Danwei reports that some researchers at the Shandong Technology University have turned a real pigeon into a remote-control pigeon (if you know what I mean) by inserting some microchips into his brain and controlling him from terra firma.
This is kind of weird as I wrote about Chinese universities yesterday and ‘robot monkeys’ today. […]
Archive for February, 2007
“Will classrooms exist in 20 years?”
Published by February 28th, 2007 in About ChinesePod. 51 CommentsRian posted the recent Washington Post article on Digg. Being no stranger to melodrama he titled it “Will classrooms exist in 20 years?”. It provoked quite a response from the Digg Brain. Example:
“Have you ever met a kid that was home schooled that didn’t turn out to be socially awkward?”
Hell, I went to a […]
Recently I’ve been visiting some Chinese university websites. I don’t know if you’ve ever noticed, but they’re notoriously badly designed. I don’t know why. Take this for example. Then there’s this, and this.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying that the institutions themselves are bad. The BLCU (above) is the place in […]
ChinesePod in the Washington Post
Published by February 26th, 2007 in ChinesePod Media Coverage. 6 CommentsNick Kolakowski, at the Washington Post, discovers that we’re ‘not your parents’ language lessons’. The man has a point!
I guess the mainstream is starting to see the power of the new social media tools as an educational means.
If you want to know what other media outlets have been saying about ChinesePod, go here.
Ken […]
This is the kind of thing that happens when you ignore the Big Brain.
Ken Carroll
The forums are going from strength to strength. This morning they hit 1,300 members, a staggering overall increase of 30% since mid Jan! Wow! If you’re not registered, you should be.
Ken Carroll
“The Very Partial Guide to Everything You Need to Know about Chinese New Years”.
Published by February 25th, 2007 in Uncategorized. 2 CommentsEven though I may have complained about the firecrackers going off at 6 am all week, I really did have a great time here during my first Chinese New Years (Spring Festival) in China. From dinners with local friends, old ladies selling vegetables with whom I struck up conversations, my ayi, and of course, […]
Hank Horkoff posted about an important issue at the Praxis blog during the holiday - namely the question of server reliability. As you know there have been some, er, slight problems due, amongst other things, to ever-growing traffic. The message:fear not, help is on the way in the form of a new server environment.
Ken Carroll
‘A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers’
Published by February 23rd, 2007 in China. 9 CommentsThis novel was released in the UK recently. I haven’t read it and I’ve never heard of the author, but this review makes it sound interesting. I quote:
The heart of the book is a love story between Z and her English boyfriend, a 44-year-old, ex-anarchist, bisexual vegetarian who lives in Hackney and doesn’t like to […]
Using the ChinesePod premium features
Published by February 19th, 2007 in About ChinesePod. 39 CommentsI met with some ChinesePod learners this morning. We had a great time… until, that is, I realized they weren’t really getting the full effect of the premium services. Ouch!
I guess I’ll have to try over the next few days to outline on the blog what those are. In the meantime here’s a description […]
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