New Literacy Reflection

      When I was working on my New Literacy project, I had some difficulty to put present lots of information in a simple way. I ended up put too much words in my website so it may be harder for students to pay attention for a long time.
      My project is easy to navigate, and when I am teaching, it will be very easy to present. Just by clicking the tabs on the left, the information I want to present to the students will be shown on each page. I tried to make the page title match the content so that the students will have an idea of the main topic of a page. It’s also make it easier for me to navigate the website and to teach in class.
      I think the hardest part for me to teach the lesson will be the issue that I have lots of information in one page. The large amount of text on each page may cause the lesson be very traditional and boring. I think I need to work on that and try to minimize the number of the words and make my pages simpler to help the viewer to get the information as quickly as possible by reading as little as possible. I may break my information up into different sections so that I still have the whole information that I want to present, and it is clearer and easier for the readers to understand.
      My lesson will involve a lot of Chinese and Japanese pronunciations so I planted audio clips in my webpage to help viewers to get a better understanding of what I am trying to present. The topic I am trying to present is the differences between Chinese and Japanese Language, it is a big topic and it contents lots of information, so plant audio clips in the pages where readers can listen to the different pronunciations can definitely help them to have a better understanding of the differences between the two languages. It not only used a new technology that I haven’t tried before, but also may help my lesson to become more interesting.  I have some specific examples on the web pages; so during the class, I may focus on analyze the examples. 
I will teach my lesson by clicking each tabs listed on my website and explain the content on the website. Students will be able to get a quick idea of what is cultural literacy. I will then give specific examples and let students to get involved with pronouncing the examples that I have listed. I will show them the pronunciations with the audio clips and students will follow the audio to experience the differences between the two languages.
      At the end of the lesson, I will have students to ask questions about this two languages and homework could be to let the students come up with other two different languages but has similarities between them and give a easy comparison.

Jia Zhang's New Literacies Project

For this New Literacies Project, I chose to do cultural literacy. It is a very broad topic so I narrowed it down into introducing two languages from two cultures and how they related to each other. My objective is culture is the full range of learned human behavior patterns, but some culture has a lot in common. So by analyzing these two languages about their histories, reading and writing systems, and usages, my students will not only understand that cultural literacy various, but also they will come to the realization of literacy of different cultures could also related to each other. I have the words that I want to distribute on the power point wrote on a Word document, I will add pictures to enhance the words to make it more visualized for students to understand and makes the lecture more fun and interesting. I would want to make an iMovie because I want to make this as a small documentary movie, which has pictures, speaking explanations, and maybe plant in some clips of Japanese and Chinese culture that relate to their languages. I haven’t put the whole thing together yet but I feel the content is the most important part so I am focused to finishing up the content of this iMovie. While doing this New Literacies Project, I have to do a lot of researches of Chinese and Japanese, and I realized that I have learned a lot of my own culture’s literacy. I am minoring Japanese but while I was doing the research, I realize that even though I have learned the language for two years, but I have never been introduced to it’s history and why and how did it relate to Chinese. It is a very interesting research for me to do and because lots of people have the wonder of why Chinese and Japanese are similar sometimes, so I really want to try to give some explanations by this chance of New Literacies Project.