Pukman @ WinK: the community that time didn't forget

Do you like Swamp Works?

1. Did you do your blog check? (You cannot pass the course without doing this.)
2. Have you written at least 10 book reports?
3. Do you have at least 30 posts on your blog?
4. Isyour blog sidebar properly organized with blog links, Kumamoto links, other links, and labels?
   

1. Are there any gaps of 2 weeks or more in your blog? (For example, you missed one class and didn't write anything between classes.) This is a big negative.
2. Are there more than 2-3 weeks where you didn't write anything on your blog between classes? Also a big negative.
3. Are there many posts which were machine-translated? These will not be counted. (It's OK to use the computer translators to help you with a word or short phrases, but not a whole sentence.)
   

If you answered Yes to the 1st four, and No to the 2nd three, you're probably doing OK.

One more question: Have you done your presentation and posted it on your blog? If not, make sure that you learn how to do it today, and finish the presentation and post it before the end of the holiday.

Book Reviews: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Check out this page! It has all the presentations tagged with "kumamoto". Most are by KGU students. I'm looking forward to seeing presentations by PUK students!

And don't forget to see the list!

Many people now use cellphones to take photos and then transfer the photos to their blogs. Probably the best way to do this is to become a member of flickr and upload your photos there. You can then import your photos from flickr, or even blog from flickr.

To become a flickr member you first have to join Yahoo.com (the American service, not Japanese). Some people don't want to do this, and for them there are several alternative ways.

One way is to send your photos from your phone by email to your Gmail account, for example. Then, when you are at a computer, you can open the mail and download the photo to your computer, and then upload the photo to your blog.

The pictures show you two SD/miniSD adapters. Most modern cellphones have a miniSD card slot, on which people keep their photos. Take the card out of the phone and insert it into the adapter, then insert the adapter into a USB port on your computer (on the computer itself, not the keyboard). The card will appear on your desktop, and you can copy photos onto the computer, and then upload in the normal way.

I've just found a very interesting list of unusual blogs that are worth reading. Why not read one or two of them and tell everyone about them?

Check out some of the presentations about Kumamoto that students have made:

• Yuhimi team
• Kaori
• Yuri
• Safu
• Narumi
• Kazu
• Shiorin
• Iyoume
• Nanae

What food blogs do you like? My favourite is Cooking with Amy. You can search for recipes there. I like this recipe for pancakes.
Please recommend food sites that you like!

Are you interested in Indian food? Check out this site!

Check out this presentation! And then visit Slideshare.net to see more presentations about Kumamoto, and many other topics.

If you found last week's podcasts rather difficult, try this one. They speak very slowly and they have a transcript too.

If you're interested in food, look for dining in the tag search section.

Today I read The Spider and the Beehive, a book in the Scholastic Folk & Fairytale Easy Readers series. A boy was well known in the forest as being very skilled at finding the best fruit. So one day a spider asked the boy to guide him to a place with the best plums. The boy guided him there but the spider ate all the plums without sharing any. The same happened when the boy took him to the banana tree. But when they went to a beehive, the spider ate so much honey that he was stuck inside the hive, and the boy refused to help him get out. Eventually the spider got out but from that day he was kind to everyone.

In this presentation I talk about 3 nice spots in Kumamoto, Japan: Mitsui Greenland, Kumamoto Castle, and Aso.

Kumamoto Castle is Known as one of the "Big 5" castles of Japan. It was built in ===== by Kato Kiyamasa.

Aso is famous as the biggest caldera in the world. It has an active volcano.

Mitsui Greenland is an amusement park in Arao.

Extra information about Mitsui Greenland here.

Today, let's learn how to upload our presentations. You should master how to do this during the lesson, even if you haven't finished your presentation. Then you can finish it off for homework and upload the new one. You need to do this before next week's lesson!

I hope that your blog, with book reviews, some short essays, a collaborative essay about Kumamoto, a presentation, Kumamoto links, links to other blogs, and of course some diary-type posts, is becoming something that you can be proud of. You should show it to prospective employers, or overseas schools, etc.

Total words this semester: 6120

How many total posts? 54

How many posts
in September: 10
in October: 17
in November: 23
in December: 4
in January:

(use labels for the following)
How many posts
about books: 8
with links: 12
with pictures/photos: 8

How many complex posts? (at least 3 links and 1 photo):

Sidebar: Do you have:
a labels section: YES
a Kumamoto links section: YES
other blogs: YES
(including at least 2 blogs from other classes in the WinK community: YES )

Comments (look in your dashboard):
How many comments are there on your blog? 2

Assignments/Book reviews:

How many book reviews have you written?
Have you done these assignments?:

1. assignment 1: review (at least 3 paragraphs of at least 3 sentences):
2. assignment 2: blog post about Kumamoto
3. assignment 3: collaborative essay about Kumamoto
4. assignment 5: presentation about Kumamoto
5. assignment 6: (collaborative) movie review; or kumamoto-i wiki assignment

Other questions:

1. What is the longest gap between posts on your blog?
   

Fairy tales: http://feeds.feedburner.jp/classic

Science show: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/default.htm

Here's another example of a presentation embedded in this blog through Slideshare. How to do this:

1. Join Slideshare
2. Convert your Keynote presentation to PowerPoint.
3. Upload the PowerPoint presentation to Slideshare.
4. Go to your presentation in Slideshare. Look for the embed field on the right side of your presentation. Copy ALL the text in that field.
5. Make sure the compose (sakusei) window is open in Blogger. Paste the text into a post.

Here is an example of a presentation embedded in a blog by using Slideshare.

Today I read The Nightingale, in the Scholastic Folk & Fairy Tale Easy Readers series. (I can't find this edition of the book on Amazon Japan, but here is another edition.) A king in China heard about a famous nightingale and invited it to stay in his palace and sing to him everyday. The nightingale sang beautifully, but one day the king received a present of a mechanical nightingale from a king in Japan, and gradually lost interest in the real nightingale. So he flew away.

What will the king think? Will the nightingale ever come back? Find out on the 3rd floor of the PUK library!