AP Chinese-中文大学预科

Friday, July 14, 2006

AP Conference 2006


Many teachers of Chinese Language attended the conference. About 30-40 teachers showed up to my session. I was surprised about the turnout which probably due to the recent "Chinese fever". My son, Steve helped me take some photos and videotape my presentation. Thanks, Steve!

The session went well this morning. I just could not finish all the slides I prepared. But I could sense the willingness among the teachers to try some tools I mentioned during the presentation. The main point of my session was that no matter what levels of Chinese class, teachers should integrate some technologies in teaching, because we live in a digital era. Students are far more ahead of us in using digital devices. It is our job to bring their world to the classroom and let them experience a bigger world. Here the creativity on the part of teachers is essential. Teachers should find a way to bridge this gap. There is always a different way to do it in one's classroom. No excuse to say:"It doesn't fit me or my class."

Since I did not have the Internet access in the presentation room, I could not show the web sites and student sample works in the session. Actually, a few things bothered me very much at this hotel. It is a quite fansy resort hotel. But there is no wireless connection, not even in the conference room. Another one is that my computer was probably got hacked. My desktop icons including the language bar for Chinese input (Microsoft IME) were all gone after I rebooted my computer. Luckily I made a back up copy in my ipod last night. I could still show my slides. I did notice a wireless connection on my desktop last night when I got on the Internet. I was suspicious. I tried to disconnect it, but not successful. So I shut down my computer. It was too late to stop hacking. Hope that I did not lose anything else. This is the damage that the technology can cause. Oh, well. Things happen. One just goes along with them.

Tuesday, July 11, 2006

More resources for teaching Chinese

General
http://www.saynihao.org/products.htm
http://www.chinese-tools.com/tools/converter-simptrad.html
Dr. Tianwei Xie http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/online.htm
Online learning tool: http://www.popjisyo.com/WebHint/Portal_e.aspx
中小学信息技术教育论坛 http://www.nrcce.com/discuz/viewthread.php?tid=3344&extra=page%3D1

学中文Learning Chinese

Multilevel Chinese http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/ce_chinese/
中文学习 http://www.minmm.com/
http://www.bluetec.com.cn/asp/mymandarin/class_book.htm
MARTINDALE'S LANGUAGE & TRANSLATION CENTER http://www.martindalecenter.com/
中文聽說讀寫http://www.usc.edu/dept/ealc/chinese/character/index.html


语文

CBE语文资源http://www.cbe21.com/subject/chinese/
中国语文网http://www.cnyww.com/
中国语言文字网http://www.china-language.gov.cn/jiaoyu/index.asp
中文教育网http://www.estudychinese.com/web/humourous/index.htm
华文教育http://www.chinaqw.com.cn/hwjy/index.shtml


电教技术Instructional Technologies

Resources Compiled by Karen L. Murphy http://disted.tamu.edu/edtclink.htm
Instructional Technology Connections http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itcon.html
Resources INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY http://www2.bridgeport.edu/pages/3565.asp
http://www.pbs.org/teachersource/teachtech/research.shtm
Educational Research & EducationalTechnology Links http://fms.wsd.wednet.edu/TechLab/educationallinks.htm
Tools for Teaching http://www.scilinks.org/retrieve_outside.asp?sl=92635699105510661011

Please send your favorite web sites in comments. Thank you.