Different viewpoints, different perceptions 9/28

Today, Rab introduced us many types of perceptions. He mentioned that our perceptions would be different by our viewpoints, situation, or environment. The most important example Rab showed us is the movie about Japanese culture. There were many jokes which every Japanese are able to realize but these jokes would be not understood by foreigners. From this movie, I found that having little knowledge is easy to cause trouble between other cultures and be deceived too. It is necessary to have more knowledge to get right view towards world society.

Stereogram! 9/26

We learned many things today in Rab's class.

At first, he taught us how to use Zotero in more useful way. It was surprised that Zotero is able to save various types of files such as movie, article, and newspapers. It is a good opportunity to use movie as a source for a first time in essay work.

Later, we watched some movies and saw many pictures which is calked stereo gram. By watching a movie, I recognized that my brain is using left side usually, meaning my brain is artist type. However, I do not really have opportunity to feel that my viewpoint is similar to artist, or not understanding the common viewpoint of artist. It is interesting to research the difference between right and left brain.

An essay lecture 9/24

In this class, Rab did not teach about Mac or Barna, he taught us about some key points of writing essay. He mentioned that there are many mistakes in every students' book review. For example, it is important to put work cited in right order. However, there were many students who did not put in a right way. Therefore, Rab introduced us the way to solve problems. Solving problems are very simple and easy to remenber because Rab taught us in very detailed and with some reasons.

I understood the importance of writing essay correctly through this class. I hope I can improve my essay work more than book review.

My first absent on ARW class 9/21

I had a terrible time on this morning. I drank some medicine the day before to be relieved from the allegy I had on the skin. However, that medicine did not fit to my body well.Therefore, it produced strong side effect which made me very sick and feel slyggish. From this incident, I could not even wakre up and go to the classes on morning. I was dissapointed of not taking Rab's class, but this is the last time of being absent. By next time, I put aim to be careful to my body and would not be absent any more.

A new internet function to raise my English ability 9/19

In today's Rab's ELA class in the Mac room, he taught us two new internet functions, the Google Reader and Zotero. I am sure these functions would help me to raise my English ability vastly.

Before I enter this college, I only used the search engine tools in Google. I did not know all of the functions Google has and did not pay much attentions. My little knowledge toward Google became very big by Rab's lecture.  I was very surprised the the Google reader can select the websites I want to search from my subscriptions. it is very useful for me to get the newspapers article I would like to use for my essay task.

Moreover, Rab taught us how to use Zotero. Zotero is a research tool to save information of the  any books, movie, articles on the website I would like to save. The very good point of this research tool is it is able to save and sync the information fro any computer which have internet. Therefore, it is no need to take memos on the paper!

Now I have many tools to write my essay task at any time. I would like to use Google Reader and Zotero in utmost to complete my essay.

A very mean teacher 9/17

Rab's words at the beginning of the class made me panic. He mentioned that my section's book review was terrible, the worst class he ever had in his life. I was very shocked, did not know what to do, looked down not to see Rab's face because I was in a full of fear. However, this fear will be gone soon by recognizing that Rab's behavior was a joke.  He pretended he was joking and send some signals to some students telling " It is a joke!". All Rab did was just winked at some students. This signals means a joke in western culture. I did not even realized about the wink because I was looking down most of the time. Therefore, it took me a little time to understand Rab was joking, but it relieved  me from the fear.


At the same, time, I recognized I was lucky when I lived in London. I did not have big misunderstanding with British people and caused a big problem. However, it is necessary to have knowledge of different cultures to work at the foreign countries. This article is a very good opportunity for me to understand the misunderstanding different cultures.

Class review on 9/14

It was first class to take Rab's ELA Reader's lesson, and it was a full of amazement. Before I take his class, I had the image of discussing in the groups by reading ELA Reader. Actually, that was I got in last semester's class. However, Rab's class was different. He taught us many experiences and examples of differences and misunderstood between various cultures. Therefore, it was easy to understand the themes of Barna's article, and able to understand more deeply by discussing about our experiences in groups.

What I found in this class is the importance of way to comprehend. Many students are able to read many articles in English today. However, it is more important to understand the themes of article and can discuss with examples. I would like to read Barna more carefully again, to get higher ability of comprehension.

Class Review on 12th September

Today, I learned so many useful function of Mac, Google, and Zotero. It was first to take class at Mac room. First, he taught us about Google. I only used Google calender and drice before, and I knew it is very useful. However, Rab introduced the more useful function, the task. This can be viewed when we open Google account every time, reminding us the due of the task we have to do. I was impressed and thought its is very usuful for me. It shoten the time to take out the schedule book from back and write.

Moreover, Rab introduced us the way to use Zotero. Zotero helps us to store the research information we found on the internet. From today, I would like to use this for the report and essay essay for the boom review.