Yajiao’s Blog

Archive for May 2010

Newsday

Posted by: yajiao on: 10/05/2010

I worked with Eliza in pairs on news day. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill just happened, lots of media coverage focused on the financial losses of this accident. However, the oil spill also caused danger for marine mammals, fish, and birds, and might pollute wetlands as well. Therefore, we compared the costs of the [...]

Log-Group project

Posted by: yajiao on: 10/05/2010

Weco is a website to provide all kinds of eco-friendly information. Faced with the threats of climate change and heavy pollution, how to protect the environment has become a public concern for a long time. An increasing number of people have begun to take action. Weco is a platform for people to learn, share and [...]

Log-Individual project

Posted by: yajiao on: 10/05/2010

My individual project is a blog about Chinese students in the UK. We can see Chinese students everywhere in the campus of UK’s universities, and it is said Chinese has become a financial support of UK’s education industry. However, the argument about Chinese overseas students come from rich family but do not good at studying [...]

The first digital election debate comes along with the UK election in 2010. Both Facebook and YouTube join the online debate and provide an interactive platform for public to ask questions to Nick Clegg, Gordon Brown and David Cameron. The five main categories of the questions are: economy, health and education, foreign policy, law and [...]

Ex-CCTV producer launches new online TV site

Posted by: yajiao on: 01/05/2010

Although the Internet environment in China is still not totally free, and certain websites are blocked such as Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and WordPress, Chinese journalists take advantage of the online platform to build up new websites to provide different media service. Umiwi.com, established by an ex-CCTV producer Wang Lifen, is a latest case of the [...]


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