Wordle for an open class

The text for the Wordle

Confused in L.A.2013. 4. 11

I am a principal of an elementary school. Yesterday, I received a phone call from a parent of one of our Southeast Asian students. She wants to visit me to discuss some complaints from her son. She claims that some teachers often pat on his head or frequently hand out papers over his head, which makes him feel uncomfortable. Hmm... I’m not quite sure what is wrong.

pictures in 2013

pictures in 2013

Google made this video with all my pictures in 2013 automatically.
What a wonderful system it is even though it sometimes picked some ugly pictures of mine. :-)

Creating a class in Quizlet for my students

On the website Quizlet, I created my class for my students to share quizlets I made.

I can just show quizlets I made to students in my class but I think it would be more effective for students to study the sets of the quizlets by themselves using their own mobile phones.

So, I created my class on the website and made one quizlet with the words I learned from listening classes in TTP as an example. In the future, my students will be able to enter 'my class' on the website and share the quizlets to do self-study.

Go to Emily's Quizlet

Hungry Planet: Consumption around globe

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Writing stuffs

I like the writing stuffs which Rob gave to me during session 2 writing classes.
They are sometimes tough but noble and brilliant for me.
The Followings are what Rob gave to me for 'slow writing' last week .

Should Chess Be an Olympic Sport?

http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1827716,00.html

Things to read and think about deeply.

The topic, chess was the last topic Rob gave me.
I found this article on TIME website and it was written in a very logical way.

Whenever Rob gave me arguments to write about, they were too unfamiliar for me to keep writing naturally. It means that I am not interested in controversial issues in the world and I do not have a critical thinking on them.

I need to build up my own opinion on international current issues.

Seoraksan's Fall Colors

 I like the fall scenery of the mountain and I am fascinated by making video clips like this. Can I make it like him??

Prezi for conditionals

my two angels using 'movie maker'

Photo Peach - Memories in the U.S. in 2004

PhotoPeach is the website where I can create new slide shows.

In Theresa girls' high school, we, teachers show a slide show with all the 3rd graders' photos to their parents and guests every graduation ceremony. I think this website would also be useful for the slideshow.

For the exercise, I made one with the photos in the U.S..
I am missing the time when I was young and all the places I visited.


Memories in the U.S. in 2004 on PhotoPeach

Camtasia Studio 8

Camtasia Studio is a very useful tool that can record every video clip if I want to record it. I sometimes felt uncomfortable that I couldn't download video clips on some websites for my classes not for the commercial purpose. But I can do that. 

I may also use the screen capture site, http://www.screencast-o-matic.com

For the exercise, I captured one about Jamie Oliver. I'm a big fan of him.

+ It's Jamie Oliver's TED show and he got the TED prize. I like his idea, speaking style and appearance, of course : -)

Voki using the movie '방가방가' (recording sounds using Streomix)

   














For the lesson 5 (A New Challenge in a New Land)

The lesson5 is about foreigners who achieved their goals in Korea. So, before reading the maintext, I want to have a conversation about the opinions towards foreign workers in korea with my students. To motivate the students, I chose the Korean movie, 방가방가 which shows difficulties and discrimication that most Asian workers face in Korea. Then, I recorded the sound of the movie using Streomix and save it in Voki.

+ To record the sound of videoclips

1. Check whether your computer has the program 'streomix' - click the sound button with the right mouse button.

2. Click recording device (녹음장치)

3. Check that the steromix is w on your computer.

4. If then, open 'Audacity' - free software for recording and editing sounds.

5. Record sounds using Audacity and edit them.
  ( to select all the parts you recorded : Ctrl+a / to make sounds louder : Edit -> Amplify)

6. Upload the file to Voki.

Wordle with the article in the textbook

The article is from Lesson 5 in the textbook Theresa Girls' High School is using for the first graders(Chun Jae by Lee Chang Bong).
Can you guess what the writer is talking about?
Actually, I didn't read the article yet. As I guess, the writer tries to convey a message about the education differences in Korea and other countries. I would be right? :-)

The topic of the article is unfortunately about the foreigners who achieved their own goals or dreams in Korea. Students could not guess the topic correctly like I, but Wordle can make them interested in the article before studying it. I think it's a definitely good tool for English teachers.

+ When I put the Wordle on my blog with embed code, the image blurred. I dont' know why. So when wanting to use the image of Wordle, just copy the image with the 'Print Screen' button and use it after cropping it appropriately.

Word Memory Cards

It is the lecture Noel gave us this morning.
Even though I  recommended my students to use these cards in my class, I didn't explain about it a lot logically like Noel. I liked that  he explained the order to me one by one,asking trainees not to be busy on learning and memorizing words.

Record of my travel

I keep recording one by one and I didn't finish it yet.


View my travel map in a larger map

Hidden Singer

I'm a big fan of shin Seung Hun and he sang his songs in 'hidden singer', one of the popular shows in Korea these days. Can you guess who is Shin Seung Hun?

Reflection of the 1st session

  During CALL, I learned lots of new things and they were absolutely interesting and useful for me. I would like to keep using them when I go back my school.

 Quizlet, Wordle and Voki will be useful for my classes and I believe I will be able to give homework by Voice tread and Padlet in interesting ways.

Whenever I found out interesting and useful website, I saved them in Diigo. I think the website would be a treasure space for myself.

 The most useful thing for myself is Google document and Google Drive. Documents are saved automatically, and I can use the Google document as another board like Jeff in my classes.

 When I stay in Sacramento, I will probably use Google Hangout and have a conversation with my daughters watching their faces. To do that, maybe I have to explain about Google Hangout to my husband and mother-in-law in advance.

 As I made my own fun map about my travel route in the past, I could look through the street views where I lived before with my husband over 2 hours. That was really awesome.

The storyboard with the video 'Howl'

with students

Watch the video clip 'Howl' together and write down Trigger Words. 

It's good for students to deconstructi or reconstruct the story of the video. 

Amazing Commercial from Thailand

It is the movie Stella showed to us and it's really moving me.

Fox in Socks

Fox in Socks by Dr. Seuss
------------------------- 

Fox
Socks
Box
Knox

Knox in box.
Fox in socks.

Knox on fox in socks in box.

Socks on Knox and Knox in box.

Fox in socks on box on Knox.

Chicks with bricks come.
Chicks with blocks come.
Chicks with bricks and blocks and clocks come.

Look, sir.  Look, sir.  Mr. Knox, sir.
Let's do tricks with bricks and blocks, sir.
Let's do tricks with chicks and clocks, sir.

First, I'll make a quick trick brick stack.
Then I'll make a quick trick block stack.

You can make a quick trick chick stack.
You can make a quick trick clock stack.

And here's a new trick, Mr. Knox....
Socks on chicks and chicks on fox.
Fox on clocks on bricks and blocks.
Bricks and blocks on Knox on box.

Now we come to ticks and tocks, sir.
Try to say this Mr. Knox, sir....

Clocks on fox tick.
Clocks on Knox tock.
Six sick bricks tick.
Six sick chicks tock.

Please, sir.  I don't like this trick, sir.
My tongue isn't quick or slick, sir.
I get all those ticks and clocks, sir, 
mixed up with the chicks and tocks, sir.
I can't do it, Mr. Fox, sir.

I'm so sorry, Mr. Knox, sir.

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say....

New socks.
Two socks.
Whose socks?
Sue's socks.

Who sews whose socks?
Sue sews Sue's socks.

Who sees who sew whose new socks, sir?
You see Sue sew Sue's new socks, sir.

That's not easy, Mr. Fox, sir.

Who comes? ...
Crow comes.
Slow Joe Crow comes.

Who sews crow's clothes?
Sue sews crow's clothes.
Slow Joe Crow sews whose clothes?
Sue's clothes.

Sue sews socks of fox in socks now.

Slow Joe Crow sews Knox in box now.

Sue sews rose on Slow Joe Crow's clothes.
Fox sews hose on Slow Joe Crow's nose.

Hose goes.
Rose grows.
Nose hose goes some.
Crow's rose grows some.

Mr. Fox!
I hate this game, sir.
This game makes my tongue quite lame, sir.

Mr. Knox, sir, what a shame, sir.

We'll find something new to do now.
Here is lots of new blue goo now.
New goo.  Blue goo.
Gooey.  Gooey.
Blue goo.  New goo.
Gluey. Gluey.

Gooey goo for chewy chewing!
That's what that Goo-Goose is doing.
Do you choose to chew goo, too, sir?
If, sir, you, sir, choose to chew, sir, 
with the Goo-Goose, chew, sir.
Do, sir.

Mr. Fox, sir, 
I won't do it.  
I can't say.  
I won't chew it.

Very well, sir.
Step this way.
We'll find another game to play.

Bim comes.
Ben comes.
Bim brings Ben broom.
Ben brings Bim broom.

Ben bends Bim's broom.
Bim bends Ben's broom.
Bim's bends.
Ben's bends.
Ben's bent broom breaks.
Bim's bent broom breaks.

Ben's band.  Bim's band.
Big bands.  Pig bands.

Bim and Ben lead bands with brooms.
Ben's band bangs and Bim's band booms.

Pig band!  Boom band!
Big band!  Broom band!
My poor mouth can't say that.  No, sir.
My poor mouth is much too slow, sir.

Well then... bring your mouth this way.
I'll find it something it can say.

Luke Luck likes lakes.
Luke's duck likes lakes.
Luke Luck licks lakes.
Luck's duck licks lakes.

Duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes duck likes.

I can't blab such blibber blubber!
My tongue isn't make of rubber.

Mr. Knox.  Now come now.  Come now.
You don't have to be so dumb now....

Try to say this, Mr. Knox, please....

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew.
While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew.
Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze.
Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze.
That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

Stop it!  Stop it!
That's enough, sir.
I can't say such silly stuff, sir.

Very well, then, Mr. Knox, sir.

Let's have a little talk about tweetle beetles....

What do you know about tweetle beetles?  Well...

When tweetle beetles fight, 
it's called a tweetle beetle battle.

And when they battle in a puddle, 
it's a tweetle beetle puddle battle.

AND when tweetle beetles battle with paddles in a puddle, 
they call it a tweetle beetle puddle paddle battle.

AND...

When beetles battle beetles in a puddle paddle battle 
and the beetle battle puddle is a puddle in a bottle...
...they call this a tweetle beetle bottle puddle paddle battle muddle.

AND...

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles 
and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles...
...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle 
bottle paddle battle.

AND...

Now wait a minute, Mr. Socks Fox!

When a fox is in the bottle where the tweetle beetles battle 
with their paddles in a puddle on a noodle-eating poodle, 
THIS is what they call...

...a tweetle beetle noodle poodle bottled paddled 
muddled duddled fuddled wuddled fox in socks, sir!

Fox in socks, our game is done, sir.
Thank you for a lot of fun, sir.

Life's third act by Jane Fonda

It made me think of how I can be aging gracefully.

There have been many revolutions over the last century, but perhaps none as significant as the longevity revolution. We are living on average today 34 years longer than our great-grandparents did. Think about that. That's an entire second adult lifetime that's been added to our lifespan. And yet, for the most part, our culture has not come to terms with what this means. We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the metaphor, the old metaphor. You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude. (Laughter) Age as pathology.

But many people today -- philosophers, artists, doctors, scientists -- are taking a new look at what I call the third act, the last three decades of life. They realize that this is actually a developmental stage of life with its own significance -- as different from midlife as adolescence is from childhood. And they are asking -- we should all be asking -- how do we use this time? How do we live it successfully? What is the appropriate new metaphor for aging?

I've spent the last year researching and writing about this subject. And I have come to findthat a more appropriate metaphor for aging is a staircase -- the upward ascension of the human spirit, bringing us into wisdom, wholeness and authenticity. Age not at all as pathology; age as potential. And guess what? This potential is not for the lucky few. It turns out, most people over 50 feel better, are less stressed, are less hostile, less anxious. We tend to see commonalities more than differences. Some of the studies even say we're happier.

This is not what I expected, trust me. I come from a long line of depressives. As I was approaching my late 40s, when I would wake up in the morning my first six thoughts would all be negative. And I got scared. I thought, oh my gosh. I'm going to become a crotchety old lady. But now that I am actually smack-dab in the middle of my own third act, I realize I've never been happier. I have such a powerful feeling of well-being. And I've discovered that when you're inside oldness, as opposed to looking at it from the outside, fear subsides. You realize, you're still yourself -- maybe even more so. Picasso once said, "It takes a long time to become young."

(Laughter)

I don't want to romanticize aging. Obviously, there's no guarantee that it can be a time of fruition and growth. Some of it is a matter of luck. Some of it, obviously, is genetic. One third of it, in fact, is genetic. And there isn't much we can do about that. But that means that two-thirds of how well we do in the third act, we can do something about. We're going to discuss what we can do to make these added years really successful and use them to make a difference.

Now let me say something about the staircase, which may seem like an odd metaphor for seniors given the fact that many seniors are challenged by stairs. (Laughter) Myself included. As you may know, the entire world operates on a universal law: entropy, the second law of thermodynamics. Entropy means that everything in the world, everything, is in a state of decline and decay, the arch. There's only one exception to this universal law, and that is the human spirit, which can continue to evolve upwards -- the staircase -- bringing us into wholeness, authenticity and wisdom.

And here's an example of what I mean. This upward ascension can happen even in the face of extreme physical challenges. About three years ago, I read an article in the New York Times. It was about a man named Neil Selinger -- 57 years old, a retired lawyer -- who had joined the writers group at Sarah Lawrence where he found his writer's voice. Two years later, he was diagnosed with ALS, commonly known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It's a terrible disease. It's fatal. It wastes the body, but the mind remains intact. In this article, Mr. Selinger wrote the following to describe what was happening to him. And I quote, "As my muscles weakened, my writing became stronger. As I slowly lost my speech, I gained my voice. As I diminished, I grew. As I lost so much, I finally started to find myself." Neil Selinger, to me, is the embodiment of mounting the staircase in his third act.

Now we're all born with spirit, all of us, but sometimes it gets tamped down beneath the challenges of life, violence, abuse, neglect. Perhaps our parents suffered from depression.Perhaps they weren't able to love us beyond how we performed in the world. Perhaps we still suffer from a psychic pain, a wound. Perhaps we feel that many of our relationships have not had closure. And so we can feel unfinished. Perhaps the task of the third act is to finish up the task of finishing ourselves.

For me, it began as I was approaching my third act, my 60th birthday. How was I supposed to live it? What was I supposed to accomplish in this final act? And I realized that, in order to know where I was going, I had to know where I'd been. And so I went back and I studied my first two acts, trying to see who I was then, who I really was -- not who my parents or other people told me I was, or treated me like I was. But who was I? Who were my parents -- not as parents, but as people? Who were my grandparents? How did they treat my parents? These kinds of things.

I discovered a couple of years later that this process that I had gone through is called by psychologists "doing a life review." And they say it can give new significance and clarity and meaning to a person's life. You may discover, as I did, that a lot of things that you used to think were your fault, a lot of things you used to think about yourself, really had nothing to do with you. It wasn't your fault; you're just fine. And you're able to go back and forgive themand forgive yourself. You're able to free yourself from your past. You can work to changeyour relationship to your past.

Now while I was writing about this, I came upon a book called "Man's Search for Meaning"by Viktor Frankl. Viktor Frankl was a German psychiatrist who'd spent five years in a Nazi concentration camp. And he wrote that, while he was in the camp, he could tell, should they ever be released, which of the people would be okay and which would not. And he wrote this: "Everything you have in life can be taken from you except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation. This is what determines the quality of the life we've lived -- not whether we've been rich or poor, famous or unknown, healthy or suffering.What determines our quality of life is how we relate to these realities, what kind of meaning we assign them, what kind of attitude we cling to about them, what state of mind we allow them to trigger."

Perhaps the central purpose of the third act is to go back and to try, if appropriate, to change our relationship to the past. It turns out that cognitive research shows when we are able to do this, it manifests neurologically -- neural pathways are created in the brain. You see, if you have, over time, reacted negatively to past events and people, neural pathways are laid down by chemical and electrical signals that are sent through the brain. And over time, these neural pathways become hardwired, they become the norm -- even if it's bad for us because it causes us stress and anxiety.

If however, we can go back and alter our relationship, re-vision our relationship to past people and events, neural pathways can change. And if we can maintain the more positive feelings about the past, that becomes the new norm. It's like resetting a thermostat. It's not having experiences that make us wise, it's reflecting on the experiences that we've had that makes us wise -- and that helps us become whole, brings wisdom and authenticity. It helps us become what we might have been.

Women start off whole, don't we? I mean, as girls, we start off feisty -- "Yeah, who says?"We have agency. We are the subjects of our own lives. But very often, many, if not most of us, when we hit puberty, we start worrying about fitting in and being popular. And we become the subjects and objects of other people's lives. But now, in our third acts, it may be possible for us to circle back to where we started and know it for the first time. And if we can do that, it will not just be for ourselves. Older women are the largest demographic in the world. If we can go back and redefine ourselves and become whole, this will create a cultural shift in the world, and it will give an example to younger generations so that they can reconceive their own lifespan.

Thank you very much.