Two notable individulas who have been using Chinesepod have blogged about their impressions. Rick Nigol is an e-learning expert who has been using ChinesePod for the last few weeks, as has Paul Dillon, aka, the Learning Guy. Both seem to like ChinesePod, and for similar reasons.
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Both cite community as a source of motivation, help, […]
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E learning experts review ChinesePod
Published by March 31st, 2007 in About ChinesePod and Learning. 4 CommentsChinesePod is a community of practice
Published by March 23rd, 2007 in China, About ChinesePod and Version 3. 30 Comments
Our recent posts have talked about ChinesePod as a tool. Today I want to emphasize the people (learners, experts, and practitioners). We’re all here to share knowledge, work towards common goals, and learn Mandarin collaboratively. We are, in that sense, a Community of Practice.
The concept of CoP was originally framed (20 years […]
Better pop ups, more learning
Published by March 20th, 2007 in About ChinesePod and Version 3. 15 CommentsIn the past week or so Hank, John and Ken have let slip some of the improvements we’re planning for V3. In this milestone blog post (ok, I’m overstating things, but it *is* my first) I want to talk about some of the backend changes we’re instituting in the run-up to V3, and start a […]
The former Australian Immigation Minister, Amanda Vanstone, may be in trouble for spending somewhere between 30,000 and 70,000 (Australian) dollars on Mandarin classes while she was in office.
In ChinesePod terms that higher figure would buy something like 200 years of premium subscriptions. Even if she took the uninterrupted daily practice sessions with the 8 […]
A couple of quick updates of some non V3 issues.
- I will lead the first ever St Patrick’s Day Parade in Shanghai tomorrow morning, dressed as the holy man himself. (Go figure.) Here’s what the Shanghai Daily have to say about it.
- Learning guru signs up: Elliot Masie is a highly influential thought leader […]
I want to introduce you to the new look ChinesePod (’Version 3′) to be released in the coming weeks. The new design here on the blog today gives you a flavor of that. Meanwhile, here’s a what the new home page will look like.
We approached the design from the belief that form should follow function. […]
Learning Chinese on Squidoo
Published by March 8th, 2007 in Tech, Learning Chinese, About ChinesePod, News and ChinesePod Media Coverage. 2 CommentsSquidoo: SKWID-OO, n. v., adj., addiction.
ChinesePod now has a nice little Squidoo lens on Learning Chinese. These are some of the things you can Squi-do on our lens:
- use, vote on, and contribute to a list of the best places on the web for Chinese learners
- view the latest ChinesePod lessons and some of our […]
Since I started this blog, in Oct 2005, I feel I’ve been learning at warp speed. Why? Well, I didn’t do a brain-swap or a radical attitude change, but I did create a learning network: a collection of trusted, online sources of information, help, and discussion that keeps me constantly thinking, learning, and participating.
ChinesePod […]
Why aren’t there more women learning Chinese?
Published by March 5th, 2007 in Learning Chinese and About ChinesePod. 99 CommentsWe have more men than women in the ChinesePod community. I don’t have the exact stats right now, but my guess is that it’s at least 55/45, but possibly as much as 60/40. I’d like to know why. Do we fail to cover topics that women might be more interested in, or fail to accommodate […]
Rob Ant asks for ‘your favorite Jenny Zhu quotes’.
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