Photos

Dear All,

Your photos size are quite big and therefore it takes time to load the photos in your blog and readers will get impatient :(

Please reduce the size of your photos before you upload in your blogs. You can use photoshop or picasa or microsoft editor or even paint!


Next just found out some vegies name in Hokien in a Japanese supermarket! So funny, cant stop laughing as 'Kau Peh' (quite 'vulgar' and it means dont disturb lah!) Sio peh - 小白菜 xiao bai cai.

Crazy

I stumbled upon this site coolstuff4, a collection of cool and funny pictures, jokes and amazing videos. I didnt finish checking it out, some censored stuff too.

So there's this crazy picture... You have to get out of your seat and walk away from your computer. People may think you're crazy. But heck, just try to see. "When you look at this picture in a closer look you see its Albert Einstein. But if you stand 15 feet away, it will become Marilyn Monroe. Quick stand up and give it a try"

Introduce

Hi Everybody,

I'm glad that all blogs are successfully and wonderfully set up! Keep up the good work and keep posting articles, 'simple instructions' (avoid long wordy posts so that you can catch readers' attention)


For fun, here are 2 websites I would like to share with you all...
http://wordle.net/
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text.


Sample

http://thevisualdictionary.net

The Visual Dictionary is a collection of words in the real world. Photographs of signage, graffiti, advertising or tattoos to describe the words.

Sample

So have fun this weekend!

Next Tuesday 26/8/08

Dear All,

Next Tue 830am DCX132/QCX 520, there will be short written test on Food & Preparation, followed by critique and writing of lesson plans.

Thank you.

E-LEARNING WEEK for all DCX and QCX Courses

Dear All,
Please set up the blog for DCX/QCX courses.

There should be interaction in the blog, discussion among the group including the Homec education and infusion of MOE initiatives in the teaching of Homec.

For DCX 130/ QCX 521, you have to review the following websites or any interesting websites that you’ve encountered which are suitable for use in teaching Food and Nutrition. Please highlight at least 2 websites on your own and make comments on the websites chosen. Your comments can be posted in the blog.

Here are the keywords, please go to www. google. com and then search for the links.
· American Education Magazine Online
· Blue Web’N educational sites
· Consumer Information center
· Cyberbee
· Education World
· Iowa State University Extension Resources
· Food and Drug Administration
· Family and Consumer Science at the University of Georgia
· Home Economics Web Page, Howard County Public Schools
· Lifetime TV Online
· American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences
· The American Dietetic Association
· Learning Seed
· MyFree.com
· Chow Club-Kids Nutrition
· Eric Carle Web Site or ERIC
· Food Tube. net
· Nutrition Education for Preschool Children
· Seussville
· Baking Lesson Plans
· Centre for Food Safety
· Centre for Science(and Nutrition) in the Public Interest
· Chef Ashbell’s Footstop
· Copy Kat Famous Recipes
· Dietary Guidelines
· Eat Ethnic
· Food borne illness
· Food crafts
· Food and nutrition information cener
· Food TV
· Healthy Eating
· KidsHealth
· Nutrition.gov
· Mini lessons from Michigan State University
· Mini lessons from Ohio State University
· The Real Game
· Young Money
· Potato Facts
· Personal Chef
· Reading in the Food Labs
· 10 Tips for Healthy Eating and Physical Activity for You
· Vegetarian Sources
· Washington Apples
· Budgeting
· Comparison Shopping
· Home Sewing Association
· Kwik Sew
· Sew News
· Sewing With Nancy
· Simplicity
· Designer’s Collection
· Fiberworld classroom
· Kaganonline (Co-Op Learning Stuff)
· http://www.atozteacherstuff.com/ (A-Z Teacher Stuff)
· search.com (try this one if you want to find more interesting stuff on your own!)
· Brainpop
· School to Work
· YourSELF Middle School Nutrition Education Kit
· Oldways and the Harvard School of Public Health
· Food Crafts
· Food Retailing News
· International Food Information Council for Educators
· National Restaurant Association

HAVE FUN surfing and learning!

For your e-learning assignment for DCX131/QCX522, please post your discussion on the ‘Review of Online Shopping Websites’ on the Blog you have set up.

IMPORTANT
Please provide us with the URL of your blog so that we can visit and read your discussion.

Creative Food Sculptures

wacky or creative ideas? you say leh...

Online Shopping

If you're constantly telling your friends where you bought that T-shirt or brand new kicks, you dont have to anymore. Shoplette lets you upload all your latest retail therapy treatments, tag them with directory details and get your friends off your back.

Great for those with no fashion sense, or a voyeuristic streak, this is a neat trick to get inspiration for new purchases.
VISIT shoplette.com!

Another website initated by Malaysian blogger Joyce Wong (kinkybluefairy.net), Tongue in chic is a Malaysian shopping blog that lists the hottest fashion-related events in and around KL. It is fast becoming the go-to website for a lot fashion enthusiasts, and a quick glance at the site proves why.

The site is smart, punchy, and full of attitute in just the right doses. Check out the fashion advertisement.
VISIT tongue in chic!

Food for Design

Interesting site, go to FOODPAIRING

Definitely cuter

Lollipop or cup cakes?

Bakerella totally delicious cake pops weren't cute enough, she's reinvented them in the form of mini-cupcakes! Of course I had to try it out and make :)

Poster Project - What Homec Means to You...

Done by Nuradila, Kamisah, Siti Fadzila, Salwa, Hui Min, Nurfail


Homec is A-Z
Done by Joanna, Clarissa, Madeline, Li Yun, Wendy



Done by Jacqueline, Ashley, Michelle, Michel, Phyllis, Janet

BABY wow...

Done by Yili, Shuli, Germaine, Felicia, Louisa, Lydia

GREAT WORK Everybody! :)

Protect Yourself Online

The biggest online threats

• spam, spyware, virus infections, email scams
• phishing—sending authentic-looking but fraudulent e-mail designed to steal sensitive personal information.

Best solutions

• install antivirus software
• do not open emails attachments from unknown sources
• clear cookie or cache after revealing personal information, e.g. credit card no
• shop only from legitimate sites
• always change your password regularly
  

Definition

Define the following :- (tagged the board!)

a) vegan or strict vegetarian

b) lacto vegetarian

c) lacto ovo vegetarian

Pictures

From your textbook : Obesity is the condition in which a person is overweight. A person is considered obese when fat consitutes about one-third or more of his body weight.

Check out this guy... What do you think?



This advertisement found in the website from other country. The goverment trying to send messages to the public to be more health conscious because of the rise in childhood obesity, but the next advertisement by Mc Donalds kills the message?

Yummy

These are the cupcakes that I told you my friend's friend who is a full time housewife, started doing cupcakes for fun but only to find out that more and more people love her cupcakes and her orders are overwhelming, min 100 cupcakes at $1each.

The cupcakes are so so so soooooooooooo yummy and look so nice =D



More cupcakes to look at her website...
http://mengchoo.livejournal.com/

First - Ever Law Requiring Chain Restaurants To Post Calories on All Menus

Last month in July 19, Customers at big fast-food chains in New York City are finally facing the facts about their meal choices. And for some, the truth may be hard to swallow.

Some New Yorkers had a serious case of "calorie shock" on Saturday. The city started enforcing the nation's first-ever law requiring chain restaurants to post calorie counts on all menus - leaving some diners to find out their favorite food had hundreds more calories than they had thought. Violating restaurants face fines of up to 2-thousand dollars -

Cathy Nonas of the city's health department has high hopes for the new law. ((Cathy Nonas, NYC Department of Health)) "We hope this has a huge impact on obesity, and of course if it has an impact on obesity it will have an impact on diabetes, high blood pressure, etc. Some of the calorie counts posted Saturday were very high.

At T-G-I Fridays, this appetizer, called a Jack Daniels Sampler has a whopping 2-thousand 330 calories. "We hope the restaurant will be shamed into not offering a 2300 calorie appetizer unless they suggest 10 people share it."

If you were hoping to just have a salad for dinner at Fridays, you might want to avoid this one, it's got 1110 calories.

At Starbucks this little piece of Banana Nut Coffee Cake has 480 calories, while this Vanilla Bean Frappucinno has 600 calories.

Watch this 2.30 !

WELCOME TO THE SAMPLE BLOG

This is all about Home Economics, Family Consumer Science, Food & Nutrition, online resources, online discussion, online lessons, online shopping, wow!!
And this is also a platform for teaching and learning to take place, hopefully the fun way and more interaction!

WELCOME you again, HAPPY READING!

Leave your comments, tag on the board or please feedback! :)