computer class

 Free Documentaries and Media Education Foundation are useful, but I found it is difficult to apply them to my 2nd essay. Movies provide me with visual and auditory images, so they help me catch the meaning. They have stronger expressions than words on a book so it is easier to get the most important point in it. Furthermore, it may even enhance my English skills, because usually conversations in a movie are much faster than speech of ela instructors, that is, they are close to those by native speakers. However, it takes me a lot of time to watch movies and it is hard to find the main point of a film. Now the due is coming very close to me. Time never wait for me. Therefore, it is not a good way to watch a film because if it is interesting I will continue watching it even after I note main ideas.

who's bad ?

 Let's count the way to get information: TV, newspaper, radio, the Internet, magazine, and others. It seems to me that it is often consider that newspaper is the most reliable, but I do not think so. It is because an impression of an article is easily distorted under the power of its sponsors. On the other hand, the Internet is said to be the best to get truth, but it is hard to weigh reliability of each article. I even wonder if the truth has value. Truth seems just a tool to communicate with other people smoothly.


too difficult...

Rab's bag

 I was in a group which explains Rab's bag from the negative view point. The problem was that Rab's bag seemed a good one to me, so it was difficult to look at only the bad side. Many good points came up but few bad ones did. Intuition is hard to be removed. This is sometimes good but sometimes bad. Some great inventions might have started with verification of superstitions which were believed "true" at that time at first, but the time to turn them at an angle of 180 degrees must have come. In this process, two intuitions appear: first, a man follows a intuition which is familiar to him and secondly he finds a new intuition and pursue it. Again, look at Rab' bag situation. even If I had believed that it was a crap, I would have found its good points soon. This is the problem of time and sounds like the problem of belief of religion. Religion is the continuation of suspicion against his own religion.


oh...messy blog......

great Google

 An essay doesn't have to be written on Microsoft Word first. It should be started on Google Drive because if it is shared among a group it will be sophisticated thanks to comments and the members of the group can help each other so they all the members can get higher grade than if it is worked alone without any fault. By the way, why many of the students in 3A started their essay on Word? the reason must be the perception. Students had a certain "imprinting" that an essay had better be started on Word. They had never thought of that, nor the benefit of that. Even if the more skeptical people be, the more problems come up, they must defeat them. The honesty must bring a good essay.

perception decides conception?

 Although a small boy who wears big glasses and a bow tie are always insisting that "There is always only one truth", what is more important the content of the truth is the fact that the truth can be alter its meaning in accord with a viewpoint. For example, as Rab showed me a video whose title is "Nihon no Katachi", I knew it was a video made by a Japanese famous comedian Rahmens so I could laugh at it but if I hadn't known it was a comedy, then I would have been deceived. This is because I have a wrong perception. To avoid a problem like this, one of the solution is to suspect the fact which is highly believed. Distorted broadcasting is one of the instances. Media is no longer a medium which exists between a reason and a result. So, it can also be said that many things are capable of being media. A person can, mirrors can, and almost everything can be a medium and distorts information. So, perception is maybe only a function to distort information. However, just as the angle of view is important in looking at the truth, the angle to distort the information is significant. It is ok to distort information to good direction, and then the activity is no longer a distortion but an appreciation. The key to turn one into the other is correct knowledge.

Stereogram

 Rab showed me an video that tests which brain I use more. Though many section mates could see it spinning both clockwise and anti-clockwise, only clockwise could I. Actually, I had already known a video like that and I could have got it spinning both. The movie on the right is an ending animation of a famous work and, as you may see in the upper right of the box, there is a girl spinning. This has the same trick as the video and this is maybe easier to make sense. Yet, to go beyond just a surprise, an attitude that should be taken is that each person conceives that a phenomenon like that could happen every time around him. These videos are the evidences which shows that a person can easily be deceived. However, being deceived should not be counted as a sin, but how early he realizes it is more important because people cannot help making mistakes.

Don' do that!

  I did not know that there are many grammatical rules in writing formal English. To make a paper reader-friendly, writers have to follow several codes.  Most of them were maybe told by Rab in the last class and I was surprise that I have violated many of them, but what made me shocked most was the rule that successive sentences should not start with the same word, because I had broken it many times. However, solution is very easy: just turning them into one sentence is enough. This also helps readers to catch flow of a passage and probably this is the reason the rule exists.
 Though this is not much concerned with this topic, I have not yet understood the difference in use of "a" and "the".

symbolic numbers

 The lecture Rab gave me was so intelligible that it must have been a very nice introduction to my essay. Actually, I haven't learned an art to write an essay nicely. I have not known the usual structure of an essay, so it was hard for me to start writing an essay. The beginning of an essay was difficult to me because I often wonder how much I should explain an background. And I had not understood what the background is. But thanks to Rab's explanation, probably I could get most of its sense.  A background is the information that is necessary to understand an topic of an essay. In other words, if you do not understand a background you cannot make sense of an essay. Then here comes another point I learned in the last class. After I complete the background, I just follow the rule of 3: showing 3 ideas per section. 3reasons, 3 examples, 3 bodies and 3 parts of summary. I believe it will surely take me to the conclusion of my essay. But only listening to the lecture makes me sleepy...

useful tools

 Rab always shows me many useful technologies. Google Reader he explained last class would make my ELA life much easier because I can quickly find out what I'm looking for, just typing some words. It takes a lot of time to search out information that I really want from just surfing the tremendously broad Internet. If I can find proper information faster, I can go to bed earlier and sleep much more. Nothing is better than a healthy life. But, as is usually said, only everyday effort can make it. Before getting information from Google Reader, you need to pick up some sites in advance. To store good sites in your Google Reader is the key point to sleep earlier.
 Actually I'm not willing to look at section mates' blogs because I don't much care what they are thinking of, but, consider that writing blogs will helps me getting better at English, then it is not so dull for me. And what is the best thing working on a computer is that I can work listening music on Youtube. I can't bear managing ELA assignments without it.

the real first class by Rab

 Compared to Steve's class, his class is full of actions. In Steve's class he told us to read sections which would be dealt with in a subsequent class, and in it, we talk about topics concerned with them. This was the usual style of his class. Although Rab also let us discuss, the way he give us topic is very different: he give us a lot of his own examples, show us some experiments using students. That is why it is easier to understand what is required to talk about. It is nice that the class goes on so fast that I will not get tired of his class, but in order not catch up with the class I have to work hard all the more.
 If I am told which will fit me, I'll answer Rab's one will. Recently I've been feeling that my speaking English skill reduced through this summer break because I didn't speak English at all. Therefore, Rab's class fulled of talking suits my weakness.