Mr Benny Hsiao wants to devote his energy to education in Taiwan.  He wishes that the combination of technologies and education can trigger a strong motivation for pupils in learning and bring about better result and aptitude.  Let’s see how a software engineer helps develop the Junyi platform to help the unprivileged children.

      I studied electrical engineering.  Everyone has his favorites including thing, place and subject.  He must have objectives too.  I believe education is a way that helps one to achieve his own objectives.

      I took part in a training 4 years ago.  Actually I haven’t serviced the rural area.  There are two kinds of recruitees.  One of them includes those who become teachers in rural areas.  The other comprises those who become reserves only due to various reasons including lack of school vacancies.  They have the potential to become teachers.  I belonged to the latter group.  I took part in a training that lasted for more than a month.

      I heard of the Junyi platform while I was in the training.  I was pretty impressed at that time.  The other reason was the TFT and Junyi knows each other.  Tian-lin of Junyi learned that I have an engineering background and considered me a possible candidate for a position in Junyi since the platform is a website and has something to do engineering.  Then I had a conversation with Mr Ray Lu, CEO of Junyi.
      I believe that engineering is closely related to Junyi’s objective.  I write computer program for Junyi. I think Junyi fits well with me.

     I believe learning at desired tempo of every child is the ideal model of education.  Some are fast learner whereas some take longer.  The fast learner can choose to learn more or be promoted to next level.  It is ok for the slower ones who take their time to continue at the tempo that each of them chooses.  The can still move up the ladder slowly. 
     Junyi is working towards that although still a bit far from the ideal model.  Anyway, we are going in that direction. 

    I’ve been working for Junyi for almost 4 years.  Frontend Explorer is about the interfaces of the platform but not the videos.
   Software Development covers a lot of tasks.  We cover interfaces, usage and analysis.  We perform analysis on data that let us know whether users like or dislike a certain video.  We do webpage design and produce pretty images that attract children.
   Designer holds hand with Frontend Explorer.  Designer makes pretty pictures whereas we produce the electronic image.  Another team is supposed to discuss with teachers and pupils about the desirable features and feedback.  The resulting suggestions will be incorporated in upcoming design which subsequently will be available online.

     Junyi holds a conference every year to decide the objectives for the following year.  Once decided, detailed plans shall be passed along to different team.  The other is the feedback mechanism.  We want to know user’s opinion, e.g. one find a wrong question or answer, a mismatched video.  User would let us know by pressing a particular button that triggers the mechanism, e.g. a teacher thinks that certain function is clumsy and gives us suggestion.  He shall be asked to fill in description that will be sent to the operations management team.  Such message will be retrieved every day.  Operation management team will notify the marketing team which will summarize and provide us with change request.  We will make such change accordingly.

      I think it is still within my expectation.  I love this domain very much.  One of the way to get into this domain is becoming a teacher. However, there are other ways to devote my energy.  I believe being a software engineer is pretty much my cup of tea.  I believe I will stay a software engineer.

      I would hire a team to create animations that make the website more vivid and lively.  Then more pupils would get on the platform.  Subsequently, we would hire some teammates that enrich our videos by recording, producing and drawing animations.

      Learning does not involve sitting in front of the screen for a long time. I don’t want you to act that way.  Learning is something that one should do every day in fixed duration and schedule.  You can benefit from it by spending 30 or 15 minutes on the Junyi platform every day.  Your mother may concern about your eye-sight and doesn’t want prolonged usage.  As long as one manages the time spent in front of the screen, it shouldn’t be a problem.

Not yet but we are on the right track already.

      There are content related to program design.  Game design, on the other hand, falls into a very sophisticated domain and is substantially difficult. It is not impossible but such course has not been planned or scheduled.  One can easily get hold of such information using google search.

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      Participation in TFT has motivation people them to devote themselves to education.  Mr Benny Hsiao is one of them.  Although he is not a frontline teacher, he put a lot of effort in the software development for the Junyi platform which is just another way to achieve the same objective.