About our Call course.

To tell truth, when I studied in this class, English 396-k, I got a lot of fun. We practiced our English skills by using some basic computer skills. We did podcast; we made slideshow and we write some small essay for some interesting topic. In the beginning of the semester, I thought this class may be boring and we cannot learn anything, but I was wrong. We got this opportunity to access a undergraduate course and it is really helped us to adapt to future education in American campus. However, there are several points I think the course can get improved. Using blog should not be required on writing some particular topic, and it may limit the function of blog after students leave the class. Also, I believe Dreamweaver is powerful tool, and maybe we should talk more about how to use it. It could improve the quality of students’ work.

Problems we faced in final project.

For the final project, our topic is about technology, and it is a really wide topic. I choose to write about the big dog which is invented by the Boston Dynamics, but my partner wants to write about ancient technology. I know, it is still too wide and we should narrow it. My partner’s topic is too far away to my topic and we do not know how to make some association between our topics. Also, it is hard for us to find some references, and if find some, we need to paraphrase and work on citation. We need do a lot on that. However, our team will try our best to overcome these problem and we believe everything will be solved.

New York

In the spring break, I went to New York in ELP trip. There are almost 50 students in the tour and most of them are Chinese, and also my friends, so I had a happy trip there. It is my first time went to New York and the first impression of this city is dirty, because the day we arrive was rainy and everything is in the dark. However, in the days later, I changed my mind. New York is a motivate city. Everything happened in a hurry. People walk faster, car driver find the faster way. Everyone seems to be busy, but everyone looks happy. My favorite thing in the New York is the show near Time Square. We watched a music drama, In the Heights. It talked about the relationship of the neighborhood. We have fun that night.
Generally, the trip brought some happiness into my boring studying life in the U.S.