Group Project: Reflection

Group Project Title: Hong Kong Tourist Attractions
Group members: Yuen Sze Wai Ronda and Yeung Kit Ping
Ronda's Part: Parks, Local Food, Useful links

Reflections:
In my group project, I take responsibility for three parts: Parks, Local Food and Useful Links.
1.PARKS: a photostory which is about 4 minutes, with background music and colourful descriptions for each photo.
2.LOCAL FOOD: small Hong Kong map with six major districts, the viewers can click the stars to check the details.
3.USEFUL LINKS: hyperlinks to the appropriate sites.

Advantages:
1. The Flash can motivate the students, visitors and readers.
2. It provides an effective platform for communication, collaboration, applications, and mobile learning.
3. It meets accessibility requirements with less hassle and more interactivity.
4. It provides e-learning for overseas and local tourists. The tools and services are used for rapid and robust e-learning development.
5. It allows educational agencies to be more efficient and effective by delivering digital experiences to students through videos, pictures, photos and web resources.
6. Readers can access, organize and save the useful links.

Limitations:
1. It was time consuming to make the colourful texts and images.
2. I could not embed the video with audio narration. The visitors probably would not be able to hear an audio narration.

Conclusion: A good experience for using the Flash. In fact, I learnt that it can improve efficiency in delivering superior digital interactions.
Link of my Flash:
http://iln.cite.hku.hk/com/1374/users/swryuen/all2.swf
Your comments are welcome.

Group Project: Useful Links

In my group project, there are seven useful links for the readers.
1. Hong Kong Outdoors:
Hong Kong Outdoors was founded by writer, photographer and wildlife enthusiast. The web site introduces the wild side of Hong Kong, covering activities from hiking to birding, and places from Fan Lau in the southwest to Tung Ping Chau in the far northeast of the territory.

2. Hong Kong Tourism Board:
This Website presents information about Hong Kong by data, photos, pictures, videos, audio and other materials. Example include: tourist attractions, food districts, transportation, shopping areas and heritage.

3. Explore Hong Kong Outlying Islands:
This website introduces major Hong Kong outlying islands, especially transport, shopping, events and sights.

4. Time Out: Hong Kong:
Hong Kong offers a huge range of attractions, both urban and rural. This website introduces the Victoria Harbour, local street markets, Buddhist temples, clubs and some of the best restaurants . The guide also include details about shopping, hotels, transport and nightlife.

5. Hong Kong Fun in 18 Districts:
This website provides information about 18 Districts in Hong Kong.

6. Hong Kong Travel Guide:
This website introduces specific topics of Hong Kong, such as activities for children, sports, food, shopping and Hong Kong travel tips.

7. Hong Kong Tour:
This website introduces Hong Kong by web photos, video clips, wallpapers, screensaver, poster, games and virtualtours.

Here is the flash I have made for my group project. Your comments are most welcome.

Group Project: Food Map

Hong Kong offers a variety of seafood, international restaurants, coffee shops, bars and side stalls. My food map aims to provide information about food districts and local food in Hong Kong. Food map lists all major districts in Hong Kong Island and New Territories. They include So Ho, Causeway Bay, Stanley, Lamma Island, Tsim Sha Tsui and Sai Kung. These places of interest introduces local food specialties and good examples to the tourists. Each example contains address and trasportation of the specific restaurant.

In my group project, I have used Flash 8 to create buttons, sound, hotspots and frames with colourful pictures. The Flash 8 buttons provides interative function to the readers. When the readers click the specific area, the description and food pictures will appear.

This food topic is very interesting and attractive. The cuisine in Hong Kong can be described as a fusion of eastern and western style cuisine. Hong Kong cuisine provide an unlimited variety in every class. Therefore, international expertise has given Hong Kong the reputable label of "Gourmet Paradise" and "World's Fair of Food".

Here is the flash I have made for my group project. Your comments are welcome.