January 2008 Archives
《5天创下新纪录!——申城迎来建国以来最大雨雪量》
2008年1月25日下午起，上海地区出现雨雪天气，全市各区县普遍出现了明显的积雪，截止29日8时，市区累计雨雪量已达54.4毫米，市区积雪最深达 4厘米，郊区崇明雪深为17厘米。雨雪量为建国以来最大。市区雪深为1991年以来最大。郊区雪深为1984年以来最大。
1991年12月25-28日的连续降雪，市区雨雪量为18.5毫米，雪深5厘米，郊区金山雪深为10厘米。
1984年1月17、18日连续两天的大雪，市区雨雪量达46.7毫米，雪深5厘米，郊区嘉定雪深为17厘米。
始于2008年1月25日下午的雨雪天气已持续了5天。其持续时间为1964年以来最长。
1964年2月17-24日，发生在上海地区的大雪过程共持续了8天，市区积雪深度达14厘米。
原载上海气象信息网
today marks exactly our 5 months in shanghai, and it's snowing quite heavily outside where we are. there isnt any snowing last year so guessed we are quite lucky (in the good n bad sense).
a few more photos to mark this SNOWY occasion ...
saw links to this "Growing Up Online" production by FRONTLINE|PBS looking into the life of our youngsters. have not had the time to go through it myself, but i'm believe the issues and concerns raised in the programme would be common to us all teachers/parents and even growing up youngsters themselves? even as we are watching it we too are growing up online in a way isnt it?
here's a direct link to some of the press responses after the broadcast of the production.
saw this in another feed, Will's looking for good examples of student blogs in the classroom, with blogging as defined by "writing that has “Links with analysis and synthesis that articulates a deeper understanding or relationship to the content being linked [to] and written [about] with potential audience response in mind.”
read the post and the many useful feedback which fellow teachers/educators have left under Will's post.
if you happen to have some good examples to share, you can leave your comments with Will's post for all the share too :)
chanced upon this tool "Voice Thread" when i saw it mentioned in one of my blogline feeds (which has been neglected for 3 weeks at least), it's a pretty impressive tool which allows a teacher to engage students in self-expression or group conversation on some common topic. the 'topic' can exist in 14 types of media format (wmv, ppt, gif, pps, pdf, jpg, doc, png, opd, bmp, xls, mov, flv, avi) and the conversation can occur in 5 ways (voice, video, phone, type, upload).
more useful features for teachers include comments moderation, which allows teachers to invite parents, communities to view and participate (students can only invite peers within the community to comment on their work); to protect privacy further (or i think it suits students' needs to adopt different personalities at different time), they can create multiple identities/avatars when 'talking'.
would definitely like to experiment with it if i were in the classroom right now, if only ...
you simply have to check out the following official intro to learn more about Voice Thread (not juz in written form here):
if you are currently in school teaching, you can 'go pro' any apply for a FREE (with some conditions) account and explore it for use with your students! details' here.
am slow in finding out about this platform, but it's never too late :)
how is grammar to be taught with composition writing? is there any relationship between a good piece of writing and it's grammar, aside from the simple phrase 'grammatical error free', which translates into compliance with grammatical rule. what i'm exploring in this essay is beyond the 'compliance' issue, how does renowned writers managed grammar in their writings (knowingly or unknowingly) so that it makes a good piece of literary work? did not manage to come out with much conclusions in this round of exploration coz the issue turned up to be too complex for a simple analysis of two pieces of writing to produce any recommendations.
and here's it, the latest installment for my series of assignments:
《语法与作文教学实践探索--以三维语法为线索》
keywords: 语法, 作文教学, 三维语法, 句模, 从缺,语义, 语用
My Examinable Assignments Log:
1. 《窥探中外语言教学对学习动机的尝试与研究》
2. 《探寻篇章语法给华文教学的一些启示--从"我们中国人老早就认识'康乃馨'牛奶水"谈起》
3. 《语法与作文教学实践探索--以三维语法为线索》
4. akang datang
我爱花，所以也爱养花。我可还没成为养花专家，因为没有工夫去作研究与试验。我只把养花当作生活中的一种乐趣，花开得大小好坏都不计较，只要开花，我就高兴。在我的小院中，到夏天，满是花草，小猫儿们只好上房去玩耍，地上没有它们的运动场。
花虽多，但无奇花异草。珍贵的花草不易养活，看着一棵好花生病欲死是件难过的事。我不愿时时落泪。北京的气候，对养花来说，不算很好。冬天冷，春天多风，夏天不是干旱就是大雨倾盆；秋天最好，可是忽然会闹霜冻。在这种气候里，想把南方的好花养活，我还没有那么大的本事。因此，我只养些好种易活、自己会奋斗的花草。
不过，尽管花草自己会奋斗，我若置之不理，任其自生自灭，它们多数还是会死了的。我得天天照管它们，象好朋友似的关切它们。一来二去，我摸着一些门道：有的喜阴，就别放在太阳地里，有的喜干，就别多浇水。这是个乐趣，摸住门道，花草养活了，而且三年五载老活着、开花，多么有意思呀！不是乱吹，这就是知识呀！多得些知识，一定不是坏事。
我不是有腿病吗，不但不利于行，也不利于久坐。我不知道花草们受我的照顾，感谢我不感谢；我可得感谢它们。在我工作的时候，我总是写了几十个字，就到院中去看看，浇浇这棵，搬搬那盆，然后回到屋中再写一点，然后再出去，如此循环，把脑力劳动与体力劳动结合到一起，有益身心，胜于吃药。要是赶上狂风暴雨或天气突变哪，就得全家动员，抢救花草，十分紧张。几百盆花，都要很快地抢到屋里去，使人腰酸腿疼，热汗直流。第二天，天气好转，又得把花儿都搬出去，就又一次腰酸腿疼，热汗直流。可是，这多么有意思呀！不劳动，连棵花儿也养不活，这难道不是真理么？
送牛奶的同志，进门就夸“好香”！这使我们全家都感到骄傲。赶到昙花开放的时候，约几位朋友来看看，更有秉烛夜游的神气——昙花总在夜里放蕊。花儿分根了，一棵分为数棵，就赠给朋友们一些；看着友人拿走自己的劳动果实，心里自然特别喜欢。
当然，也有伤心的时候，今年夏天就有这么一回。三百株菊秧还在地上（没到移入盆中的时候），下了暴雨。邻家的墙倒了下来，菊秧被砸死者约三十多种，一百多棵！全家都几天没有笑容！
有喜有忧，有笑有泪，有花有实，有香有色，既须劳动，又长见识，这就是养花的乐趣。
—— 原载1956年12月12日《文艺报》
mirrored from 百度知道
this animation entitled "Tupid's Story" was put together by my student sihui and her friends imelda, daryl and yingxin for the "Valentine's day event for MTV" competition.
valentine's just one month away and this story relates itself to the day :) hope you enjoyed it as much as i do. like what i told sihui, there's much to be desired towards the ending and a "to be continued ..." can be added to the last frames. let's wait for their next creative creation. enjoy :)
in the midst of writing a (next-to-meaningless) term paper and my mind drifted off (not surprising) and the word "Logo" came to mind.
gotten this off wikipedia:
Logo is a computer programming language used for functional programming. It is an easier to read adaptation and dialect of the Lisp language; some have called it "Lisp without the parentheses." It was created for educational use, more so for constructivist teaching, by Daniel G. Bobrow, Wally Feurzeig and Seymour Papert. Today, it is known mainly for its "turtle graphics", but it also has significant facilities for handling lists, files, I/O, and recursion. Logo can be used to teach most computer science concepts, as UC Berkeley Lecturer Brian Harvey does in his "Computer Science Logo Style" trilogy.
here's a sample of logo's code.
to get a copy of the berkeley's logo, visit Brian Harvey's home page or George Mills' MSWLogo page.
if you are hunting for a firewall software and you'll like something that's FREE (and good of coz), get ZoneAlarm Free.
Welcome to the intersection of ZoneAlarm® ingenuity and philosophy. Since day one we have been giving away our award shattering firewall for free. Why we do this is simple - we fundamentally believe everyone has the right to experience the Internet in safety. Please enjoy, with our compliments.
and btw if you are looking for FREE antivirus software (and good one of coz), get AVG Anti-virus Free Edition. i have been using it for 3 years and it has helped me grab many viruses on the run. especially useful when your friends plugged in their usb/thumb/flash drives into your pc/laptop. and the best thing is, AVG uses relatively less system resources compared to some other BIG names which you may be familiar with ;)
saw this article entitled "The 10 Worst PC Keyboards of All Time" on pcworld off /. did not realise there's so many interesting/confusing keyboards before the first ibm-pc keyboard that i have ever owned.
some of the comments on some of the keyboards:
- Some of the keys controlled as many as six different functions.
- had no Backspace key.
- too many symbols printed on each key.
- poor key placement ... resulting in users' making repeated accidental hits and sending the cursor back up to the top of the screen.
- have anyone seen the period key? Oh, it's over there on the numeric keypad.
- no Left Shift key existed--instead, a Control key sat in its place
- most frustrating key combinations was Shift-Q, which would quit a program or reset the computer, much to the chagrin of users who lost a day's work while erroneously trying to capitalize the letter Q.
how lucky i am :P
was looking for a reference on Sigmund Freud's (1900) "The Interpretation of Dreams" and came upon a 3rd edition available on the web via Psych Web put up by Dr. Russell A. Dewey (PhD).
Psych Web is an excellent web site on psychology. you can find a complete, 725-pages introductory psychology textbook that's available on the site! you can find many other related resources on the left menu bar and even an apa style reference sheet called the APA Manual Crib Sheet.
explore n enjoy :)
WikiMatrix provides two choices:
1. A direct "Select-and-compare" mode which allows you to choose and compare features of some 99 wiki sites online. The comparison is very comprehensive, which includes General Features, Hosting Features, System Reqiurements, Datastorage, Security/Anti-Spam, Development/Support, Common Features, Special Features, Links, Syntax Features, Usability, Statistics, Output, Media and Files and Syntax Examples.
2. Use the "Wiki Choice Wizard" engine which will ask you a few questions and generate a recommended list of wiki sites for reference. The questions asked what features do you need, which include "History", "What you see is what you get (WYSIWYG)", "Software or hosted?", "Your own Domain?", "Corporate Branding", "Storage System?", "Free and Open Source?", "Programming language?".
a very useful reference to have imho :)
chanced upon Prof Wang, William Shi-Yuan （王士元教授）'s home page in the CUHK server. and in this 1-page long home page, he has shared 38 of his publications in PDF format for download by netizens who are interested in his research work.
if only more researchers/professors are like prof wang, guess the life of students/researchers/teachers/readers would be much easier alike. until the day ... ...
here's two more photos shared by 正萍 taken on the day of our last lesson-cum-gathering.
to my teacher n classmates of edu6013 class and friends who are reading this post:
Wishing you a very fruitful year ahead and may everyday be filled with happiness and laughter :)
Cheers!
