Well here’s my project. I didn’t bother creating a storyboard after all. I just went ahead and pieced the Phonetics 4U together. I categorized the phonemes into four major categories: voiced consonants, voiceless consonants, monophthong vowels, and diphthong vowels. I could have created Stops, Fricatives, Affricates, Nasals, Liquids, and Glides consonants, as well as High, Mid, and Low vowels as separate categories. However, doing this would take away from the best practice aspect of designing mobile websites (view session 4 post). Another category that I could have added, but didn’t, is consonants combined with consonants. I’ll leave that for an updated version of Phonetics 4U. 

I posted a link to the University of Iowa’s “Phonetics: The sounds of American English” as a reference for further development in pronunciation of English phonetic sounds. This learning object is designed very well, and it is a useful resource for all learners of the English language. 

The phonetic symbols, as I indicated on the Phonetics 4U mobile website, reflect the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, and a link was provided for extra reference as well.

I had one person conduct an alpha test of Phonetics 4U, and one comment made was that it would be good if there were sound for each phoneme. I indicated that that would be best served as an application, such as an iPhone/iPod Touch app, and that adding sound wasn’t possible with the Wirenode web service that I used to make this mobile website. I would if I could. If I were to make an iPhone app, I would probably add all the categories previously mentioned, as well as all the bells and whistles.  

Please visit my Phonetics 4U mobile website.

Project Proposal: Phonetics 4U

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