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Goodreads = Spam

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Recently many of you on our mailing lists will have got invitations seemingly from RCEF personnel inviting you to join social networking site Goodreads. Whilst the site does offer a legitimate service, their methods of finding new users can only be classified as spam. Allow me to explain.
One of our core members within RCEF signed [...]

Blog Posts to your Inbox

Don’t you hate it when you forget to check the blog for a while and then come back and find you’re completely out of the RCEF loop? Well, no need to fret! From now on you can get the RCEF blog delivered right to your inbox! Check it out:
How did we do this magic you [...]

Can education become “too soft”?

Last week, I talked to an 8th-grade social science teacher from Staten Island, New York. She had been teaching for 25 years, but when I asked her whether she still enjoyed it, the answer was a curt no. Why not, I asked. “Because teachers are not allowed to teach anymore. I am not allowed to [...]

Winter Holiday (寒假) Flash Class

From January 31 to February 7 a new computer class was held for lower middle school students in the village of Yinjialin, teaching students how to use Adobe Flash. Flash is a software that allows users to create simple (or very sophisticated) animations by using traditional animation concepts such as timelines and keyframes whilst using [...]

It’s an RCEF world

Recently we here at IT have been putting in a lot of time “RCEF-itizing” various aspects of our web presence, bringing each separate part into the RCEF whole by dressing them up in RCEF’s distinctive colours (if matte blue and grey can be termed distinctive…).
Here’s what the new gallery looks like (with new Volunteer Program [...]

New easy-to-remember URL: blog.ruralchina.org

We here at IT have implemented a new subdomain to make it just that little bit easier to get to this blog. The new URL is blog.ruralchina.org.
The old URL of www.ruralchina.org/blog will still work, but it’s an extra four keystrokes! Why would you want to do that?! With all the extra time you’ve now [...]