End-of-Assignment "Reflection" Blog

The topic of all my project is about Chinese Culture.
With the coming of 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, more and more people in US and other countries want to know deeper about China. I hope I could help to do something, so this topic came into my mind. I introduced four main parts in Chinese culture. In the first wetbtext I talked about Chinese food. I think it should be interesting as a beginning for all my projects because great food is all humen's favor. Then in my podcast project I chose to talk about the Chinese festivals. In order to make audiences would like to focus on my podcast for five minutes, I decided to tell some legends behind some famous festivals instead of just introducing some basic information. This is a good try I think after the responses from others. The final Multi modal project I combined all the things together. I added two new parts: one is Beijing Olympic games' information, the other is about traditional Chinese arts. For giving a complete format and feeling, I changed some background and unnecessary information, added more links; In this way, I made them all together in the final webtext.

Although I used much extra time to change organizations and format, I really enjoyed this process. In the end I could have a very complete webtext and I could make audiences more convenient to enjoy my webtext. These are the points.

My project is very worth to read because of its interesting content and fully organised format. I think it is very easy for readers to go through. I designed it for a long time. The content will help readers to know about Chinese culture also related to the Beijing Olympic games. Every nation has its unique culture, so we all have a desire to explore the colorful and interesting culture of other country; this is the reason why I think readers would like to see my project. In order to make it more personal, I added many personal experiences. I love my culture, so I could introduce it to readers. My experiences added more credibilities in my MMwebtext.

Another thing I must mention is that I learned a lot technology skills in this class; they are pretty needed. The online articles seems more and more popular. They are convenient and easy to reach for readers. Learing these computer skills is more practical for us to improve our abilities. Dream waver is a very powerful and convenient software. We need to explore it more in the future.
I also learn how to use some templates, and they look very professional; so it is a pretty food way to design our MMwebtext. I will try it sometime.

Thanks

My MMwebtext done

After such a long time, it is the time for MMwebtext to finish which means the time for our webzine to begin. We had a very great summer; we improved writing skills, technology skills and made many friends. Our great webzine is on the way. which our fruit in these two months. Although we had very limited time to do so many projects, we really took efforts to make them better and better.

A tired weekend

This was such a tired weekend. I went to take part in a sand volleyball competition in Chicago beach, which is for celebrating the Olympic Games. Our team was called PUC.

I am not professional at all. Finding me, I guess the reason is because there is few students left during summer. At 7:00 in the morning we departures in front of the doorway of Gym. It has been such a long time for me to not get up so early. When we got there, several team members were waiting there. They were really cool and professional. OK, never mind, just for fun.

This was a long day and we had five competition at least. We lost most of them, but we did win one of them, hehe. When I came back, it had been 9:00 in the evening.

So come on this new week for our final webzine.

It is time for the final part

WOW, such a quick semester
It is the time for the final project. How time flies.
Today we will have our final part proposal, after that we will begin our final webtext.
I am hoping to see our final webzine; it will be full of knowledge and interesting stuff.

Everyone did a good job in the first webtext and second podcast, so we will continue our success.
I will continue to talk about Chinese culture things in my final multi model webtext. I will focus on the Chinese Calligraphy and Painting arts, also Peking Opera.

The attraction in the last project is The Beijing Olympic Games. What is our unique and what will make us unique. Olympic will be a stage for China to present what are we looking like now.

My podcast done

I have to say, I'm not that hardworking. I finished this

assignment so early because I thought on Thursday it should be

due. So on Wednesday night I recorded my podcast and

finished the script in such a harry. However, it is not. The

deadline is next Tuesday, so I should have had more days to finish it. WOW

Never mind, becase I will have a more free weekend. That's good.
You could enjoy my podcast ahead in the students' work and I'd like to listen to your various

suggestions. http://student.calumet.purdue.edu/~ZHANGY14/csw/podcast/podcast.MP3

HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND

My podcast assignment

Hello, again and again

After listening some sample podcast from NPR, I do want to make some changes in my podcast.

First I think I need to make listeners focus on my topic for 5 minus long. I should not talk about some boring things. What I need is to add more fun stuff. so I decide to change my concentration from teach us about Chinese festival information to tell us about the background stories. I mean, some of them maybe hear of some special festivals of us, but very few of you know where are these things from in the history. Actually, it is full of fun.

So I hope this change will work.