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Rita van Haren
This Learning Module is designed to support students as they learn Chinese. Students create a Multimedia Dictionary where they record their developing Chinese language through visuals, audio, and writing Chinese characters.
Chinese Characters, Audio, Visuals, Digital Tools.
Learning Goal: To start my Multimedia Dictionary Project and to use the rubric to identify what is important to include.
Description: Create a Multimedia Dictionary that includes Chinese sentences, phrases, words, meanings, and pronunciation, and that demonstrates your knowledge of Chinese. Practice the pronunciation of each word in your dictionary.
| Word/Phrase/ Sentence | Chinese Characters | Picture | Link to Pronunciation |
| Goat: 2015 is the year of the Goat. | 山羊 |
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| Rabbit: My sign is a rabbit. |
兔子。 我的标志是一只兔子。 |
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Check the Work Request in your Notifications. Click on this link to open the “Untitled Work” in Creator. Then, change the title, and begin a first draft. Go to About This Work => Project => Description for further project information.
For what you need to do in order to create a good Multimedia Dictionary, go to Feedback => Reviews => Rubric. Keep the Rubric open and refer to it as you write.
When you have 10-20 entries in your dictionary, click “Submit Draft” below the work. This is the version of your work that will be sent to others for review.
The Chinese Word Dictionary is helpful with pronunciation. Record yourself using the new words, phrases and sentences. Listen to the recordings. This will help you to notice your own mistakes in pronunciation. See online dictionaries for the Chinese pronunciation of the words, sentences and phrases. Also check the Chinese characters are correct by using tools such as Google Translate.
Comment: Share some of your sentences, phrases, and words. Comment on other students' comments. Add any of their sentences, phrases, and words that interest you to your Multimedia Dictionary.
In this Update students start their project in Creator in Scholar. This project enables them to identify new vocabulary and to reflect on meaning and pronunciation. The Chinese Word Dictionary is helpful with pronunciation.
Students of different abilities may collaborate successfully on this Scholar project through giving and receiving feedback.
Encourage students to go to Creator at any time and continue to add words. Selecting their own words will give them agency and will support the differentiation of learners. Selecting words that other students have commented on will also promote collaboration.
Project Rubric
Learning Goal: To give feedback on other students’ works and then revise my own.
Check your Notifications for Feedback Requests: You have received a Feedback Request. Click on this link to take you to the work you have been assigned to review.
Go to Feedback => Reviews => Review Work. Rate the work on each criterion and explain why you gave the work that rating. Make in-text comments at Feedback => Annotations.
When you give feedback, check that the Chinese characters in the work you are reviewing are correct by using tools such as Google Translate.
Submit your feedback once it is finished at About This Work => Project => Status. You will not be able to submit your review until you have completed the Review and Annotations.
For more information, see Reviewing a Work and Submitting a Review and Annotations.
Revision Phase
The next stage of the writing process is to revise your own work.
Check your Notifications for a Revision Request: You have received a Revision Request. Click on this link to take you to the most recent version of your work. Then go to Feedback => Reviews => Results to see the reviews and Feedback => Annotations to see in-text comments. Once you have incorporated all of the feedback (Reviews/Annotations) from your peers, click “Submit Revision” below the work.
You can also write a self-review, explaining how you have taken on board the feedback you received.
For more information, see The Revision Phase.
Comment: Do you have any more questions about Scholar at this stage? Make a comment in this update. If you think you have an answer to another student's question, please answer it. Start with @Name.
This Update covers two phases of the writing process in Scholar - Review and Revision. It is included here so that you can post it directly into a Community when students are up to this phase of their writing projects.
Refer to Analytics to monitor how students are progressing with their writing and their reviews.
Learning Goal: To identify successful projects.
Check Notifications to see if your Multimedia Dictionary has been published and whether projects that you provided feedback on have been selected for publication. You can see the published works on your Profile Page in Community.
Comment: Look at two - three other people’s published Multimedia Dictionaries. Write a comment about the most interesting thing you learned from reading them. This might be ideas you hadn’t thought of, interesting vocabulary, and the qualities of the entries. Also, comment on things you did well and things you would like to improve in your Chinese langauge skills. Comment on other students' comments by starting with @Name.
This Update focuses on the publication and reflection phases of a writing project.
Notifications of publication are provided to the creator and all reviewers.
This reflection activity promotes student metacognition about what makes quality work by reading and reflecting on other students’ works. Ask students to look over other people’s published works - have them read at least two or three works. Ask them to comment on something interesting they learned from reading other students’ works.
Title:(Source) License: CC0 Public Domain; Fig. 1: Goat (Source); Fig. 2: Rabbit (Source); Fig. 3: "Konfuzius-1770" by Unknown - http://www.britannica.com/eb/art-75120/Confucius-gouache-on-paper-1770?articleTypeId=1. Licensed under Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons (Source); Fig.4: Confucius (Source).