Interactive Shanghai: Report

Rupert Russell

177709

THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
FACULTY OF EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
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Student Name & Number / Rupert Russell
177709
Subject / 485-833 Telecommunications & Multimedia
Lecturer / Ted Clark
Class Time / Monday 5:15 pm
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Individual team members provide a short 250 word report on how the team functioned, identifying team roles, the best thing you learned and successes and problems in the project via an email to

Overview of team functionality

Our team consisted of two members:

Rupert Russell 177709

Haixin (Helen) Zhao 117970

We functioned well as a team and had no significant difficulties working together. Occasionally I had difficulty in locating messages that Helen sent me on the WebRaft forum and I have also posted messages to her there that she has not responded to. I have also had difficulty in sending her e-mail as her e-mail University of Melbourne e-mail address bounces when I reply to it.

Apart from these minor technical difficulties we worked well together when working face-to-face in the computer lab.

Team Roles

I performed the following roles:

  • Flash design and mark-up
  • Sound recording and editing using GoldWave
  • Digital Photography
  • Digital image manipulation using Paint Shop Pro
  • Searching the Internet for images and text for use in the project
  • Location of Music clips from the Internet
  • Compilation of Internet resources used

Helen performed the following roles:

  • Initial project conception and documentation of needs analysis
  • Sound recording and editing using GoldWave
  • Searching the Internet for images and text for use in the project
  • Provision of cultural knowledge
  • Translation form English to Chinese
  • Translation from Chinese into English
  • Location of Music clips from the Internet

The best thing I learned

Overall I enjoyed this project immensely though I wish I had more time and energy to finish our original scope.

When I started this project I had only very limited experience using Flash. It was a program that I wanted to learn but had found each attempt to learn it extremely frustrating. I could not manage to get it ‘to work for me’.

As a result of undertaking the entire development of this assignment using Flash I now consider that I have mastered the basics of Flash. I am now confident to teach Flash to my students and to utilise it frequently in my own teaching and learning. This has without doubt been the single most valuable result of undertaking this project for me.

I now also have an insight into Shanghai as a city. Prior to starting this project I had very little knowledge of Shanghai. Learning about Shanghai has been a fascinating experience. As a result of this project I hope to visit Shanghai one day.

Problems

The major problem I encountered was a lack of time to complete the project. As such I have not been able to add content to the Schools, Shopping or the Friends sections of the project.

The final SWF file is approximately 9MB in size which is excessive for delivery via the Internet as was originally intended. This application would now be distributed via CD-ROM.

I was unable to get a Chinese character font to work on my PC and therefore was unable to generate Chinese script for use within the menus. If I had been able to overcome this problem I would have included Chinese & English text on each button.

I found it surprisingly difficult and time consuming to locate suitable images of food on the Internet to illustrate the recipes.

Credits list of those who worked on the site

Rupert Russell 177709

Haixin (Helen) Zhao 117970

Title of the project

Interactive Shanghai

The intention of the product and the context for its use

The project is designed to provide Australia VCE students with a brief overview of Shanghai. Students studying Chinese would use this application to assist in gaining an insight into a modern Chinese city. The application would also be useful for CSF II Studies of Society and Environment (SOSE) lessons and Languages other than English (LOTE), from Level 4 upwards.

The target audience

VCE LOTE (Chinese)

CSF II SOSE Level 4 and upwards

CSF II LOTE (Chinese) Level 4 and upwards

The address where the project is available

Site map

Main Menu

3D Globe

Instructions

Airport

Food

BaoZi

Recipe

Method

Bejing Kaoya

Recipe

Method

Chun-Jouan

Recipe

Method

Guandong Cuisine

Hunan Cusine

Jiangsu Cusine

Jiao zi

Recipe

Mi fan

Recipe

Method

Niu-ro main

Recipe

Method

Suchuan Tofu

Friends (Incomplete)

Hotel

Area

City Emblem

Climate

Districts / Counties

Introduction

Magnolia flower

Topography

Virtual Tour

Boshan

Changning

Chongming

Fengxian

Hongkou

Huangpu

Jiading

Jing’an

Jinshan

Luwan

Minghang

Nanhui

Pudong New Area

Putou

Qingpu

Songjiang

Xuhui

Yangpu

Zhabei

Quiz

Instructions

Schools (Incomplete)

Shopping (Incomplete)

Sightseeing

Transport

1900

1914

1920

1922

1930

1931

1935

1970

2000

The emailer's individual role in the project

See above

A list of credits as to who did what in relation to the site

See above

Names of software used for the product's development

Macromedia Flash

Paint Shop Pro

TextPad

MS Excel

MS Word

Internet Explorer

Netscape

Macromedia Dreamweaver

Ws-FTP

GoldWave

StarStrider

3D World Atlas

A list of references consulted for technical, content or method (teaching strategy) support

I have not used any code from outside sources with developing the Flash application; we have though used numerous images and text from the Internet. Please see below for URL’s of resources used.

Recipes

Cusines

General Information

Audio

Satellite Images

General Images

ftp://ftp.eorc.nasda.go.jp/cdroms/ADEOS_SE_Asia/shanghai.tif

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