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PeerSource is an online community where teachers and students can meet to discuss, share, and collaborate on resources for studying Asian languages and cultures. At PeerSource, you can browse and contribute to community companion sites for each of Cheng & Tsui's major textbook series, and discuss topics of interest in open forums.
Companion Sites enable users to contribute their own resources, attach files, edit, track revisions, and discuss their materials with the community.
The Forums enable additional support and feedback within the community on specific textbooks, or more general language learning topics.
If your question isn't covered here, try the support forum.
A Companion Site contains the learning and teaching resources for a book or series. Most resources are organized by volume and lesson. Resources that are relevant to the whole book or series, such as lesson plans, are filed under a general section. You can browse all the resources available for a title using the links in the sidebar.
Contributing to PeerSource is easy!
1. On a companion site, use the links in the right sidebar to find an appropriate category for your resource (for more help, see Where should I post my resource?).
2. Click on a Post new resource button in that category.
3. On the submission page, type in a Name (e.g., "Vocabulary Game, Level 1 Part 1, Lesson 5"), Description and Tags for your resource.
4. If your resource is in a file saved on your computer, select it using the Browse button, and click Attach.
5. At the bottom of the page, click Preview to check that everything looks fine.
6. When you're ready to submit, click Save — and you're done!
To make it easier for other users to find your contribution, you should select the most specific category for your resource. For example, if you have a crossword puzzle that uses vocabulary only found in Volume 1, Lesson 1, you should post it on the Volume 1, Lesson 1 page, instead of the Volume 1 page.
However, if you have a more general resource, such as a lesson plan for all the lessons in Volume 1, you should post it on the Volume 1 page.
Notes:
The following file extensions are currently enabled for attachment:
jpg jpeg gif png txt doc xls pdf ppt pps odt ods odp zip dmg mp3 wma
Each file can be up to 4mb, and you are limited to 50mb total for your account.
Note: Currently, PeerSource does not support Word 2007 (.docx) files.
Both actions can be performed using the Edit form — just click on the Edit tab when viewing your resource. To remove your resource from the site, scroll to the bottom of the form and choose Delete.
You will be prompted to confirm this action. Remember, once your resource has been deleted, there will be no way to recover it!
You're encouraged to leave comments and discuss any of the resources on PeerSource: just click the Comments tab at the top of a specific resource page.
You can also rate and tag posts to help yourself and others find and evaluate content in the future.
Most content on PeerSource can be rated using a five-star rating system.
To rate the content on any allowable page, simply locate the row of stars at the bottom of the page, and "vote" by clicking on one through five stars based on your opinion of the content's quality and usefulness. One star is the poorest rating you can give content, and five stars is the highest rating. You can change your rating later, or cancel your rating at any time by clicking on the 'x' icon.
All ratings are anonymous, and users are encouraged to rate content honestly. Look to the row of stars at the top of a page to find that content's average rating.
Additionally, while searching for content, you can sort your results by their average ratings, to help you better find and evaluate new content.
A tag works like a simple label. Tags provide additional information about a post, and are helpful in grouping similar posts together into flexible classifications. They don't have to adhere to any predefined categories—they are uniquely applied by users. Because an individual's tags are shared across the entire community, adding tags to content helps to build an informal but effective classification system (sometimes called a "Folksonomy").
While browsing PeerSource, you'll see that tags are displayed in a "tag cloud," in which the font size of a tag reflects the number of posts to which that tag has been applied. This helps users to visualize the distribution of content across the site. If you're reading a discussion thread or accessing a resource and you'd like to find related content, try clicking on tags that other users have applied to the page you're on, and see what turns up!
You might tag a post, simply as a reminder to yourself, or as a helpful way to group posts together later. When your tags are combined with those from the rest of the community, they make content easier to browse, and add helpful keywords to improve search results.
It is a good practice to add a few relevant tags when making a new post. This will make your post more visible to other users browsing related content.
The red Cheng & Tsui fan logo will appear next to any content that is considered part of Cheng & Tsui’s publications or products. The same red fan will appear on the user images of Cheng & Tsui staff members, and their user names will appear in red, which cannot be duplicated by other members.
You can also choose to view only a certain type of content (either Cheng & Tsui or user-contributed). Just click the drop-down menu next to the "post new resource" button to switch between viewing options.
We welcome all users to take part in PeerSource. However, there are some areas that are restricted to teachers only. To facilitate this, we offer special registration to teachers, which allows them to post and view this kind of "teachers-only" content, such as quizzes, test banks, and answer keys. All requests for teacher access are verified against our records or through the requestor's school or institution.
During the course of registering at PeerSource, you will have the option to complete the verification process. If you're already a registered user, please follow this link for the teacher verification form.
Our forums are intended for user support and general discussion among members. Every companion site has a corresponding forum where you can post questions and feedback on our series.
To browse the discussions, go to the Forums tab on the main menu above the search bar.
To start a new topic, select Post new Forum topic on any forum page. By default, your topic will be posted to the forum you were viewing when you clicked the post button.
To reply to an existing topic, simply select Reply from the links at the bottom of the post.
Before creating a new topic, you may want to browse through existing discussion threads. You can see if your question has been answered, or alternatively, add to an existing thread.
Community members are expected to be civil and reasonable when making or responding to posts. Off-topic, inflammatory, or inappropriate posts will be removed at our discretion. All posts on the forums represent the opinions of individual users.
If you would like to contact Cheng & Tsui, there are several options. For technical support, please post in the PeerSource or product forums. For customer service, product feedback, and everything else, you can either call or email us.
Sitewide Search
All content on PeerSource is indexed and searchable from the main search bar at the top of every page. You can search all content at once, or specify the type of content you're looking for, e.g. resources, forum topics, help, etc.
You can also search the full text of files attached to resources from the File Attachments tab on the search page. Currently, PDF, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents are supported for indexing.
Use the Search this book form in the left sidebar of the companion site you wish to search.
You can also select the Books tab on the search results page, and select the book or books you wish to include in your search under Book search options.
Email Subscriptions
To receive notifications by email when new content is added to a companion site, or comments are added to a resource or forum topic, use the Subscribe link at the bottom of the post.
By default, you will receive one daily email digest that includes updates from all of your subscriptions. You can change these email digest settings, and manage all of your subscriptions, under the Subscriptions tab on your account page.
RSS Feeds
Look for the RSS logo on the lower right-hand corner of each page that provides an RSS feed.
All submissions to PeerSource are intended and assumed to be original and copyright is held and retained by the the submitting author, unless otherwise noted.
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If you send us a valid, written Counter Notification meeting the requirements described above, we will attempt to restore your removed or disabled material after 10 business days but no later than 14 business days from the date we receive your Counter Notification, unless our Designated Agent first receives notice from the party filing the original Notification of Alleged Copyright Infringement informing us that such party has filed a court action to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity related to the material in question.
Please note that if you materially misrepresent that the disabled or removed content was removed by mistake or misidentification, you may be liable for damages, including costs and attorney's fees. Filing a false form on this page constitutes perjury.
This gallery contains illustrations and photographs from Cheng & Tsui’s popular Integrated Chinese series. Currently, only images that appeared in Level 1, Part 1 have been made available. Other levels will follow to complete the series.
The gallery is structured by lesson, and each image has been assigned to the first lesson in which it appears. If you cannot find an image you are looking for, use the Search this book form to to perform a keyword search within the current gallery.
Images have been tagged with Engilsh and Chinese keywords in simplified, traditional, and pinyin forms. Users may also add their own tags to build custom collections and improve the index.
Note: When searching in pinyin, v will replace ü.