Yesterday, we had 5 tea in dorm A2's study room with Bahar,Belmin and Nil after our Eng 1o1 lecture. In this lecture Yavuz Alp, Meltem and Burak made their presentation. I think their slides was prepared so qualified but they were like bored and fed up from us when they were presenting. The most effective point of their presentation was the end part where they answered questions. Their English was fluent and answers was qualified.
Well, i have just finished my I-Blog paper which i started to write yesterday with Bahar. And this is the last assignment of our course. NS 101,SPS 101, MATH 101,TLL 101, HIST 191 finished and then ENG 101 finished yesterday. I am very emotional now, i must confess. How the time passes so fastly like that? But if the time passing with advantages and fun , it is another emotion. I am missing that times! I will miss our C3 section. C3's atmosphere was different.
I will miss
Onur's an Meltem's fluent english, Bahar's historical contexts and cool notebooks Elif's personal confesses and Macbook Emir's original questions ( Do you have a pet :D:D- it was really funny!!) Can's questions during the lecture with his peaceful voice Burak's jokes ( :D )
Briefly, i will miss everything, everybody! Take care of your self.
(I will select ENG 101 from Sonja Tack, in next term, maybe... C3 will form again? Ha? I beilieve in Miracles!!! ( lyrics from soundtrack of our presentation movie: Full Monty!!)
(I don't have to do creative common to this picture, yeeeaaaaahhh!! :D)
It was fun to fill this paper.
It was like Little Sonja from computer was doing interview with us :)
I am putting it there like Onur Olgaç, because while i was reading his paper, i enjoyed a lot by hearing other people's opinions about blogging.
Section 1:
♥I have never regularly blogged before this course. To tell the truth I had opened tons of account and every time when I opened, decided to write regularly. However I couldn’t keep my promise. I have a character specialty. I am not doing anything without obligation. But when there is obligation I am absolutely doing it. Could I describe? Sometimes this obligation is bringing me entertainment sometimes It is being huge burden for me. Blog assignment was kind of task that bring me entertainment and became part of me. I hope I will give up my specialty and will go on blogging after this assignment too.
♥As I explained blogging idea was not foreign to me. There was always a small idea which was standing on my brain. My first impression was very nice. Websites are my special-care-area so I was happy about the thought of I can use my skills on lecture. When I got involved with my blog I understand that I must write qualified, this isn’t something about being webmaster. I got more interested about blogging because I realized blog is a area where you can show yourself with only your writing. In other words, let the letters dance :)
Section 2:
♥Setting up blog was easy for me because I tried to set up blog in www.blogspot.com before. But I didn’t use gadgets like “Labels, Blog List, etc.”. Buy the help of Sonja, I learnt them.
♥While I was chatting with my friends, family, while I was in listening lectures (ok sometimes not listeningJ) my brain was always working for something that I can write on my blog. I was slowly creating my blog entries. When I opened my PC, I was writing it in 15 minutes. So managing my time was not a big deal.
♥I didn’t have a problems experienced. But my frustration& disappointment was about myself. I was not able to write exactly what I was thinking because of my lack of vocabulary. But I am studying hard for improving it. I am watching soap operas with subtitle and trying to learn new words.
Section 3:
♥I looked it more deeply after reading this question. Ok, my use of language is not effective, I accept. But I think I am suiting to Blog format and writing entries variously and trying to create connections with our lectures. I think it is worthy of a good grade.
♥Of course, I improved my skills. I learnt how to write in daily-life. Another thing is sometimes It was like we are writing online note-book because we were writing about our course materials too. So it improved my skill of note-taking. (This is huge problem for me in SPS 101 lectures.)And it improved my technologic skills by learning more deeply how to set my blog.
♥I didn’t look at it because I remember the criteria from the class lecture clearly and when I read Sonja’s blog it was a guide which explains us how to write.
♥I would change my use of language. I will spend more time on my grammar, and vocabularies which I use at my blog.
Section 4:
♥It was fun to read about other people’s blog. Because if you write something, it includes completely your opinions and I like to hear different kind of opinions and then compare them. In our course there was I think 60 people. At least 30 of them were writing blog actively. It is very important to read 30 different angles to subject. Isn’t that great? But differently reading a teacher blog was profitable for catching hints about course lecture.
♥All of comments were helpful feedback for me. Getting comment about my texts was great!!
Section 5:
♥I would like specific blog assignments because I want to write something and then I want listen other people’s opinion. So when there are specific blog assignments, everybody is writing on the same subject. But sometimes, writing with freedom is nice too. But I prefer specific assignment to freedom. In other word we must write about specific blog assignments but we allowed writing with freedom sometimes, like in the semester. It is useful system.
♥There is no opinion about it on my mind, sorry. I think everything was suitable. Especially Sonja’s comments on my posts gave me courage.
♥I am highly recommending it. Writing about one subject by including our opinions not only good for improving English skills it is also improving intellectuality clearly.
We are slowly slowly coming to the end of our term. And when i look at back, search for ENG 101 lessons in my memories. I clearly and totally can remember certain lessons.
First is Christmas Party. Sonja made us delicious brownies , we had small competition and then chatted with peaceful music.(I'd love to change the world)
Other lesson is Pub Quiz. Actually as a member of "White Butterflies" i am sorry about our simple mistakes but it was fun to had that competition.
And watching Tough Guise in the class with a serious audience, made it more special for me.
Sonja showed us some caricatures about reality tv. The most effective one was that:
I must confess something. Although we started to send ourselves mails like: "OH MY GOD! FINAL PRESENTATION IS COMING" before10 days, we couldn't find time for meeting in no way.
But finally we divided duties and started to study. Tuesday night , we edited slides. Although i was sure that i prepared my part properly, i was nervous because we couldn't meet before presentation and we couldn't practise.
One thing was disturbing me. We really study seriously for practise-presentation. However we couldn't be that much serious about our final. Isn't that ironic?
After all, Wednesday came. Before us, there were presentation of the movie: The Truman Show. I think they were good and they made me calm. I realised doing presentation after one group is easier. Stress degree is decreasing.
And when we started to presentation. I couldn't beilieve my eyes. Our presentation was better than our practise-presentation i think. We were more relax and knowledges and slides were fluently.
I think preparing to practise-presentation was not a wasting of time. We got skills from this experience and used it automaticaly on our final-presentation.
If there is need to describe my self-evaluation. I was less excited while i was talking and i had fun while i am presenting.
I hope the audience enjoyed from our presentation too.
Yesterday, we had 5 tea in dorm A2's study room with Bahar,Belmin and Nil after our Eng 1o1 lecture. In this lecture Yavuz Alp, Meltem and Burak made their presentation. I think their slides was prepared so qualified but they were like bored and fed up from us when they were presenting. The most effective point of their presentation was the end part where they answered questions. Their English was fluent and answers was qualified.
