Group Work

I think that doing the group project was a good idea. At first I did not think it was going to be good because I didn't think we would have enough time to do it and I had several tests to worry about this week along with this project, so the extention was a relief.
I think it was good to put us into our groups like this.I think it made us able to function better as a group doing an actual "project" than just doing some in class work. I'm not very happy with the project topic choice. I would have liked to do something a little more interesting than punctuation marks, but it is an English class so I understand that punctuations are fitting. I also don't like how we need to have a strict time limit, as I am very different in front of an audience than practicing by myself.
Other than those two things I don't think that this group work was too bad, and I learned that the dash is a pretty bad ass punctuation mark.

Did You Know Video

I decided to blog about the "Did You Know" video that we had to watch for Wednesday because I found it to be most interesting. I especially found the technology part of it the most interesting because a lot of that information is new and surprising to me. I did not know that the number of text messages sent so far exceeds the population of the planet. I also find it surprising that a $1000 computer will have the computation ability that exceeds the entire human race by 2049. I also find it surprising that it is predicted in ten years that China will be the number one English speaking country in the world.
Over all, I think this video is meant to send a message to our generation and the one below us. Not as a fatal warning, but as a look into what could come in our future and to help us prepare for it. I for one will take all this information into consideration.

Visual Literary Narrative Blog

I decided to do my Visual Literary Narrative on my trip to Germany two summers ago. Two summers ago, I took a trip to Wesel, Germany, with a group of kids from my school and another as an exchange student program. I stayed in Wesel with my German exchange student, Thilo, for about two weeks, then my group and I went on a side trip around Germany to nearly all major cities and locations for about a week and a half. We then returned to our exchange students for around a week and then departed.
I choose to do this project on my trip to Germany because it was one of the best experiences of my life AND there was a lot of communication involved. Before I went to Germany, I took a year of German at school, and I was terrible at speaking, but i could understand a lot of what they were saying to me. So if they ever had a problem trying to say a word to me in english, I could sometimes have them say it to me in German and I could tell them the word they were looking for.
For this project, I would only be able to sum up the trip in a power point presentation. A movie would not be enough unless I wanted to make it three hours long. I would feel better doing a power point for this project because then I could explain a little more in depth for you.