Propaganda is like advertisements.Advertisments always say the positive of the  product.It brainwash people to buy their products and propaganda is also the same.It also brainwash  people.A example is the source which shows a Japanese man carrying children of different races.It only say the good thing about Japanese.It will never tell the bad thing about the Japanese.It will only tells the good thing about the Japanese.A propaganda can be buyers also.

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This is not from the internet

Japanese arrested the Chinese in Singapore:Chinese have until this time been with the  of the government in China, and the most of them supported the Chinese government.  Moreover, they have helped the British Army, forming volunteer corps and secretly disturbing the military activities of the Japanese army.  Thus it is the most important thing to sweep away these disloyal Chinese elements and to establish peace and promote welfare of the population.Souce by internet.Changed by balasubramaniam           

A example of a propaganda in the japanese occupation

Done by balasubramaniam

Researched by balasubramaniam

      Tucked into the hillside of Fort Canning is the Battle Box, the largest underground command centre of the British Malaya Command Headquarters during World War II. Comprising 22 rooms linked by a corridor, this complex is bomb-proof and also capable of recycling its own air supply.

The Battle Box has undergone extensive restoration and through the use of special audio-visual effects, and high-quality animatronics, visitors are able to relive the morning of 15 February 1942 when Singapore fell to the Japanese.

Done by bala,researched by bala

Character(8):

[Books and newspaper Seller]
Act: selling things
Speech: LehLong!! LehLong!! Selling Newspaper and books!!

[Buyer1]
Act: looking around at books on the table.

[Buyer2]
Act: walk past the classroom after buying a newspaper

[Japanese soldier (2)]
Act: walking around in the classroom spying at the students.

[Student1, 2]
Act: paying attention to to the teacher teaching

[Student 3](got killed in scene8)
Act: unwilling to study the lesson, got killed by the Japanese soldier
Speech: I can’t tolerate anymore!! I don’t want to study Japanese language and values!! I want freedom!! Kill me if you want!!

Uploaded By: Wendy

Source: http://www.toondoo.com/

Explanation:
Scene 1: (Singapore map) to show about the place we are talking about.
Scene 2: (Raffles City) to show how the present Singapore looks like.
( shoot in the bus - on the way to Sentosa)
Scene 3: (Years) to show the date when the attack of Singapore/Japanese Occupation occurred.
Scene 4: (Book/newspaper stall) to show how the propaganda is read by readers.
Scene 5: (examples of propaganda) to show some example of propaganda
Scene 6: (link) to link scene 5 and 7
Scene 7: (classroom) to show the scenario in the classroom when a japanese teacher is teaching the children of Singapore the values and language of the japanese by some books of propaganda.
Scene 8: (threatened/forced) to show a person got killed by the Japanese soldier as he/she is unwilling to study/learn propaganda.
Scene 9: (purpose) purpose of the use of propaganda.
Scene 10: (interview) some interview of our classmates about what they think about the use of propaganda.

Discussed By: all group members
Uploaded by: Wendy

A photo of a food rationing card

A food ration card needed to provide rice and other needs

Done by K.balasubramaniam

researched by k.balasubramaniam

From the information given from wendy ,i realise that propaganda was used to make people believed that it was true but in the fact it was not.propaganda can be in any form like pictures,viedos,and articles, the purpose of using a propoganda is to make people think that japanese at the time was very kind to people in singapore.not only this propoganda also make people that that they should support the japanese as they treat singapore,china and other country including japan people fairly.from this this will make people feel that the japanese  deserved to be the leader not british and hence japanese can take over many country as japanese will have many countries people joining forces together.japanese at the time in fact was not even kind to other countries people they wanted to conqure many country they try to conquer those countries by force and the treat those people who are innocent like they are no longer human.prisoner were the people who tried to fight back with the japanese but was being capture into their prison and being torture. at the time people were fear of them innocent people and the prisoners were killed by the japanese.peoples were also treat like slaves at the time and if they have no more energy the japanese will killed them off.from this we can see that the propogada is a bias as the propoganda describle the postive side of the japanese in fact of the truth of the inhuman japanese which make this not true in the first place.

after infering from this i conclude that the propoganda is not reliable as it is not true.(posted by phan chong)*please give me your comments as soon as possible.

MESSAGE: These military postcards depict the tenderness and warmth shared by a Japanese soldier and the children of Malaya. The face of the soldier was left out so that the sender can fill it in himself.

What is the purpose??
- It is to tell the tenderness and warmth shared by a Japanese soldier and the children of Malaya.

Source found: http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/postcard.html

What can i infer from this picture??
From this i can infer that the propaganda postcards is drawn by the anime skill of the Japanese. By making the postcards appealling to children, this will make the children feel warm and will think that Japanese is not their enemies but the British is. Thus, it will help them to gain chances of conquering Singapore as this will persuade people in Singapore to surrender temasek to them. I know this because i can see that in the first picture, children in different races is hunging and clinging at japanese soldier. To add on, they are also holding the japanese flag on their hand and arm. From this, i can see that the japanese soldier is like a father protecting the children and as a result, the children will think that the Japanese is their liberator who will saved them from being the slaves of the british.

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Interview with Prof. Brian Farrell( Australian) about the propaganda of Singapore as an impregnable fortress
(Prof. Brian Farrell is from the National University of Singapore.)

The propaganda said that Singapore was a fortress, an impregnable fortress.
Question: Who was fooled by that propaganda?

Prof. Brian Farrell: I think the only people that might’ve been fooled by that propaganda were the general population of Great Britain and the dominions and perhaps the colonists and the territories in the far east. The Japanese certainly weren’t fooled. They knew very well how pregnable the fortress was; Whitehall and the British government weren’t fooled. They knew very well that they were using an image and a myth to try and take the place of substance that wasn’t there, and again to be frank, neither was Canberra. I mean asking tough questions and pursuing answers that might lead to painful public reassessments and perhaps the need to take more responsibility for Australia’s own defence, which meant spending more money - that was something which pre-war Australians shied away from. It wasn’t that they were fooled, it was that they preferred not to ask the final question and to hope that it would all come out alright on the day.

What can infer from this source??
From the interview, I can infer that the Japanese, British and Canberra are smart as they are not easily trick by the propaganda. Instead, the only ones that were decieved by the propaganda were the population of British and the territories which i can infer that they did not think thoroughly when making a decision of whether they want to believe in the propaganda or not.

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The British who decided to implement the strategy “Main fleet to Singapore” had chosen Singapore as the site for a naval base while the Main Fleet would be based in Europe. Thus, it will not only defend Singapore, but also the rest of its empire in the Far East, and Australasia. However, when it seemed clear that an attack could come from the sea or from Johore, a strategy is devised to take these alternatives into account. By 1939, the main defences of Singapore consisted of a series of Guns Batteries that to popular belief were made to fire both landward and seaward.
To add on, the British defence planners (who thinks that the Japanese would first attack from the sea) were confident that the Main Fleet and reinforcements would arrive in Singapore well before any landward attack.

Source found: http://www.s1942.org.sg/s1942/dir_defence2.htm

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Source : http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/war2.html
During the Japanese occupation, the optimistic wartime propaganda in the local newspapers was their source of their faith. They replaced all signs on the streets of Singapore with Japanese symbols and propaganda. Furthermore, they take over Major newspapers like the Straits Times, broadcast Japanese propaganda and cultural programmes in the radio and also introduced their language to schools.

Some Question related to the use of propaganda:

1) What was this propaganda about?
- It was about Japanese information like their languages and spiritual values that was used to harm Singaporeans.

2) In what way did the British make the people in Singapore believe that they were well-protected and had nothing to fear?
- An article appeared in a leading Singapore newspaper, The Malaya Tribune, on Dec 3, 1941 shows a cartoon accompanied an article that stated “the Japanese are caught in a trap of their own making… neither by land nor sea nor in the air do they have even a glimmer of a chance of victory…’’ This reflected a general that said “there was no threat of war in South east Asia because of the thick jungles of the Malay Peninsula and the military might of the British”.

3) How did they convince people of this?
- They wrote the article in the newspaper which I can infer that when people read the newspaper they will come across it and some will think that the Japanese really step into the trap as they thought that article in newspaper is always accurate. Therefore, people in Singapore believe that they were well-protected and had nothing to fear

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Although you have done your research well, I find that there is very LITTLE discussion and analysis of what these propaganda sources tell you about HOW japanese used propaganda in WW2

You can’t just COPY and PASTE - apply the skills you learned in source-based questions like questioning bias and reliability, inferring the purpose of the propaganda and the message it was intended to convey

You also need to make sure you post the references for your sources of information - like the website, author of website , title of book, published by, year of publication author of book etc

For the Forst siloso trip - the focus will be MORE ON BRITISH propaganda  during the war especially propaganda abt Singapore as invincible and a fortress:

“The popular image of Singapore as an impregnable fortress was due largely to desperate British propaganda in the last years of the 1930s” from Dept of Defence , 2004, Australia

What was this propaganda about? In what way did the British make the people in Singapore believe that they were well-protected and had nothing to fear?  How did they convince people of this?

There are a number of useful resources at the PW website:

- http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/war.html

Also something to tell you abt the British Defence Plans - and why they think Singapore was an impregnable fortress

Interview with a historian ( Australian) about the propaganda of Singapore as an impregnable fortress 

( study the British propaganda cartoon from Singapore newspaper, The Malaya Tribune, on Dec 3, 1941.) - shows u how the British tried to convince the people that they have nothing to worry about and that the British will win the war.

- http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/wendau.html and http://ourstory.asia1.com.sg/war/headline/wbahau.html

( shows you how the Japanese “tried to portray themselves as liberators of the local people. They dished out propaganda articles in the Japanese-controlled newspaper, The Syonan Shimbun.)

Look at these Japanese Propaganda postcards - what was the purpose and message?

-  Did u check out the media resources here - my students created these esp videos - there are those from Fort Siloso

Added a lot more LINKS here, especially for propaganda - PW wiki

- The purpose of using propaganda.
- How does it help them in conquering Singapore?
- How the propaganda was presented in Singapore?(By teaching, publishing in newspaper and books)
- Example of propaganda during the attack of Singapore as well as during the occupation of singapore.
- Who was the one who wrote the propaganda?
- Is the writer reliable?
- How japanese force singaporean to read propaganda?

Discussed by: All group members
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                                                    The history of port siloso

In 1967 when the British troops departed, the island was handed back to the Singapore government. Less than a decade later in 1975, under its new custodian Sentosa Development Corporation, the Fort was granted a new lease on life - its doors opening to the public for the first time.

For many veterans and their families, it serves as an important window to Singapore’s colonial past and a poignant reminder of the war

Picture of port Siloso

Done by balasubramaniam posted by balasubramaniam

I think that Japanese use propoganda to make singapore respect them.I think that they are books that tells “Japanese  is the  greatest people in the world.It is to make singapore people especially the chinese to be their slaves.Japanese also wanted to educate singaporean,children and teached them Japanese. The purpose is to point about the preeminence of the Japanese way of life ,their spirited value and the ill s of western materialism.Atually the fact is Japanese did not bring hapiness to singaporean.

Done by balasubramaniam    Research by balsubramaniam

new-timeline.jpg

Please click this link to see the timeline

Done by Jia huan

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During World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army conducted many
amphibious and combined arms operations. Their austere, yet highly
successful amphibious combined arms operations are worthy of intense
study. Imperial Japanese Army Joint Operations describes the
cooperation between the Japanese Army, Navy and Air Force in
hundreds of operations throughout the Pacific. The Japanese armed forces
were very modern armed forces in the 1930s, but in the 1940s they were
obsolescent. However in 1944, Japanese armed forces began to develop a
number of the most modern and effective weapons and equipment. But it was
too late. By then the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy amphibious joint
operations capabilities had been reduced to shambles in late World War
II because it was too lightly armed. The fortunes of the Imperial Japanese
Army, described so precisely in Imperial Japanese Army Joint Operations,
are a lesson to the modern US armed forces that are in the process of
returning to the motorized days of 1940s in the name of “lightness.”  
Imperial Japanese Army Joint Operations describes many fascinating and
relatively unknown facts about Japanese amphibious combined arms
operations, and their constituent elements, in World War II.

Excerpt from Imperial Japanese Army Joint Operations

Japan laid the groundwork for Asiatic conquests with years of intense propaganda and covert organization in China,
Indochina, Thailand, British Malaya, Burma, India, the Netherlands East Indies, and other southwest Pacific islands in
British, American, and Dutch possessions. Rivaling Germany’s far-flung propaganda activities, Japan was estimated to
organized a fifth column in Asia led by over 200,000 paid and schooled professional agitators and other subversive
agents at work in the above-named areas prior to the Japanese attack on America, Britain and Holland.
Until September 1941, the propaganda had been aimed mostly along cultural, educational, and political lines. Since then
propaganda was accelerated to arouse colonialized natives against their governments so as to obtain their support for
forthcoming military operations.
When Japanese troops first entered Malaya, in order to win over local support, they distributed Singapore money (printed
in Japan) among a large number of natives. The same device (guilders, printed in Japan) was used in Borneo and other
islands of the Netherlands East Indies. In addition, natives were told that the homes of the British and Dutch were theirs,
and they were invited to move in and take them over or else to loot them of furniture and other valuables that the
Japanese themselves did not want.”

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A Soldier’s Home

To get to Singapore in the late 1800s involved a long, tedious sea journey with the very real prospect of bad weather and storms on the way. Troopships were never designed to be comfortable, but merely to transport as many troops as possible to the far flung places of the British Empire.

Life on board was hard as there would be duties, inspections, physical training etc. It was anything but a cruise. Even so, there would be a sense of excitement among the young soldiers who may never have been far from their homes before.

Today, we take international travel for granted as we can get to anywhere we want in a day or so. but it was a much greater adventure over a hundred years ago. Soldiers on their way to the far east would spend several weeks on board as the ship made its way to Singapore calling at places such as Gibraltar, Malta, Aden and India dropping of troops destined to serve in these places.

The Guardroom

The Guardroom at Fort Siloso was built during the early 20th Century. It is fitted out to represent a typical Guardroom of the 1880s.

Once at any army camp, a soldier would quickly become acquainted with the Guardroom. A fair bit of his time would be spent on guard duty. This could be quite a boring duty, with only the visits by the Orderly Sergeant and Orderly Officer punctuating the dull routine.

Barrack Life

Home for the soldier was the Barrack Room. An 1880s barrack room has been faithfully created at Fort Siloso and gives a clear insight into barrack life for the first soldiers to serve at Siloso.

The Cookhouse. A health inspector would be reduced to tears by what he sees here in an 1880s Cookhouse. The Orderly Serjeant is checking the quality of the men’s food — rather him than me.

Clearly the dhobi (laundry) is not up to scratch here. The soldier is clearly not a happy man about something and is pointing out the error of his ways to the dhobi wallah.

A soldier has to be smart on parade. All camps had tailors to make ill-fitting uniform as presentable as possible.

Life in any army was not very comfortable in the late 1800s and early 1900s. However, living conditions and food changed for the better as the 1900s drew on. The 21st century soldier has far superior accommodation and facilities than the soldiers depicted above. Superior even to the generation of soldiers I served with in the 1960s.

The Barrack Square

The Barrack Square on Blakang Mati. This is representative of the early British military buildings on the island.

Other Military Buildings

There are still many old British military buildings on Sentosa which are still in use today.

This building, near the Cable Car Station, was originally a British Military Hospital built in the 1880s. It continued to be used as a hospital during the Japanese occupation and afterwards until the 1950s. It then became a training centre for the Royal Artillery. On the British withdrawal from Singapore, the Singapore Combat Engineers moved in. As Sentosa became developed for leisure and tourism, the building began a new life as a museum, which it still is today.

Another former British military Building on Blakang Mati.

This photograph of British Military buildings is shown courtesy of the Sentosa Leisure Group. It is not to be reproduced without their permission.

Research By: zi lu

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Fort Siloso is Singapore’s only preserved coastal fort stands as an important window to our colonial past and a reminder of the war years. It has the most collection of World War II memory with life-sized depiction, interactive exhibits and even authentic aromas are lovingly recreated. We will be able to explore through more than 245 photographs, documents and film clips on display. When exhibitions are over, head out into the sunshine and examine actual 17th century guns and cannons, or explore the old tunnels. All in all, we must be sure to check out two new docudramas about the war years, three new routes and some brand-new exhibits, definitely will make history leap out at us.

Research By: Jiahuan(:
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Zi lu —directing the story in the film to make it smooth

Phan chong — take over zi lu when he is not around

                         Narrate the story

Wendy— take over phan chong when he is not around

                 Make props that are required

Jia huan- suggest ideas on where, what, when, to take the shot

                Take over Bale when he is not around

Bale — take charge of filming the video

Done by Jia Huan

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Director: Zi lu

Assistant Director: Phan chong

Actor: everyone

Narrator: Phan chong

Assistant narrator : Wendy

Producer: Jia huan

Props master: Wendy

Videographer: Bala

Assistant videographer: Jia huan

The source from the mind map shows that the propaganda used by the Japanese were all written in their language and were published in daily newspaper. To add on, children in school were forced to learn Japanese language by books of propaganda although they were unwilling to. As a result, most of the Singaporeans will know their way of life and their language.
Furthermore, the propaganda was also used to point about the pre-eminence of the Japanese spirited values and the ills of western materialism. Thus, the main purpose of propaganda is to helps them to conquer much more of Singapore by winning the respect and support of Singapore citizen who have read the propaganda.

Discussed by: All Group Members
Written by: Wendy
Uploaded By: Wendy

Bruce (ZiLu): Japanese wanted to educate Singapore children and teached the japanese. The purposee is to point out about the
pre-eminence of the japanese way of life , their spiritual values and the ills western materialism. Actually the fact is,
japanese did not bring happiness to Singapore, they killed people and rob properties.

Wendy: Japanese use propaganda by media communication(eg;radio,newspaper,money) to tell Singaporean their way of life. NOt
only, they also use propaganda to teach children their languages in school. As a result, this help them to conquer much
more of Singapore by winning the support of Singapore citizen. Thus, many people were killed by them during the attack
of Singapore as they were unwilling to follow the japanese values.

JiaHuan: Japanese use their language to write propaganda as the method of teaching their spiritual values and the ills of western
materialism.

PhanChong: I think propaganda are images that are use during the occupation of Singapore at the time. The japanese uses the
wrong information to teach the people that at that time japanese did not do cruel thing to singaporeans but it is not
true in the fact.

Bala: Japanese use propaganda to make singapore respect them. I think that they are books that tells “Japanese is the greatest
people in the World”. It is to make Singapore their Slaves.

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1. Quantity and Quality of Discussions and Blog Posts

2. Frequency of interaction/discussion at Project Blog

3. Amt of research done and the way it is presented - bonus given to use of online mindmaps /toondoo/comic life and other ONLINE MULTIMEDIA TOOLS( which are done together as a group) , use of GOOD Research questions, questions/comments by group members, editing of work done

4. Posting of work schedule , deadlines , roles of different members of group, description of task they have to complete

5. Post on research materials used - whether online or book form - with summaries of key points relevant to project

6. Good division of work - with each member contributing actively

7. Clear writing - few grammatical errors or Singlish errors - which shows thinking and analysis of sources - questions posted to show you are trying to understand what u have read

8. Other resources like videos and images - especially from National Archives - with clear write up of why this evidence is relevant to project and what the image/video tells you

*CAUTION!:This is stage 1 of assessment and MARKS are counted and added to overall marks - included in CA for BOTH ENGLISH
and HISTORY!
Everything MUST be posted in Project BLOG and the AUTHOR’s NAME MUst appear in the blog entry! No nicknames.
*links that might be useful to us
-http://sec2ipw2008.wikispaces.com/

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The first stage of marking will be on 30 Feb.
so…
i think that we should come out with a conclusion for the task by a date.
Further discussion will be done after Common Test.

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bubblus_the_use_of_propaganda.jpg

Please click this link to see the mindmap of the use of proganda

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Propaganda is an evocative word that brings to mind images of dictatorships and wartime misinformation. Although not as widespread as conspiracy theorists might have us believe, it is still in use daily in virtually every country. Propaganda is believed to be political, religious, philosophical. The basic condition for a propaganda to happen is that they must be in positions of power where they have significant control over mass-communication media. This can include presidents, governments and media moguls. It also includes company bosses, head teachers and parents. This person must have a need either that a significant group of people believe something to be true or perceive something in some way.

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Pictures of japanese occupation

Done by Balasubramaniam

Detail of the blackboard above. The Thai reads Ka, Tapoo, Bida, Kaba, Jana

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information from http://2bangkok.com/wwiipropaganda.shtml New Japanese propaganda booklet from World War II

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information from http://2bangkok.com/wwiipropaganda.shtml New Japanese propaganda booklet from World War II

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The Japanese occupation of Singapore was the period in the history of Singapore between 1942 and 1945, when Japanese forces occupied Singapore during World War II, after having defeated the combined Australian, British, Indian and Malayan garrison. The occupation was to become a major turning point in the history of several nations, including that of Japan, the United Kingdom, and the then colony of Singapore itself. Singapore was renamed Syonan-to (昭南島 Shōnan-tō, “Radiant South” in Japanese) by the Japanese.

source from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore

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Propaganda [from modern Latin: 'propagare', "extending forth"] is a concerted set of messages aimed at influencing the opinions or behavior of large numbers of people. Instead of impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense presents information in order to influence its audience. The most effective propaganda is often completely truthful, but some propaganda presents facts selectively to encourage a particular synthesis, or gives loaded messages in order to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the cognitive narrative of the subject in the target audience.

information from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

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timelinea2.jpg 

Please click this link to see the timeline

Done by Zi Lu and Bala

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bubblus_questions_of_the_task.jpg

Please click this link to see the mindmap

 Done by Phan Chong, Wendy, Jia Huan and Zi Lu

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A documentary which presents a particular point of view/perspective of the Japanese Occupation of Singapore

on THE USE OF PROPAGANDA

 by the JAPANESE during

THE ATTACK OF SINGAPORE

as well as during

THE OCCUPATION OF SINGAPORE.

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Hi, every members. This is our blog for English and history project.
I hope we can do our best to complete this as a best group so please try your best.

All the best for our group

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Rules

-         Do not be lazy , everybody must do their part in their role.

-         Everybody must be active when a topic or someone is commenting something

-         Everybody must post a topic related to the subject given

-         Undated information that the teacher say must be posted on the blog

-         No bulling

-         Do not abuse authorities

-         Respect each other

-         Care and concern for each other

Roles

-         Jia Huan —– leader

-         Zi Lu(Bruce) —– IT

-         Wendy —— researcher

-         Phan Chong —— secretary

-         Bala —— assistant secretary

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