Week2- Blog post (1)
1. Read with Your Children
http://resources.emb.gov.hk/story_telling/main.swf
This website is a kind of interactive education website, which is established by RTHK and the Education Department of Hong Kong. There are many short stories with some flash and it can display two kinds of language as the subtitle. Hence, it helped me a lot when I was an English tutor for an elementary school student because it tells stories in English.
Here is one story of this website: http://resources.emb.gov.hk/story_telling/story10/full10e.swf
A little girl and her parents are visiting to Vienna, the Music City. They find a lot interesting things and enjoy this music experience. This website starts to tell stories with some appropriate background music and interesting flashes. Also, just as someone tells a story to you, it has a wonderful dub. As we know, too much flash and music may annoy audiences, but sometimes these elements can be used very well. They are truly auxiliary with this website and lend the article/story more lucid.
2. Mount Vernon’s Tulip Town a flowerbed for peace
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=tulips01m&date=20070401&query=tulip
A low-key ceremony for Tulip Town was held on Saturday morning. This news starts with the event to help audiences understand what’s going on. If audiences are interested in this topic, they would get more information about the Tulip Town, like its owner, its history, and even some links that are relevant to this festival. Also, its heading is very attractive to me.
3. Many Planets Could Circle Twin Suns, NASA Says
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/03/070330-twin-suns.html
The article is from the 15 most popular news stories on the website- NationalGeographic.com. It says that the latest data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope indicates that the universe might be brimming with planets that could circle two suns. This title headline is awesome to me. After introducing this phenomenon, this article also offers more information (other related articles or experiment data, links) to audiences. However, to me, I hope that this article could display some pictures to explain this phenomenon. That would assist me to understand more.
