这阵子除了自己的事情,也听说了一些别人的事情。有时候东西听多了,尤其是有共鸣的时候,会有一种想要用什么形式写出来的冲动。晚上从大学开车回家途中一时心血来潮想起了一段,后来在这个我应该睡着的时候,在忙完了手上需要做完的事情后突然想起了那一段词,结果就索性再组织一番化为一段字。其实是也可以写成一篇极短篇的,只是最近喜欢了类似诗词般的短小精悍,所以再度尝试一次。
我在想,我们下次的blogger聚会会不会是最后一次?再下一次就要改名了,原因是大家都不敢再写blog了?今天赶路上课的时候恰巧听到数字电台的早晨时事节目听到一段让我想当不开心的新闻。本来这个不开心在学院呆了大半天就不记得了,回到家竟然偶然看到很多人对这则新闻的评论,才又想了起来。请原谅我用这么悲哀的开场来祝福我们的国家国庆日快乐。
Few days ago, I posted up my response on the e-learning issue as requested by my lecturer. I was quite shocked after found out that not more than 5 people posted their response. Is this a sign showing that even though we are studying computer science, but we still do not appreciate and utilize the internet connection wisely? Or this shows that our e-learning system has some problem because it doesn’t help attracting students to login (in other word, it sucks)?
But then, I am quite impressed that there are people who rely on the internet resources in studying in my course. This is because in my college, we are rely on the lecturer for notes. If a lecturer does not provide notes for photocopying, then he/she will be in trouble when students evaluate him/her during the end of semester. Not many who are really interested finding out more on the subject somewhere else and this is probably why not many logged into the BlackBoard and post their response.
In my response, I pointed out that constant electrical supply is a main factor in order to make e-learning a success. It is quite insulting when we are already used to electricity black-outs even in this so-called “Advanced State”. Besides that, decent broadband coverage is also another important factor because not many residents in Malaysia are able to surf online with the help of broadband. Even one can surf using broadband, if he/she is using Streamyx’s service, then he/she will probably suffer from the constantly service down. Even though there are other ISPs providing broadband connection but they cant provide low cost connection. This is because wired connection that is generally cheaper is already monopolized by Telekom. In order to use other ISPs’ services, we will need to pay more for the hardware because they use wireless technology to deliver broadband connection.
If these problems are left unbothered, then I do not expect E-learning will become a trend in Malaysia.
又是一篇延了又延的post,实在很对不起每天接近1000个hits的点击率(不过好像只有30多%是人来的,其余都是搜寻引擎的机器人)。在这里,我……继续写我的(没什么好道歉的,我的blog又不是为了你而生存的,哈哈哈哈)。好啦,其实是说前几天劳动节我跟妈回了她乡下——叻思(Rasa,我妈和老一辈的都读“la4 si1”)。听过老妈子说,以前叻思是一个满繁忙的小镇,繁忙的程度甚至不输于目前的吉隆坡,因为当时那边生产锡矿啦。不过随着锡矿的减少,那边的发展也开始慢慢的停顿下来了。可是最近几次下去都深深的体验到人事已非这个词儿的力量,因为不止路变宽了(附近好像有工业区还是水坝还是什么的),而且树也变少了,还有的就是独居老人也变多了。
I got so impressed after looking at my friend’s assignment interface. It was simply just tooooooo nice. Therefore, me and my group members agreed to decorate our assignment a bit. Besides that, since we started using MDI, then the whole structure has to be revised.
We have added a navigation menu, so that the bar up there doesn’t look too plain (what an excuse). Then we added in some shortcut button suggested by one of my group members. We have also removed our so-called “logo”, since it was not so nice. And lastly, almost all buttons are now with icons so that user can see them clearly (hehehe).
Our system is usable at the moment as long as u do not key in the wrong thing (like you enter letters when you are asked to enter numeric) because we do not have time to do complete validation. We expect all the validation will be done at the time we submit our assignment though. Below are some of the screenshots taken from my assignment project. You can click on them for better enlarged view.