RSS Reader

RSS Reader is program used for reading news and other websites. Using RSS Reader we can find quickly the new things, without wasting valuable time for waiting. For creating a RSS Reader we need first to go sign up for a reader and then to go to our favorite websites click on the icon. My readers: 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ I chose this website because I can get the information quickly about the international events there and the attitude toward the events is objective. 2. http://www.ted.com/talks/list I chose this website because it is very interesting. I may practice my listening and learn many things joyfully on this web. 3. http://www.artofstorytelling.org/ On this website, with so many interesting stories, I would like to practice my speaking skills.

TED.com

I have read on TED these three conversitions: 1.Female artists: http://www.ted.com/conversations/13945/female_artists.html; The main idea is the writer disagreed the ignorence of the Femail artist and wanted to find the solutions for this problem. 2.If you could cut a period of your memory .which year do you like to cut and why.and what happpened that year. http://www.ted.com/conversations/13920/if_you_could_cut_a_period_of_y.html; The main idea is that the writer asked a question and wanted the answers for it,that is if you could cut your memory.... 3.Titles are essential for leadership: http://www.ted.com/conversations/13898/titles_are_essential_for_leade.html The main idea is that the writer explained why the titles are essential for leadership.

TED.com

I watch the video named music and emotion through time and made a comment: http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_tilson_thomas_music_and_emotion_through_time.html This video is about the classical music: its meaning and evolve along the history. Classical music is a powful silent partner. It creat a new language that speaks very lovingly about who realy we are, and the language is still evolving. Mr.Michael Tilson Thomas talked about the two things in the music: THAT and HOW.Along the history we can see the different whats and hows of the music.

Lab 2

Today on TED I watched this video: Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers. At the moment, TED is very useful and enouth for me. I can practise my listening and improve my listening skills with it. At the same time, I can get many kinds of informations. And the video is not too long, not too short. It's very good and interesting.

Resources

Today I watched two videos on TED: Dancing with light and I listen to color. They are very interesting and gave me inspiration. I watched also this video: Leslie T. Chang: The voices of China's workers. At the moment, TED is very useful and enouth for me. I can practise my listening and improve my listening skills with it. At the same time, I can get many kinds of informations. And the videos are very good and interesting.

Web 2.0

Web 2.0 is used for information sharing.In Web 2.0, the users are no more possive, they can not only read the informations, but also sharing their opinios, ideas, make comments, writing notes, share photos, uplaod movies, they can ineract with other people. Examples of Web 2.0 include social networking sites, blogs, wikis, video sharing sites,etc. I watched the video:http://www.commoncraft.com/video/blogs and I learned the different ways of pubblishing news from 20th century to 21th century. Today the ways of pubblishing news are professional and personal.We can share news about our business freely on the blog. I like these Web 2.0 sites: http://www.youtube.com/, I like this one because I can watch all kinds of videos and listen all kinds musics here. http://www.wikipedia.org/, I like this one because it's very convenient to get informations here. http://photobucket.com/, I also like this website because I like photos very much. Here I may enter a world of arts.

My favorite website

Today in the Resources of our teacher's blog I found so many interesting websites for learning English. I like especially BBC Learning English: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/theteacher/ and TED: http://www.ted.com/

Personal Learning Goals

In this class I would like to improve my computer skills and to learn how to study English with the computer. Also I would like to learn English with the Resources that in our teacher's blog: http://msreinhardtsesl08ccallselfstudy.blogspot.com/p/resources.html This semetre I would like to practise my listening and enlarge my vocabulary.