The paper handiwork exhibition

UPDATE!
The exhibition is coming to USA.
In 2008 at Seattle, Boston, and New York!

This is an exhibition in National Taiwan Demacrocy Momerial Hall.

My mother is one of the exhibitors,

In these pictures, you can see there are 4 little kids wearing 4 different costumes which are

made of paper. All these costumes are made by my mother.

My mother is a paper craftwork teacher in Taiwan.

They are invited by Cultural Division TECO in Los Angeles

There will be an Paper handiwork exhibition in October in LA.

and Washington D.C.

I will list the location , date and time.

Hope you guys can enjoy the magic paper world!!

Deal with "BUSY BUSY parents"

Once upon the time...
we, as a teacher, are so proud of ourselves.
we conduct our kids on the right path,we teach them the ancestor's' knowledge ,
and lead them to create their own imagination,this is what we say "Education"

Are you still proud of yourselves now?
Do you sometimes feel frustrated?
Have you ever met your kid's parents only one time in a semester?
Have you ever encountered a great difficulty in communicate with parents, when their kids were in troubles?


If you your answer is YES,
Now we need to think about the other way to face this problem!


Nowadays, people check email everyday. some people like me check email at least 20 times a day. I spend around 1-2 hours surfing Internet(not including working hours). Therefore, half of our parents is possible that they check email several times and surf Internet for a while during their break time or office hours.

So Blog! may be the best way to communicate with your parents!
They might have no time to show up in the Parents conference. They might have no time to make a phone call with you.

But they do have time to take a glance of your blog.
If you could make your blog meaningful to them!


How could you make your blog meaningful to parents?
Leave your comments!

Be the one to handle with "digital natives"

How many of us are afraid of handling this situation?
Most of us started to learn MS office around 25-35 years old .
I "heard" MS PowerPoint at my age of 23.
On the other hand, let's take a look around our young kids, they know how to use MS word in the elementary level, and they are familiar with MS PPT in Junior high school. Some of the senior high students even know how to use Dreamweaver/Mozilla to build up a website.

How about us??

Never never too late~~

Blog is one of the best tool that we can catch up on them!!
Blog provides publishing post, sharing photos, music, and video clips.
Not that all, we can leave our comments of a photo, a post, or a music.
And we can response and be responded.


Think about that, we can create our lesson plans and syllabus on our blog.
Also, the preview, class discussions and after class discussions can be posted on our blog.
Students have to leave their comments on each of the follow up posts, and also need to publish their own opinions on their own blogs! It's just like what we are doing now!

Furthermore, the class subjects could be various presentations. For example, videoing a clip for introducing a musician, a weather, a season, a bug, an animal and so on. Or recording a sound, a voice, a song of group members. Or a group of people video a short clip for their own presentation.

Once we become a master of blog!
We are no longer afraid of handling our digital native kids. We are going to lead them to a path of learning. Also we will share and grow up our digital knowledge with our kids!

I was a pioneer, but I failed!

I started using website to publish my journals for 6 years.
In the very beginning, I thought it is cool to publish your opinion on the web(web1.0)
I was so shy to show up my name and pictues at the beginning.
After several posts, I got more and more responses from others.
some of them are teachers, some of them just "stop by".
I realized that "Newstation"(around 2002-2004,we named it as "News station")
can be a great platform of experience sharing.

Someday, we,a group of teachers, gathered together, and talked about
having a website that we can share teaching experience, pictures, lesson plan and jobs posts.
As follow, it is my first official website of my personal life journals and teacher sharing platform.
http://v2.groups.com.tw/index.phtml?group_id=teslandtesol
We also add each other's website to make them all linkable to each other.

The idea continued in my mind. I started to plan a website that can communicate with my students. But it was failed. Because most parents considered that is timewasting. And students thought they are not going to get any credits from that website. Because of the "grades-orientated", the plan didn't be accepted by most of parents and students. The plan has been stopped for 3 years.

Until......the world has been changed~~~^__^Y

The blog "things" became popular, and the interface of the web2.0 has more features which enhance the communication tools more available for all web visitors.

I think I still have chances to bring back my ideas now!