What I already know
People will learn better with both concise texts and pictorial presentations.
What do I want to know
Now that we are given time to actually think of the assignment. I really want to know how we can go about to do it with Flash. To me, Flash is more difficult to use than Authorware.
What have I learnt
Thanks to Dr. Churchill who has put so much effort in recording the use of Flash for us. I’ve followed the recording and did some animations. During the lesson we watched each others’ visual representation on raindrop. Fascinating! Some of the works are very well done by the classmates.
Final Assignment
During the lesson, Oscar and I had a talked about the areas which we’re interested to do. We decided to work on the Ancient Egypt, but what exactly are we going to do? During the week, we worked hard to find the topics. We arrived to 5 different topics:
1. Building of the Great Pyramid
2. Ancient Egypt – Famous People
3. How to make a mummy
4. Hieroglphy
5. Ancient Egypt Technology
While all the above are interesting topics, we have, at this stage, decided to work on Ancient Egypt Technology. Please take a look at this document to know why we’ve chosen this topic and the learning objectives.
Personally, I’m very interested in learning everything about ancient Egypt. I think they are the most fascinating civilization. All their craft works, wall paintings and all kinds of artefacts contained rich visual representations showing us all aspects of their lives. To arouse student’s interest in learning it, interactive visual represetations is a desirable choice. I’m more than happy to go for any of the above topics. However, Ancient Egypt Technology might be the best choice among the topics as we can make use of Flash to develop visuals allowing students to experience and explore the technologies that we are planning to do.
7 responses so far ↓
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Cheung Pui Man (Emily)
// Mar 26, 2007 at 2:14 am
Hi,
I am very interested in your topic. Right now, I would like to provide some information to you, please click the following websites for reference.
1. http://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/mummy/
2. http://www.jamesmdeem.com/books.mummy.htm
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Theresa Li
// Mar 26, 2007 at 3:30 pm
Thank you Emily for the reference sites. They’re interesting.
Theresa
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Jaco Cheung
// Mar 26, 2007 at 8:18 pm
It is fantastic. I also want to visualize how the ancient Egyptians handled their works without advanced technology. As I do not know much about this, I feel that this is a very big topic. If yes, I suggest your group can focus on a small part, such as how to build a pyramid at that time. One more point your group may add to your work is how to develop an appreciation of the wisdom of ancient Egyptians in students through your visual presentation.
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YEUNG Kit Ping
// Mar 27, 2007 at 1:26 am
Your topics sound very interesting and challenging specially the “hieroglyph”. My suggestion is, if you decide to make the representation of hieroglyphs, Chinese characters may be a better choice.
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lhwong
// Mar 27, 2007 at 10:24 am
Very great project !
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lhwong
// Mar 27, 2007 at 10:29 am
Nice learning profile
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Dorothy Tsang
// Apr 9, 2007 at 2:00 am
Dear Theresa and Oscar,
I have the same view as Jaco that the project should be focused on one or two technologies used by ancient Egyptian as the excessive content prevents you from having intense dedication to the task. But for the topic of the project, how to seal the pyramid may relate to the science of constructing buildings. So you should cautiously consider about these.
With Regards,
Dorothy Tsang
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