Joanna Huang  - one of our Chinese Studies teachers - has been identified by Apple Inc as an Apple Distinguished Educator.

Joanna has been actively infusing Web 2.0 technology into her classroom for two years.  By way of example, she has done some wonderful work with Flickr and Chinese character input. Joanna uses a wiki with some of her classes and reports that her students find using Web 2.0 tools both simple to learn - the technology supports rather than hinders learning. Joanna reports that when using technology her students come to their work with a higher degree of enthusiasm.

Joanna was part of a week-long training event in Singapore with 63 other educators from South East Asia.  In North America and Europe being a member of the ADE community is highly prestigious. This year is only the second year for ADEs in Asia.  Next year we hope that more CDNIS teachers will be recognized by Apple for the awesome work happening in our classrooms.

Congratulations Huang Laoshi - CDNIS's newest ADE