2009年12月28日 星期一

Task 10

1. I think the professor can grade my performance by the essay which made by group or tasks writing by myself and my kelpal.
2. I will give myself 7 scores, in the part of the essay which made by group, I think I took the essay seriously and also made the effort with it. Another part is tasks writing by myself and my kelpal. I think during the writing of tasks, learning more and more writing skills and I will pay more attention to the errors which are not necessary. What is more, I also get some useful advice and writing skills from my keypal. And we also have a good interaction between our tasks.
3. I also will give my group members 7 scores. Because they were also pay more efforts to this essay. As to my keypal, I will give him 9 scores. When I released my new task, he would respond me as soon as possible. In addition, after reading his responses, I think he is a person who has critical thinking. Sometimes, I got some new ideas from his responses. And, not to mention the writing skills he had.

2009年12月13日 星期日

Task 9

1. Among six different classroom activities, I like watching and reading activities. Because, when I learn from watching, the images would make a deep impression on me. In this way, when I read or review the parts, the images will spring up at once, helping me much swifter and easier to recall the parts. What is more, when watching some movies, I often can get some new perspectives and enlightenment from the movies. Another classroom activities, reading, is also motivated me. However, the “reading” I mentioning, is meaning reading extracurricular readings rather than text books. The reasons why I chose reading are the same as watching. Not only can get new viewpoints and inspiration, but also broaden my horizons. And, I like the least is discussion. Because sometimes members in the same group are disliking or not good at express their thought. In doing so, the discussion often come to nothing.
2. Recently, many classes showed films, maybe they were not very fun, but to me, I enjoy watching films very much. Take an example, last week the sign language course showed a film about deaf people. After seeing the movie, I realized the plight of deaf people such as being unable to find a job even if having talent and being looked down on. I think we should appreciate we have sound bodies; in the meanwhile, we also need to put ourselves in deaf people’s shoes. Instead of looking down the deaf.
3. When I encounter some kind of difficult knowledge, I will try to find out answers by myself. But, if I cannot find out or find some uncertain answers, I will discuss with my classmates.
4.I think I am prone to be static and conservative type. Just like I mentioned above.

2009年12月7日 星期一

Task 8

1. I think we can get 7 scores in our writing.
2. I think I always finish my tasks on schedule, and my keypal will response me at once. We would bring up our thought respectively about the questions. Up to now, we have exchanged our viewpoints from seven different issues. I think when we toward every issue, we are similar to each other, except the issue of Britney Spears. However, in the second time we also responded to each other timely, we can not only mutual understanding but also contemplate peer’s thought again.
3. I think my keypal is perfect for his writing skill; on the contrary, I think I need to pay more attention to some minor errors and avoid translating the Chinese sentences into English directly.

2009年11月30日 星期一

Task 7

No matter where we live ,we can hear the phrase” the strawberry generation” from time to time, from the newspaper, the magazine or the news reported. When it comes to the strawberry generation, it must something about negative comments. Perhaps, in some way, the youngsters who were born after 1980 are really not as diligent, perseverant and endurable as the older generations. Nevertheless, it cannot totally blame the youngsters, the family and parents also should take some charge. Now, owing to the low birth rate, many families almost only have one baby or two babies. In this way, parents must put all love and protection for their one child or two kids, fearing their children are being hurt. Consequently, parents almost take over all things from their children, making their children spoiled. When children are grown in less stressful and being overprotected by their parents, they naturally think the outside world must about the same their home life patterns. In this way, they are referred as the strawberry generation. Besides just like the article mentioned Taiwan’s economical prosperity, young people have to face the long hours, low pay and job insecurity.
Hence, by the birthday to measure each youngster is not an appropriate way. Not all young people are what we call “the strawberry generation.” There still have many young people are passionate about their life and their job. To the job, they have abundant creativity and innovation; to the life, they are more aggressive and open-minded to everything.
They also try to hard work and make some modification to change common people’s viewpoint to younglings. I was born in 1991 but I will try to hard work and prove that I am not what so called “the strawberry generation.”

2009年11月8日 星期日

Task 6

Usually my first reaction is that felt depressed when I made mistakes. Of course, after depressed, I will take my mistakes seriously. Finding out the error and correcting it are my second step.

I defined the mistake as the thing which makes people love-hate. Because nobody likes making mistakes, we always go after we can be a perfect person. Hence, if we can, we will avoid making mistakes as far as possible. However, as the proverb says: ” no one is perfect”, we must do wrongdoing during our life. But, making mistakes is not certainly a bad thing, we always learn and move forward from mistakes. Usually, we became more and more mature and sensible after we learned from our mistakes.

After listening to Prof. Pausch’s speech, I also see the mistake in the same way. In addition, I also learned the new light from Prof. Pausch’ speech, such as” experience is what you get when you did not get you wanted” and” brick walls are there for a reason: they us prove how badly we want things.”

2009年11月2日 星期一

Task 5

1. This picture includes many parts, accordingly to the “Learning Teams” part and the “Collaborative Deliberation” part, we can know this picture is showing about collaborative learning.

2. My favorite part of this type of learning is “Learning through reflection.” Owing to from this part, I can learn that why the original thought was unworkable and how do I improve the idea. After the process, I can not only improve my abilities but reflect the wrong I made as well. Making mistakes did not matter, because we are not omnipotent. But the most important thing is that after we found and reflected our mistakes, we should reform and don’t make the same mistake again.

3. I think that “Generating Multiple Perspectives” and “Making Informed Decisions” usually bother me when I work with others. Because I think Taiwan’s educational system tends to be “the spoon-feeding way of teaching,” we almost learned from this way . I feel that during my learning process, I always “accept the truth, seldom having making critical comments.” So many times I feel “Generating Multiple Perspectives” is difficult to me. And why the part” Making Informed Decisions” bother me, I think it may be related to my personality. Before I decided something important, I must be think twice. Therefore, I can’t make informed decision at once.
After learn this picture, I will try to improve my weak points. When I have group learning next time, I can use them better.







2009年10月23日 星期五

Task 4

1.
Sometimes, we have to issue our thoughts on the blogger. But most of time we also need to bring books to go to class in the classroom.
2.
I think the “Networked Students” are students mainly learned from the Internet.
I think learning from the internet has pros and cons, no having absolute good or bad.
On the bright side, learning from the Internet is unrestricted by the distance and time. We can have classmates who are in different countries, in this way, we can not only make more friends but also get many different thoughts from different countries’ classmates about the same question. In addition we also can advantage the abundant resources on the Internet such as google and wikispaces. However, some information on the Internet is not absolutely correct which is likely to mislead your thought. Hence, when we learn from the internet, we must to have ability to distinguish the information’s true and false. And if we only learn from the internet, we will reduce the opportunity to interact with people. We cannot face to face to discuss deeply what we are thinking about and what our classmates want to express.
In the sum, if we use the internet appropriately, the internet will be a good helper for our learning.

2009年10月17日 星期六

Task 3

Actually, I seldom follow Britney Spears’ movement. The way to know her is from the entertain news on TV. The news about her was almost bad news such as talking drugs, acting strangely and getting divorce. But, recently Britney Spears said she confessed the wrong things she had done before, she also want to back on the stage again with her new album and new look.

I think after going through so many bad things, Britney Spears really wanted to make some change. In spite of that she had done many things that many people didn’t agree, I think I will choose believe her. Because nobody is perfect, sometimes we also did something wrong. After we regretted what we had done, we must want others giving us one more chance and believing us we really want to stare again. Therefore,I think we should to walk in Britney Spears’ shoes, give her one more chance.


I wouldn’t change my view if she was my best friend or family. I will courage and accompany with her, helping her get rid of bad habits and guide her to the right way. Because I think the family and friend’s company and support are the most important things to a person who want to correct her errors and make a fresh start.

2009年10月10日 星期六

Task 2

We often hear somebody told us: “I am doing this for YOU!” or “I meant well,
especially heard from our parents. When we heard this words that it meant they did
something we didn’t like or agree. As I heard something which my parents did for me
without my agreement, my first reaction was angry and reject the decision as possible as I can . After some time, however, I will rethink the whole thing and search reasons why my parents did the thing for me. In addition, I also will ask my parents to
discuss with me first if they want to do something for me next time.

Take an example, when I was a junior high student, my father forced me to sweep streets where near I live at morning in weekends. At the beginning, I was reluctant to sweep streets.
Because I wanted to have more time to sleep, I also thought why should I go to clean the
garbage which was others made. After several times, however, I found it was not really bad.
I can keep regular hours even in the weekend. And, when I swept streets, seeing the clean
streets, I felt joyful. Others would felt joyful too while they saw streets, I thought. Therefore,
I rethought the thing my father asked me to do and realized my father’s motive. So, when we
meet someone asked us to do something we don’t want to do, we should calm down and rethink requests again first. There must have some reasons why they want us do that.

2009年10月1日 星期四

Task 1

1.
(1). Yes, I have told people" I have my own values and principles".
(2). I will tell him/her I don’t think that never skipping classes is ashamed. I am a person who is discreet and follow the prescribed order. And I think that being a student, we should take charge of our studies. We should be responsible for ourselves and be respect to professors too.

2.
(1). No, I don’t certainly believe everything people tell me. Because, when we heard this news from others, it might have already passed by many people. Everyone has his/her own thought to everything he/she heard. As soon as we hear something, we must make some comments on things. Before the person who told you the thing must also put his/her comments into the thing. As we got something from others, it might have been exaggerated by people who heard and passed.
(2). I will ask my friend where she got the news first and then remind her doesn’t readily believe it. As a saying goes,”no pains no gains.”