I have learn skills such as PEEL.The skill PEEL is very useful as it helps me to read SBQ(Source Based Question).I managed to give the whole class examples,pictures,movies of propanda of the japanese and the british.Propanda can be true or flase but most of the time it is false.I also know how to distinish between propanda and non propaganda.I did my part in the group by posting comments,pictures,video.

3. Research skills,history skills like analysing sources, inferring, mind mapping, organising, questioning sources etc, multi literacies skills ( English) such as planning movie, shooting, scripting, storyboarding

I think that my research skill is not very good as i only manage to research in the internet instead of the library. Furthermore, i tend to copy and paste the source from the web and did not used the ‘PEEL’ method to summaries the source. Thus, i think that my research skill is not so good.
As for my History skill, i think i that it is not up to standard as i sometimes had difficulties in inferring the source and organising my answer. But with the help of the method of drawing a mind map, i can understand the source easily and come up with a conclusion within minutes. Hence, i will still try my best to improve my analysing skills of sources like pictorial and written sources to a good standard.
In the other hand, i learn my multi literacies skills during the lesson of photo journalism and this help me learn how to plan the story and camera angles in every scene. Thus, i think my multi literacies skills had improved.

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2. problems encountered and attempts to solve these: what have you learned from this?

The first problem encountered was during the first one to two weeks after the the topic was assigned to each group. I was told to research on the use of propaganda and had gather a lot of information. However, i do not understand most of the resources and do not know how to infer. Luckily, MsLee taught us how to infer the sources during history lesson and this help me a lot when i come to some resources like a pictorial source. From this, i learned that inferring a source was not so difficult but it need a lot of brainstorm before coming to a conclusion.
Another problem encountered was during the first trip to fort siloso. Due to bad weather, we did not enter the propaganda room which is part of our scene in the storyboard. But the weather did not stop us from going to the room. We manage to go there with the tour guide using umbrella and had an interview of the tour guide in the propaganda room. From this, i learned that nothing is impossible if a person have the will to do it.

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1.Group work and individual contributions to project- including something on preparing for the presentations and what i learned
having to teach the class

I had contributed to the group by doing some research related to the topic. Being a researcher, i research in the web and sometimes come across some good resources that benefits us. However, i think that i did not do a good job as most of the sources were copyrighted from the web. So nowadays i have been trying to improve by commenting in those propaganda images posted by ZiLu using the ‘PEEL’ method taught by MsLee. Before the presentation, our group met some difficulties like having to contact each other for discussion. After all, we still overcome the difficulties and did the final power point.
Finally, we had our presentation today. It was quite exciting but scary as this was my first time teaching the class. During the presentation, i tried my very best in explaining the British propaganda. However, i do met some difficulties like going out of point in explaining the purpose of the British propaganda. To sum up, i learned that explaining something was really difficult but if we had the might we can still explain it clearly.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLmJ5ikw3zI

Our group presentation is good but it is too detailed. I think what miss lee said is we should present the PowerPoint first and then the mindmap.If we have a other change of presenting, What shall we do?Please type it in the comment section 

What do you think about today’s presentation?

What can we do to improve our project?

What problems do we have and how to solve it?

Please post your comments under comment, if you have any other questions, please post that too.

Clues to remember when you are presenting 1)Do not read; tell us more about the topics

2)Do not be nervous, Being nervous give us no confidence to present

3)Always be confident to present3)Make the effort to give the class an detailed explanation what you are about to say 

Reflection on vikineswari groupI think the presenter,sheng hong was very nervous. He did not ask a lot of “Why”. I do not understand the topic a bit.I know about the suffering and the mindmap is not too detailed. He never gave an explanation about the topic and He should show the video first to make it a SBQ first to make the lesson more interesting. I think he do not need to elaborate on the diseases.

The reflection on Fort siloso

The trip on fort siloso was nice but unfortunately,we did not finished the documentury.I think we spend  a lot of time interwing people.In our own opinion,I think the group should seperate the jobs.Altough,we have very little member,we can take 2 to 3 digital camera and maybe ask the people in port siloso to take:example the guide.Anothe thing that I observed is that we group went there and pratise.It is a kind of wasting time.They should pratise in  school and go there to act it.One thing our group did good is they took the most important shot in port siloso and the background for it is nice and the unnesseary shots,they took at school.I enjoyed it very much

Please click this link to see the mind map for lesson

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We are supposed to presente our powerpoint and the mind-map next Monday.

What can we do to improve our presentation?

What problems do we have? How to solve them?

What errors do we have?

Please put your opinions under the comment.

Although the weather was not bad on that day, the time was not enough. We did not finish all the scenes so we need to finish it at this Friday. I think we wasted a lot of time at running. I think the interview of the foreigners were not necessary because their evidences were not reliable and they would give out the answers that we did not want. I think the filming was quite good. The background was very good. I enjoyed it very much.

Attention to all group members.

We are going to take the last few scenes on this Friday (28/03/08).

Please do not go home after school.

We will meet at canteen at 12.30am sharp.

Please remember your script as much as possible because we will not have any time for you to remember at Friday.

Thank you.

Propaganda handbill

British oppression is caricatured in this anti-British propaganda handbill printed by the Indian Independence League in East Asia. The Japanese worked hard at cultivating the nationalistic sentiments of the Indians in Singapore to assist them in their planned conquest of Singapore.

Propaganda leaflet

This pamphlet illustrates how an allied solider would receive food, cigarettes and medical aid if he would simply raise his hands in surrender. Ironically, allied propagandists made identical promises to Japanese soldiers.

Propaganda leaflet

Time and again, illustrations of food were used on propaganda leaflets to tempt allied soldiers. Here, a tempting plate of salad is illustrated and the word “surrender” has been tactfully substituted with the euphanism, “a change of heart”.

Propaganda handbill

“The good will be rewarded, the wicked will be punished.” Here, civilians were advised to co-operate with the allies against.

Japanese solider on a boat

A Japanese soldier is shown all alone on a boat. Futilely awaiting reinforcements that will never arrive.

Attention to all group members.

We will go to Fort Siloso on next monday.

I have already finished the final script and final storyboard.

If you have any questions about them, please ask me as fast as possible.

You can put your advice under comments.

I will check blog twice a day.

If I have any further instructions, I will post that as fast as possible. Please check the blog.

Thank you.

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Scene 1: video taken at fort siloso

Speaker: At the period of world war two, Japanese used a lot of propaganda in Southeast Asia during the attack of Singapore as well as during the occupation of Singapore. Actually, Propaganda refers to the action taken, especially by a government, to influence the way people think by spreading certain ideas, beliefs, news, etc. which are often inaccurate or biased. 

Scene 2: MUST video taken at fort siloso

Interview at the Japanese occupation house in fort siloso

Interviewer: Do you know what happened in Singapore in WW2?

Student 1: yes, I do.

Interviewer: Can u roughly tell us what was happening?

Student 1:  before 15^th feb of 1942, Singapore was under British’s control. After Japanese attacked Singapore and Singapore fall in Japanese. The Japanese occupation began at Singapore.

Interviewer: Have you ever seen a written source of WW2 in Singapore?

Student 1:  yes, I have seen some in the history textbook.

Interviewer: ok. Let’s look at this. ( the picture in fort siloso) What comes to your mind when you first see the propaganda? Why?

Student 1:  I think this propaganda is very cute because the human figures are in cartoon form.

Interviewer: is it reliable? Why?

Student 1:  This is unreliable because the fact was not like what is showing on it. Japanese was very cruel in Singapore.

Interviewer: Do you know other ways of showing propaganda by the Japanese?

Student 1:  Yes, such as Newspaper, Japanese movies or propaganda films, Radio stations which were controlled by the Japanese and straight education like learn Japanese and sing the Japanese national anthem.

Interviewer: Ok, thank you very much.

Student 1:  you are welcome. 

Scene 3:No speech.       

Scene 4: video taken at fort siloso

Normal street.

Student 1: what is the date today?

Student 2: Today is third December 1941.

Student 1: did you read today’s newspaper?

Student 2: no.

Student 1: me too. Let’s go and buy it. I want to read the Malaya tribune.

Student 2: ok.

 Scene 5: video taken at fort siloso

In the store:

Student 1: one piece of the Malaya tribune, please.

Student 3: here you are

 Student 1: Thanks

Student 2: what is the headline of today’s newspaper.

Student 1: Japan’s hopeless task in pacific war 

Scene 6: video taken at fort siloso

Focus on the picture in the newspaper. 

Scene 7: video taken at fort siloso

Student 1: Do you know that Japanese will attack us?

Student 2: Yes I knew it. I think they will never win the British.

Student 1: Why?

Student 2:Don’t you feel that Japanese are very foolish? Look at the stupid face of the Japanese. They even wear diaper.

Student 1: Ha, ha, ha.

Student 2: I think they even don’t know what they are doing. Compare the weapons of the Japanese and the British. Of course British will win the war.Student 1: yes, you are right. 

Scene 8: video taken at fort siloso

We take the face of the speaker.

Speaker: As you can see, from the cartoon picture in propaganda, the British wanted to humiliate Japanese, they wanted to show Japanese do not have wisdom, they are doom and weak. British also wanted to give the people in Singapore more confidence and wanted to show that they still had the power to protect Singapore.  

  Scene 9: MUST video taken at fort siloso

Back ground is the video of “Japanese is attacking Singapore.”There are “In the year around 1942 Japanese attack Singapore, February 16 1942 Singapore fall in Japan” on the scream. 

Scene 10: video taken at fort siloso

At the streetJapanese is giving out the free Japanese propaganda to the people in Singapore. 

Scene 11: video taken at fort siloso

Focus on the picture. 

Scene 12: video taken at fort siloso

Student 1: wow, what a cute cartoon picture!

Student 2: let me see it. Yes, so cute. I like it.

Student 1: hey, after the war, what do you think about the different between the Japanese and the British?S

tudent 2: Emm, I think Japanese are very friendly, they look like our father because they are helping us in many way of our life like our own father.

Student 1: yup, we live very happy with the Japanese, right?

Student 2: yes, they are helping us to solve a lot of problems and they are very kind.

Student 1; don’t you think that we were slaves under the British’s control?S

tudent 2: yup, we should only support Japanese because we are the family. British are very cruel. 

Scene 13: video taken at fort siloso

While we are showing the Japanese propaganda on the video, the speaker is reading the purpose of the Japanese propaganda.

Speaker:The purpose of the Japanese propaganda is to make people believe that the Japanese are the saviors of Singaporeans and that they are here to liberate us from the real enemies, the British.This was called “Asian to Asian” at that period. It also make people feel that the Japanese are very kind to them and believe that they live very happy under Japanese control, only Japanese are friends people will support the Japanese in the war .furthermore Japanese wanted people in Singapore  follow the instructions that Japanese gave them. Scene 14: type out the conclusion.

The use of propaganda by the Japanese were to influence the minds of the people in Singapore, to remove Western influence and to promoted the Japanese spirit (Nippon Seishin) so that the people would be loyal to Japan. 

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Please click this link to see the mind map for lesson

Mind map:

Introduction— zi lu

British—– Phan chong

Japanese—- Bala

Powerpoint:

British—– wendy

Japanese— Jia huan, zi lu and phang chong

Today, is Nigel’s group turn to present. Their topic was about war experience. I think that Kim had tried his best to project his voice and explained the topic to us. However, he could not answer some question like ”what does the light of the south means? and what the past Japanese flag represent?” ask by Ms Lee and us, the students in 2E. Furthermore, he did not explain clearly about some points like why did ‘kempetai military police station’ is a military police station and not an ordinary police station. Thus, i think that we need to project our voice as loud as possible and explain clearly the points we had during our presentation.

Today Ken’s group made a speech.

Actually, it was not successfull. Why?

What can we learn form his group?

What can we improve our speech later?

Please post your comments under comment, if you have any other questions, please post that too.

What should we do for next weak’s trip to Fore Siloso?

What can we prepare for that? Such as what should we bring?

How will we separate our job?

Please answer these questions under comment. If you have any questions, please post it too. 

What do you think is the purpose of this source?

What do you think is the purpose of this source?

How do you think this propaganda postcard would help  the Japanese win the war?

Please do this First because we are going to use it in the powerpoint.

Post your anser in the comment.

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scene1:

We are going to show the map of Singapore. The purpose is to tell the audience that this documentary is about Singapore.

scene 2:

This slide tells the audience that the documentary for next part is the time Singapore was under the British control.

scene 3:

The people are reading the newspaper (propaganda) from the British.

scene 4:

Focus the picture in the newspaper.

scene 5:

People are commenting from the newspaper.

scene 6:

We show the purpose of this newspaper.

scene7:

This is a slide that Japanese attack Singapore and Singapore fall in Japanese.

scene 8:

The people are reading the newspaper (propaganda) from the Japanese.

scene9:

Focus the picture in the newspaper.

scene 10:

People are commenting from the newspaper.

scene 11:

We show the purpose of this newspaper.

scene12:

Interview the modern people about the propaganda.

Questions:

Do you know what happened in Singapore in WW2?

Can u roughly tell us what was happening?

Have you ever seen a written source of WW2 in Singapore?

Let’s look at this. ( the picture in fort siloso)

What comes to your mind when you first see the propaganda? Why?

What do you think is propaganda?

How did the government in Singapore use propaganda at WW2?

What way do they use in propaganda?Is it reliable?

 If not, why they used the not reliable propaganda?

Ok, thank you very much.

scene13:

This is the finial conclusion.

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Please click this link to see the mind map for lesson

After we discuss in the PW period, we came out a new conclusion that we need to redo the story board. In this new story board, we are going to add British propaganda in to the story board. We will delete the part that shows a person got killed by the Japanese soldier as he/she is unwilling to study/learn propaganda because we thought that was useless for the “use of the propaganda”.

This is a primary source - eyewitness account from a young boy (16 year old) who lived through the war period.

Read and select the relevant parts which describes the type of propaganda used by both sides.  You could extract these for your class presentation as ONE of the sources for the class to discuss and answer questions.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/stories/34/a4405934.shtml 

What do you think is the purpose of this source?

What do you think is the purpose of this source?

Tencho-setsu (emperor’s birthday) was celebrated on 29 April 1942. children paraded on the padang and sang aikoku koshin kyoku, the patriotic song. There were rallies and speeches. At the cinemas, special propaganda movies were screened. All households were told to flu the Japanese flag.

A booklet of patriotic songs was published to help local people learn the songs. Song sheets were distributed freely.

Japanese propaganda called for an “Asia for the Asiatics”. All English signboards were replaced by Japanese.

Education came under the bureau of public welfare in the tolubetu-si. Mamoru shinozaki was chief ececutive of the education department and he re-opened the primaty schools in April 1942. Children were educated in the ‘Nippon’ way and “Nippon-go” because the official common language of Malaya and Singapore.

The Japanese style of teaching physical training was a regular drill in unison with music of “radio taisho”. Children were taught to sing Japanese songs and be little “Nippon-jins”

What do you think is the purpose of this source?

Please post your reflection on the trip of Frot Siloso in the comment.

I have already spoken to Jia Huan abt the preparation for the class presentation and if you do the work required as I have instructed , you should be more focused on the project theme.

Propaganda - need to be seen from two perspectives: Br and Jap

Also need to see examine different sources of propaganda from different periods with diff purpose: During attack and after Singapore under Jap Rule

So far what u have posted have not addressed these two areas clearly esp the ssecond one

What is Lacking:

1) How will you put together the documentary? What’s your PLAN for the film in terms of the CENTRAL THEME , the mESSAGE u want to convey to the viewers and HOW u are going to ensure that the message gets communicated clearly and convincingly?

If u had done the Protecting Seals documentary in class then maybe you should have learned something abt the director’s vision of what the message of the film is and HOW he is able to persuade the viewer to SEE his POINT of VIEW and FEEL the emotions he want them to feel.

2) How would u USE the research done so far? Actually I find that some research posted is irrelevant - it has NOTHING to do with topic so maybe as a group u need to discuss the central topic again and ask questions to clarify the concept of propaganda

3) Are u going to use PRIMARY sources as example like actual propaganda videos , posters etc and just explain hwo this were used and the message it was supposed to convey? Would this be too FACTUAL and BORING? How would you make the message and the interpretations become more interesting for the veiwers?

4) Have u considered producing your own PROPAGANDA from the JAP and BRitish point of view to show HOW this works in influencing the hearts and minds of people?

5) the inference and drawing conclusions from the various sources of propaganda is still missing - this is a very impt part of your research and u also need to question the bias and reliability of such sources to SHOW how one-sided point of view is communicated in propaganda, who they were targetted at , why they were used, how they worked etc.

6) I also don’t see individual post on reflections on learning so far, like based on trip, course, research done so far.  This reflection is VERY IMPT - SHOW your THINKING and ability to use knowledge and skills from different subjects ( Eng Multiliteracies like visual literacy, photo journalism , video and storyboarding skills and use of language to tell a story, to explain, to persuade , to influence others point of view /emotions etc and History knowledge and SKILLS of inference, reliability etc)

Need to come up with a PLAN and schedule of work to be done with clear instructions and more discussion should be seen here at the blog!