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.
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)。
周三晚上九时放映厅一如往常的一片寂静,连踩在地毯上的脚步,也不忍打破在这喧闹都市中,这片难得的平静。面向银幕的那片墙壁挂了两盏暗橙黄色的小灯,微弱的光芒,让人身在其中不至于伸手不见五指,但要看清身旁坐的是什么人不免还是得凑近才看得分明。这是一间小小的放映室,只是一个电影爱好者为了在家重温旧片而设,是以室内只有一张表面铺上了浅灰色棉布的两人小沙发。
如果有什么年度回水片之类的奖,那这部电影整个就是够格有余。有时候,在一些小细节,因为思维逻辑的不同,所以要直接翻译一些词汇其实不容易。这部片子英文叫《The Lady》,但是若要直译为《那个女人》有点上不了台面。因为在这里的The,有一种很确定就是这个女人,不是隔壁家的王嫂,也不是对面的陈嫂这样。若是直译为《那个女人》,其实好像有点变成《That Lady》的感觉。当然这只是本人的粗浅的见解,欢迎指正,我是不会因此讨厌你的,放心。
想了一夜,还是想不出要怎么写出我对这部电影的看法。说不上喜欢,但是说到讨厌却不尽然,所以这种现象我们叫做——神又是你鬼也是你。嘿嘿,我说的电影就是很少地方会上映的Perfume: The Story of a Murderer。
故事从最腥臭开始,然后从最销魂的香结束(应该是)。有些人说这部电影很形象化把味道散发出来,让你闻到各种各样不同的香味,可是我觉得反而是你的视觉的那种impact更为强烈。除了视觉上的冲击,内心的感觉,我觉得感受到这种冲击的除了视觉外,还有我们的感觉。
前几天因为朋友家里出了一点事情,第一次看到这么无助的她担心她一个人在家会胡思乱想就差遣了靓仔老板先过去,然后我再飞车去看她。结果抵达的时候,本来在电话那头语音有点哽咽的她突然间变得容光焕发,精神状态比刚interview完毕匆匆把午餐吃完把衬衫脱掉剩件烂Tee出去的人还要好。基本上,当时我对她这种情绪上180度的转变是有点错愕的。