Comments on: Back from ACTFL

By: Falling back in love with Skritter

Falling back in love with Skritter — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 01:59:37 +0000

[...] first heard about Skritter from John Pasden, who posted about it almost a year ago. At the time I was busy with other things and didn’t give it much of a [...]

By: Crisgee

Crisgee — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:04:52 +0000

Skritter is amazing! Great companion with Cpod! But i hope i don’t get too addicted that i forget how to write with a pen.

By: Popup Chinese » The Peking Duck

Popup Chinese » The Peking Duck — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:03:20 +0000

[...] Forgot to mention this: Thanks to John over at Sinosplice I’ve started spending a couple of hours each day over at Skritter. If you’re working on [...]

By: 江磊

江磊 — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 04:53:31 +0000

Haha, Trina, I hope you know I was just kidding. I’m just so used to getting great software and resources for free online -with a little box on the side for donations – that it’s almost strange when mandatory payment comes into the question!

By: Trina

Trina — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 22:17:45 +0000

"I died a little when I realized they weren’t just making such a site out of the goodness of their hearts!"

If someone wanted to give them a bunch of money so they could afford food, rent, heat, and student loan payments, I'm sure they'd be happy to do the site out of the goodness of their hearts. Until then, they'll eat cans of garbanzo beans and keep their apartment just above freezing and hope people will pay to use their site.

By: Micah Sittig

Micah Sittig — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:12:29 +0000

I thought Professor Zhou Zhiping’s (Princeton) session... was excellent

Cool. Zhou Zhiping was the director of the Princeton in Beijing program back when I studied there back in 2000. His (and by extension, the Princeton Chinese language dept's) emphasis on pronunciation as key to fluency is still something I support and practice, even though I like writing so much more than speaking. I had a friend who did a graduate degree at Ohio University, another Chinese (linguistics) powerhouse, and he described to me the "feud" between the Princeton pronunciation camp and the Ohio culture/situational camp. Interesting stuff.

By: Erick

Erick — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:01:23 +0000

The site is great! I only want it to be integrated with “Remembering the Hanzi”, then it will be perfect!

By: 江磊

江磊 — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:17:57 +0000

Skritter seems pretty neat! Anybody know what their pricing model is? Website seems pretty tight-lipped about it. I died a little when I realized they weren’t just making such a site out of the goodness of their hearts!

By: Hape

Hape — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:28:56 +0000

What ChinesePod can learn from Skritter and PopupChinese: Option "Trad. characters/Simp. characters" @ Me-Profile. All ressources will then displayed according to this option.

John, why is ChinesePod in this respect so far behind? I don't understand this. Are you forced by the PRC not to do this, or???

By: Caryn

Caryn — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:35:30 +0000

Hi John,

Sorry I missed you at ACTFL. I'd be interested to hear what sessions you liked. I thought Professor Zhou Zhiping's (Princeton) session on Back to the Basics -- pronunciation, grammar and tones was excellent. Did you happen to attend Winning the Chinese Endgame: Attaining and Maintaining Professional Functionality. I was on that panel to talk about the student's perspective. I teach Chinese at the high school level (11th and 12th grade students who are gifted in math and science -- very motivated kids!) and also teach a distance learning course via IVC (interactive video conferencing format). We are applying for a FLAP grant to develop a replicable model for teaching Chinese via IVC. Would love to chat about possible collaborations on the grant with Cpod, if folks are interested.

Caryn