Well said Leo. I too wonder if those of us in the English speaking world are also becoming unthinking slaves to this medium.. like the TV and SkyTV, Video, Radio, NewsPapers, Magazines.. I guess its inevitable. The great closing line in that Youtube movie EPIC2014.. "Its the best of times and the worst of times..."
2008/6/28 Wong Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dear Steve and all others reponding to this thread , > > Big thank you first ! I am deeply thankful for all your support ,and I am > crossing my finger now for the sonnest time to support Chinese in WE and > also to other languages too . > > at the meantime , please forgive me on my tone , I may sound a little bit > upset to WE lately , please do understand that I am the only active user of > WE who speak Chinese , and in the web2.0 world , it is full of English > material ,and my students are not realising that they are becoming the > slaves of these tools ,( is google making them them fool too ?) ,if there is > not enough Chinese content ( I don't mean those fake Chinese stuff ) my > students would never learn how to think critically ,am I right ? > > Leo > > > > > > 2008/6/27 Steve Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> Leo wrote: >> >> << It is even much harder for me to participate in the discussion >> here , coz I sooooooooooo much want to speak out for China students , >> but there are not >> much platform like WE ( I like WE best personally ) however , WE is >> not supporting Chinese so far now . >> >> >> For what it's worth, I too agree that WikiEducator should support >> Chinese. If a prospective funder for this is associated with COL, >> hopefully the point can be made that there are millions of >> Commonwealth citizens in Singapore, Malaysia, and elsewhere who read >> Chinese natively. Although, will the difference between Simplified or >> Traditional Chinese perhaps be another issue? >> >> >> << I am promoting WE in my network , you can find all the stories >> <http://www.google.cn/search?h1=en&q=wikieducator >> +site:www.haokanbu.com> I creat duringh last year I write stories on >> haokanbu , I use A chinese web21.0 website , and many teachers in >> China don't have the techie captacity on building their own wiki like >> I do I have my own wiki site , >> >> >> Don't worry, my observation is that most teachers in English-speaking >> countries don't know that much about technology either. >> >> >> << and Chinese as the most spoken and beautiful langauge itself should >> be supported HERE in WE no matter what you think . >> >> >> :-) I think it's more of a technical and funding issue than anything >> else, and it's my hope that we'll support it before long. >> >> >> << personal note on myself : I don't feel comfortble and blend in >> here in WE , but at least I am trying to read ,listen , thank you >> guys , >> >> >> I hope you don't feel terribly uncomfortable. You're certainly >> welcome here! >> >> -=Steve=- >> >> > > > -- > HELP 项目论坛 > https://groups.google.com/group/helpelephantsliveproject > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
