World of LMS

LMS, stands for Learning Management System, or to me, a dynamically generated Webpage written in either PHP, Java or ASP(x). However, the discovery does not really stop there, the power of LMS is not what is can do out of the box, but what it really represents.

Most common LMS, such as WebCT or Moodle will allow interactions between the instructors and the instructed. However, the ability to submit assignments or review one’s grades is not all that a LMS can do. Ultimately, we can think of the LMS as a virtual school, we can add anything we like on to it. With each new addition, the LMS becomes stronger, have more useful tools or in some case, simply looks better. It is idea to think of the world of an LMS as portal to many virtual classrooms rather then an electronic version of a student’s handbook.

Tags: LMS, Moodle, views, WebCT

The unpredictable nature

This morning, as I was leaving the building that contains the Gym, I ran into a mother duck guiding her six ducklings around the lawn. This lawn is a little  bit different, as it is surrounded on three sides by buildings. To its north is the Police Training Academy, and Gordon Wiley building on its east and south, and the only open space linking to this piece of green lawn on campus, is a parking lot. It is one of the common areas staff members or students sit around and chitchat during lunch.

Like all mothers, the natural tendencies of the mother duck was to yell at all things that laid eyes on her children, at that particular moment, me. I was busy observing the cuteness and the obedience of the six ducklings trailing their mothers, from brushes to pavement, and from pavement to green lawns with picnic tables. They were marching single filled as if they were part of the Santa Claus parade, with their tails wagging side to side as they follow the duck in front of them, it is a scene that can hardly be put into words.

As the ducks got further away, I resumed walking toward my office, as the last thing I wanted was to be pecked by an angry mother duck just because I’ve decided to cross her path. When I walked passed a brush, I heard a very faint chirping noise. Apparently, a new duckling is hatching behind the brushes and it is looking for its mother. The little duckling is still partially in its shell, while its mother is nearly fifteen meters away.

So I did what most kind souls would have done, I picked up the little duckling, walked over to the mother duck, and put the duckling on the grounds near her, this time I was about twelve feet away, before the mother duck started threatening to peck my eyes out. However, the crying of the baby duckling got her attention, and she decided to come in closer to ‘take a look’ at this baby. Some how she must have recognized the duckling and sat right near it, waiting for the struggling duckling to get on its feet. This time the mother duck seized all hostile intentions towards me and was about five feet away. I left soon afterward as the duckling is now safe with its mother.

Fearing that some other animals might come and pick this duckling as their breakfast, I went back to check  out the group after purchasing my morning cup of Tims. There are now seven ducklings waging their tails following their mother around on the green lawn, outside my office.

Tags: duckling, hatching, mother duck, wild

Finally! Live Chinese TV over the Web

As a software Developer, I’ve been wondering why on earth people have not attempted this yet. It doesn’t seems difficult to officially host a complete TV Channel off of the internet.

Finally, we have WOWTV here attempting this bold move, broadcasting on both Rogers network and the internet. Quite frankly, I am looking forward to suspending my Rogers network subscription if WOWTV turns out to be a great alternative.

Website: www.wow1.tv

Tags: LiveTV, wow1.tv

Its exam time!!!

Hey all, it has been awhile since I last wrote anything on this blog. The reason is actually very simple, I was buried with work. Recently, I had the pleasure of returning to school from a different point of view, one that is of a school support staff.

It is amazing, coming from a slightly recent graduate, I found myself best when working for non-profit organizations!! I am actally considering joining the university’s IT help desk, and be very happy about it than when I was a developer for a financial company!!!

Well, I find myself pretty evil as well, as I am writting this inside an exam hall!! What the heck am I doing practoring an exam, you may ask, well I am not! Nor am I writting it, I am here merely as a technical support, as some of the exams may involve computer file submissions, if a student’s laptop were to seize function, it is then my role to attempt a quick fix, or a quick swap, so their exams can be finish on time.

Tags: evil, fun, teaching assistant

I am awake

“I have a dream”, the most famous speech ever recorded in the humans right movement. Today, we can say that we are no longer just dreaming, but living in a reality where it does not matter what colour, race, or gender you are, as long as you worked hard you can archieve any goals.

Many years ago, it took an educated man to decide, with a lot of decency that we should not consider our brothers three quarters man. Not because they look different, or they eat different food. We should consider all men and women equal.

With the victory of president Barak Obama, I belive we as a race can now announce to the galaxy that each and every single human is now awake.

“I am awake!!”

Tags: fight, martin luther king, obama, racial