eT@lking: The Black Line Mystery – using google tools
When: Wednesday, 14th March, 8-9pm, Melbourne Australia time (gmt+11)
About the session: Jess McCulloch teaches mandarin Chinese. She is an innovative google certified teacher who created the Black Line Mystery for the 2012 K12 Online conference. This presentation went viral on twitter when it was released. The Black Line Mystery is a story about the most complicated Chinese character known to mankind and its community. It is an online meta linguistic awareness unit using Google Tools As well as learning language, it’s important that our students learn ABOUT language. The Black Line Mystery is a unit Jess created to introduce students to the Chinese character writing system. The unit is all online, allowing students who don’t go to my school to join in. Come along to hear about how she got this unit together and what free Google Tools she used to make it possible. Here is the link to the recording. and make sure you watch this creative, engaging story that uses google apps to fabulous effect.
