My Final Project - Interactive Visual Representation

1. General description of my final project

1.1 The aim of this project:

(A) Students will be able to learn six farm animals' names;

(B) Students will be able to learn six farm animals' noises;

(C) Students will be able to learn a new version of "Old Macdonald has a farm".

1.2 Teaching Subject: English Language

1.3 Teaching Level: Primary Two

1.4 Topic of this project: On the Farm

1.5 Software used: Flash MX (Chinese Version)

1.6 Designer: Cheung Pui Man, Emily

2. My contribution to this project

At the beginning, Mandy and Maria should be in this group. However, both of them were fully occupied with their personal matters. They were unable to come out to do this project with me. Therefore, I did this interactive visual representation alone.

3. How to use my interactive visual representation

I designed four parts in my final project.

3.1 The first part: To offer this visual display to my students for learning animals' names.

3.2 The second part: To provide this representation to my students for learning animals' noises.

3.3 The third part: This part is a song of “Old Macdonald has a farm”. Let students explore English sentence pattern from this song.

3.4 The fourth part: To provide some activities (songs and games) to students' parents so that they will be able to enjoy these activities with their children.

Remark: For avoiding infringing upon the original lyrics of “Old Macdonald had a farm”, I created a new version.

4. The educational value and communicative value of my interactive visual representation

According to the Education and Manpower Bureau's instruction (2002), teachers should provide an active learning environment to students for building up "Learning to Learn". For providing the active learning environment to my students, I designed this interactive visual representation "On the Farm" for them to learn English Language. My students can develop their communication skills, collaboration skills and critical thinking through playing the games and singing the song with their classmates and their parents.

5. URL of my interactive visual representation

5.1 http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/pmcheung2/FinalProject070528.swf

5.2 http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/pmcheung2/FinalProject070528.html

6. Source-code of my final project

http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/pmcheung2/FinalProject070528.fla