Monday, June 21, 2010

6/21/10

I had totally forgotten about blog posts again...

In our class on 15th, we did the group discussion on what we would bring if we had to spend the rest of our life in an uninhabited island. My group had three guys so the list we came up with had AK47 and chainsaw, those that I would not come up with. Then we were divided into different groups and we created the new list. It seemed pretty good but I wonder if we can actually survive just with these materials if we were really sent to the island. I can't think of living in an uninhabited island...
well, this class was fun:P

Then in our last class on 16th, we watched a documentary about after school arms club. I was surprised that these kids really changed the law and that students can get those dangerous stuffs.
I wonder what we can do for the project next semester... I kinda thought of doing something related to eco life because I'm not happy about how Japan is environmentally unfriendly... but I still don't know, I hope I can come up with a great topic!
I hope we will do well, using the google presentation, which we learned in the tutorial period:)
It was really useful and I wonder why I hadn't learned about all these useful materials before in my highschool... My high school life would have been much easier with these stuffs!

I can't believe that we don't have classes anymore! Rab's classes were really stimulating and I'm really pleased that I had Rab as our teacher. I learned a lot of stuffs this semester and it passed so fast! Thanks so much Rab :)

Friday, June 11, 2010

6/11/10

Today was the last time for us to have class in the computer room in ILC.
Rab showed us a lot of videos that made me think a lot.

For the first video, the story of stuff, made me hopeless of living in this world. It seems impossible to change this whole system from producing to disposing because the world is working in this way. I know that it is wrong and it must be changed, but how? For example, this is what I believe but Mr. Hatoyama became a prime minister to change this system of amakudari and kanryo- centered society. However, all the media were controlled by them so they gave the public a bad reputation of him, and as the consequence, he had to quit attacked by the people who support the current system of society and by the citizens who are decieved by them. The system now is too strongly connected to the people who have power so, sadly, I don't know what I can actually do...

For the next four videos, I thought the mouth revolution one was the great idea since it is attractive in the sense of humor, it has a lot of shocking information that would make the watchers go take actions, and what it wants the watchers to do is unusual that they would be interested in doing it.

Meatrix was a great video too, to make people realize our wrong doing. I hope more and more people have a chance to watch this kind of videos, know the problem, and take actions.

Fumika, Naoko, and I learned about google wave from Rab after the class, and it seems really useful! But I thought it would be hard for me to use it because its new to me and its kinda hard to change what I have been using for a long time, like hotmail. :P I'm just too used to it..haha

I will miss this computer class with Rab:(

Thursday, June 10, 2010

6/9/10

In yesterday's class, we did a discussion over our essay topics. One by one, we said our thesis statement and the others attacked the ideas. The time ran out and my turn didn't come so I was the side to attack others all the time. I know that it is difficult to defend our thesis but it was also difficult for me to find some weak points of the other people's thesis statements. I gotta practice more to think critically! By doing this discussion, I could make my ideas concrete for my essay.

I worked on my essay so hard today and I'm almost done with it:)
But I got a lot of things to do for my other classes too... the last days before summer are so busy:S

Monday, June 7, 2010

6/7/10

Today's class was about the topic that I am interested in, such as animals.
Rab asked if it is possible for Hemingway to be a conservationist and a hunter at the same time, and the rest of the discussions were all about animals: if we have a right to set the populations of other animals, why don't we stop eating meat if we can feed 9times more people by the food we use for growing cows, etc...
The shocking facts that Rab told us were not new to me because they are the reasons why I decided to be a vegetarian four years ago. Through this class, I hope people understood that there are many good reasons to be a vegetarian. I have been a pescetarian for four years now but I have been eating some meat these days, being told by other people that I should eat meat. But through all the conversation I had with Rab and through today's class, I remembered how strong my decision was and I rethought that I had been doing a right thing. I should be more confident of my own decision!

You guys should watch earthlings and you will know why I care so much about animals:)

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

6/2/10

It was the first time that we had a class outside!
We all sat down in the shaded grass near bakayama and discussed about Hemingway.
I raised my hand up when Rab asked if we did the 3b's on hemingway, but I realized that it was so not enough to understand the background of the story. I learned that the story, the old man and the sea takes place in Cuba when it was controlled by Batista and the people were poor.
It was interesting to think about how the background information connects to the story. It can be interpreted in many ways and I thought the idea of Santiago as Hemingway himself, fish as his work "the old man and the sea", and sharks as the critics, was a nice interpretation. I wonder what is the true interpretation, I wanna ask Hemingway about it.

We had the picture taking for yearbook at lunch time, it was nice that all of us made it to appear in the picture:) I wanna see how the picture like.

I spoke with my friends from the US, who are a year younger than me, and they told me that they graduated. It is unbelievable that it's been already a year since I graduated! One of my friends probably will come to visit ICU today :D

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

6/1/10

We got to see our PWT grade and I think I got a pretty good grade thanks to Rab because someone who graded my test gave me a 3 for the last paragraph. I am so pleased that Rab supported my grading rather than the teacher's. But it surprised me that I could get a 3 for that paragraph, it wasn't that bad, I only missed the concluding sentence. Well, I learned that I have to finish the paragraph with a good concluding sentence. We will be having a third PWT test on The Old Man and the Sea and we have to work on the essay too. A lot of stuffs to do... But the old man and the sea seems easier for me to read compared to the Nisbett because it is a story.

Monday, May 31, 2010

5/31/10

We had some group discussions on nationality today.
What decides person's nationality... it's a really difficult question...
But the story Rab told us, one about a man who couldn't go into onsen because he looks foreigner, was shocking. I felt sad that there are still places in Japan that considers foreigners separated from Japanese people and that people who have non- Japanese blood are having such problems. I think if the man says he is Japanese and he has proof, then he should be treated as Japanese.
We also discussed if we would vote if we have a right to do so. For now, I do not think I would because I don't have a party that I strongly support... hmm.. Rab's questions were very difficult that we were all thinking hard and could not speak much.

I want a good essay topic because I would not be able to write well if I chose to write on international marriage as Rab said and 9.11 one is kinda difficult topic...
I want something more interesting...something about culture...
hmm...hmmmm....

Friday, May 28, 2010

5/28/10

We had three guests again in today's class at ILC and they seemed like they were enjoying the class:)

We first graded our own PWT. I had a lot of grammar mistakes... I should have left some time to revise it during PWT because they are just small errors but they make me seem stupid:S
Then we learned how we can get information that is not as biased as what is on the news or on the newspaper. Rab gave us like 6 websites, which deal with the news that are not showed in the media. He told me the website called venezuelanalysis, which has all the information about venezuela. It made me get homesick again... That led me to choose "Caracas" as the topic of the presentation. The presentation is in google document that is similar to powerpoint, and I learned how to insert the video.

Then we edited our essays using sentenceworks. We are Rab's guinnypigs:P
I thought this program was good to find the spelling error but not that useful because it just sees the writing based on grammar and punctuation rules, and most of the time how it corrects changes the meaning of what I want to say.



I had a golf practice until 7:00pm and then we went for dinner. Total of 12 people gathered and we had so much fun! Fumika and I prepared for a birthday cake for our friend and we had a little birthday party kind of thing. Yusuke, you should come for the next dinner!;)

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

5/26/10

Rab could not come today and Sylvan taught us instead.
I hope Rab's wife's mother gets better soon...

Sylvan is such a really nice person who loves those attacking advertisements. It really interested me and I did not know that such ads were actually showed on the TV. The ones that go for Obama and for McCain are both so rude attacking each other, after I got to know how the information is selected and put together, and they were surprising. Especially for the McCain doesn't know how to use computers one, because it had a back story that I didn't know and most of the young people wouldn't know. I think I would be convinced by this to believe that he is an old man who doesn't even know how to use computers and how to send email. So there might have been a huge number of people who were controlled by these ads and voted with a lot of information missing. It was fun to analyze these and surprising to see how straight and strong they attack their election rivals. In Japan, it seems that even if the representatives do attack their rivals they would not do it in such obvious way, but more in a hidden way.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

5/25/10

I felt like today's class was really short!
..yes, it was actually short for me because I came late...:(
I went to this waste treatment center(?) where all the flammable garbage go to, for the class of environmental studies. It was pretty interesting but I felt like I was back in elementary school or something.lol
I was watching garbage being carried by the huge crane, while my CB friends were jogging...lol

Sorry Rab for missing part of your class!

By the way, I am the best student in the class. It can be seen from today's class, in where we learned about slanting by describing Rab's bag in a favorable way and unfavorable way. I came late so I joined the discussion late but I came up with many great ideas and I could be a big help to create a paragraph with many supporting ideas. Also, I am organized so I could notice and tell the others when the paragraph is going off topic or the sentences are not connected. Then I could speak when the discussion stoppped when it should not be, therefore I could make the group discussion smoothly done. I contribute a lot for this class so I am the best student.


Ok, I don't actually think in this way, I think everyone else in CB is so much better than me and I don't think I can be better than the others in any skills....:'(
Does this count as an example of favorable slanting...? I am so not sure, I just tried my best to admire myself. haha


I'm watching and listening to Tohoshinki now..
I just love tohoshinki!<3
No other tohoshinki fan in CB class?:(

5/24/10

In yesterday's class, we did the P&D. It didn't come to my turn and it was good because I wasn't ready... I had the topic but I realized that it was not arguable, after discussing it in group.
My topic is: why does Japan have small percentage of international marriage?
When I asked Rab if this is not good for the essay question, he said it was ok if I put the three reasons in order, less important to the most important. But he added that it would be better if I have some suggestions. So! I'm going to say why Japan has a small percentage of inernational marriage and how it can be improved... do you think it is ok?

I also thought of writing about how 9.11 is shown by the media but people told me that it will be hard to find the information about it because the US hide it, so I chose the marriage one. But is it really hard to find the info? I could write about 9.11 if I can find the info and if it is appropriate... should I?

At night, there was the explanation for the students who want to get the teacher's license.
It seemed way too tough for me so I think I'll give up getting it...

Friday, May 21, 2010

5/21/10

Today's class in ILC was really fun!
We spent the 4th period by searching and looking at the stereograms.
It worked only when I did it in cross eyed way and the weird thing is that I saw it not popping out but curving inside(?).
I want to learn how to see them by using the method that Rab told us, to not see the screen but beyond it. It was really hard for me:S
Also, the one with woman spinning was really interesting too.
I could see it in both ways but I saw it more in clockwise than anti-clockwise so it means I am a little more creative than logic...
Well, this was all about perspectives.
We learned that perspective is selective, by analysing fisher.

After the free 6th period, I had the golf practice until 7pm.
Then I went to the gold shop with Fumika and two guys from other section and bought the globes. It was my first time to go to a golf shop in Japan and things were really pretty!
I was surprised to see that even golf goods are made pretty in Japan!

I feel so freeeeeee after the PWT!
I gotta decide my topic for the next essay...

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

5/19/10

In yesterday's class, we learned about the full presentation.
Rab gave us that the full presentation is consisted of three parts such as structure, content, and delivery.
It was really persuasive when he said that delivery is the most important one by showing us the bad ways of delivering food.

Then we learned the structure of the full presentation, which starts with greeting.
I've done a lot of presentations but I didn't think of doing self introduction of your background, outline, and the announce for the last question and answer time. Also, we practiced the good eyecontact by looking 5 seconds at each person. With all the contents that Rab told us, the presentation seemed professional and it was my first time to learn about presentation that clearly and completely.
I thought it was true when Rab told us to not laugh, commedians don't laugh with their own joke, because Rab never laughs when he tells us funny jokes.

I learned a lot today and the class was also really fun.
I wrote an essay just two days ago about Japanese schools with no discussion and presentation and by taking yesterday's class, I thought Japanese schools really need such classes of presentations in order to make students more active in their classes and give them an entertaining time.

In yesterday's lunch, Tomoya and I gathered with the people we played card with in the retreat night.
It was fun and I'm happy that I got some new friends there:)

Tuesday, May 18, 2010

5/18/10

When I entered the class room today(sorry for being late...), the mood was tensed.
Everyone was quiet and serious, writing some words down.
Kaya told me that Rab is angry and that he told us to write down five adjectives that describe him. We all wrote down some negative words like mad, angry, furious, irritated, upset, and dissapointed.
However, actually he was acting as if he was mad and he also had winked to some people to show that he was joking.
I didn't realize that and interpreted as he was mad by just looking at part of his attitude.
He told us that this is an example of nonverbal misinterpretation.

love Rab's way of teaching.


Then we did another psychological test.
It was a drawing type test.
It was pretty right but this was not as accurate as the last one because I think our experience affect what we draw. For example, I drew my old house where I lived in the US, when I was told to draw a house. Also, I think it depends on the ability of drawing, that I drew straight snake because I didn't know how to draw a coiled one.lol

Then we had some group discussions on the six stumbling blocks (Barna).
I think I have a lot of cases that I experienced these blocks but I could come up with only some of them... I've experienced a lot of them especially in Venezuela, where had a big cultural difference. For example, Venezuelan people thought I could speak Spanish fluently even if I am Japanese, and they just kept on talking to me in spanish really fast and never tried to slow down...this is assumption of similarities. Of course I had language differences there too.

When I came back home, I was looking at some pictures of my Venezuelan friends that were uploaded. Then my family were watching a documentary on TV about Venezuelan guiana mountains and I really felt like visiting there.

Today was a day that I remembered about Venezuela a lot of times, now I really wanna go there again, I'm kind of homesick now. :(

Monday, May 17, 2010

Chapter5: "The bad seed" or "The other boys made him do it"?

I had finished this chapter a long time ago... so I have to try to remember the content of it.

It basically says that Westerners consider the personality importantly, while the Easterners consider the situational factors more.

From page 127, it talks about the difference in education in American elementary schools.
It says that the Japanese teachers are focused on asking "How" questions and the American teachers ask a lot of "Why" questions. I was surprised knowing that "Why" questions are asked twise as frequently in American classrooms as in Japanese classrooms. The way of education is that different in the US and in Japan?
It is kind of related to my essay topic. This is one of the reasons why Japanese people are not active.
The experiment explained in page 124 was interesting and reading all these experiments, I think I am more Asian than Westerner, though I've spent a long period of time out of Japan.
By the way, it is not a good idea to do hw at home....my parents are argueing right next to me:S
I couldn't concentrate at all arggggg!

5/17/10

Today's class was 60 minutes because of C week and we went over some grammar worksheets.
I need more practice in order to write in more academic way as we learned today...
I still have to work on my essay! I hope I can apply those stuffs we learned to my essay well.

Then Rab gave us an interesting psychological test.
I thought this test was pretty accurate, since my adjectives for purple were how I wish to be!
And seeing the other people's results, it surprised me more because they were all very different and these adjectives seem to describe each person.
The results on favorite animal and water, and white room were right too, it was surprising!
It was fun! I'm looking forward for the next ones:)

Then fumika, yusuke, and I had the golf practice until 19:00.
There were a lottt of freshmen today, like 15!
The coach came and taught us how to swing and hit.
It was fun, the golf club is such a big club now!

Oh and the retreat...
I had a great time there, meeting some new people.
But I was with the people who I knew since before so I don't think I made new friends...
I just got two new people in my phone lol
I stayed awake over night, playing cards, dodgeball, tag, and so on using the loby or the whole 1st floor. I felt like I was with Fumika the whole time lol
I could be closer to my friends through the retreat and I had a lot of fun:)
Thanks to Yusuke who organised this such a big event!

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

5/12/10

Today, we went over the fallacies and oversimplifications that are explained in page103 in little brown handbook.
I had not checked if I have them in my essay so I have to revise it well.
He then taught us about deductive reasoning and inductive reasoning. I have learned about this but I couldn't remember what they are so I didn't raise my hand:P

Then we discussed about the article, "deletion of English from Entrance Exams Urged".
I think this article has a huge assumption because we never know if students would like English if it is not included in the exams.
Also, Rab said that the evidences used in Barna are weak because she used a comment made by just one Japanese students as the evidence of how Japanese feel. I think this writing is old plus does not really say the truth because I do not think such case that is explained in page 5-4 line 31 is true for every American students. A lot of them do not think in such negative way and some of them are unfriendly.

5/10/10

In yesterday's class, we revised and edited the practice PWT, using the little brown handbook.
By checking Sayaka's paragraphs, I realized how weak my writing is and I thought I need more vocabularies and expressions to improve it...

In today's class, we discussed about the different assumptions that exist in the world.
It was really interesting to hear many assumptions of the other cultures, especially for the assumption in Italy that women do not shave their legs. I didn't know about it and it was really fun to know many aspects that would be very abnormal in Japan but are normal in other countries. I feel like now I understand much more about assumptions.
And it seemed like the guest woman had a great time, joining Rab's class;)


I was watching the news and it was about the futenma problem. I realised how news is controlling watchers' mind when I heard the reporter saying: "the goverment that gave up to move the Futenma-base out of prefecture..." The government never said that they gave up doing it; they are still considering what is the best thing they can do. I thought the news is inputting the bad image of the government automatically into the people's mind by using such description of the government. Also, I forgot the content but the news said: "according to the person who relates to the prime minister, Mr. Hatoyama said..." but never mentioned who the person is. There is no evidence that Mr. Hatoyama said it.
I now think that news has tons of false informations. We certainly should not just believe the information given by media.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

5/7/10

In Friday's class, we had the practice PWT.
I couldn't write well and I should have reviewed the book more since I spent too much time on remembering the content of the book. So I will review it before the real PWT!

After the practice PWT, we watched the video about the demonstrations in Seattle.
I was shocked how cruel the police are and how biased the media are.
After watching the video, we had some group discussions on why Japanese don't join the demonstrations. I thought it is because Japanese became too rich and got used to the peaceful life to do the demonstrations but I came up with the new question, "then why the rich Europeans or Americans are active on doing demonstrations?"
So I then thought it was because Japanese media are showing too less information and news about everything so people are not interested in what are happening in the world. I think it is nearly impossible to change this Japanese behavior because media has too much power in Japan.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Chapter4: "Eyes in back of your head" or "Keep your eye on the ball"?

This chapter is about how Easterners and Westerners perceive world differently.
Asians see the substances while Westerners see the objects: "Westerner sees a wall where the Asians sees concrete." (82)

Like the previous chapters, this chapter says that East Asians attend more closely to other people's attitudes and behaviors and I think so too thinking about Japanese. However, I don't think Chinese are like this because Chinese people who I have met are not. I think Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, and other Asians are too different from each other to be grouped as Easterners. Although, I don't know how Chinese think and feel because I am Japanese so I'm reading this book considering that there are many Chinese people who think and feel like Japanese.

I thought it was interesting when I read that "Asians seem to believe outcomes will be better for them if they are simply in the same boat with others"(97), because I am like that too.

By the way, I joined the golf club on Friday!
There are already 4 people from CB, you should join us too! xD

Chapter3: Living Together vs. Going It Alone

This is my first blog post during GW, how is everyone doing?

So, here is the late blog post about the third chapter...

In this chapter, Nisbett basically says that East people are interdependent, while Westerners are independent. Society is more important for Easterners and individuals are more important in the West.

I think what he says makes sense because I see Asians in groups more than the Westerners.
However, there are many of the ideas that I thought strange. For example, the chart in page 52 shows the Eastern and Western views of the realtions and I could not agree with this because I thought American people also had the Eastern view that is represented in this chart.
Thinking about the Japanese people in ICU and American people in the public American school that I went, this chart is not persuasive.

This chapter had a lot of examples that are about Japan and it was pretty interesting to see Japan from the non-Japanese point of view.

Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Chapter2: The Social Origins of Mind

Chapter two of Geography of Thought talked about the folk metaphysics, the beliefs about the nature of the social and physical world, of Chinese and Greeks.

Nisbett mentions about "field dependence"(p43) and he says that farming people are more field dependent and they have better memory for faces, and sit together with others. I wonder if whether one is field dependent or not really changes the memory or the actions.

In page 45, it says that Westerners use logical rules more to understand events than Eastners. I do not know if I can agree with this because I think both Westerners and Asians are logical and there is no any big difference.


Yesterday, my dad came back from the US and after a long time of living separated, all the family members gathered today and had dinner together! I had been having a good time with my family today and I really did not feel like working on homeworks...but I had to...:( I think there is too much things to do for ELP.....:(
and why do we have classes tomorrow????D: lol

4/28/10

Today, we didn't have group discussion for the first time!
Rab taught us how to write a good paragraph, with topic sentence and concluding sentence.
I had learned these stuffs in high school but it was kind of hard to choose the order of the supporting sentences.
We did some practices on writing a good topic sentence and a concluding sentence by reading the rest of the example paragraph and I could do this well.
I now have to make sure that all the paragraphs of my essay are logic and well structured.

In the tutorial, we had a technology session and we learned about some great ways for research such as wonder wheel, time line, and many other searching options in google.
I hope I can use these well and find some nice sources for the essay!

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

4/27/10

wow wow...I had been forgetting about posting blog entries for this week...

On Monday, we discussed our essay topics choosing one of the classmates who seems to have very different opinion. I paired up with Yusuke and we discussed about our essays. I took too much time on talking about my essay and sorry for him not being able to talk much about his:S
He gave me a lot of new ideas that I didn't come up with, and I felt like I'm a little bit more prepared for the essay than before. Thanks Yusuke!
Oh and NP by Rab was really interesting and I now don't know what is true and what is not for the news I see in the TV or in the newspapers. I think it is really important for us to think, not just believing the information that the media gives us.

In yesterday's class, we got into groups and went over the Meiland/ Morgan test preparation questions. I just remembered the main points of the book so it was a good chance to remember and made the content of the book clear. I'm nervous about the test but the what I am scared the most is being late... I hope I wont:(

After the class, we went to Loyal Host for dinner. The food was good and I had a lot of fun talking with everyone! There are a lot of people who couldn't come yesterday so I hope we can hang out again;)

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Chapter1: The Syllogism and the Tao

I finally finished the first chapter!!
This chapter was easier to understand than I thought and it was pretty interesting.
It basically talks about the difference between ancient Greece and ancient China.

In Greece, the personal liberty was important while the community and society were concerned in China. I thought this was interesting because I think this has effects on today's world that Chinese and other asians are tend to be in groups than the people from other parts of the world.

The part that says "the lacked logic and principle of contradiction made a little progress in geometry" interested me too because I hadn't thought the way of thinking and math are related.

I now understand the meaning of the Sign of the Tao, which was the sign I have seen in everywhere. To my shame, I didn't know that it was from China.

The chapter was looong... it will be hard for me to finish this book:(
I hope I can be a fast reader through the ELP.

Thursday, April 22, 2010

4/22/10

Everything Rab taught us today was new to me.
Today's topic was Zotero.
I didn't even know that such thing as Zotero existed.
So...

Here is the Introduction to Zotero.
http://www.zotero.org/support/quick_start_guide

It is just useful!
You can easily create MLA, and other ways of citing sources.
I was shocked because I now know that I've wasted such a long time finding the author, the date, the publisher, and so on for my work cited part during my high school years.

I still have to understand more about it because I do not know clearly how it works yet.

By the way, the video Rab showed us was really funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnuULmbon14

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

4/21/10

I learned a lot in today's class, in which Rab taught us how to write an attractive essay.
It was new for me that the title has two parts, the eyecatching part and the detailed part.
I have written essays at high school but I hadn't thought so deeply about the way of deciding the topic so I hope I can come up with an eyecatching phrase for my essay.

He also taught us about the structure of the body and the conclusion.
I learned that we must try our best to create the essay that grasp readers' attention by considering well the structure of the essay.

And I'm not gonna change my reasearch question. It will be:
how should Japanese education change to make students more active?

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

4/20/10

In today's class, we discussed about Meiland and the essay we are going to work on.
We discussed in the group if there is assumption and dogmatic in our research questions and I learned that they make the argument weak in the writing.
It was difficult for me to find the assumption and dogmatic in the statements that Rab gave us and the research questions of my group members.

I think my research question will be:
How should Japanese education change to make students more active?
Is it too normal?

Monday, April 19, 2010

4/19/10

Today, we discussed about Meiland and learned about how to write an argumentative essay.

During the group discussion, Rab talked to us about the huge demonstration happened in 2003 in all around the world against the war in Iraq. We discussed why just a few of the Japanese students join the demonstration. After listening to the other people's opinion, I think that is because the Japanese students are used to not speak up for their opinions due to the education in Japan. It was a great chance to think how the Japanese education should be to make the students more active.

Also, I learned that the thesis statement of the essay is like the promise to the reader of what I am going to write about. Rab's explanation was very interesting and easy to understand.

Friday, April 16, 2010

posting video

Today I recorded a video in which I spoke about the two videos we watched.
It was the first time for me to record myself speaking and I realized that I should speak up more.
Also I have to improve my speaking skill because I still have to think a lot before speaking.

It was also my first time to post a video to the blog.

I learned a lot today such as how to record a video, how to post a video to the blog, and how make the link.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

The first video we watched, mother of all funk chords, was amazing because I didn't think that each of the people who appear in the video is playing different songs. It is still hard to believe the song is consisted of may different songs because it is too perfectly blended.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tprMEs-zfQA

The second video we watched is made by putting many videos of different people singing the same song, Angels on the Moon. The first one was much better than the second one because in the second one, each person's singing level, the tone, and the speed of singing are different.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjY3UvQ2n98

Tuesday, April 13, 2010