Extension activities

The logical extension activity here is for students to think about any or all of the four topics or genres presented by the characters in this learning object, and following the model established, prepare their own projects on this topic to share with others - either an Indonesian class or other students in Australia who are learning Indonesian.

Aims or understanding goals for this task:

Students will understand and be able to explain:

• the language and stylistic features of particular genres used in their project
• the ways in which water is important to both Indonesia and Australia, and how it influences the lifestyle of people in both countries (Umi's project)
• the reasons for a particular sport being valued and supported in both Indonesia and Australia (Made's project)
• the characteristics of a hero demonstrated in Tuti's project and in their own project
• the importance of tourism to Bali and to their own region, and how attractions can be presented persuasively (Budi's project)
• how to find, prepare and present appropriate information in a web project format.

Technical assistance:

Getting started
Adding images
Adding links
Adding 'graphs'
Language support
Publishing elsewhere

Getting started:

In order for students to 'upload' their project in the learning object, you must download a copy of the learning object and save on each computer being used. This will allow students in a computer lab to share their work at the same time. NB: Students will not be able to save their projects within the learning object. Once they close out of the object, their work will be lost.
For this reason, make sure that they keep a copy of all sections of their project elsewhere.

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Adding their own images: Students can use a digital camera to take photographs, but must save them inside the 'images' folder as a .jpg of size 300x255 pixels with exactly the same name as one of the images in that character's project. To see the names of the images, open the 'images' folder inside the Proyek kerjasama WWW folder. Go to the view menu at the top of the screen and choose 'thumbnails' from the dropdown menu:

• Umi's pictures are images 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
• Budi's pictures are images 6, 7, 8 and 8
• Made's pictures are images 10, 11 and 12
• Tuti's pictures are images 13 and 14.

Students do not have to replace all the images from a character with images of their own - for example they do not need to upload five pictures around water. They are able to choose not to include some of those images in their own project.
However they cannot upload more images than are in that character's project, For example, a project on a hero could only have two images within the learning object.

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Adding links:

Before students search the web for good sites and perhaps for images that they can use in their projects, discuss the school ethical use policy for Internet use and make sure that students understand copyright requirements. It is acceptable for students to copy images to use in their own school projects, but they must include the site that the image comes from. It is acceptable for them to link to other sites, but they cannot make any derogatory comments about those sites.

Once students select the + button in the links section, they will be able to see where to write the caption for each link. They can replace the caption and link on any of the character's web sites, as well as adding up to another three extra sites. Every URL must have http:// at the beginning. To add extra URLs, put the cursor to the right of the http:// just below the caption box.

Don't forget to save (simpan)!

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Adding 'graphs':

Graphs and tables are an interesting way of presenting information in a different format. Students can create a graph or table to accompany their project, but it must be displayed on a simple web page and called graph_Budi.html, graph_Made.html, graph_Tuti.html or graph_Umi.html as appropriate. This page is then saved into the 'docs' folder  inside the Proyek kerjasama WWW folder.

Students can use software such as this graph maker http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/grapher.html for drawing graphs, or spreadsheet software such as Microsoft Excel to display the results of surveys of favourite sports for instance, or the amount of water people are using.

Students can conduct a survey and draw a graph on paper, then scan that as an image and copy onto a web page. The possibilities are very varied - your school ICT coordinator should be able to provide help with this.

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Language support:

The topic of 'Heroes' is also dealt with separately as a further extension activity.

Sport - fact file: Have students work in pairs to choose a sport or game played in Australia and present it in the fact file genre modelled in Proyek kerjasama WWW. You may wish to give students access to the script of Made's project (in Word or PDF) as a model. Allow students to use online and offline dictionaries as appropriate, to add Indonesian language.

Travelogue - persuasive text: Stay with the same focus, but work in groups to 'sell' their own local area. Begin by listing attractions, then use the script of Budi's project (in Word or PDF) to list positive words used to try to entice the reader eg indah. Use dictionaries to add other vocabulary appropriate to the local area. Share examples of writing about Bali from students in Yr 5 and 6 at Sanur Independent School, in both English and Indonesian (see the Resources section).

Water - feature writing: Water is an increasingly important resource in all countries, but perhaps especially in dry areas of Australia. Have students discuss their own experiences of water and compare them with Umi's using a Venn diagram to indicate which aspects are common to both countries and which are different. Ask each student to work with a partner to write one sentence each about water in Australia. Give students a copy of Umi's script (in Word or PDF) and dictionaries; and support them in adding Indonesian.

Heroes - personal response:  View the next extension activity for further discussion around this concept. Give students a copy of Tuti's script (in Word or PDF) and dictionaries, and support them in adding Indonesian.

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Publishing elsewhere:

Students can also publish their projects on the school intranet to share within the school, or share with another school as part of a real collaborative project. Your school's ICT or technology person would be able to advise you on how best to do both of these things.

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