Google it...

As I moved to a new city, I started to discover it. I like to lounge about the city when I finish my work, and see it's differences and similarities. I also like to ask questions about locations on local forums. However, I got some responses recently, like 'Google it, find the answer yourself'.

Yes, Google can help me find a place, seek for some information I want, however, I suddenly feel that Google is a good searching tool for getting information easily rather than a Q&A tool for exchanging life experiences on the forum. If everybody is good at searching information by Google, do they need to ask questions on a forum?

I suppose some people may say 'Google it first. If yu can not find an answer, going to forum and ask.'

A silly idea: Someday, we might not talk to each other any more or often because we all get information from the Internet or Google it. Just using the online huge information database...

Call for Papers and Special (Invited) Issues

JCIT: Journal of Convergence Information Technology focuses on thetheories/technologies/architecture and its applications on the variousaspects of advances in convergence and hybrid Information Technology.

Christmas greetings

Hi my friends,

Thank you for all the support and encouragement you have given to me all year long. It is a pleasure to be able to work with you and have lots of good memories in 2008.

Have a blessed and peaceful Christmas holiday. Happy New Year!

Boundless blessings to you all. Miss you all.

Jin

Viva day and viva questions

It’s the early morning 9:15am, a normal winter morning. I had my viva. 12:00pm, I was pleased to get the result.

It was lucky that I got much better from the flu and got cough relief before the viva. It was nice to see a best of luck card on my desk before the viva. It was nice to see many of my colleagues in the common room waiting for me and to get their full-hearted hugs when I finished the viva. It was nice to get friends’ blessings from far distance. It was nice to celebrate with you all.

Thanks a lot to many people who help me and are with me during the three years. What I can do now is to share my viva preparation list. Here is a long list of viva questions that I collected and prepared. I hope it’s useful for you. Best of luck for you all too!

Two pieces of news

• The Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University Computing Services announced its eighth annual one-day conference on educational technologies: Shock of the Old 2009. It calls theoretical or position papers on new academic literacy in areas such as modelling, collaborative working, computer gaming, mash-ups, co-creation and open content.


• The nomination for the annual Edublogs Awards of 2008 has been shortlisted.