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.
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.
老实说,很多亲人都不希望笔者在这家公司继续逗留下去,至于原因,实在没有详叙的必要,毕竟笔者不是个什么大中华主义者。昨晚在看完电影后,船夫(最近关于工作的文章都跟船夫有关系)才刚问笔者什么时候成为正式员工,犹记得当时笔者用着一种很不可置信的语气说才工作个半月哪有怎么快。不过有时候巧合的事情真的不由得你先穿上华丽服装化上鲜艳妆容用最美丽的姿势站着迎接,一切真的来得很措手不及。
今天在公司裡,難得上司體卹員工這陣子超時工作的辛勞,而特地讓大家早點下班。興高采烈的她盤算著不先告訴同居已有一段時日的男友,想說要給她一個意外的驚喜。去那家餐廳吃飯好呢?還是難得早放工索性一起去看場電影好了?不然還是去租一片影碟,在家裡的沙發,他的懷內安安靜靜看一部電影,再相擁而睡?
今天我发觉我自己跟一块木头,或者应该说是电冰箱比较恰当,因为我可以是个很冷的人。为什么这么说,为什么今天才觉得呢?要从头开始说比较好。今天我听到一则很有趣的故事,故事仍然发生在一个我不知道要如何形容他的人,我们好不好叫他S?你不喜欢也没办法,因为我喜欢。S是个很能够为别人赴汤蹈火在所不惜,就算烧死自己也要照亮别人的一个伟人。可是他有一个致命缺点,就是耳根子软。现在请感谢他,因为他才有这篇文章。话说S不满意自己看起来很弱(虽然他大只累累),不敢坐过山车,不敢看恐怖片,偶尔比较腾鸡(干着急)。
一直都不认为自己很爱,但是身边却已经有不少人说过我很爱,我真的很爱咩?至少我自己没有这样的感觉咯。最近的一次,就是从幽子姐的手中出来的(没见过面,只见过她的文字)。话说幽子姐刚刚重唱了她的版本的ISP版太委屈,结果出来的效果,或者说里面的一段真的不是普通的爱,爱到那种程度,我只能够说,有多爱,要你自己听过才知道。或许有一天,她会是其中一个踏入podcast这个领域的blogger……
继上次的蝴蝶公园Bokeh之旅后,这一次要拍的主题是新年。原本小弟是提议东禅寺的,只是没有预料到东禅寺迟到此篇的前一天才开始亮灯就只好改成吉隆坡的地标庙宇——天后宫。这一次同行的好象比较多人,计有我、向希、幽子、Sam、升杰、船夫和林彦(唯独没有在blog挂自己domain name的blogger)。在经过重重折腾之后,抵达东禅寺的时候竟然欣然发觉自己不是最迟的混蛋(顺带把其他人也叫成混蛋了,我好像是趁机吃人家豆腐的感觉……),善哉善哉。好了,话不多说,接下来有爆多图片,请慢慢忍住会被刺激到狂呕的感觉慢慢看下去。