Task 11

1. After going through many weekly writing, I think I like this writing pattern. Because the way of writing in English is fresh to me. And every week’s topic is interesting, too. But, I think there are some questions are too much alike such as “week ten’s self evaluation and peer review” and “week thirteen’s reflection.”
2. The two-way online discussion is a good way. Because when one posted his/her article, the other could response to him/her at once. It works much efficient. Nevertheless, the mode of two-way online discussion’s disadvantage is that the writer just can receive one other thought. If writers want to know more various aspects in the same question, they have to link other writers’ blogs. Sometimes, writers will think it was inconvenient, and they are also not willing to read the articles which not respond to them. So, if having a group blog to exchange ideas, writers can receive more ideas at the same time. But, when using this pattern, I think that writers who in same group blog should post their articles in the same time. Because, if the first writer delays posting his/her article; the second one, the third one will delay too. In doing so, the task will put off. In the sum, I would like choose the same way of writing on blog.
3. To be honest, we are smooth during our discussion on blog. Except for the beginning, my blog’s setting got some problem causing my keypal could not respond me smoothly. But latter, I fixed setting, it was going smoothly.
4. I like this project website. Apart from design well, every task’s background has abundant changes. In brief, this website is well-down.
5. I think I gained three things in this blog activity. First, the writing skill, after writing so many articles, I learn how to make my article more coherence and smooth and avoid to have unnecessary errors. The second is critical thinking, some questions tend to guide writers to make a comment such as“Britney Spears”and “The strawberry generation.” The last is that sharpen the speed of English typing.

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.

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.

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.

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.”

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.”

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.