Monday, February 23, 2009
Being excited to see my students in the new semester
I am so excited that tomorrow I will have the first class and see my students again in the new semester. What do they expect from this course and from me in this new semester? I think I won't let them disappointed because we two English reading teachers plan to do some thing to change the present teaching, that is, to use technological novelties to assist the reading course, to begin a so call teaching innovation. Though a hard road for us, we will try, and it is worth trying.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
An idea of teaching innovation
As the new semester is coming, I have an idea to continue my teaching innovation by using technology of web 2.0. I am not sure whether to use the old model only by using blog, or to use some new technology. I am searching the website these days and trying to find a solution.
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Sunday, May 27, 2007
We finally finish students' thesis defence of the year 2007
Today is the day of students' thesis defence in our department in the year 2007. Our department will have 221 graduates this year. As for the new regulation of our uni, all of them should attend thesis defence in order to get the other fifty points in their total 100 points thesis writing. This is different from that of last year, in which only authors of excellent theses attended the defence.
Today we divided the students into eight groups, with two teachers in each group. Our group has 31 students, and it took us a whole day to finish the defence. The proces of the defence is like thesis confirmation in Australia, which is as follows: Firstly. each student will be given five to ten minutes to present his thesis, then his supervisor will ask him two or three questions concerning his thesis. After that, the student will be given twenty minutes to prepare the questions. Finally, the student will answer the questions or defence his opinions with teachers.
I am the supervisor for 15 students this time. In other words, I have to read 15 copies of theses for students going to get a bachelor's degree. Those 15 theses cover topics of literature, linguistics, culture and grammar, with each about 6,000 words. So, I was busying reading those 15 theses these days, what was even worse was that for some research fields, including grammar and linguistics, I only have little knowledge. However this is also a good learning process for me.
Today we divided the students into eight groups, with two teachers in each group. Our group has 31 students, and it took us a whole day to finish the defence. The proces of the defence is like thesis confirmation in Australia, which is as follows: Firstly. each student will be given five to ten minutes to present his thesis, then his supervisor will ask him two or three questions concerning his thesis. After that, the student will be given twenty minutes to prepare the questions. Finally, the student will answer the questions or defence his opinions with teachers.
I am the supervisor for 15 students this time. In other words, I have to read 15 copies of theses for students going to get a bachelor's degree. Those 15 theses cover topics of literature, linguistics, culture and grammar, with each about 6,000 words. So, I was busying reading those 15 theses these days, what was even worse was that for some research fields, including grammar and linguistics, I only have little knowledge. However this is also a good learning process for me.
Saturday, May 19, 2007
The attractive things in Beijng
These days Beijing was very windy, however, the greatest 
advantage of the windy day was that blue sky appeared in Beijing again. I was even shocked when I first saw such a pure blue sky in Beijing cause in my memory the sky in Beijing has been gray for at least ten years. I stilled remembered my depressed feeling after I first came back to China from Australia in this early spring. But now, that was just past memories, I can enjoy the pure blue sky and white clouds in Beijing, in China again.
The host of the conference invited some artists to give two performances to the presenters. The night before yesterday was an acrobatic show form Wuqiao, yesterday was a dance and song show. They are all marvelous and fabulous. This is the second time for me to enjoy an acrobatic show, the first should be more than thirty years ago in the auditorium of Henan University when I was still a child. As for the dance and song show, many famous Chinese artists were invited to attend the performance. I preferred the Cross Talk performed by Jiang Kun and Dai Zhicheng, in which they told jokes of Chinese’ learning English with the tone of using different dialects.
I’ll post some pictures of the conference, blue sky of Beijing and the shows.
advantage of the windy day was that blue sky appeared in Beijing again. I was even shocked when I first saw such a pure blue sky in Beijing cause in my memory the sky in Beijing has been gray for at least ten years. I stilled remembered my depressed feeling after I first came back to China from Australia in this early spring. But now, that was just past memories, I can enjoy the pure blue sky and white clouds in Beijing, in China again.The host of the conference invited some artists to give two performances to the presenters. The night before yesterday was an acrobatic show form Wuqiao, yesterday was a dance and song show. They are all marvelous and fabulous. This is the second time for me to enjoy an acrobatic show, the first should be more than thirty years ago in the auditorium of Henan University when I was still a child. As for the dance and song show, many famous Chinese artists were invited to attend the performance. I preferred the Cross Talk performed by Jiang Kun and Dai Zhicheng, in which they told jokes of Chinese’ learning English with the tone of using different dialects.
I’ll post some pictures of the conference, blue sky of Beijing and the shows.
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