Rudi's Favourite Fruit

 

As the majority of the world starts looking to conduct education online, this is a work sheet I have created for my Grade 1/2 classes in Chinese. Rudi the Orangutan is showing the students some of his favourite fruit. Rudi is a puppet who used to help me teach Indonesian when I was working at Rochester Primary School. He is now making a a new appearance with my younger students. They find it funny how Rudi is fluent in Indonesian, but now he has to learn Bahasa Cina (Chinese)!

Tiga Sekolah dan CINTA - Board Display

This is a board display I created back in 2010 while hosting three teachers from Indonesia. Two of these teachers came form schools in Bali and the third came from East Java. At the time I had a network running with four local schools in Campaspe Shire (including mine). To help celebrate I created this display on my classes pin board. It took about a week to complete as I was trying to create a to-scale map of of Jawa Timur and Bali. A lot of fun to do and my students were able to learn a little of where our visitors came from.

Lecture note sketches while in Lombok, Indonesia.

This is some work from a few years ago. In January of 2014, I was at the University of Mataram, Lombok, Indonesia on a three week intensive Indonesian Language course. I began drawing some sketches while writing notes from my "dosen" (lecturer). Although I was three weeks away from family and home, I still thoroughly enjoyed the experience and occasionally dream of going back.
The boy featured is a practice sketch for Penci (Penchi), one of my characters for Simon The Nexian.

Choosing Good Paper!

This is a good lesson in choosing good quality paper. Unfortunately the paper is too waxy and won't absorb the ink from the pens and colour shaders. So the dog and pig don't appear bright and colourful, just dirty and a little smudged.  Not to worry. Back to the drawing board (so to speak).

Indonesian flash cards

These drawings are a lot of fun and fairly quick to do.  The idea is to have four cards of each alphabet letter so as to play Memory, Go Fish, Snap! or any other type game to help remember Indonesian vocabulary.

Indonesian Holidays - Colouring in work sheets

These colouring-in sheets are good for Indonesian language lessons for Lower to Middle Primary.

Ikan & Kucing - At the restaurant

This is a 4 page comic featuring Ikan and Kucing (Fish and Cat).  This was originally completed as a University assignment on discussions around a familiar topic. Our two heroes enter a Balinese restaurant and put in an order.  The Cat gets bored and sets fire to his chair while 'clowning around' with a candle!

Ikan & Kucing - Saya Sakit! (I'm Sick!)

Comics in Bahasa Indonesia

This comic strip is one I drew a few years ago on the Ikan & Kuching theme.  The topic for the strip is Saya Sakit! (I'm sick) and uses a lot of the vocabulary needed when describing sicknesses.

I was able to use this with a VCE Languages Indonesian class (Yr 11 &12) when I was on placement at a secondary college.  The students really enjoyed learning the language in comic strip format and could translate first and practice with each other second.

The punch line at the end is that the dog (Fred) has accidentally contacted a doctor rather than a vet.

The comic strips were drawn first, scanned and then dialogue was added via utilising the Comic Life program.