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.
前两年我有去过槟城走走顺便探望个曾经一起去柬埔寨背包的朋友(天,那篇游记确定泡汤了),事隔多年她终于投身了新闻业。那几乎就是我们在背包后第一次面对面见面吃个晚餐,想当然尔经过了那么多年不见话题大概不会断。吃到半途有个卖报纸的安哥走过,然后我朋友就有点神经兮兮的在看是什么报,知道是另一家报社的报纸后整个呈现心痒痒的表情,刚好是遇到我还没看到隔天的新闻,所以我就买了顺便借给她们看(她当时带着同事)别家报社的头条和内容是什么。
今天是國慶日(其實寫這篇文章的時候還有一天才是,但考慮到今天才會發出來,所以……),所以今天來說說我們的國土好了。前些天我有約略跟朋友小白說過,長這麼大我沒看過大型的盂蘭盆節盛會。後來貼心的他,就趁着自己工作地方有在辦抓了我去吃最後一天的晚宴。所以一直到那個晚上,我才第一次見識到原來其實也跟其他華人辦的晚宴差也不多就是。說起來我的第一次,就這樣沒了,實在是難以面對鄉親父老姨媽姑姐啦。
犹记得当时大概是升上中一的时候大伙回母校聚会还是什么的,有个同学抱怨自己在新的环境尚未找到朋友。当时,我们小四到小六的级任老师就鼓励她写日记。我记得当时她是这么说的,日记是你最好的朋友。当然,健忘的我还记得这样的事情就已经很惊天动地了,麻烦放个鞭炮,谢谢。说到哪里了,哦,不过很可惜,不过不重要,因为我不记得这件事情发生在谁的身上。其实突然会想到这个,是因为在报纸看到有位专栏作家写关于日记的一则故事。不用费心去找了,因为看到就是看到,看不到也不用太可惜,因为强摘得瓜不甜(我再说什么啊)。好啦,应该是昨天的南洋商报副刊里的某专栏。
昨天又去了PC Fair,这次去,是为了要去买打印机的墨水,也顺便看看我本来打算明年才买的MacBook长什么样子。总觉得PC Fair搬到KLCC不是个好主意,因为虽然空间大了,但是摊位以及摊位之间的空隙却显然缩小了很多,造成很多时候我不能够好好走。本来我是可以买完我要买的东西就走人了,但是后来临时被要求帮人家看一些laptops和AIO Printers的东西被迫一摊摊去慢慢看。
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~”