9. A list of what i learnt from ENG 101 with Sonja,

Before i start, i want to say something.

ENG 101 is my favorite lesson at this semester.

I really like English, but unfortunately ,thanks (!) to our education system, in my school, English was not an important lesson because there is no english question in Ö.S.S.- university entrance exam.
So i am very happy. And this English lessons are not based on memorizing something.
It is also about daily life. It is improved my cultural knowledge.

And it is indusputable that, i can feel strongly that Sonja is caring about ENG 101. When i feel that, my motivation reaching the peak.

So here is my list:

1)I get used to read long stories which lasted 10-20 pages.
2)I learnt literary terms like anti-hero,omniscient narration,dynamic character etc.
3)I get used to read serious articles about society's issues, in English.
(and i thought more deeply on photojournalism and reality shows)
4)I learnt "citation" and how to write academic articles in APA format.
5)I learnt how i must plan my article before writing it.
6)I learnt how to BLOG properly and continiously.( it is important step for me because it was one of my ambitions , and thanks to this blog i created my personal blog in Turkish. I realised it is a habit. And i gained it with my ENG 101 blog.)
7)I learnt how to use Creative Commons and learned a new adress for finding photos: Flickr.
8)I learnt how to find academic articles with Google Scholar. And how to find them in Sabanci's information center.

So thank you Sonja. I am lucky because i am in class C3 ^^

8. About image labelling =))

Figure 1. A joke picture about google (n.d.). Note: Copyright dullhunk. (made available under a Creative Commons License)

Firstly, i must confess something. Although this is my mid-term week, I can't stop playing this label game. That is both fun and profitable for improving vocabulary and intellectual knowledge. So thank you Sonja, for sharing it with us.

While Sonja was describing this game to us. I remembered one of my memories.

While i was visiting M.I.T at Boston 4 years ago, there were some students at the corner, doing something. While we were speaking Turkish, one of this students look at us and started to talk with us Turkish. He was also Turkish student at M.I.T and doing this project for gaining extra-credit.

Their project was this, and they were doing it with Google;

You are taking a picture and sending to Google. For example while you were walking around Sabancı University at first time and wondered about tower of our campus. You are sending it's picture to Google. They are describing

what is it?,
for what we are using it? ,
when did it build? etc.

And this students was the people who were writing this answers! In other words, they were labelling ^^

So this is another profitable kind of google image labelling! ^^

dullhunk (Photographer). (n.d.) [Google Classic], [Online
Image]. Retrieved November 11, 2009, from author’s Flickr page.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/14829735@N00/3389581452/

7. A new angle to reality TV, from Slumdog Millionaire movie.

While i was preparing our radio programme* i realized there is some conversation about reality TV(who wants to be a millionaire?) between Jamal and Latika in this movie.

Jamal: Why everybody watching that kind of programmes?
Latika: That is because it is some kind of escape. To a new world.

And another point is that:

In following parts, Jamal is joining to programme "Who wants to be a millionaire?". Actually he is not joining for a new life. He is joining because , Latika is watching that programme. And can find him from this, because he lost Latika.

While he was racing at this programme, he is doing so well and the directors of this programme is really being anxious(he is going to get the money!!!). And the announcer , trying to cheat. In one question, Jamal feeling confusion between two answer. The true answer is D. But announcer saying it is B in the advertisement-break. So that is another fact about reality-TV's. Their aim is not to make ordinary-people rich or famous. They are just puppets for them.

*We have a programme(called "İzlenen Nağmeler") at radyoSU on every Thursdays 21.00! We are selecting one movie and talking about it , commenting it deeply, and playing it's soundtrack with Eyüp Müslüm. I would be really happy if you want to listen. We are going to mention the movie: Slumdog Millionaire at this week.

(Dear Sonja, sorry for advertisement, because that is not directly connected with our blog's syllabus =))