Annotation: Skype and Language Learning
The author in the article mentioned many advantages of using the new technologies, Skype and Podcasting are now widely be used in different fields such as for commercial and business purposes. Compare to the telephone and mobile phone, skype is much more cheaper. The most important is that the quality of skype is quite good because the quality depends on the speed of network. The inventions of skype increase the opportunities of chatting between people, and for it is free so that more and more people would like to use skype in order to save more money. It is a good way for language learners to improve their speaking through skype because it can also provide the images of the speakers, so that the learners would not feel that they are talking to a screen or a machine. It is just like a face to face talking.
2008年10月21日 星期二
2008年10月7日 星期二
Review1.The dream land.
http://thedisneyblog.com/
This is a blog that would have post about the children’s land of dream: Disney land. The author of the blog would update the news of Disney land, including the advertisement of new cartoons and movies, the cooperation of their hotels, the activities the land are going to carry on. The blogger also put some pictures and videos from youtube that enable readers to get more from during reading.
Why I decided to choose Disney blog is that Disney is a dream for children and even for adults. The stories of Disney are so impressive to me, especially the fairy tales of princesses. There are not only the romantic and creative plots that attract me so much, but also the beautiful melody and the delicate paintings that I would never forget in my life. The following pictures are some classical tales in Disney:
These four are the most famous symbols among the fairy tales of Disney. The Disney Land located in Tokyo has a Cinderella Castle in the land, that is the landmark of the land. The visitors can see the castle from everywhere in the land. This is the beginning of my peer of this Disney blog!
The Intergration of Internet-based Materials.
In this modern world, there the human beings create more and more hi- technologies that make the world become more connected. The population of using Internet is a big progress for human beings because people can get a lot of information from the world and share their knowledge with the world simply just with this little magic line.
Now students are easy to do much more self-learning whenever they want to enhance their English ability. The reading materials that were put on the Internet are easy for students to obtain. As long as they type in the key words, they would search plenty of information they need. Sometimes they might get some free service from some websites that allow students to download the sources on the websites. This is another good way for students to gain resources besides library. There are many merits of doing online readings. The article might provide the function that when the readers run into some questions in their reading, they could click the word or the sentence, then there would pop up the window which is going to explain and solve readers’ confusions, that is the so called hyperlink. That would increase the efficiency of learning. And the materials are easy to carry, these are not like the books, they could be save into a PDA or MP4, that enable the readers to do the reading all the time.
But it does have the opposite aspects. The problems of plagiarism would arise because the materials are too easy for people to gain. The basic limit is that not everyone has hi-techs that would provide readings all the time. The Internet gives us many kinds of information, but students sometimes could not select which is the correct information and which is the right information they need. Here then somehow creates kinds of confusions.
Now students are easy to do much more self-learning whenever they want to enhance their English ability. The reading materials that were put on the Internet are easy for students to obtain. As long as they type in the key words, they would search plenty of information they need. Sometimes they might get some free service from some websites that allow students to download the sources on the websites. This is another good way for students to gain resources besides library. There are many merits of doing online readings. The article might provide the function that when the readers run into some questions in their reading, they could click the word or the sentence, then there would pop up the window which is going to explain and solve readers’ confusions, that is the so called hyperlink. That would increase the efficiency of learning. And the materials are easy to carry, these are not like the books, they could be save into a PDA or MP4, that enable the readers to do the reading all the time.
But it does have the opposite aspects. The problems of plagiarism would arise because the materials are too easy for people to gain. The basic limit is that not everyone has hi-techs that would provide readings all the time. The Internet gives us many kinds of information, but students sometimes could not select which is the correct information and which is the right information they need. Here then somehow creates kinds of confusions.
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