Nov. 7th

This class is the first day of group presentation. Rab randomly decided the order of presentation, and surprisingly, my group is picked as a first group! I was very nervous before I start, because we did not sure that our presentation is match to what Rab is thinking. However, after we started, I relaxed little bit, and try to talk smoothly and confidently. Rab kept saying that be confident even if we actually not have a confidence. It was not that bad I expected. I also think going first is not always bad, because the evaluation would become stricter later. Also, other classmates can learn from our mistakes, so I hope we did well.

Oct. 29th,31st, and Nov. 2nd

Rab had gone for a week to London, so we had a class to prepare for the group presentation. Our group has 3 people and we decided the topic; Korean in Japan. We did research and survey by using the tool we learned from previous class. It is the first time to do presentation in English since I entered ICU, so I and other group members were little bit nervous. We made slides by using the ideas of Zen presentation. It is difficult to do work by ourselves, but it was good that we had a preparation time in actual class time.

Oct. 26th

We had class in the computer room at ILC. Most of the whole class time, we worked on own second essay which due is same day. Rab also gave us back the first essay in the class, so we could avoid to repeat same mistakes and correct them. I was surprised by my grade, because it is much better than I thought. Therefore, I was very glad that I got that grade for my work.

Oct. 24th

In the class, Rab taught us that how to use photography effectively in our essay. Our essay would be visually better with picture. However, we need to care about two things when we use pictures in our essay; choosing the picture which is related to the essay topic and which quality is high (at least 800x600). I knew about how to search image by its size on Google image search, but I did not know which size is minimum ok size for use in the essay or presentation. That information is very important, because the quality of the image has some influence on impression of the essay and presentation. I used the picture on first page of my second essay, and I hope it would make a paper interesting. "Awesome Screenshot" surprised me! I can crop any websites screen shot by using it. It is very useful when I want to use the picture or graph from website. I downloaded it to my computer.