The whether is getting COLDER!!!

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/081124/2/19zul.html
this news tells us that this week the temperature will get colder and colder.
and in northern Taiwan there will be some rain .
the whether forecast predicted that this kind of whether will continue for about 2 or 3 weeks.
it is getting really cold
the lowest temperature will be about 11 degree !!!
so wear ur jacket!!!

First African America President

This article tells us that Obama had been elected for the president of the United States. This is really important, because he is the first African who has been elected. I think he is a good leader, and who can lead change to the United State. Their are some opinion in this article, because I think most of the people want Obama to win.

HOW DO WE BUILD OUR TOWER

we were trying to copy 101 tower. so we can build it really really high with out falling.
we wrapped the paper together, then put it together.
ours was the highest, but it fall at last.
i think we should put more of the paper to build it stronger, instead of building it higher.
i thought we are going to win, but our falls.
some of the skills we use is try to build the tower with out the paper
then build it with real paper.

Liquid column

i think the biggest reason that something floats and something sinks, because some of them have higher density, but some to them have lower density. The higher the density is, the object sinks more. For example: the pink color liquid sinks the most because it is the most dense liquid. i think the reason that some of the object float in the middle of the bottle is because its density is between the top liquid and the bottom liquid, that's why it floats in the middle.
i don't think that it is going to separate on Monday, because some of the liquid inside is mixed , and it won't separate.

Matter

air is matter. it has mass and volume. because when you blew up a balloon, the air actually fills up inside the balloon to make it bigger. And air actually have weight, which is air pressure. so i think that air is really a matter.

schindler's list movie

in the schindler's list movie. i see that mr. schindler changes from a person who only knows how to think for himself to a person who knows how to help and save other peoples life. i am really impress that he can think of others, especially they are jews, which shows more that he is a kind person. and i can see big different inside his mind from the beginning of the movie.
i can also see a big difference in the general. he change from a person who kills anyone he felt like. to a person who actually know how to think.

active learners

this week in our class. we go through the progress of our project. i have some of the questions done, but some i still have to search on them. it is really hard for me to search on information, because i am not a native speaker so it really makes me searching the informations harder, plus i get a country that didn't really involved in WWI. so i had to work harder on my project.

Burma dictatorship

in this article, i found out that the reason that Burma's dictatorship stay in power. the reason is "fear". Burma uses its military to kill people that don't obey them. so once there's a person try to start a revolution they kill them to let the people around them to be fear. since 1988, thousands of people had been killed because they try to go against the dictatorship in Burma.
after the cyclone passes, more people want to start a revolution, because they think the governments did not do a good job while the cyclone came, so Burma's politics is now in a mess. the idea of democracy had come on the stage again, to over throw the government.


Link: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/05/07/myanmar.politics.ap/index.html

earthquake in China

this article is about Taiwan sending resources to help the people that is hurt in the earthquakes. Taiwan send 11 tons of resources to China to help them. the major resources that is send includes: blankets, drinks, food, and jackets. it is really expensive to send resources from Taiwan to China, so most of the resources that is send, are resources that is really emergent.
and as time goes there will be more and more flights sending resources to China, and also pick up people that is stuck in the airport, so they can come back.

Link: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080515/8/z8k3.html

ww2 video

i think the ww2 video is really interesting it shows as a lot of facts, and interesting history. i think i am really being an active learner and critical thinker when i am watching the ww2 videos. i also learn deeper of what are the causes and effects of ww2, and how dictatorship would came in power. me and jordan take a lot of notes while we are watching the video, which really shows us as an active learner.

critical thinker

this week in class i am really being a critical thinker in the class. because when i find some informations, i have to think critically that how can this information help me to answer my question. it is really hard to find the answer that directly answers the questions, so i have to evaluate all the informations first than answer the question after, which involves a lot of critical thinking skill, so this week i found out i was really a critical thinker.

Burma Dictatorship

In Burma, their dictatorship is facing biggest street protest for two decades. the protests are lead by the young buddhist monks. they think that they should have more political freedom in Burma, so they protest one the streets to fight for more political freedoms. there are estimated about 400000 to 500000 monks that fight against the dictator. many of them were young, and because that they are young, they know that they should have more political freedom, so they fight against the dictatorship in Burma.

north korea dictatorship

north korea have been a dictatorship since 1948. it separates itself form south korea. doing this isolates north korea form south korea. the dictatorship of north korea also makes a lots of tension in asia, because its military has nuclear bombs, which are not allowed, but they make it anyway, so it really creates tension to each country about north Korea's strong military.
now there are actually more and more people wants the government in korea to be change, because they wants to have more freedom, and rights. but because they had such a government that they have no voice, so they can't change the government, which is really bad and sad.
Because north korea is a dictator, so their government chose to focus on military, which most of the people don't appreciate it, but because it was a dictator, so everything that the government decide can't be stop or change.

active learner

i think the week we were all being an active learner.
we were active learners when we watch the videos to make us understand more about the histories.
we were also active learners when we search on the internet, to find more about our topic.
my topic on the research is Mussolini
even though i like hitler better,
but anyway
i'll try my best to be an active learner
and learn lots of stuff.

Revised Bloom's Taxonomy of Cognitive Levels

Creating: i think we think creative when we are doing our projects. like imovie, because we have to be creative, so we can make a video.

evaluating: i think evaluating is like when we think about how an event will effect us and the world, because we have to think from many different ways, and think really critically

analyzing: i think analyzing is like when we look at a data or some informations, and we try to do some observations for it.

applying: i think applying is like when we learn something in class, then we try to use it out side of the class.

understanding: i think understanding is like when we read a message or writing, and we understand and knows what it's talking about.

remembering: i think remembering is just reading the same thing over and over again and have all the information in your head, but you don't know how to use it.

active learners

we were all active learners this week
when we were watching the video, and learning about the history of WW2
i think WW2 is a very interesting war
and contains lots of good information for we to learn.
i hope we can learn lots of thing in this chapter.

WW2 video reaction

this week in class we saw a video about WW2. after i saw the video, the biggest question in my mind is why would the "axis" lose?. they have such strong military and lot of soliders..... there is no reason for them to lose. the other question is that, why they didn't even keep any of the colonies to be part of there country after the war? they had conquere so many lands, why wouldn't them be able to keep some of them.

video reaction

i think the videos that my classmates make is really great and full of informations. i really enjoy watching them. in Thursday we are going to watch Jordan and Jez 's videos. i am really looking forward to see them. hope all of us did a good job on this project and get a good grade.

Current events

today i saw a very interesting news. it talks about that there are only enough food for 60 days, if we stop working now, and it is the lowest for 25 years. this news shows us that over populating is really causing a big problem on the earth. so i think we have to quickly face the problem before it grows too big to solve.

url: http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/080410/2/x09d.html

active learner

this week in class, we continued working our imovie project. we were all being an active learner when we are doing our researches and absorbing the informations. i am in the last step, just have to record my voice for it. i am really excited what everyone else's video looks like.

The progress report

critical thinker and problem solvers: demonstrate, i think many times
i try to find the best and the fastest way to do my work.

effective communicator: in progress, sometimes i can't speak really
well and that people understand what i really mean, because english is
my second language.

person of high character: demonstrate. i think most of the time i was
being a person of high character. i work hard, help people.....

community contributor: in progress, i don't really like to enjoy in
community, but sometime i helped people, when they need it.

active learner: demonstrate. i look at current events everyday. see
what is happening around the world, and i also try to do my best on my
homework.

My Greek research

i think my research is going pretty smooth. i got the pictures and the informations that i am going to talk about. so now i am working on my imovie. i think i can be done on time.

rules of blogging

-No personal information (no last name or contact information).
-Write in ENGLISH.
-Don’t write inappropriate stuff in your blog.
-Don't insult others. Be constructive in your commenting.
-Don't plagiarize other peoples' ideas.
-Cite your sources for images and ideas.

active learner

today in class, we work on our project about the greeks. i think i am going to do a research on the parthenon. because it really interest me that an old empire can create such a beautiful building. i am also interested in "why " they build it. i think i am pretty much an active learner when i am doing this research. because i search on many website and try to find many information, but it seems that there are not much of them. i hope i can do my best on the project and get a good grade. :)

ready, set & blog

today in class we make a new blog for our humanities. we were all being active learners when we were learning to use our new own blog. we were going to use the blog for most of our humanities homework. i hope there would be many people come to visit my blog.