1. Dave’s ESL Café
http://www.eslcafe.com
I knew this site in 2007, when I attended an ESL course in the States. This is a very useful place for both teachers and students.
My teacher suggested me using it to look for idioms, all the idioms can be search by the first letter, from A to Z, and it provides the meaning and a sentence of using. In my opinion, from this little spot of looking up idioms, it provides visitors a simple way to get what they want with accuracy and variety options.
2. Cambridge Dictionaries Online
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/
It is a dictionary website provided from Cambridge, when you want to look something up, the only thing to do is type it and select what dictionary you it might be in, and you could get the answer.
3. ICRT
http://www.icrt.com.tw/#
Of course everyone knows ICRT, it’s a radio channel on FM, it introduces you the latest music in America and England, and if you are not a fan of radio or you don’t drive, you can also listen to it online, it speaks all English most of the time, English Learners could stay on the channel to focus on what the hosts are saying or appreciating the music or just let themselves to be in an English immersion condition, days after days, the ability of English listening could truly improved!
2009年4月6日 星期一
2009年3月25日 星期三
What is Mind Mapping?
Mind mapping is a strategy to help us express ideas. It makes paragraphs into picture, makes readers to understand easier. Making a mind map, to me, it’s like drawing a big tree.
The elements of given a mind map are according to the importance of the contents, we give the most important idea for the first column, and the less important one the next, etc…
The columns are classified into groups, branches, or areas. It is a new way to analyze articles or speeches instead of line by line or a paragraph of summary.
The elements of given a mind map are according to the importance of the contents, we give the most important idea for the first column, and the less important one the next, etc…
The columns are classified into groups, branches, or areas. It is a new way to analyze articles or speeches instead of line by line or a paragraph of summary.
2009年3月23日 星期一
Reflection on what I’ve learn from the two blog sites that Chung-Kai made for learning communities
Web 2.0 for Language Teaching and Learning
He explains the idea of web 2.0 very clearly for those who are new to web 2.0, like me. Web 2.0 is really a landmark of a whole new world in Internet space.
He shares a lot of websites such as, youtube, wretch, slideshare, etc…, that we have recently learned in class. Those websites represents this new Internet era, they founded as some large space for people to share and commute their opinions. For example, Wretch, is now one of the largest websites in Taiwan, at the very beginning, students are the mainly members of it, now not only personal blogs open on wretch, even some private groups, or clubs, they founded their home page on wretch.
As for the language teaching purpose by using web 2.0 mentioned by Chung-Kai, the application of web 2.0 for learning will replace the set-up Language Learning Center in the future, I agree with this view a lot, now it is so convenient to do everything by the Internet, of course English learning or other language learning are included, there will be a day that no one has to go to school or cram school for learning, people could just pay and learn on the Internet at anytime and everywhere.
ESL/EFL Writing and Internet Technology
Facebook, as Chun-Kai mentions, is one of the most useful social tools, which help people to find each other and communicate on line. I use facebook a lot myself, my friends and I write to each other on facebook more often then sending emails, it is a very convenient way to contact my foreign friends without spending money. I write to them and P.S. all the time, they will correct my error usage of my English, and that is a good way of learning English and also connect with friends!!
Odiogo, which is a cool tool that could vocalize your blog. I think it is so convenient to lazy people, if they aren’t willing to read, they could listen! Or for those people who aren’t able to read, they could listen; or for those who are too busy to surf on the Internet, they could use ipod to listen to the blog while jogging or doing exercise, and all these people could get the information from the blog as well.
He explains the idea of web 2.0 very clearly for those who are new to web 2.0, like me. Web 2.0 is really a landmark of a whole new world in Internet space.
He shares a lot of websites such as, youtube, wretch, slideshare, etc…, that we have recently learned in class. Those websites represents this new Internet era, they founded as some large space for people to share and commute their opinions. For example, Wretch, is now one of the largest websites in Taiwan, at the very beginning, students are the mainly members of it, now not only personal blogs open on wretch, even some private groups, or clubs, they founded their home page on wretch.
As for the language teaching purpose by using web 2.0 mentioned by Chung-Kai, the application of web 2.0 for learning will replace the set-up Language Learning Center in the future, I agree with this view a lot, now it is so convenient to do everything by the Internet, of course English learning or other language learning are included, there will be a day that no one has to go to school or cram school for learning, people could just pay and learn on the Internet at anytime and everywhere.
ESL/EFL Writing and Internet Technology
Facebook, as Chun-Kai mentions, is one of the most useful social tools, which help people to find each other and communicate on line. I use facebook a lot myself, my friends and I write to each other on facebook more often then sending emails, it is a very convenient way to contact my foreign friends without spending money. I write to them and P.S. all the time, they will correct my error usage of my English, and that is a good way of learning English and also connect with friends!!
Odiogo, which is a cool tool that could vocalize your blog. I think it is so convenient to lazy people, if they aren’t willing to read, they could listen! Or for those people who aren’t able to read, they could listen; or for those who are too busy to surf on the Internet, they could use ipod to listen to the blog while jogging or doing exercise, and all these people could get the information from the blog as well.
2009年3月3日 星期二
2009年2月25日 星期三
Introducing Myself
Hi,
My name is Tina Chen, 陳彧亘(ㄩˋ ㄒㄩㄢ)
I come from Taipei City and I go to an university in Taichung City.
In Taichung, I rent an apartment near my school, I have a roommate, who is one of my best friends from high school.
I major in English, and I like English very much.
My school used to be a teacher's college, but I'm here not for being a teacher, I don't want to be a teacher, but some of my classmate do want to be a teacher in the future.
I'm studying Spanish for the second year, I want to master it because using Spanish might be a specialty when I go to work.
My name is Tina Chen, 陳彧亘(ㄩˋ ㄒㄩㄢ)
I come from Taipei City and I go to an university in Taichung City.
In Taichung, I rent an apartment near my school, I have a roommate, who is one of my best friends from high school.
I major in English, and I like English very much.
My school used to be a teacher's college, but I'm here not for being a teacher, I don't want to be a teacher, but some of my classmate do want to be a teacher in the future.
I'm studying Spanish for the second year, I want to master it because using Spanish might be a specialty when I go to work.
What is WEB 2.0?
WEB2.0,是強調使用者之間的連結
一個網路的社群就是WEB2.0的表現
象徵知識的匯集
社群網站像是無名小站, My Space, Youtube, Wikipedia, 大家都可以分享上傳資訊的site(網站)
大家可以把自己的專長上網分享給別人
這個集合出來的知識圈(collective intelligence)
WEB2.0可以說是一個新的網路時代
For example,
web1.0
就像是我做一個 分享食譜的網站
每天新上傳一份
過一段時間我懶得再分享的話 我的網站就像死了一樣
因為只有我再提供食譜
不然沒有大量使用者看我的網頁 就沒有廣告 所以這個網站就變得沒有價值了
web2.0時代
這次我做一個平台
以Youtube 當作模型
我還是準備了很多食譜當作資料庫的庫存
這次我讓每個使用者建立帳戶
你可以自己上傳食譜
可能是你在別的地方看到的食譜
可能是你本身就是一個大廚
然後我用一些獎勵機制來鼓勵大家上傳
例如說讓有多少看了你的食譜 或是你當月提供多少食譜
就我封你作本月食譜王
如此一來
隨著使用者越來越多
提供食譜的人也越來越多
我的網站就像活水一樣
不斷有新的東西進來
因為大家持續的分享
這個平台就不會消失
剛剛說的 像是無名小站 Youtube 奇摩知識等等
都是建立在 他們的伺服器 也就是他們的網路空間上
意思是 只要他們關站 我們就沒戲唱了
因為我們還是受限於他們的硬體資源提供
我們只能提供知識
So, 3.0
就是未來的某一天
當寬頻 硬體發展更好的時候
每個人都有能力架設自己的伺服器
每個人都有超大網路空間
可以架自己的平台
使用者再也不用受限於大網站
我們自己的平台也可以接廣告
主控權完全在我們user身上
不過現在無法
因為頻寬不夠 而且貴
這些就是簡單的introduction and examples
我的總結是
WEB2.0是一種創新 一種概念 一種精神一個嶄新的時代
附上從網路抓來的圖解
and 參考網址:
http://0rz.tw/VUTPI
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