates an idea what our interactive representation will be look like.

References
1. Learn to sing, sing to learn (1990)
Retrieved 24-4-07 from http://www.emb.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/Content_2804/learn_to_sing.pdf

2. School-based curriculum Adaptation at Primary Level (1999)
Retrieved 24-4-07 from http://www.emb.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/Content_2804/curr_adpt.pdf