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eMail: leolaoshiATgmailDOTcom

Skype: leolaoshi

Blog: http://leolaoshi.yo2.com

http://my.opera.com/leolaoshi( being blocked in China but worth a look if you are interesting language teaching and learning )

http://leolaoshi.haokanbu.com (Class blogging with my students in China )

Photos: http://leolaoshi.haokanbu.com

My profile

I live in Soochow in China with my family . My professional interest is in education and Psychology, I am currently studying my MA and working at Soochow Univerisity , I specialise in the teaching Chinese to speakers of other langauges (TCSOL), as well as teaching English TESOL for last 5 years. Meanwhile I explore the use of socially networked media in school setting. My students and I explore the meaning of networked learning in China. I have been using Web2.0 technology in my "Mass media Research Techniques" class called EDEXCEL, as part of the HNDcourse from the UK .

I maintain a blog :The Courage to Teach as well as class blogging with my students with haokanbu. You're welcome to view my photos for a pictorial combination of lifestyle and profession.

My interests

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Leolaoshi's work history

TALO Swapment08 China is in the process of planning ,any idea is greatly appreciated ........

2008

"HELP" project

HELP stands for HelpelephantsLliveProject ,it is an Non-Profit project from USA,we are currently applying for the first year program here in China ,if we do apply successfully this year , the program will be starting this September ,we are currently having about 39 schools in China ,which agreed to participate this program ,you can view their signed scan copy of Letter of commitment here ,I have been working as the Co-director of this brand-new project here in Mainland China ,will be responsible for the teacher traning for teachers of HELP ,you can visit our discussion group to know more abt the program details .any suggestions is appreaicated greatly !

Wiki workshop

Have been conducting a seris of web2.0 workshop with Soochow Univerisity teachers and students ( more than 1000 people ) ,especially using wiki technology ,trying to implement a Learning2.0 program and create Open_ educational_resources by using wiki technology with Library staff here ,no big progress now , but really trying my best now ,the first workshop ( both face2face and online faciliation ) will be held after this coming May Holiday in China ,which I believe will be the 1st attempt for integration of OER with dailly teaching and learning in univerisity in China , I will be the Chinese facilitator for this workshop (we have other facilitaor from Australia who also will help ).

International appearence

Being involoved and particiapting with Flexible learning networked world ( FLNW )conference based in Thiland FLNW08 kick off from Bangkok on the 16th January 2008. An itinerary of events outlines all that is happening through out January 2008. Ablog is also being used to document progress and an email forum cops the incessant chatter of the participants.

I had a podcast and following with another interview with Stephan Ridgway via Gtalk also with Alex on the first day of FLNW08 talking about what does it mean to me living in a networked learning world and you can also see my slides to help you understand the presentation .

and Brent make a wonderful mashup here Thank you Brent

2007

College teaching Experience

Working with HND program(from UK) working with college students ,taking them down the "muddy" road of "Mass media reserach " in the context of New media and Web2.0 era ,reinforcing the concept of "Self-regulated learning " and networked learning (They are new to my student and me as well ).

Student's work

Most of my student's work has been put on line You can view it from individual work and group work .research topics range from techie topics like RSS to Non-techietopics like Journalist or like 2008 Olympic and mass media .

My reflection is been documented on my blog tagged with educationalblogging( In Chinese mostly) .

International appearence


Find out more about The Author of the book Marvinmashall also quoted me in his newsletter

Last month's section "3. INCREASING EFFECTIVENESS," was about Leo, a teacher in China. He stated that he would like more people in China to know about Dw/oS. He requested people leave comments on his blog and that he would translate some of them into Chinese for posting. I then made an error by stating that the site has been blocked. When copying the URL (Uniform Resource Locator-- "the world wide web address"), I neglected to add "cn" for "China" as the suffix. You can see Leo's blog and add a comment. If you scroll past the Chinese posting, you will see what he has posted in English. The correct URL is http://my.opera.com/leolaoshi Leo will be presenting a summer workshop on Dw/oS in China and would greatly appreciate any experience you have had using the system that he can share in his workshop

By all means if you are struggling with your classroom management issue now ,I strongly recommend you go and get a reading from this book called Disciplinewithoutstress

Library(Learning 2.0 Program In China )

  • Assisted in building "Flexible Learning centre" for my University Library giving workshops on Knowledgement Management and Web2.0 workshops for Univerisity teachers and graduate students ,The slides has been uploaded to the school server
  • Enjoying Podcasting with my college students ,mostly on reviewing things we have done in the class .

2006

Chinese teacher for Foreigners:

Working with Furman Unviersity Chinese progrqam 2006 Fall ,served as Chinese langauge teacher to a group of American college students .also using my blog to facilitate Chinese learning outside of the class.I had really good time as well as a little "painful"time by stepping out of my "comfort zone " by trying teaching something new to challenge myself . The most fruitful success was using an intersting activity in my class called "Teashop question" chaguanwenti . I have painfully came to a point to understand that sometimes as a teacher(in whatever subject) ,students does not always learn most and "grow" most from YOUR class(Ouch!) ,but rather something they enjoy doing outside of class.

EFL teacher trainer

I worked with An American professor from Univerisity of Alabama you can see Dr Vazin Teaching Slideshow

We have been closely worked together ,and built a blog with students in China and trying to implement Layered-curriculum into Chinese English classroom for middle school students .

also conducted a 5 day teacher workshop to about 100 middle school English teachers ,topics covered student Learning style ,ICT skills for classes ,Blogging ,Games to use in EFL Classes ,teacher professional development etc .was well received at the end of day after we gave a demonstration class by using what we have been teaching in last 5 days ( it was not very good at the begining of the workshop)

2005-2003

  • working as EFL teacher trainer and help conducted abt 20 English summer programs(camps) and Teacher workshops in middle schools for teachers throughout China ,gainning a good background and knowledge about what it is like to be a teacher in a test-driven educational system (ie China ),meanwhile ,really enjoying collabroatively working with educators from UK Africa and America,South Africa etc .

1998-2003

Bachelor of Arts degree on teacher education began to discover my passion in teaching.

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