I  am using the method peel to do my work(explanation).It is very useful as I am doing the explanation in the blogs,powerpoint  and even the mind map and even this is a good guide to do it in the practice and the exam especially for SBA.I am have happy to have the opportunity to do the method of using “Peel” because it helps us to make sure that the points are written in a organized way and it also make sure that I write all the important point. Although “peel”  is just a guide to any explaination,It is a good way to follow it as the guide to write smoothly and nicely  and if you follow it you will get very good marks in your exam. I also use my background knowledge to answer the questions in SBQ.Sometime I also read the textbook before posting any posts and I also read other people posts and I will comment on it.

I had the change to act out.I have learnt to act.I know how to tune my voice according to the scence.If it is a crying scene,I must tune my voice down.If it is a happy scene,I must tune my voice up.I also have learnt camera angle from a company named “creativebits”.I also know how to operate a camera.At first before I have this course,I even do not even know have to operate the camera.I also know how to create a video and I have learnt various way of filming such as panning. I also learnt have to edits my pictures and films using a Mac computer.The features using the Mac computer is very interesting.The project work is also very useful for me as I learnt to cooperate with our members.I am very happy that this course that the “creative bits” benefit me in my life and I think,I can use this it skills in my future.Learning it is not easy to lesrn outsite on school.For the basic at least,It cost at least $80 for the basic and it will definitely cost more if you learnt the advance outside so you must treasure any opportunity given in the school.

Cooperating with each other is very important.It is because we are all working together in a team.Every people think differently.I may think of somethink but the other group members may think of otherthing but we must join the ideas up and form a nice paragraph of all the people ideas.Sometime if people do not like our ideas,we must think of other ideas.Not everytime our ideas will be accepted.Otherthing is teamwork. Teamwork is every important for our daily life.In jobs even we need teamwork to do projects.If we do not have teamwork,nobody will learnt to accept us.In our group,teamwork is being held.Without teamwork,the PowerPoint  presentation in miss lee class will not be held.The blog wil not have so many entries  like 200 plus posts and 60 plus comments and most important,We will not even complete the documentary in time so we must thank everybody work in the team.There is also misunderstanding in our group.I have posted relevant things and the other members think it is irrelevant things and we spend one period to solve the problem and at last the problem was solved.Otherthing is communication.We do not have so much communication in our group.We sometime try to communicate at school or we will stay back after school and complete the work.

my group had a lot of problems when doing this project as the main problem is about discussion that make the whole project important and also the skill that the teacher teach in class .we can apply this skill that we had learn in the class and use them for the project.teamwork also plays an important without teamwork no work is done .i think the reason why our group do not have enough teamwork is because they do not trust each other.agreement and disagreement is also a problem as we cant make up our mind on what we do argee or disagree.i think all this problem can be solve by finding a time after school and stay back to do or discuss all this problem.

reflection 3

i have learn photo skill and camera angles from the teacher and also from zilu as he use alot of different camera angles and how to take certain picture at certain angles.planning for storyboard also important as we had to follow the storyboard on the angle we are going to shoot.in this project i have learn how to play about with different angles and i think i will help me in this project or maybe the next coming up project if it requires shooting.

 During this project, I learnt a lot of skills. In the photo taken program, I learnt how to take a close-up, a medium shot and so on. It will help me a lot in the rest of my life.I used some online tools such as toondoo, slide share, mind- map tool and videos. All these help me a lot on my blog. That made my blog looked more interesting and easy to understand. The videos catch the audients’ attention so that they would learn more and more.
the history skills like the analysing sources, inferring let me know more about the process of doing my work so I understood the details and more.  That also helps me to uncover a lot of information inside the evidences.The planning of the movie, scripting and storyboarding encouraged my interesting in making a movie. As a director, I learnt a lot of skills about how to direct the actors and the videographer so that our documentary will be better.

 In this project, our group had a lot of problems to solve. Communication is always missing because they said they got a lot of things to do and could not stay back after school. Therefore, we decided to use online to communicate with other group members such as MSN or email. Some of them still could not communicate with other group members, so we gave him works to do at home and then passed to me. After that, I would post for them. We were lack of discussion either so we always do it individually and then joined together. The last problem was one of the group member posted irrelevant things onto the blog and he argued with other group members so our group used one pried of time in school to help his to solve the question. Within the teacher’s help, finally, we solved that problem.
From these, I realized that teamwork was very important as well as to show respect to other members. That will help us to do the project in the fastest and the most successful way. The teachers really helped our group a lot. They helped us on how to do the project and to solve a lot of problems.

For the presentation, our group did a lot of preparing. We were trying to get all the information that we needed and trying to use simple language to help the students understand what was going on. Almost everyone contributed the presentation and practiced his or her own speech before the presentation so that I think the view of my presentation was not bad. I enjoyed teaching the classmates because I could practice my skill of speaking in the public and I could know my mistakes, problems or rather some missing points. Later on, I would improve a lot. While teacher and classmates ask questions, I knew that I did not study all my tasks and dag inside my evidences. I think if I can speak more, that will help me to overcome the little fear of presentation. I also understood that the teamwork and the process of learning were very important. If I could unit my group very well, we would get into trouble. The process of learning could help anyone of us to study the details of our work and the learning skills. If we did the process of learning at school, we would success more and more but the problem was we could not get together at school. We tried to use other methods to communicate with other group members such as MSN, hand-phone message, email and so on.

I  have to use the method of using the peel to do my work(explaination).It is very useful as I am doing the explanation in the blogs and this is a good way to do it.Altough it is just guide to any explaination,It is a good way to follow the guide to write smoothly

I had the change to act out.I have learnt to act.I know how to tune my voice according to the scence.If it is a crying scene,I must tune my voice down.If it is a happy scene,I must tune my voice up.I also learnt camera angle from “creativebits”.I know how to operate a camera.At first before I have this course,I even do not even know have to operate the camera.I also learnt have to edits my pictures and films

Coperating with each other

Cooperating with each other is very important.It is because we are all work together in a team.All people think differently.I may think of anythink but my other groupmembers may think otherthing but we must join the ideas up and form a nice paragraph of other people ideas.Sometime if people do not like our ideas,we must think of other ideas and impress them.Not everytime our ideas can be accepted.Otherthing is teamwork.

 Teamwork

Teamwork is every important for our daily life.In jobs even we need teamwork to do projects.If we do not have teamwork,nobody will learnt to accept us.In our group,teamwork is being held.Without teamwork,the presention in miss lee class will not be held.The blog wil not have so many entries and most important,We will not even complete the documentry

1. Group work and individual contributions to project- include something on preparing for the presentations and what u learned having to teach the classI have learnt many things in this group. One of the things is teamwork. Without teamwork, this presentation will be a success. I should be the role model in the group as I am the group leader. Even though i am the leader, during the preparation, I learnt more things from my teammates. I learnt to co-operate and listening to other’s thinking. Discussing things calmly together, listening to each other and helping each other out is very important for work to be done. If we do not co-operate, things will not be done smoothly. Although there were many commotions, we still manage to solve them. We should do our part as every member makes up the team. Lastly, we have to treat the project seriously as it will affects the whole class. By teaching the wrong thing, it wll not only affect us, but the whole class. We have to be patient and explain things slowly to the class.

2. Problems encountered and attempts to solve these: what have you learned from this?
We encountered many problems during the preparation. One of them is that there were not much co-operation in this group. Everyone of us weren’t close from the start, so things did not go as smoothly as thought. There were many commotions, argues and disagreement. We managed to calm each other and talked things nicely. We learnt to understand and accept what each and everyone is thinking. By doing these, it actually helps us to move on as a group, with more ideas. Another problem we encountered is that our time slots clashes. We always cannot find the time slot where everyone can stay back as a group for extra work. There were always problems for staying back and completing in time. We always had to do the last-minute work. This not only make us in rush, but the quality of the work wouldn’t be as good as the one that we can produced.

3. Research skills,history skills like analysing sources, inferring, mindmapping, organising, questioning sources etc, multiliteracies skills ( english) such as planning movie, shooting, scripting, storyboarding
Shooting was the skill i have just picked up. I was given chances to do the different kind of shooting, such as filming and taking pictures of different angles. We have to be sure of what is the focus when taking the shots. We must know when we should zoom and when we shouldn’t. We cannot zoom without a purpose. We have to plan the storyboards and the angles before every shot so as to make sure that the final work produced will not be too boring. In this project, I have improved on inferring picture source. We need to focus on the main point and organise the points clearly.

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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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.

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

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.

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.

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