 So welcome to our next session, and we're going to start off with a talk about Chinese, a new means of Chinese learning, improving Chinese language and culture proficiency using Nova StarTalk eTower. And let me introduce Dali Tan from Northern Virginia Community College. And Dali will be introducing then her collaborators. So Dali. Okay, thank you. My name is Dali Tan. We're language department chair and the, and the mentoring teacher. Several years ago, three of my nose and Virginia Community College colleagues and I created this OER with a grant from StarTalk. Infrastructure grant. And then after that, enough to work with many educators. Three of them are here, who are using our open educational resources. One is Zheng Wang as a mentoring teacher from Arizona and then the Rui Huang also taught in K-12 schools in Arizona, as well as Lei Wu, who taught in Florida Millennium schools. So let me take, please take it away. Yeah, they're going to share how they use the Nova ePower in their own classrooms. Thank you. Thank you, Dali. Thank you, Dali Laoshi. I'm really appreciate it. We have the chance to share our eTower, the Qingning Shanhe Tu, it's a really good means of the new way to learn Chinese. So today's presentation, we are going to divide into three parts. The first part we want to share with you guys like how we build up this, why we build up this website, and the kind of like a basic introduction about this. And what is a new means to learn Chinese? What's the real difference? And the second part, we are going to make more details to explain to you guys some example about what tools you can use. If you, it's a totally free website, I need to say. So like which topic you can use maybe in your classroom. And the third one, we are going to, Laoshi, we're going to share with more details about her first, like a friend, like a first-hand experience in his teaching in his teaching in his class. So let's begin. So I'm going to share with the first part, like why we build up this website. So I need to say, well, we have some like a Chinese character, but with this presentation we are all talking about English, but if you just ignore the character, we can explain more details. So we need to say, as a language teacher, what we can find under how we can best to motivate a student to learning, I need to say that the interest. If the student have the interest to learning a language they want to learn is more than 1000 words, you tell me, hey, you need to study, but why, because they have interest to you want to learn in this language. So this is the basic reason why we want to build up this from 20, it's from 2010 in Shanghai, we have, we have a brand new kind of like a pieces for the Qing Ming Shang He Tu, that is a picture from the Qing, from Song dynasty. And that which were described of people's lives in the Song dynasty, we have, maybe we can show you guys the website, how is the picture looks like. Dai Laoshi, can you share them to let them have a basic understanding of what I'm talking about this picture. All the people leaving, they're leaving in Song dynasty what they're doing, are they selling the stuff they try to people maybe just some of them is for the, like a business, some of them just the moderate people. So they are, they're live in the Song dynasty. Yeah, I cannot share my screen. So, please just go ahead. Yeah. You should be able to share your screen. Okay, thank you so much. Yeah, so can you share this. Can you see the screen now. Yes. Okay, wonderful. So basically, this is, you can go to the modules. This is the module that we have the build. Yeah, and so this is the. We have the animated, the ancient painting, and to, as a whole, really catch students interest. Yeah, so as you can tell we use technology to make the picture become alive. So all the characters, all the people in the picture can move. And the student will feel so interested about, wow, what are they talking about. And then just based on that picture, we build up 12 mode right now, open one we have one, two, three, four, and seven, eight and then nine to 12. Some of, we have four mode, but the three of them are already open. So just based on this, we became, we build up this website. Now let's go back to this is a kind of like why I want to share with you guys how it looks like. And now it's more details about what is the startup e-power. So as every time if you go into this website, you will see the starter. So you need to begin from the first to talk. It is online and interactive mode for learning Chinese language and culture. Why we ended here is culture not only about language, because as you can tell, culture and the language are always talking together, we can't separate them. And it's a free open resource, and the student can use this with their self-paced mode, especially right now during the pandemic. We are doing online teaching, and some teachers, it's so hard for the teacher to be control the students when they're learning together. Some of the advanced level students, maybe they can go faster, some of the lower level standard students, they can have their own pace. So I need to say it's not for passive learning. It's all from their self, like, oh, I feel this is interest. This is a really interesting topic I want to learn. So this interact with the four-part reading part, listening part, writing part, speaking part. So in this way, it's all basic for the act for standard. So it's not only the reading character, if they have interaction, where students can record their voice and also can try to speak with a sentence, can try to practice. And they can get their feedback in real-time based on their own performance. So for example, like I said, we have different modes, and we opened Mode 124, it's great. Grating is kind of like a Mandarin 12 level, and for the higher level, you can do like Mode 9 to 12. It's a transportation topic. It's what we're talking about, what kind of transportation you can tell, you can see from the picture. So we only locked one, we still built, we're working on the Mode 528, it's a shopping part. If we got more funding, like a dialogue, she said, we are trying to promote the website, we are trying to open as soon as possible. And I want to save some time for the, wow, so I gotta go faster. I want to say is, this is not only the basic level, Mode 124, we all the way go to the AP level. So it's just always all the topic, all the different modes, beginning with the vocabulary, and then go to the sentence, and then look, you can tell all this is kind of like authentic materials. It's not only like you read a character, we will give them pictures and ask them what you can say from the picture, and then it will become a live picture. So they will feel, oh, what I can tell, what I can describe is become true, it's become alive. So this is why this website is, I think, very attractive. And also we teach them some grammar points, but that is some practice. And also, we practice, we build some practice, like a practice six, what's the major word used for the correct nom? And also we have, just after this study, we do practice some, we do build up and made some practice for each single unit. And then is, we also applied the comprehensible input in here. So we will use Mode 12 transportation as an example demo, and I think Wu Laoshi will give you guys more details. Wu Laoshi, can you just elaborate more details? Thank you, Ms. Wang. Ms. Wu Laoshi, can you tell us what time is it? Our presentation should end at 4.45. So we still have six minutes left. Okay, thank you, Dr. Tan. Could you please move to page 41, Dr. Tan? I will do that for you. Now we are going to focus on the sentence from Qingming Shanhao Tuo, what we can learn from it. First of all, I want to say is based on this picture, we can get as many sentences as we want to teach. Yes, page 41 please. Since we look at this picture, Qingming Shanhao Tuo, you know, there is no Chinese words on this picture at all. But as teachers, we can imagine what can we teach to students from this picture. Yes, like this one. So now I'm going to share an activity I did with my students about how should we learn and what should we learn from it or from this picture. Task one, I told them to find 10 words from this picture, and five words should be learned from before. They should write the characters on this picture, maybe page 41, page 42 please. So they should find 10 words on this picture, five from what we learned before, and five should be new words, and they should write these 10 characters on this picture. The second task I told them to do is imagine a conversation, yes, like this, you can see 10 words on this picture, they already wrote on this picture. They can write on the paper I printed for them or they can use the real picture and write on the iPad. The second task I told them is to imagine a conversation between two people, you should imagine what will they talk in that conversation, in that situation, and write them down in Chinese. The third task is, they should finish a sentence, but the sentence I give them a scarf folding, like, like this one I tell them, I told them to write in this picture, there are something and something, and something else. So I give them a, like 50% sentence, I already gave them and they should feel another part of the sentence. The fourth task I give them is do an investigation, and they should introduce a cultural thing from this picture, like this group, they introduce the bridge from this picture. The last task I told them is to do is combine task four and compare the Chinese and American cultures. So you will see this group, they introduced the bridge between two countries and what do they look like, and some background about it. And the next thing I want to share is about IPA. Yes. Among the, we want to let them communicate and perform and perform their language. So this part we focus on interpretive model, interpersonal mode, interpersonal mode, and the presentation mode. So there are five activities I give them, I give them actually activity one, they should focus on the keyword, such like this from it or they should focus on the keyword, focus on the central idea analyze something else. So nine activities about interpretation. The second part is about communication. I told them to do a speech, a discussion, a debate, and like a story show to communicate with their friends. The last part is focus on performance. So I told them to, yes, let's move on the last part. The last one I told them to finish five activities. Actually, the first activity is they should make a comment on Qingming Shanhe Tu. The second one is they should make an explanation about Qingming Shanhe Tu if they are a tour guide. They should write a tour guide passage about this picture. The third one is they should make a poster. So they designed a poster about Qingming Shanhe Tu. The number four activity is they should write an awards speech for Qingming Shanhe Tu if they are in a painting competition. And the last one is they should do a performance about this. They will use like the AR or VR apps to perform it, like making a video or short movie. So that's what I want to share. I think we use up our 15 minutes. Thank you very much. But we want to share our PPT with the conference online. Yeah, and then, yeah, you can always contact us. Yeah, we'll prepare a suggestion like a padelette. If you, if any like language teacher really interested about talking about details about this website, please feel free to connect with us. We are trying our best with time out here to build this website as perfect as possible. Thank you for giving us chance to sharing today. Okay, thank you very much guys.