Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Group Presentation

Literacy education is a new subject for me but thanks to my group members, Natalie and Susan, I am now gettig interested in the subject. We are making a website which teachers and children can use to enjoy Aesop's fables while relating to performing arts, especially music, dance ad acting.


Today, we made a movie of us actually playing out the stories. It was really fun at the same time inspiring to me; Natalie was so good in coming up with acting ideas that are suitable for children, and Susan was very talented in improvising the action and the dance.

In the process of getting this assignment done, I am finding out two things; 1) technologies we've been learning throughout this course do enrich the content of the project we are doing, and 2) performing arts do help children learning.

When I created the website of "The Lion and the Mouse," I first recorded myself reading the story, using Audacity. Then, I found gif files to go with the story online and put them along with the text on the web site, using tables. I also searched online for the sound effects that will attract children and enhance their understanding of the story. This was the fun part because now that I can utilize the Audacity, I was able to put some sound source together and apply some effects to make the sound I wanted. I am not a good drawer nor a good performer, but still, using online source and technologies, I am able to become creative.

Research in acting and the literacy is another responsibility for me. I was worried at first because I have little background in studying education, but as I went into the research, I found many things easy to relate to myself. I now recall that acting out played a big role in studying, or "experiencing " English. Well, I am still learning English as the second language, so , acting out to make the movie file and recording myself reading the story helped my Englih skills, I think.

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