Monday, September 1, 2008

In the classroom, Taiwan Information Technology Support is at least 10 years behind US


For a teacher like me who got sufficient IT support in the US universities gets really frustrated to teach in the universities of Taiwan. Of course, Taiwan has e-mail system; yet I have no way to e-mail to any colleague in the same university without exchanging the business cards to learn about the individual's e-mail address. The university does not support 'global address book'. No classrooms in the chemical engineering department has direct Internet support, Ethernet, or wireless. I have to make a special request; the department chair finally agreed to make an Ethernet connection in the classroom I will teach in next few weeks.
Photo above shows Ms. Ku (on the right) trying to set up an Internet connection for my notebook computer and was not successful. She called a student supposed to be a 'computer genus' to help (photo on the left). It was still not successful.

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