2009年6月6日 星期六

2009年4月29日 星期三

Language learning websites

I find three language learning websites that I like most: collocation of week; conversation exchange; digital dialects.

First is collocation of the week which takes a common word and gives five collocations of it each week for advanced students. It also uses the mind-map for showing definition, notes and example clearly. Through the mind-map, students can easily understand the usage of collocations in article. At the end of week, there’s also a short test which exam people’s comprehension of the lesson in this week. It won’t be a burden to students, because there’re only five collocations per week.

Second is conversation exchange which includes of face to face conversation, correspondence (pen-pal), and text and voice chat. I prefer the last one, because it’s the most safe and efficient way in three kinds of community ways. Through chat software students can easily communicate with others for free without safe problem. The chat software also has the function of video camera, and so that students also can chat with others face to face. Students should consider the security problem when meet someone who is stranger. The second one has the lesser opportunities to practice the speaking ability than the others.

The last one is digital dialects which uses the games to practice English vocabulary for English starter. Starter is hard to concentrate on textbook during long teaching time. Through interesting games can attract students’ attention and stimuli student’s learning motivation for enhancing their quantity of vocabulary. It’s good for English starters who hate to memorize the vocabulary.

2009年3月12日 星期四

The reflection of the youtube viedo about phonics

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Most of children know how to emit the sounds, but they are hard to distinguish different spellings of words with the same sound. I think there’re three advantages that can help children’s learning. Firstly, in this video, it clearly clarifies four spelling forms of the sound- long ”oo”, so children can easily to remember it.. Secondly, this video adds the colorful and vivid pictures to every word, so it can attract children’s attention. Those pictures also can help connect the spellings with sound. Last but not least, I think the most interesting and valuable part is the song. This song gathers different spelling words and edits it into a film-picture. It can deepen children impression, because of the visual and auditory stimulations. When children sing this song again and again, they also review the content of video at the same time. The musical melody can help children to learn and remember the knowledge that video want to convey. Therefore, I think this video is good for children learning the multiple spellings of one sound.

2009年3月5日 星期四

The reflection to Chung-kai's two blog sites.

The two blog sites of Chung-kai introduce many tools of computer technology and also explain some nouns of it. I learn a lot from both of these sites. Through surfing his site, I know the differences between Web 2.0 and Web 1.0. I can utilize some tools to enrich my own computer technological knowledge and also enhance my English writing and listening skills. I think some tools are very interesting and useful. For example, Youtube and I’m TV. I can find many valuable videos through surfing these sites. If I have some information that I want share with other people, I also can update it on both of sites.

2009年2月26日 星期四

web2.0

Web 2.0著重的是雙向互動,其重要精神在於網友的參與。這個概念由O'Reilly媒體公司創辦人暨執行長Tim O'Reilly(提姆‧奧萊理)提出,他是最早提出「開放源碼」觀念。當時提姆在會議中腦力激盪時,大家發現網路經過了泡沫化,仍有許多新應用的網路公司誕生,這些都是泡沫化後倖存的網路公司,而且都有一共同之處,這個共同之處就是Web 2.0的輪廓。所以Web 2.0並不是一種新技術、新科技,而是一種新觀念,讓網路回歸到以「內容」為根本,也就是IT(Information Technology)不再是只有Technology,而擁有更多的Information,而且這些訊息不是來自網主,而是網友。(
一開始看到Web2.0以為是一個新軟體,後來發現是一個開始以「使用者」為服務對象的新世代、新觀念,像是每天使用部落格就是其中的產物。因為網站者給予使用者自由創作和分享,所以這樣新的互動模式使網路與人們的生活緊密相連,從查詢資料甚至到交友都在網路上完成,透過多元的網路功能讓人們生活更能便利,網路的影響力的重要性對人們來說也越來越大。但是也因為如此,同時也有嚴重的網路成癮問題產生,過長時間的使用網路,也有「宅男」、「宅女」的新名詞產生。我們應該了解網路只是我們的輔助工具,但是不能過度依賴網路。

introduction

My name is Mia. I like listen music and watch movies. Last year I took teacher’s class and understood how to use the Internet resources. Now I can utilize what I learned to share my English composition. Therefore, in this course, I hope I can learn the more new computer technology to assist my English learning.