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E-learning
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E-learning part 2
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.
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e-learning?
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.
Random Posts
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唉，我病了
吃了几次药后，人也都变到昏昏沌沌了，昨天更是差不多睡足一天呢……不过比较幸运的是我这次生病不用赶assignment，真是不幸中之大幸。
前天终于装上好多人推荐的Ubuntu Linux Distribution了，感觉上操作和一些concept比其他的distribution人性化好多，至少我不必做什么都要login as root才能够执行。只是我装的这个版本apt-get内有的软件不是很多，也不是很新，好怀念FC3下的yum哦。
中文字还是Linux下的大麻烦，看了一大堆教学，也试过其中几个，但是都不是走到一半继续不下去就是太复杂。后来我放弃了，继续对着这样的中文字过日子，呵呵。可是刚才我装了Opera后看到它的中文字比Firefox下好，只是可能开启了模糊化的选项还是什么的，中文字有些blur。
这星期就是我国的双佳节了，不过很可惜卧病好了后就要开始整理这四个星期所学到的东西准备mid-term了，天啊，怎么时间那么快过的？不过至少学校假期开始了，巴生谷的塞车情况会稍有舒缓吧，但愿如此……
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臭鸡蛋……
因为旧站的程序我没时间更新，所以迫于无奈下只好暂时关站，没想到竟然有几个王八蛋在我的地盘撒野灌水。为了遏制这类事件继续发生，我唯有把留言版的留言功能关闭。如果大家继续看到我的旧Blog有这类事情发生，可以留言通知我。
唉，人就是那么的无聊，也不懂为什么。最近小弟忙到就来连阿妈都不认得，除了麻鬼烦的Case Study，还有很多测验将会在接下来几个星期接踵而来（详情可以参考之前的英文Blog）。天啊，我可以说这是第一次我感觉到时间那么不够用。呵呵呵。
前几天第一次Post上第一个英文的Blog post，昨天（截稿时已过半夜12点）晚餐朋友向我提起这件事。因为那则Blog内有附上一个超连接是把之前F4的电影观后感翻译成英文的，结果引发不少笑料（不过小弟是无辜的，我没时间去查看啦）。结果我写了两个字的英文直接翻译，然后两者合起来就成了笑料。那两个字就是，Spice（香料）， Girls（女孩/姑娘们），结果结合起来应该是Spice Girls(辣妹），可是却变成“香料姑娘”。呵呵呵，可能目前的科技发展还无法完善地把某字和context相互配合翻译所以类似上述的笑料其实很容易发生，呵呵。
嗯，除此之外，可能有人会问我，为什么这个Blog变成半番唐的Blog？这是因为我有一些朋友自小说英文，完全不晓得中文（不过就算会中文大概也接受不了我的语法吧）。所以，为了扩大读者群，没有啦，只是身旁的Blogger全部都是英文Based的，所以为了顺应潮流，我就也Post上一些英文版的Blog咯。不过呢，嗯，因为小弟的英文程度有点抱歉，所以如果有污大家的眼睛，可以尝试去看医生，因为吹沙入眼可大可小。
最后送上一个朋友送上的冷笑话一则，某日上课老师问大家的志愿是什么，当然，小朋友们都争先恐后地抢答。
男生甲：“I like to fight, therefore I want to become a fightER!”
女生丙：“I like to write, I want to become a writER~”
到小明了，他很骄傲地说：“I like to draw, I want to become a drawER~” -
界面更新二
很感谢大家对这个新界面的支持，在经过这几天的重新排列后，第二版的界面终于出来了。大家应该注意到在这一版我仍然使用了很大的字体来呈现。原因是最近的网站字体有越来越大的趋势，而且看起来很舒服，所以我把之前小小的字全部放大。目前这个第二版我是故意把全部的东西抽出，只剩我的网志。这个是因为我想把一些最主要的内容把它放在第一位，然后再来搞细节上的东西。
这次的设计仍然维持第一版的伸缩性设计，这就是说你仍然可以在不同的银幕尺寸和解析度下看到同样比例的排版。接下来的工作我将会继续把目前的设计给它完善，才来加入更多的内容。
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消失的第七层楼 – 第六章
原撰写人：Javaman（aka David）
啊！！！！。。。。(吓醒)
朗亮妈哭着说：孩子。。。孩子。。。你怎么了？
朗亮：啊。。妈妈。。。我在那里？我头好疼呀。。。怎么回事？
朗亮妈：你怎么躺在7楼楼梯这里了，我刚刚去麻林家去找你发现麻林痛苦的躺在床上不停的叫你名字，我马上打电话给医院去急救，但是她一路上一直呼呼这你名字，叫你别去7楼，我已经通知她家人了，这到底怎么回事。。。孩子
朗亮：没。。。。没什么。妈，7楼有人住吗？
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出席声讨凶徒大会的不完整报告
希望大家都能以理智的态度来留言，用字尽量文雅些，Show that we’re well educated, can you? Thanks in advance for the co-operation.本来今天（1-8-2006）就算没有这个大会，我也会打算出席由前拉曼生所举办的一个和平请愿活动。是不是拉曼生并不重要，重要的是我们必须趁着这个机会发表一下我们身为市民对治安甚至是对警方效率的不满。后来今天从报章得知也是在今天，拉曼学院的礼堂有一个公开的对话会让民众和学生一起来关心这个民生的问题。我大概六点钟到达拉曼学院吉隆坡总部的礼堂，发觉到出席者多为拉曼学院的在籍学生。除了学生之外，还有一些居协代表和一些该学院的讲师和附近住宅区的民众也来参与其盛。
注：我的这篇报告其实偏向主观，如果需要比较客观的报告，可以参阅报章。
