Sep 14, 2009

CANADA


I am in Halifax, Canada!! I am going to TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language) of Saint Mary’s University and I live in University residence. In residence, I live with tree Canadian girls. They are Kelly, Kate, and Lyne. They are really kind to me and funny and cute girlsJ I always appreciate them. Gina, Peter, Rachel, and Lexy who studied at KGU are in Saint Mary’s University. Peter is a teacher of TESL so I meet him every day and speak a lot. Gina teaches a lot of thing about SMU and Halifax. Recently, I went to Starbucks in Halifax with Gina and we spoke a lot of things. She can speak Japanese very well :D I want to go shopping with her again! Mio, who comes here with me, and I stayed at Rachel’s house about 3 days before we started to live in residence. Rachel’s house are really cute and we had a good timeJ She has 2 cats and they are really cute!!

In SMU, there is Tim Hortton which is like Misudo in Japan. I love Tim Hortton!! It is really famous in Canada and small coffee is sold $1.00!! I think it is cheaper than that of Japan!! I go there almost every day with my friends. But, I should not go too much because I will get fat if I eat donuts everyday X(haha Be careful, UNOOOOO!!

By the way, I want to meet my KGU friends!!!! I can’t wait next May~X( I miss you, guys!!!!


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Jul 20, 2009

Portfolio for Writing III

Student ID: 08114

Portfolio for Writing III, Section 1A OR 1C

[Please delete the unsuitable class section and "OR" (above), along with this line of remarks.]

(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)




1.0. Essays

(See: Note 3, below.)

Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).


1.1. Showcase

Short titles with links to blog posts

Dates
yyyy.mm.dd

W

C

L

P

M

1-01a (2009.04.08)

Essay 1-01a; Writing placement essay for writing3

2009.04.14

4

277

7




1-01b (2009.04.20)

Essay 1-01b; Writing plasement essay re-write

2009.04.20

4

324

0




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1-02a (2009.06.01)

Essay 1-02a; My university life

2009.05.20

3

190

4




1-02b (2009.07.06)

Essay 1-02b; University Life

2009.05.30

5

448

5




(1-02c)









1-03a (2009.06.29)

Essay1-03a: OHANA

2009.06.13

3

331

0




1-03b (2009.07.13)

Essay 1-03b: OHANA

2009.07.08

4

365

0




Totals

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23

1935

16





Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media included in post

1.2. Best Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of those six assigned essays do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

  • University Life

    I think 'University Life' essay is my best essay because it has a lot of words and I enjoyed writing this essay.



2.0. Comments

Showcase

Titles of posts with links

Dates of comments yyyy.mm.dd

Numbers of words in comments

Qualities of comments**

2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*





2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*





2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*

Essay 1-02b; University Life

2009.5.30

18


2.4. Most comments on:

Titles of posts with link

Dates of posts yyyy.mm.dd

Total number of words in comments

Qualities of comments**

2.4.1. Any one of your essays*





2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?

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2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?

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2.4.2. Any of your other posts*





2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?

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2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes them good comments.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

  • ...

2.6. Additional reflections on comments

  • [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then write out your reflections on both giving and receiving comments here.]

  • ....



3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase

Short titles
with links

Dates: yyyy.mm.dd

Words

Comments

Example:

Vampire Killer

2007.05.16

39

1

BR 1-01

BR1-01: The princess and the Pea

2009.04.21

259

0

BR 1-02

BR1-02: The story of Flying

2009.5.6

241

0

BR 1-03

BR 1-03: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

2009.5.12

320

0

BR 1-04

BR 1-04: The Woman who Disappointed

2009.5.20

141

0

BR 1-05

BR 1-05: Little Women

2009.5.28

157

0

BR 1-06

BR 1-06: The Goose that laid the Golden Eggs

2009.6.2

162

0

BR 1-07

BR 1-07: Little red Riding Hood

2009.6.11

148

0

BR 1-08

BR 1-08: The last of the Mohicans

2009.6.17

167

0

BR 1-09

BR1-09; TITANIC

2009.6.23

164

0

BR 1-10

BR 1-10; Beauty and the Beast

2009.7.1

141

0

BR 1-11

BR 1-11; Percy and the Pirates

2009.7.10

173

0

BR 1-12

BR 1-12; Heidi

2009.7.18

175

0









































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Totals:




Note
: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

BR 1-08; The last of the Mohicans
―I think this BR is the best because this book was really long, so I could learn a lot of things from this book. Then I could write a good review.

4.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking, & Media


Showcase

Yes

No

4.1. Does your blog display an archive?



4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?



4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?


4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?


4.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?


5.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):

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  • "books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)


  • "essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")


  • "quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)


  • "links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)


  • "movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)


  • "brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")


4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?


  • How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts?

    • 8 other labels attached to three or more posts

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    • Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below.

      • activities (6)

      • diary (9)

      • revisions(3)

      • trips (2)

      • weekly homework (12)

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4.3. Links & media

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4.3.1. Does your blog include photos or other graphics?


  • Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?


  • How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics?

    • 25 posts including photos or other graphics

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4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?


  • How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links?

    • ___ posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)

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4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?


  • How many of your blog posts this semester include other media?

    • ___ posts including other media

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  • What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here:

    1. views

    2. friends

    3. books


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  • What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yyyy.mm.dd) for reference.

    1. ... (short link, date)

    2. ... (short link, date)

    3. ... (short link, date)


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4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

  1. Use easy words... I think difficult words make the blog hard to read, so I used easy words.

  2. Use photographs... Photos make the blog fun.

  3. Use simple color... I like simple color, not vivid color because I think vivid color is hard to see.



5.0. Additional reflections on your blog and your writing for it

Please feel free to include reflections on both class work and homework, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, and reflections).

  • ...

  • ...

  • ...



6.0. Advice and suggestions for yourself, your peers, and your successors


  • I think I should write more blogs.

  • Medias are good way to make fun blogs, so I should include medias.


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Notes:

  1. This portfolio template derives from the templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc portfolios (2007-08), and Writing III, §§1a & 1c and Writing IV: Portfolio, §§1a & 1c portfolios (2008-09).

  2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 1st (spring) semester PPF first.

  3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derived from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).

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License:

This portfolio template is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Please attribute to "the Writing Studio Blog" (without quotation marks).

Creative Commons License

Jul 19, 2009

Achieving personal satisfaction

I have a lot of aims that I would like to achieve. To achieve them, I think it is important to save own time. If I take much time to watch TV or use cell phones or PCs, I can’t have time to study. On the contrary, if I take much time to study, I can’t have time to enjoy my hobby. To achieve my personal satisfaction, I need to do my best. Now, I study languages to use them fluently in the future. I like to communicate with people so I would like to have a job which I can have a lot of communication. So I have to study more.

[112 words]

Facing technological challenges

Now, we can’t live without cell phones or personal computers or other technological products because people use them almost everyday to get information or to get in touch each other. Especially, cell phone is very necessary thing for people. Thanks to cell phone, we can get in touch friends and families wherever we are. Recently, cell phone has a lot of convenience functions. For example, camera function is really good. We can take pictures even if we don’t have cameras. I think this function is the most convenient.

But we don’t have to use cell phones too much time because it is not good for our health. If people use them too much time, it is said that our eyesight will get worst. So we should save our time to use cell phones or PCs.

[135 words]

Developing language awareness

In writing III class, I could develop my English ability. Before I take this class, I was not able to make sentences soon. In addition, I could improve my typing ability because I had to do typing speed homework. My own blog made my writing ability high. If it were not, I couldn’t write nice sentences.

My major is English, so I would like to use English and other languages fluently. If I cannot use languages more, there is no meaning that I am here. So I have to study more from now to improve my language ability. By the way, I am going to study in Canada from September. I’ll go there as an exchange student and I would like to study English hard. I will be able to develop my language ability. In Canada, I will also take writing class. I am looking forward to that class. I would like to make use of things which I learned in this class.

[163 words]

Jul 17, 2009

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA




Do you know this movie? This movie, THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, is one of my favorite movies. Heroin’s name is Andrea and her boss’s name is Miranda. Miranda is “the devil wears PRADA”. This movie is really famous in both Japan and America because a lot of women sympathize with Andy.

Andy is very kind and clever woman. She would like to be a journalist and she is employed as an assistant of Miranda who is the chief of editor of a famous fashion magazine. Miranda is really strict about job so Andy doesn’t like her at first. Andy was never interested in fashion, so she doesn’t understand why everyone longs to Miranda and her assistants. But actually, the work is really hard. Miranda employs Andy because she wasn’t interested in fashion and has great background. The beginning of her work was not good because she didn’t know technical term. I think that to know technical term is really important to work. Andy took her efforts and she could be a great assistant. But the greater she became, the worse her private was. Her boyfriend misses her because she always talks about her job. I sympathized with him but I understood Andy’s mind. Finally, she could’t stand her position and she quitted Miranda’s assistant. I think she could learn many important things from her job.

I would like to a cabin attendant because I like to communicate with people and to ride planes. It is said that cabin attendant is really hard work, but I think the important thing is to enjoy our job like Andy. When I worked in the stake restaurant, I enjoyed my job so I could worked long time (about 1.5 year). It was important to be smile and communicate with customers. I think jobs make people attractive. So I would like to enjoy my job in the future.

If you have never watched this movie, you should watch in summer vacation!!


[326 words]

Jul 15, 2009

BR 1-12; Heidi


Heidi is really famous story in the world. I have known this story since I was a child. I like this story very much because Heidi believed people in her life. People often suspect each other. I think we should believe each other like Heidi.

I like the relation between Heidi and Crala. Crala can’t stand by herself so Heidi encourages her. I think Heidi is really positive and active girl. Clara should be attracted Heidi. If I were Clara, I would respect Heidi because she has very tough mind.

By the way, I would like to live a house like Heidi’s grandfather’s house. It is really little but it may be comfortable!! The nature of Alps should be beautiful. I’m going to Canada to study next September. Then, I will go to Prince Edward Island. My friend says there are a lot of beautiful views there. I am really looking forward to see them.

Heidi is really nice story to think of friend and family. So if you have never read, you should read now!!


[175 words]