Teaching Chinese with ... (ICT Classroom Study Activity 2)

Technologies	Ideas for group learning. (Group of 4 students: A, B, C, D)
iPod	Each group is provided with an iPod classic where a short paragraph including target sentences) has been recorded. A's task is to listen to the iPod and identify as much information as he/she can. When he/she listens, he/she passes on the information to B. B passes on what he/she hears to C. D writes down the information on the whiteboard under C's instructions.
iPod Touch	The group work together to make a how-to (say, "how to make dumplings") video via the app Storyrobe. They are given a list of supplementary vocabulary for the task. They need to work out a recipe using the vocabulary and collect/make pictures for the video using the iPod Safari/camera. Through Storyrobe, they record instructions for each picture. Finally they share the video to YouTube and comment on other groups' work. Meanwhile they need to fill out a form for project management where they have to indicate who is responsible for what part of the task.
Flip Camera	The group is to interview other classmates for favourite Chinese food. Each member needs to interview at least three people and record the interview. All interviews are in Chinese using the target sentences "你最喜欢吃什么？"/"我最喜欢吃...".  In the end the group completes a PowerPoint presentation introducing their investigation results.
Mobile phone	Each person has got a smartphone. Their task is to mark 4 major Chinese festivals (Spring/Dragonboat/Mid-autumn/Lantern) on their phone's calendar. Each person is to write a description of a festival in Chinese using target sentences (e.g. the date of the festival/how people celebrate the festival) and send his/her contribution to other group members.
A recording program like Audacity or Garage Band	The group work together to record a story using Audacity. A records the first one or two lines, and then B continues the story... until D finishes the whole story.
Interactive whiteboard	Teacher pre-recorded a target character of an animal (say, 鸟/bird) that students have not learned. In a group student A watches the writing of 鸟 by teacher. Student B writes down the same character according to A's instructions in Chinese (上/下/左/右). Student C guesses the what animal it is by looking at B's writing and imitates the animal using body language and D selects a picture of the animal among the pictures given by teacher.