Wow! Cannot believe it has been almost four years since my last post. So what have I been up to? Lately, I am have been exploring lots of FREE online learning management platforms. From Edmodo, Schoology, Google classroom and Microsoft learning communities, I tried a little bit of everything. So far, Edmodo takes the prize…

This year, I have decided to try a new presentational tool called “EMAZED”. Frankly, I was not amazed by the user-ability, however, the pre-designed interface templates did caught my attention at first. I will be presentation on the topic of FLIPOLOGY. Due to time limitation of the workshop (only 3 hours), we will only be…

Dear Louisville Community: You are cordially invited to the first ever Confucius Institute 10th Year Anniversary celebration “Love for China” on Sept. 24th, 2014, 7pm at the Kentucky Center of Art, Bomhard Theater. The Confucius Institute at Western Kentucky University have generously sponsored all ticket costs for the event, however, due to limited seating, we…

Dear Me… Edutopia has teamed up with SoulPancake and did a project for teachers to write a letter to themselves on “My First Day Teaching”. What would you tell yourself on your first day of teaching?

I often tell people, it is not which world language to learn, it is to open your mind to another culture and learn another language. Sure one would argue some language is more “important” than others, but I do not believe that is the case. I firmly believe that we need to provide opportunities for…

So tonight I decided to try to create an infograph instead of just reference on, and I realized that it is not nearly as easy as it seems. 😦 I tested out several tools: pikochart, infogr.am, Visual.ly, and finally decided on easel.ly. All are pretty similar, some give more templates while others provides quick ways…

So many of you asked me if Powtoon is another good tool to use. Here are two examples from my daughter Jacquelyn. She found this tool last year on her own and decided to create her French project with it. Here is her first one: Chez-Le-Medecin And second one: Body Parts She had a lot of fun…

In order to take courses at Chinese university, one must pass HSK 6 Chinese proficiency exam, so far everything is fairly easy, except 语病 section. I cannot figure out if it is asking just simple grammatical error or error in sentence expression? Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!