Courses Taught:

• Chinese 101 - Fundamentals of Chinese

• Chinese 410/510 - Chinese Information Processing - CJK Web Design:

  View the amazing projects from the students of Chinese 410/510 Chinese Information Processing - CJK Web Design in Spring 2006 and Spring 2004 . The students did outstanding work. Not only did they master the tricks of creating web pages in Chinese and Japanese, they also designed interesting and imaginative web pages as a vehicle for their research. The time and dedication put into this work is obvious.

  Student projects from Fall 2000 and projects from Fall 1999, the first time this course was offered are also available.

Language Labs:

As Director of the College of Liberal Arts Language Labs at CSULB I am charged with the responsibility to provide access to authentic language materials and learning exercises for the faculty and students at California State University, Long Beach.

The Language Labs on campus are a fairly new addition to the learning resources available to students. Each semester we have been able to expand the possibilities of this fantastic resource, by providing workshops and training for both faculty and students.

For those interested, or challenged by Chinese input systems here are a couple of helpful links:

• NJStar is a favorite input system for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean on Windows systems. I put together an online tutorial for our students at CSULB. The original A Beginner's Guide to the NJStar Chinese Word Processor was developed by John Chang for the East Asian Languages and Cultures department at the University of Southern California.
  
  
• Robert Eng, Professor of History at the University of Redlands, has prepared a helpful guide for those who are interested in installing and using Chinese and Japanese in Windows 2000 and XP, A Quick and Dirty Guide to Installing and Using East Asian Languages Under Windows 2000 Professional and Windows XP.

CSU Virtual Language Lab:

Last year California State University, Long Beach was selected to participate in the system-wide Virtual Language Lab initiative. Long Beach joined with three other CSU's (Chico, Monterey Bay, and San Diego) to form the Japanese Consortium.

We will spear-head the Virtual Language Lab project by developing a Japanese course which will be taught online using the knowledge and experience of our faculty, the state-of-the-art technology from the communications experts at Sanako, and the enthusiasm of the students at CSU.

CSULB Technology Showcase:

As part of an on-going effort to incorporate pedagogically sound technology into the teaching curriculum at CSULB the Technology Showcase project was establish. This year seven faculty members were chosen from over thirty-five proposals to participate in this ambitious initiative.

We will work hand-in-hand with the staff of Academic Computing Services and the Faculty Development Office to expand the technology currently used in our courses and develop workshops to demonstrate to other faculty members in similar disciplines effective, viable uses of pedagogically sound technology.

French Resources Online:

To this busy schedule I have recently added French 101A. Since it is difficult for me to image studying without the aid of the Internet, I put together a page of links that I use to help me study. If you find them useful, let me know.

Chinese Pronunciation:

This page demonstrates the correct pronunciation of the basic sounds in Mandarin Chinese. It also shows how to spell the sounds in Pinyin and Zhuyin. It should be a good resource for those just beginning their study of Mandarin, or those who are interested in learning either Pinyin or Zhuyin.

Pinyin Master:

This CD-ROM program teaches correct Mandarin pronunciation and the Pinyin writing system. This program was first developed in HyperCard while I was a graduate student at Cal State Long Beach. This was the first product of the team of Dr. San-pao Li and myself.

The current version (2.0) was released in 1996. It was programmed using Oracle Media Objects, which makes enables the same file to be run on both MacOS and Windows based computers.

Liwin's CyberChinese Online:

Liwin's CyberChinese Online is also joint effort between myself and Dr. San-pao Li, from the Department of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University Long Beach. We teamed together to create a multimedia tutorial for first year Chinese based on the popular textbook, Practical Chinese Reader from Beijing Cultural and Language University.

This enhanced, online version of CyberChinese delivers the same comprehensive learning environment with the convenience of the Internet to demystify what has been referred to as the "impossible language."

Programming:

In another, simultaneous existence I get to be a programmer for some excellent graphic design programs. I lend my programming skills -- at times exceptional and at times novice -- to a cool company called HotDoor.

The folks at HotDoor, Inc. have been friends since the early days of the New Media Center. We have collaborated from time to time on some great software from HyperCard stacks to Illustrator plug-ins. We are currently working on this amazing program, but -- you know the software spy drill -- if I told you I would have to kill you.

Favorite Quote:

A technology reporter for the New York Times while explaining the inevitable ubiquitousness of the World Wide Web, concluded:

	Everybody's crossing over. It's just that some people are jumping and others are being dragged.
--Peter Lewis Technology Reporter for the New York Times quoted in Wired

Favorite Poem:

The following poem was written circa sixth-century AD by a well-known Chinese poet, Liu Zong-yuan. The setting is a cold, barren, surrealistic landscape. On a lonely river in the midst of a desolate mountain range is a lone boat carrying a single man fishing in the drizzling snow. The author skillfully utilizes the style of Tang dynasty poetry, combining the abstract and the physical, to create a lonely, barren scene. Instilling in the reader a sense of longing and despair, while in the end providing hope for the future even amidst these most desolate of circumstances.

Any comments or ideas will be appreciated. Jeff Winters (jwinter2@csulb.edu)

Last Updated: March, 2006