{"id":65,"date":"2010-06-02T15:41:49","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T07:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=65"},"modified":"2010-06-02T22:54:08","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T14:54:08","slug":"hello-english-and-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"Hello English and computers"},"content":{"rendered":"

About 10 days ago one of my students asked me to write a speech for inclusion in the forthcoming new newsletter.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 After deciphering exactly what it was all about I dutifully complied.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0About a week later another one asked me to check the English in some material, copied from the internet, which they wanted to include.\u00a0 So I did, thinking I knew who would be blamed if the grammar\u00a0was incorrect.\u00a0 I was promised a copy of the newspaper.<\/p>\n

On Monday I was handed two copies of the newspaper.\u00a0 It\u2019s an A2 sized newspaper of four pages.\u00a0 Gina and my “speeches\u201d and photos are on page one.\u00a0 Lo and behold the English Department’s English newspaper\u00a0contains practically no English.\u00a0 So much for me thinking that I would get to read about the college.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Don’t know why I should be so surprised.\u00a0\u00a0 Last year\u00a0I became practically demented\u00a0due technological problems after the IT guy had\u00a0renovated the lab computers and deleted necessary programs.\u00a0 \u00a0Also, the various pieces of hardware didn’t always connect to each other.\u00a0 One day, during a bad fortnight, I went through four classrooms looking for a system which would work and still didn’t find it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Students couldn’t fix the problems nor could anyone be found to help.\u00a0 Given I was required to use multimedia for some classes it was a real problem.\u00a0 Son Michael tried to put the pieces (me) back together and suggested that I change the computer language to English. \u00a0When I suggested this to\u00a0my liaison\u00a0teacher I was told that I couldn’t because the teachers (Chinese English) wouldn’t be able to understand!\u00a0\u00a0 It\u2019s OK for the foreigner to struggle but not the locals.\u00a0 \u00a0I was assigned \u201chelpers\u201d in each class and usually they kept me out of trouble, but it didn\u2019t work then.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0In the past little effort made to teach students to SPEAK English during their education so I’m lucky anyone speaks it or understands me.\u00a0 Fortunately, I was saved by H1N1 flu and after 4 weeks away from classes the IT guy had been back and fixed everything.\u00a0 The system had returned to its normal problematic self. \u00a0And I have an excuse of sorts!\u00a0 No one expects me to read Chinese.\u00a0 However, they are big on remembering things so I\u2019m not sure how watertight my\u00a0excuse is.<\/p>\n

I have just discovered how to insert images into the text.\u00a0 All on my own too!\u00a0 However, I won’t be changing the first two posts unless a miracle occurs and I’m a bit too busy for miracles right now.\u00a0 I have end of term issues and holidays to plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About 10 days ago one of my students asked me to write a speech for inclusion in the forthcoming new newsletter.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 After deciphering exactly what it was all about I dutifully complied.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0About a week later another one asked me to check the English in some material, copied from the internet, which they wanted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[93,6,94],"tags":[17,19,18],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-work","category-xingtai","tag-computer","tag-newspaper","tag-teaching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}