Prejudices

In the last class, we watched a video about how Hollywood discribes Arab people.

When I watched it, I was surprised and a little bit shocked, because I have never thought about the fact.
What I was most surprised is that in the movie of Disney, there is the words like if you don't like people's face , you cut their ears.
I have never thought about this song deeply. Actually, I like this movie and when I was a small child I often watch it, but I have never realized that I recieved a kind of prejudices about Arab people from the movie.

After I enterd ICU, I'm careful about a prejudice, but I realized that  I still have some prejudices.
It is difficult for me to realize them by myself, so I'm  happy to take the last class.

Today's class

Today, I watched two videos and though about race in the class.

Rab showed us two interesting videos from Youtube, and it was really good example for essay.
First one was really good, even if all players played different songs, but it composed one good song.
On the other hand, second one which all people sing same song was not so good.
As he said, I also think same thing can be said to my essay.
I cited from some books, but the qualities are not same and used them just for it fitted to my essay.

After that, we discuss about race.
We observed a lot of pictures of people and though how can I separate them to 5 groups.
It was difficult to do it, because, for example, I can not say the Latin peoples and people of the Middle Est as white people.

I feel that next topic of my essay will be difficult...

Let's be friends with Google doc

First, I'm not good at using computers.
I can not understand well how to use ZOTERO and evernotes yet.
Besides, I do not get used to using Google doc....

However, I realized I should get used it in order to study effectively in ICU.
Google doc is really useful for us, because it gives us enough time  to think about friend's essay.
When I read my friend's printed essay, I always can not have enough time to check all grammars and I check only its contents.
However, in the case of Google doc, I check friend's essay on the internet, so I read it alone in my home and I can have enough time to read it well.
I also can edit it easily, so it is useful for me to point out mistakes and to comment.

Therefore, I should share my essay on the Google doc with my friends and I'll try it.

pre-CWT

I forgot when was the class, but in the class, I took pre-CWT.
I like writing and I usually do not think writing test is difficult for me, but this time it was a little bit difficult for me.

The reason was that I realized I did not understand about Fisher well.
I could not analyze the situation by using Fisher's insistence.
Therefore, I had to read my text book again!
It was good for me to make sure the contents of the text, but I thought that I should have understood properly before pretest.

Funny and fearful videos

Yesterday...actually, it was not yesterday,because I forgot to write blog for a long time! Sorry!
However, now I can realize that how this blogs are useful for us.
I can write my this blog, because my friend's blog helps me remember what we did in the class.

"Yesterday", I watched some videos which told us what perception is like.
They were so funny for me, especially video of susi, but at the same time, I was fearful.
I like them very much , but I think they may give a wrong image about Japan to foreign people.
Even if there is notes in the first page(?), but most of us did not realize it.
Therefore, I was worried about them now.
 If I have a chance, I would like to show these videos to my foreign friends  and ask them how do they feel about them.

Anyway, these videos were really good example for perception.

How to write good essay

In last class, I learned about writing essay.
I thought I already know about how to write an essay.
However, I realized in this class I didn't understand how can I write a good essay.

I have never thought that my essay topic is really good for essay and I didn't know that an essay topic should be argumentative.

Therefore, I changed my mind about my topic, because it is not argumentative and I decided that I would write about a military service.

This class was really useful and good for me, because I could understand how can I write a good essay.

Mac world again

In the second day in the room of Mac computers, we learnd about Google again.

The homework of last class was to make an account of Google blog, so we added my classmate's blog into my list.

It is really useful system, because I can read my classmate's blog easily and by reading their blogs, I can understand what we learned in ARW class!

Moreover, it is interesting for me to read my friend's blog, becausewe took a same class, but there are a lot of different oppinions about the class.

Some friends thought it interesting, on the other hand, the other students described it boring.

I think I can also understand my classmate's character from thier blogs.

"A worst class"

"A worst class"
When I heard this his word, I smiled a little bit, because I thought it was just a joke.
However, when I looked around and saw my classmate's faces, I was confused, because their faces were so serious!!
While we discuss about how can we describe Rab in three words, all my friends looked like small children who were scold by their mothers for something and I also came to think it as serious thing.

After all, it turned out that it was just a joke as I guessed first.
We really worried about our essay, but by this experience I could understand how human's emotion effects to our idea about things.
His way to teach was really nice.

What I was surprised in this class was that in some country( I forgot which country),
crossing our legs when we are standing means I want to go to a rest room!!!
I was really surprised, because actually I often do that and I did so many times it in America!!
Oh my God! How many people who are from the country did think why I don't go to rest room!!?
I was so embarrassed.
I hope nobody were there who thinks crossing legs means people want to go to rest room!

The day I found an answer of my question

Finally, Rab's "real" class has stared.
I was looking forward to taking his class, because I had heard from my friend that he is a little bit strict.
Last term, my ARW's teacher was Steve and he wasn't so strict.
Even if I loved him and his class, I wanted to take harder class, so I was happy to hear that my teacher would be Rab.

Anyway, his class was different from Steve's one.
He made us to be some groups and discuss about what he told us.
The way he taught us was really good and I liked it very much.
He explained about contexts of ELA book with a lot of interesting examples, so even if his talking was a little bit fast, I could understand them very well.
Moreover, he let us discuss in the group than reading the text book.
This system was really good, because this helped me to make sure about my idea and helped me to improve my speaking ability.

What I found in this class was that a gesture which shows two fingers with back of the hand is a kind of slang words.
I suddenly remembered someone told me that I should be careful when I take a picture in some European countries, because Japanese often do it.
I was wondering why it is bad thing for European people(UK), but in this class, I finally understood the reason.
I was happy to know the history about UK!

A windows user used Mac

In the second day of ARW, we learned about google.
In this class, I used Mac computer for the first time.
(Acctually I have used Mac note computer before, but this was my first time to use such a big computer.)
I even didn't know where is a start button and where should I push when I want to shut down the computer.
As I heard from my friend who is stream1, Rab taught us a lot of  things about computer.
In this class, he mainly told us about how to make use of Google better.
I was surprised, because there were a lot of functions in Google such as calender, reminder and reader.
I thought this was so useful, but now I realized that I didn't check Google so much!
Therefore, I think Google calender isn't so useful for me...

Anyway, what is the best thing I was impressed in this class was ZOTERO.
It was amazing and this system looks like the Savior for me!!!
In last term, I searched about my works cited by myself and I had a lot of trouble the work.
However, since this term, I will not have any trouble to make works cited any more!!
This system helps me to search information of books and make works cited.
This is wonderful and I love it.
I am so happy to meet ZOTERO!