Jess McCulloch in innovative style, presented on her fabulously creative Black Line Mystery – the most difficult Chinese character known to mankind. Using google apps to great effect and impact, she has built a series of lesson plans that are set to engage young and old alike. Joining us tonight were two special participants, Vincent Mespoulet from France and Beyond School Walls and Trent who was bracing snow falls somewhere near Antartica, plus many of our valued Australian colleagues.
You can view Jess’ great mystery by going to The Black Line Mystery and keying in the password hanzi The mystery then unfolds with innovative use of online tools including google apps, vokis and edmodo.
From the chat:-
- google docs can now be uploaded in google hangouts
- discussion on the Kony video and the power of social networking
- Vincent introduced the term “twisted classrooms”
- What the chinese character stands for! (biang noodles)
- From one of Vincent’s grade 6 students
- The Black line mission box
- from Vincent “vimeo than youtube too: no adds, better quality for compression” and Jess likes its privacy settings
- from Vincent: – a gift from a grade 6 student about Chinese from A to Z
Here is the link to the recording.
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When she presented this at the K-12 Conference I was blown away and immediately copied the character and took it to my students to see if they could figure it out. (The majority of them speak Chinese as a first or second language.) It took them a while and the help of my wonderful Chinese co-teacher, who had to do a bit of research,to figure out what the character was. Imagine all of our surprise when it turned out to be a noodle. I felt quite let down. I figured it was something majestic. Not only that, it is a noodle that is only made in a very small part of China.
The whole approach Jess uses to this project is amazing.