CHINESE TEACHER - PLEASE CONTACT US HERE NOW!!!!!!

Now you're going to become Setanta's bitch.




Disclaimer: I thought a while before posting this, but decided to do so because I think it's funny. If you don't, that's OK.

Quote:

The Google.com search engine has been blocked in most parts of China, as Beijing steps up its efforts to restrict the public's access to information, a Paris-based media watchdog said.

Internet users in many major Chinese cities have had difficulty connecting to the uncensored international version of Google for the past week, Reporters Without Borders said in a statement received here Wednesday.

Aside from the Google.com search engine, Reporters Without Borders said the blocking was being gradually extended to the Google News and Google Mail services.

snip

Quote:

Software such as Dynapass, Ultrasurf, Freegate and Garden Networks is normally used to gain access to news and information that is blocked by the firewall isolating China from the rest of the worldwide web. Bill Xia, the US-based exile who created Dynapass, said the jamming of these programs had reached "an unprecedented level" and he was convinced the authorities were deploying considerable resources to achieve it.

Feels marvellously subversive to be answering some of those questions when you look at it that way

Shewolf, I see your point, but I think that even once the class is over, they'll remember back to when they were communicating via the internet with, as LE said, us "mysterious Westerners" I can imagine that some of them might share their encounters with friends....it's a small way of bringing people together.

I know at first I had fun with them, but several dear people here have caused me to change my mind.

One never knows the impact of one small deed.

I'm trying to answer even one or two of them each day.

Well, with the attempts to contact their teacher, we may be hearing from him/her any time now...

that'd be great fun, and think of how it might expand their level of learning.

We'd like to have a talk with you.

Chai Tea wrote:

Shewolf, I see your point, but I think that even once the class is over, they'll remember back to when they were communicating via the internet with, as LE said, us "mysterious Westerners" I can imagine that some of them might share their encounters with friends....it's a small way of bringing people together.

I know at first I had fun with them, but several dear people here have caused me to change my mind.

One never knows the impact of one small deed.

I'm trying to answer even one or two of them each day.

Well, with the attempts to contact their teacher, we may be hearing from him/her any time now...

that'd be great fun, and think of how it might expand their level of learning.

I agree...
and.. yet again, I didn't elaborate my point.

<sigh> I will learn some day.. I reallllllly will.

My point is basically, who cares what the thread title is when you know it is a student who needs help?
Why worry about that, when you can just open it and find out if you can offer anything... or not.

Noone has to open them, read or respond. So the feeling of obligation shouldn't be there.

If the title bothers you , just skip on by it.

We all know by now that they have a limited amount of time online, if ANY and that most of them are probally sharing a handful of restricted computers.

It would do much more for them if , when we responded we elaborated our answers more, and tried to engage them in a response instead of telling them how to post their next question. Corrected their use of the english language and explained the diffrences in OUR correction vs THEIR use of the words.

Imagine being in their shoes. Throwing out random questions on a website you are lucky to get, in hopes of getting assistance from a stranger that may make or break your grade since you dont truly understand the language to begin with. Opening your question to find answers all about your ettiquette.. .. and not your question.


For all we know, they have several classes that require some sort of internet research and only 20 minutes to do it in.

I absolutely do understand how frustrating it is to open A2K and see nothing but yelps and question marks as thread titles... but since I know what is going on, it doesn't bother me that much.

I contribute when I have time, and leave it at that.

Their education and our assistance is more important to them then A2k etiquette... wich.... is a set of rules that only the regular posters abide by anyway.. ;-)

Chai Tea wrote:

We'd like to have a talk with you.

About what?

Miller wrote:

Chai Tea wrote:

We'd like to have a talk with you.

About what?

Well, in my case, shoes and ships and sealing-wax, of cabbages and kings and why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings.


You?

Chai Tea wrote:

We'd like to have a talk with you.

About what?