Second Life - Hail the Judge

    The final project of the class is to make a video in Second Life and have some interaction with international students in NCU. After a few weeks to discuss about the screenplay and some settings of the characters, we decide to film a video called "Hail the Judge", and I act as a main character in the video called Always Powerful. 

    The Story begins with Always Powerful rides a horse and hits Hang Over, and Seven Love, the wife of Hang Over, sues Always Powerful in the court. Here I offer a picture made from my classmate, Pauline, to introduce the complex relationship of the all characters. As you can see, there's a complex relationship in Hang Over, Seven Love and Always Powerful; it's not a love triangle, but a unhappy marriage and a true love suppressed by the society. Besides, there are other characters like the characters work in the court, such as Smart Bao, the judge, court guard and Body Picker. And two sides of people who support Always Powerful or Seven Love; Sugar Mirror and Wine Lady are with Always Powerful, on the other hand,  Toy Boy and Caller are with Seven Love. The debate in the court is really fierce and some of the characters are pulled out and punished because they lie to the judge. In the end of the story, the crowd find that Hang Over is not dead, and he decides to show his true face to divorce with Seven Love and elope with Always Powerful.

Second Life - To film "Hail the Judge"

    The final project is to use Second Life to make a video, and after the discussion of teacher and students, we decide to make a film called "Hail the Judge". And I play one of the main characters called Always Powerful, who is a fan of Bruce Lee in his childhood, then one day he hits someone when he rides a horse to fool around, and the whole story begins.

    To use Second Life to make a video is totally a new experience of me, it's interesting, but hard to manipulate my avatar to do the action or expression I want it to do. In addition, I'm the assistance of the director Maxxie Lin. I have to use my earphone and microphone to contact with my classmates in different classroom. It is really exhausting work to do, this is because everyone has the earphone and microphone, and everyone wants to express his or her opinion. Then, the result is I can't contact with them efficiently and there is always someone chatting with others by microphone and even interrupt my work to give the order of the director. We almost spend five hours to finish filming. 

    As one of the main characters of the video, I learn a lot to make my avatar do something more exquisite action or expression to let the video like the real person to act. Though make this video is hard, I learn a lot from it. It's worthy it!

Online Gaming in Second Life

     This time, the aim of the game is to build a world in our own land. Partly, this activity was to prepare for the final project - a video called "Hail the Judge", and we have to build the environment and some decorations by our own. As a result, the training today is important.

    At the beginning, I start to create some balls and twist it or make it another shape. Then, I find that I can put some trees or grass in the land and make this place more beautiful. In addition to use the function for free in Second Life, I go shopping at the online shop of Second Life to buy something interesting, such as a horse, a boat and a motorbike. Furthermore, I find that there are some houses or chairs, tables available in the shop; then, I don't have to take too much time to produce these furniture in the environment.

    Except me, my classmates are really good at produce something terrific, one of them creates a pyramid by his own, others also create a board to post some announcement on it. And I, buy a Lorax on my shoulder as a decoration Ha Ha.

The Influence of the Visual Content

Hey, guys, this is my new film about "The Influence of the Visual Content", please click in and watch it.

Thank you. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T67TmoIvD7Q&feature=youtu.be

eduPort: A practical app for advanced English learner

  Hello, everyone, today I'm going to share a practical and educational app to you. This app is called eduPort. In recent years, the education from films is gradually prevailed; nevertheless, as a Taiwanese I seldom have the chance to get the message or education from U.S.A. Right now, eduPort is my best partner to get the information across the Pacific Ocean. 

    Here's a brief introduction of eduPort. There are nine channels offered in eduPort like AtGoogleTalks, MIT, TED, UCBerkeley, Stanford and so on. eduPort is a tool to give users many lecture films and speeches. Wow, there's Stanford and UCBerkeley in it! Isn't it amazing?

    

    Take my favorite, Ted for example. After I click in Ted, there are thousands of speeches come to me. And then I click in the first film, the film in Youtube has begun. The way to manipulate the app is easy.    

 

    In addition, I click in another channel AtGoogleTalks for a try. There are also lots of films classified into different spheres in Google, such as authors, artists and chefs. After I click in artists, of course, many films are waiting for me.

    eduPort is a useful app to help advanced English learners to improve their skills, and the best part is English learners can also receive lots of knowlege which is avaible in this app. eduPort is free to download and only needs 1.06 MB, so what are you waiting for? 

Students’ Perception and Experience of Mobile Learning

Hello, guys, this is my film about Students’ Perception and Experience of Mobile Learning. Please click it and watch it. Thank you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mJIRp2nhO8&feature=youtu.be

Pics Quiz - An interesting app for English learning

    Pics Quiz is an interesting game available on smart phone. Here, I am going to introduce how interesting and how useful this game is. First of all, the rule is really simple, you have to guess three words per picture, then you will pass the test and get some rewards. In addition, Pics Quiz can be played alone or with friends online, it makes the game more interesting because players can interact with their friends.

    Pics Quiz is a useful app for English learners, because the way to pass through the test is to spell out the vocabulary with a picture. Here I offer to you, is the scene pictured from my smart phone. As you can see, Pics Quiz offers three pictures in each test, and there are three words waiting for the players to spell out. What's the best is the third word is usually harder than others, because the third word can not be easily guessed with the third picture; the answer of the third vocabulary should gather the clues from the former two words. Isn't it a nice app to practice English and have some brain-storming?

     The last part, I would like to introduce two tools in Pics Quiz. Sometimes, players can not figure out the answer no matter how hard they tried. Therefore,  here're two tools to help you out. The first one is to give you one letter of the words as a hint, and the second is to wipe out two useless letters which Pics Quiz offers. These tools are my best partner when I almost give up the test, and also makes me learn more vocabularies which I seldom use it.

    Pics Quiz is really an excellent app for English learners, because it's not only interesting but also useful to memorize vocabularies. As a result, makes no hesitate, download this funny game immediately, Pics Quiz is available in both Android and IOS system.  

Experience of Second Life 4/10

      Second Life is the world of magic, there is no restriction in players. The best part is that I can do whatever I want and change the appearance whatever I like. At the beginning, I am a dog, then a cowboy, even a machine like a car or airplane. Nevertheless, the computer in NCU is not that good, sometimes it would lag seriously, and sometimes even jump out of Second Life. As a result, I can't enjoy Second Life in class fully, but this online game still catches my eyes, every time the gaming of Second life comes, I usually in a mind of  exciting, because there is always too many places to explore completely.

This time, I change myself to a weird dwarf, which is not available in Second Life customs. I change a role of human being a lot, first of all it should be really short and heavy, then I give the role a pair of sunglasses to make this character funnier. The next step, I give him some strong muscles to make him weird because the arms are strong but his body is really heavy, and the outcome makes me laugh a lot for a long time.

This time, teacher takes us to Mortu to explore and see the former students' work and building. The maze made of Templar Hsu is really a good work, and there are some chairs on the sky to let me sit down. The most interesting part is that I found that I can make my character dance! The best part is there's not only a way of dancing, but a lot of different kind of dancing, therefore, I invite my classmate to dance with. What a pity that I forget to take a picture with them when we are dancing.