Re-purposed Web 2.0 Application as a learning tool

Re-purpose PhotoShow

Storytelling

Photoshow is an online photo album/slide show, Photoshow originally designed for creating and sharing photo album with friends, photoshow could transform your photos and videos into slideshow with sound, music and caption, user may share their photo with friends at everywhere as long as they have online devices.

Objectives

Stimulate the interest of primary student on Chinese traditional story and deepen the long-term memory. Typically student may feel boring in study Chinese narratives it is because of the traditional textbooks were only presented with a lot of text and a few illustrations.

Re-purposed

Encourage primary students use Photoshow to reproduce a Chinese narrative story in their textbook. First, students should read through the story to get the framework, and then students take photos or draw illustration which regarding to every scence of the story, caption could be added to explain the pictures, in order to reinforce the ambiance of the story, appropriate music, voice over and sound effect should added into the slideshow.

Kinley Chan Cho Kin