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.
若大家記性還不錯的話,大概還記得前陣子我一下子淘汰了一部半的電腦。本來是想要捐出去什麼的,後來看到朋友抱怨電腦很慢,就想說做個順手人情把比較新的那半部給他好了。可是沒想到無止境的挫折,就此開始。是說老師以前都很愛勸告我們要多做好事,才會有好報不會出街給警察不由分說打死。可是這一次的經驗,卻讓我一整個後悔莫及,整個就是賠了夫人又折兵吃力不討好。
首先得先澄清,经过再次的诊断后,医生确认了我的问题不是之前说的Anterior Compartment Syndrone,所以先喘个气。可是这并不代表是完全的好事,因为在上两个星期的比赛前医生打的那好几千下的 extracorporeal shock wave therapy几乎每个都打在疼点上,整个完全就是呈现刺激到极点的画面。医生是说脚骨那边是有一点发炎的现象啦,至于实际上的症结为何我是没有细问啦,不过大概就是这个吧,据说再持续丧跑就会演变成stress fracture了。
相信很多人聽過華盛頓怒砍櫻花樹的故事,如果沒有,且讓筆者為你的童年表示默哀。雖然真實性成迷,但是這流傳至今的小故事卻教育了世世代代的人誠實的偉大。其實故事很簡單,就華盛頓某日收到斧頭做生日禮物(是說這禮物也太歡樂,是要鼓勵跳斧頭幫的舞蹈麼?)。就一天為了測試斧頭多鋒利,就拿了家裡種的一棵櫻桃樹開刀。結果樹倒了,盛怒之下的父親因為兒子的坦白選擇了原諒這樣。聽起來還真是個溫馨的故事呢,或許原諒出自於當時對質時華盛頓拿着那個斧頭吧漫出來的愛和憐惜吧?
有时候,当我火滚到必须要找地方发泄,或者upset到必须要宣泄我心中的不满的时候,第一个地方,就是我的这一个blog。如果对事情的不满倒还好,但是如果牵涉到人的话,往往会让我很难做。当然同样的难题,也发生在我想写一些让我的心情很愉快的事情。因为牵涉到第三者的事情,我不敢,也不可以把他的身份就这样抖出来。这样对他的隐匿权,有极大的侵犯。可是这些东西又犹如鱼骨哽喉,不吐不快。要怎么样子解决呢?熟悉我的blog的人都知道,我很少很少,除非是得到当事人的批准,都很少很少(说很少是因为我怕自己曾经犯过这个错误,毕竟我只是个凡人)把当事人的名字透露出来。
陽光像是不用本的一樣暴曬著大地,連坐在樹蔭下的男孩都還能感受到那股熾熱。在這悶熱的下午,他只能隻身一個坐在這大樹下。眼前只見一群同齡的小孩,在仍然炎熱的傍晚盡情揮灑著汗水。大夥是那麼盡興地狂奔、打鬧和尖叫著。可是在這一切發生的同時,自己卻只能坐在大樹下看著。為什麼我不能參與?為什麼那小子明明昨天才跟全部人大吵一頓,今天卻又像是沒事兒一樣又混進去一起玩那麼不要臉?為什麼那個每次玩個兩下就發脾氣說不好玩的女生,每天都那麼掃興每次都在?