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[pkang0202]

I went to Ansan yesterday with a bunch of teachers to tour this "English Village" they built inside an elementary school. It was freaking awesome.

This is on the 4th floor of their school. You get to the top of the steps and there's a lobby that looks like a museum. They have all these mini models of famous western architecture, posters, and decorations. Then you go into a hallway where there are 4 rooms. The first room had some insane 80 inch touchscreen LCD. I was playing around with that thing. Touchscreen, 80 inches, I just about crapped my pants.

The 2nd room was a digital/audio library. Along one wall are stations with tape/cd players and on the shelves are hundreds of audio books.

The 3rd room was the actual classroom. They had like 9 groups of desks, with the groups made up of 4 desks in a square. The desk chairs were relaly nice chairs that have wheels, tilt, height adjustment, etc...

The 4th room was awesome. You walked in and there was a kiosk along one wall that looked just like a ticket booth at an airline. Behind the kiosk was a bunch of different backgrounds you could pull down. 1 was ticket booth, the other was restaurant, etc...etc..

In the other corner of the room they had phone booths where the phones were connected to each other. The kids could practice calling each other speaking English.

The teacher's office was huge. It had 2 desks and a conference table. The English Teacher's office was nicer than the principals office. I'll never forget the chairs those teachers had. It was a full height black executive leather chair. I sat in it and it felt like I was sitting on a cloud. The desks were the huge L shaped desks.

If this school were a hotel it would be 5 Stars.

[xCustomx]

My OWN classroom? haha....I wish.....a lot of the classrooms don't have AC and about 20% of the classrooms are right next to a busy road so I've got to shout in order for the kids to hear me over the sound of buses going by.

[contrarian]

My classroom is pretty darn good. It has a screen, overhead prejector, computerisen systems for talking to the students and the class and all of the bells and whistles. I teach in a small town High School.

I wish I knew how to use those nice toys.

[kigolo1881]

There's no such thing as an 80 inch LCD.

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Samsung releases 70-inch LCD TV


Representing the first time such a large LCD TV has been made commercially available, Samsung yesterday launched a 70-inch high definition LCD TV, PAVV LED 70, in the domestic market.
Analysts say it is a significant move that will consolidate its leading status in the luxury TV market.

Samsung officials said the 70-inch model is the largest among commercially available LCD TVs in the world and that it is the first LCD TV product to adopt light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, as a back light in the domestic market. Other existing LCD TV sets are backlit by cathode fluorescent lamp.

The PAVV LED 70 will retail for 59,000,000 won ($63,457).

On the same day, data compiled by market research firm DisplaySearch revealed that Samsung Electronics grabbed more than 50 percent of the 40-inch or larger LCD TV panel global market in the first quarter.

According to DisplaySearch, Samsung's first quarter shipments of 40-inch or larger LCD panels totaled 1.6 million units, taking 50.2 percent of the total 3.2 million shipments.

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back to your post.
all that fancy stuff and equipment is money wasted and mismanaged.
they should rather send off kids to an english speaking country to study english.

[mrsquirrel]

I have only every used the word awesome whilst taking the piss out of Americans for using it.

My classroom itself is OK. 60in projector TV, tables and chairs.

You really want to see Yongin Middle Schools English Zone with interactive whiteboard and 10M worth of books (sadly locked in a cupboard on display)

[Qinella]

[Freaka]

[mrsquirrel]

I really don't like the word awesome.

It makes me think of American Chopper.

[pkang0202]

[kigolo1881]

Fine, you win this round pkang!

I should have done better research, my bad intel got me into deep boo boo!

[pkang0202]

[pkang0202]

[mrsquirrel]

Still don't like it.

As I said makes me think of American Chopper and American Idol.

I would think gargantuan (sp) would be better.

[Jizzo T. Clown]

So a better thread title would be "How gargantuan is your classroom?"

My classroom is O K...

At least we have airconditioning, and I have an Elmo and a laptop that connects to a TV (guessing around 40 inches??) and some computer speakers to use for listening exercises. I DO NOT have a dvd or VHS player and my laptop doesn't play dvds. I also have a chalkboard (miss my whiteboard).

Public High School, Songtan.

[spliff]

PFA! This is the second time I'm posting this as I guess the first one didn't take.