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Steve C. · Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Posts: 11

I think some folk are a bit too paranoid.

There have been video's posted on Dave's made by foreign "teachers" in their classes and most folk commented that they liked the video's. I wonder if they were deported or even visited by the PSB?

The name Jorgensen comes to mind.

Here you go -

https://forums.eslcafe.com/job/viewtopic.php?t=69223&highlight=video

I think that guy is speaking Geechee!

If the link doesn't work, simply do a Search using the word "video" in The China Job-Related or broad Asia forum. I think it was on page 5 or 6.

"How to Manage a Classroom" by e-jorgensen

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

xiao51 · Joined: 06 Feb 2009 Posts: 208

Steve_McQueen · Joined: 04 Dec 2009 Posts: 37

You might want to consider doing something like this:

http://www.nctasia.org/

I run a program at my public high school here in Seoul. It's been a success. I don't know if they do schools in Mexico though. PM me for more information.

Pops · Joined: 06 Nov 2010 Posts: 2

Interesting.

I wonder if it could actually work??

My money is on "YES".

I'd love to see a movie about life in Mexico. I'd prefer to see more of regular daily life in Cancun or Montererey than the beach bunnies/purveyors.

Steve C. · Joined: 05 Nov 2010 Posts: 11

I doubt the Mexican kids could even understand a typical day in a Chinese university students life. How many "meetings" must they attend each day?

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgwNjY2OTI=.html

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTgwMDE3OTY=.html

1 minute and 22 seconds sums it up.

Good Luck.

http://www.kipling.org.uk/poems_if.htm

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

One or more Chinese university classes have now seen the video prepared by my students.

If any of the readers of this forum would like to encourage their students to exchange a video depicting their life as students in China for one my students have prepared, I'd be happy to hear from you.

Happy Everyday · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 268

I'm interested! For starters, a simple introduction is good. Would you be interested in expanding the videos? For example, who can create the best student short film?

Riviello · Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 66

Nice idea.

I'm game. If all goes according to plan, next semester I'll contact you.

Perhaps we could have a cup of Joe and talk about it? If we met in Holland we could even smoke a bowl.

Yunqi

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

About 15 of my students participated in making the video, which shows life on campus and off campus of the typical student.

The equipment was not high tech, they just used their cell phones. The video, in its final form, runs about 20 minutes.
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I would be interested in arranging student exchanges of emails, as well, for those who might think this could be a useful activity for their students. (I know it would be for mine, who would benefit from contact with young people from other parts of the world.)

More can be done, but requires pairing of classes and students, and I would welcome offers to do that. My students range in skills from pre-intermediate to high intermediate, with most somewhere in the middle.

Happy Everyday · Joined: 09 Feb 2007 Posts: 268

@Rivello -- if you were an instructor at Oaksterdam University, you could smoke a bowl *with* your students Cool

http://www.oaksterdamuniversity.com/faculty.html

Riviello · Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Posts: 66

Tre...

When I first came to China I set up a class website and discussion forum, similar to Dave's, as well as an e-mail exchange program with a friend who teaches Tourism/Hotel Management at the University of South Carolina.

The site only had 3 members - myself, my USA Professor friend and my Mother.

None of my Chinese university students joined or expressed interest in the e-mail, cultural exchange, program.

Like what Steve C. above said, the students here do have a lot of meetings. But, they also find time to play computer games etc...

I'm not sure about the educational system in Mexico, but China is a lot different than the system in the USA. I'm not sure about other countries, such as the UK, OZ, NZ, SA and Canada. But, based on my interaction with teachers from those countries, I think our systems and "college life" is basically the same.

Briefly, elementary students here begin the school day around 7am doing exercises. At 7:30am the stand at attention while the flag is raised before eating breakfast. At 8am they go to their homeroom and classes begin shortly thereafter. The school day ends around 5pm. They do take an approximately 2 hour break at lunchtime. Sort of a Siesta!

China is the only place that I know of that has boarding Kindergartens! A lot of the elementary & high school students live at school. The usually go home Friday night and return either Sunday night or early Monday morning.

In the USA, 99.9% of the kids live at home until they go to college.

College/University is very different than that it the USA and I assume Mexico as well.

The kids here take a test, similar to the SAT in the USA, which basically determines where they will go to school and what they will study. Generally typing, the kids can't apply to a prefered public university or choose their major. Private colleges are a bit different, but basically the same. If the kid is good with numbers, they will be told that they will major in Business even though they would prefer to study Psychology or whatever.

When their Freshman year begins, they will be assigned to a class/group. The group will attend all of the same classes together. They are given their schedules and can't choose to take the required classes at a time or a teacher they prefer. In the USA, we could choose times, days and teachers. We did not have every class with the same students.

Basically, the group becomes the kids "family" for the next 4 years. Actually, 3.5. The last semester is generally spent working/writing a "thesis" about their major. That is not required in the USA and seems like a good idea to me.

As written here on Dave's numerous times, university students in China are like high school kids in the USA. When in high school, we had keg parties etc.. Have you seen "American Pie"? That movie depicts the truth about American youth.

Some of the university students here will drink beer and smoke cigarettes, but, not quite to the extent as those in the USA. Forget about bowls in Holland, lines in Bogota or other mind altering substances in SF or anywhere in the USA.

I remember being offered speed when I was 10 years old. I guess it is a good thing about China.

On the other hand, the boys here hold hands and rest their heads on each others shoulders??? They do like girls though. China has a very conservative culture. At times it is refreshing, but, there are a lot of things "foreign" to me. They belong in the "Culture Shock" thread.

Either way, I think the video and e-mail exchange ideas are great and hope to reciprocate next semester.

Tretyakovskii · Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 462 Location: Cancun, Mexico

Riviello, others, will your universities be in session this summer? Ours runs twelve months a year (with breaks at Christmas, Easter and a brief break at the end of July).