(Draft) Online English Learning - Review the Past and Prepare for the future

Today's blog post, I'm going to share my thoughts toward three students' final project on Second Life. First of all, I must show my great respect for my seniors. They did a great job for this lesson. They show their creative way on telling the story, makes me wonder what have they experienced in their college life.
1.2012 Project: New Princess' Generation
The story is interesting, but the recording equipment is a little bit bad. I think it is better to put on the subtitle. When Snow White said "The sheep is going into the water." I thought it was "The ship is going into the water." Can put on the time card to show the time difference between the present and the past. It causes me confusion when Cinderella is happy then becomes sad for the next second. Then I realized from the script that the happy Cinderella is just the memory.... (OK) I like the gesture design. The characters keep changing their action. Their body language is great and full of emotion. It might be good if their acting voice could hold the same emotion in it. The race car scene is cool. They even have the gesture of opening the car door and sit in it! The background music is intense for the racing car, makes me want to race with them as well.

2. 2014 Project: Hail the Judge!
I can feel the students' passion from this project. Their background and music design is great. I have laughed out loud when the Wedding March comes out. I really like the uses of Chinese culture.  It would be a good material for the foreign students to learn Chinese culture. But I think the plot of the story can have some improvement. Shouldn't Hang Over died in the beginning? How can Smart Bao knows that Wine Lady lied? What is the relationship between the caller and Hang Over? Is it Okay to announce your affair in front of your wife? So many questions in my head...
I like their task design and riddle. Although I am unable to see the completion of their project, it is obvious that they put a lot of effort in it. Their acting is also interesting. I wish they can have a chance to play for the story for the better plot.

3.2012 Project: XIV Stories
(Before the video) A story of the fantasy world! My interest has been stirred up! (After the video) O...K...? I like the background and the setting. The world is full of magical. The elf has beautiful orange wings and I like it. The music is nice and calm. But the tempo of the telling is sort of strange. Sometimes the pause between different characters' talking is too long. The plot is sort of confusing. I mean, Yeen and Lenny just met Christine three minutes ago. How can Lenny say "I would miss you deeply" ? I think it is better if they can put more character relationship development in the story.

Second Life - More Animals, More Merrier

In this week of Second Life, we tried up some gesture. After combining gesture, setting and character, I make much process toward my story. Now I made several revisions, and my story is now focused on the girl and other animals. In the nature of things, I tried to find out as many animals as possible in Second Life.

I found a cow.

I found a black boar.

I found a reading-mouse.

I found a lion.

I found a rabbit with flying ears.

I found another cow (cartoon version).

I found a cat.

I found Sabrina…Just joking, I invited Sabrina.

I even found a dragon!

It’s so awesome. Sabrina and I rode the dragon together. Although it looked like I was riding the dragon and Sabrina was riding me.

“To infinity and beyond!”

I also found some cool places and art. Such as the place full of cherry blossoms.

The gallery about Chinese Ink Art.

You can join Four Treasures in Traditional Ink Art.

The miniature art of Mouse Family.

A golden chamber guarded by Dragon.

A beautiful forest full of colorful light. I think this is a suitable place for my story. Can’t wait for next class!

(Draft) Online English Learning - Fine the Creative Way

Now, let's us learn some unusual way to learn English.
1. Scrabble.
Fun to play, fun to try, fun to learn. Challenge people with your vocabulary account. Scrabble has become popular among the world, and you can download app for you. Or you can buy a set of Scrabble for social party! You main reduce the distance with your friends. (Sort of)
2.TeacherTube
Youtube is famous, but have you ever heard TeacherTube? Students and teachers can post their video on there, with

Second Life - Be The Girl You Like

Second Life is about social, so connecting your friend is important as well. I send Sabrina my location, introducing her the place that I saw last time.

Here is the sea I found. There is a beautiful ecology underwater. Sabrina is amazed by it, and she wears in fabulous taste. Her wedding dress looks lovely on her. On the contrary, I look like a bridesmaid. (I don’t mind) From the picture, it looks like a scene of “Little Mermaid”. The only difference is the sex. Instead a mermaid and a prince, we have a merman and a princess.

Everything is as mystery as I saw last time. I change my hair style and meet a friendly troll. He takes good care of his garden. I really like those pink flowers. I have already decided to make the troll a character in my story.

Then Teacher Mei-Ya called us to gather in a secret location. We take a picture here, exchange some money and some information. Don’t worry, we aren’t doing anything illegal. Teacher want us to find a house, but I think it is not urgent. Maybe next time I will find other places that is suitable for me. By the way, Sabrina change her style into a portable one, so I think I must change one as well.

Then I find out, I can edit my body, my face, my height, my boob size…

So now, I am a little girl!

I know the boobs are too big for her, but she looks so cute. I really like her posture in the sky. I am content with my design. I am going to write a story: a girl in blue starting her adventure to find “Happiness”. The beginning of the story would start in the forest, and she suit it in well. Can’t wait for the next preparation for the project.

Online English Learning- Power of Story

A story is a contextualize, meaningful and structured text. It slowly becomes a manifestation of culture value and prospection. There are many sources to learn the story online. You don’t need to limit your reading on the paper. One can even learn the perspective of speaking and listening from these website:

1)Audible stories of Amazon https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

Don’t need an account, just choose the book you like and listen to the audio. There are many categories under it. You can choose from ages, such as littlest listeners, elementary, tween, teen. You can choose from genre, such as folk and fairy tales. You can choose in language, including Japanese, German, Italian, French. By the way, Harry Potter is so famous so it has its own category.

2) Reading IQ https://www.readingiq.com/teachers

A website that is 100% safe and friendly to kids. Don’t worry about that the kid might encounter with book that is “too mature”. Every book is suitable and appropriate for child to read, ranging from preschool students to preschool students. There are two kinds of mode: Read to Me and I can Read. You have to summit first, so you can enjoy the sources online.