21st Century learning requires 21st Century teaching. Are we, the Digital Immigrants, equipped with the right tools to teach our Digital Natives by engaging and challenging their critical thinking, collaboration and creativity?

1. I NTEGRATING W EB TOOLS FOR
P ERFORMANCE - BASED
C HINESE C LASSROOMS
徐佳音 Joanne Shang

2. TODAYS M EET
Listen. Talk. Listen
• embrace the backchannel
• connect speaker and your audience
• in realtime
• Everything going on in the room that is not coming from
the speaker.
• Encourage the audience to use the live stream to ask
questions, pass notes, make comments ...

3. W EB TOOLS . . . .
Why? Why? Why? 為什麼？
To integrate a rich selection of web 2.0 tools
with the performance-based activities to
strengthen the
5 C’s learning experience in
listening, speaking,
reading and writing.

4. W EB TOOLS . . . .
Why? Why? Why? 為什麼？
Overarching Objective:
a. Support performance-based activities
b. Engage digital natives
c. Achieve higher order of 21st Century learning
– 4 C’s:
Communication
Collaboration
Critical Thinking
Creativity

5. P INYIN & C HARACTERS
拼音、漢字/拼音、汉字

6. C HINESE L ITERACY -S OUND S YSTEM
http://www.chineseliteracy.net/summer/cssystem.swf

7. MIT – H ANYU P INYIN T UTORIAL
http://web.mit.edu/~jinzhang/www/pinyin/

8. Y ELLOW B RIDGE /A RCH C HINESE
http://www.yellowbridge.com/chinese/character-stroke-order.php?searchChinese=1&zi=%E5%9B%BD

9. D IM SUM
http://mandarintools.com/

10. P OPUP C HINESE
http://popupchinese.com/chinese/adso

11. O RAL C OMMUNICATION &
M ULTIMEDIA

12. S KYPE - S YNCHRONOUS
http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/

13. V OICETHREAD - A SYNCHRONOUS
http://www.voicethread.com

14. G LOGSTER – R ETHINK P OSTER
https://www.glogster.com
What can you do on
a glog?
• text / image
• audio / video
• hyperlink to URL
• embeddable
What is the significance of glogging?
• creative, attractive, critical thinking, language use
• sharing, peer learning,critique, comment, privacy

15. RIA – R ICH I NTERNET A PPLICATION
http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/

16. MSU-CLEAR
http://clear.msu.edu/teaching/online/ria/
What can you put/do in an Audio Dropbox
or Conversation?
• Listen and respond to a prompt
• Set time limit
• Downloadable mp3
What is the significance of Audio Dropbox or
Conversation?
• integrate listening, speaking skills
• asynchronous communication
• AP Chinese Conversation

17. V OKI – SPEAKING AVATAR
http://www.voki.com
What can you do in Voki?
• Record speaking/reading
• Read from text
• embeddable
What is the significance of
making a Avatar?
• personalized spokesperson
• listen to native voice
• It calls your cell phone

18. C OLLABORATIVE L EARNING &
C OURSE M ANAGEMENT
Mindmeister

19. M INDMEISTER – MIND - MAPPING
http://mindmeister.com
Big Picture
• Visualize your thinking, sort out complicated ideas
• Structure / classify linguistic elements
• Collaborative learning

20. W IKISPACES
https://wikispaces.com
What can you do on a wiki page?
• Repository of sts’ performance
• Upload/download files
• Links – internal/external
• Embed – from other tools
• Blog
What is the significance of having a wiki
in our Chinese classroom?
• resource sharing
• collaborative learning
• learning community
• make tutorial
• hw assignment

21. G OOGLE D OCS
http://docs.google.com
Test input Poetry interpretation
Chinese 2 withpainter Yuan or Maple Bridge
Spreadsheet
Survey
UH curriculum
…?
UH master names list

22. Q UIZLET – C OLLABORATIVE S TUDYING
http://quizlet.com
What can you do in Quizlet?
• Record/review vocab
• Audio playback built-in
• Mobil studying
What is the significance of
making a Quizlet?
• Repository in cloud
• Listen to native voice
• Collaborative learning

23. L ANG -8 – S OCIAL NETWORKING
LEARNING C OMMUNITY http://lang-8.com/
What can you do on Lang-8 ?
• Write journal in target language
• Native member correct it
• You correct other learners’ journal
What is the significance of Lang-8 ?
• Social Network Services
• Collaborative learning
• Global community

24. L INOIT – STICKY NOTES ON WALL
http://linoit.com/home
Gallery Walk
• Sentence wall
• Post it, read it, critique it, learn it
• Collaborative learning

25. TOON D OO
http://www.toondoo.com
What can you do in a Toon?
• tell a story
• scramble and arrange
• for story narration
What is the significance of
making a Toon?
• context, main idea
• lower affective filter
• fun extension

26. 21 ST C ENTURY L EARNING
21 ST C ENTURY T EACHING
other 21st Century tools . . .
1. Google Earth
2. Skitch
3. Evernote
4. Audacity
5. Textanim
6. Youtube –
1. animated character etymology,
2. digitized 清明上河圖,
3. 成语故事,
4. Drama
7. World News –
1. Online classified: For Rent, Restaurant Ads, Travel Ads

27. 請不吝賜
教 ！ 踴躍分享！
Joanne.Shang@da.org
Integrating Web Tools for
Performance-based Chinese Classroom