This is still an active blog….Hello, 2010!!

So it has been almost 5 months since my last post!! What have I been doing? I get 16 sessions per week this semester but I’m still busy as a bee!!

While everyone was celebrating the end of 2009 I was staring at my laptop working on my final test design. Those days of staying up for parties, celebrating new year with friends and millions of strangers in front of Taipei City Hall seems soooo far away from me.

Lately I’ve been paying more attention on my other blog for students. I made 2 slideshows to showcase kids’ work with PICASA but tonight I just realized that Photo Peach is an even better slide making resource. Plus it’s free!!

The features I found very likable:

1. It connects with several popular picture sharing services i.e. Picasa, Facebook, My space…

2. It offers free background music. They are not too fancy but is just-right for me.

3. Idiot-proof editing menu. You can easily finish a slideshow in 10 minutes.

4. It’s fast.

So I made my first Photopeach slideshow with the shots of my got-to-go goods. :-)

Things for Sale on PhotoPeach

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The gentle art of hearing

我是在Presentation Zen看到這一段影片Mankind is no island,全長3.5分鐘皆以手機錄製.錄製地點分別於紐約與雪梨.

很喜歡裏頭的一句話:The gentle art of hearing.想了很久怎麼翻成中文才能表達出影片裏的意境,

是傾聽的溫柔?溫柔的傾聽?似乎怎麼都沒法表現出原文的意境.:-{

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News report with a bias_看不下去yahoo奇摩新聞

熱鬧的兩岸會晤,在yahoo奇摩是這麼報導的....

同一網頁,上半頁是不超過5行的"圓山飯店外零星閙場",下半頁是看來就很high的4個新聞標題.

好奇怪,這是在講同一天的同一件事嗎?

 

 

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Snipd 分享網路資訊更方便!

Snipd is like sharing your online scrapbook with others. You can add your comment on whatever you found interesting, be it text, picture or even video. I love it because it makes sharing knowledge easier. I love it because the interface is cute and easy to learn. Here's a brief intro. Enjoy it and start snipd it!

You can follow my snipd here. And please share your snipd with me if you find it is interesting, too:-)

No, snipd didn't pay me to write this. I simply love the product!

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為什麼微軟用簡體字傳送客服訊息給台灣客戶?

使用hotmail和live spaces已經多年,但是今天接到的這封客服信實在讓我有點難以忍受.

大意大概是微軟將不再提供hotmail的服務,請客戶們開始轉移或備份客戶資料.但全文以簡體字寫.老實說,一或兩個簡體字我還有"猜猜看"的興趣,一整篇客服信件要客戶來玩猜猜看實在是很白目的"客服"行為.

台灣微軟是怎麼了,搞不清楚台灣是使用正體中文的國家嗎?客服信件不用當地的官方語言書寫是什麼意思啊?!!!!

真是有夠白目!

 

這年頭連補教界名師也搶著落井下石?

TOUGH這個字對職場女性通常都不太陌生.TOUGH對我的意義是堅忍,有毅力與決斷力.這樣的特質是"負面"的嗎?那端看你是從那個角度來看.但若說TOUGH是"暴徒惡棍的意思,這倒是相當冷門的解釋.你可以看看下方連結Evil Capitalism Heros為大家整理的字義.

朋友傳來台灣英語補教界名師高國華解釋TOUGH這個字的語義.為何東森記者會沒事去問高老師英文呢?因為最近陳幸妤用這個字形容自己會好好的活下去.唉,這年頭記者是怎麼回事,連文章裏唯一出現的一個英文字也可以變成新聞主軸.跑新聞"好辛苦"啊!!!!!

換句話說，陳幸妤說的「tough」指的不只是堅

強，她還會像刺蝟似的當護衛扁家洗錢案的最牛

釘子戶，事實上英文單字「strong」也是堅強的

意思，而且還有勇敢的正面意義，陳幸妤不用

「strong」，卻用「tough」，她的鬥雞性格也

在用字遣詞當中一目瞭然。(新聞來源：東森新聞記者陳智菡、莊勝利)

猛然看到記者之一的名字,希望她不是我大學時的同學,東森新聞的品質一直挺讓人驚嚇,我想舊時教"新聞倫理學"的皇甫河旺老先生應該會看的挺吐血的吧?!

Evil Capitalism Heros寫的好,我們現在到底在學那一國英文呢?記者可以從一個單字推測到使用者的性格,也許該改行去做測字!!!

台灣的媒體品質真是他.馬.的.爛!!!

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My 2nd smilebox creation

很早就下載了smilebox來玩,無柰筆電老是在重灌的循環,smilebox這個好玩的scrapbook軟體就有點被遺忘了.

今晚得知明天放颱風假後就好整以暇開始整理照片,安裝好smilebox後,選定圖片,下載smilebox的theme template後,再一一加入圖片,打上caption,就完成一本digital scrapbook了! 我先做了一個給W,又做了一個和928有點關係的,Learning how to teach 只是前言,明天我要做主題.

smilebox對我現在的這台老電腦是有點負擔,所以剛剛一直很擔心中途當機.還好成功的做完2本剪貼簿,很有成就感呢!

目前smilebox的免費帳號提供email/post你的作品,但若要印出就得付錢.值得一提的是,它也提供內建的配樂供使用,但若要上載自己的音樂,就是要買premium account啦!

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