Recently our English for Science unit’s lecturer posted an issue about e-learning at the college’s “e-learning” system (which is actually a blackBoard Learning System that is also used by many other colleges) and we are required to write a response to that issue. She also provided a link to a page that clearly explains about “e-learning”. Until now, I have really no idea on this issue since I am still reading that webpage while I am posting this.
If only looking at my college’s so called “e-learning” system, I really don’t like it much because it is not as useful as I expected. Blackboard Learning System is no doubt a good system handling “e-learning” things but it is not being well used at my college. I myself prefer looking for information at another websites rather than the e-learning system because there are almost nothing provided by our lecturer through the system except for some lecture notes / tutorial questions / assignment questions etc. I have a friend studying at another college and I heard from him that he can get a lot more things through their college BlackBoard System besides notes / assignments etc. And the participation of his lecturer is much better compared to my college. I found that sometimes it is very rare to see any lecturer to join in our discussion in the discussion board and probably this is why Blackboard System is not popular in my college.
But these are only some problems that only occur in my college, and this doesn’t mean that they will happen in other colleges as well. Therefore these cannot be the only points in my response to the issue, *sigh*. Now I would need to start thinking what to write and post them this Friday since I do not have much spare time because the units I took in this semester are quite tough (at least 4 credit hours) and I am definitely don’t wish the same thing happened as the “Introductory to Discrete Mathematics” unit last semester.
不知不觉又到了除夕,说不知不觉,其实是因为之前的忙碌已经盲目了神经。忙碌,已经是我们已经习以为常的一种状态。往往就是因为忙碌,而使到大家没时间去留意身边的事物。今年的新年预料将会过得非常沉闷,如果没必要的话,其实我也不是很想四处去拜年的,毕竟已经过了那种很渴望红包的年纪。最要命的是,拜年时往往就是吾等小辈很白痴地坐在人家客厅看一些无聊的电视节目。真的是闷到都会爆掉,真的没更有创意的方式咩?
有没有试过一脚把一大堆蚂蚁踩死,这就是我刚看完的一部电影(中译:强战世纪?)带给我的感觉。先不论电影是不是合乎逻辑,不过,如果这部电影要带出的讯息是和平的可贵的话,我想它也已经成功了。当看见一大班人被屠杀的时候,在惊悚的同时,心里也有那么一点点的悲哀。难道一向称霸地球的人类如此不堪一击?非常可悲的是,人类目前可谓无电源无法生存,因为这样一切都被迫停顿,这不是可悲是什么?
再者,当Ray(Tom Cruise饰)带着他的儿女驱车逃难的时候,无论人类社会如何文明,如何先进,还是会在这种时刻曝露出只顾自己的劣根性。人们可以为了自己的安危不惜牺牲他人的生命,这比被外星人侵略更加悲哀。当然,我们可以很乐观的说,这只是电影内的情节。但是如果很不幸,我国被人侵略,那么同样的情节会不会从荧幕搬到现实,而我们不再是观众,而是演员?当然,没有人希望战争的发生,无论是“合法”还是“野蛮”的(在我来看,无论理由多么富丽堂皇,战争还是发生了,所谓“救难”只是那些高官为了预防自己失眠的理由),也就是这样,才会产生如此的故事来提醒我们事事以和为贵。(仅此哀悼前几天伦敦被恐怖袭击受害的人士)
当然,我也稍有提到一些不合理的地方。当然,这些并不重要,反正一部电影开拍的目的只是为了传达一些讯息,还有提供我们娱乐的一个管道。第一个不合理的当然是整个故事的主线情节,有什么理由外星人在人类出现前就打算毁灭人类的文明世界?再者,我不明白为什么人类文明那么让它们妒忌(前几天的袭击很明显告诉大家,人类的所谓文明也不过如此而已)。最后,男主角Ray的儿子Robbie也未免太大命了一点吧,明明是一片火海,却看起来毫发无伤……怎么搞的!?
黑夜,一座仿佛不需要月光照耀的城市。
这是一个属于黑夜的故事,尽管故事是以狂欢夜开幕,尽管城市的灯光把周围照得有如白昼。暴风雨来临之前未必不能够惊涛骇浪,在这座城市,是没有所谓的惯例,有的只是一则有一则令人心酸的故事。在这个零三年的平安夜,在满天烟火的笼罩下,在一个拥抱的人群里,唯独只有她——Rachel,还在等着一个她并不知道会缺席的男人。她独自地一杯又一杯把面前的威士忌有如白开水灌下,尽管它有如振熙说的那么难以入口。等了一个又一个小时,她下了一个决定……
終於等到這個擁抱,一星期來的奔波勞碌,讓他幾乎忘了還有這個可以停泊的港口。雖然不知道這到最後是不是只是個臨時搭建出來的建築,但現時有個等着自己的靠山總是好的。這溫熱的擁抱讓人陡然忘了一整個星期的奔波勞累,緊實得讓人感到心安,溫暖得讓人甘願捨棄一切來交換。只是港口始終只是個港口,沒有船是可以永遠停泊不航行的,正如沒有一個擁抱是可以一直到永遠的。
昨天掉了東西,故心情很糟,所以想寫點什麼來發泄一下情緒,卻苦無對象。一直到剛剛才發現,好像可以寫給你。老丟東西的習慣說真的似乎沒有改善過,唯一不同的可能是說,人長越大,掉的東西引起的後果就越嚴重。說到這裡,還倒是很懷念你不見眼鏡的那次,記得當時一整天心情都很忐忑,甚至到如果可以很不想回家面對。還有那次掉錢,然後在學校書店前哭到呼天搶地結果老師不得不幫忙墊錢。