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

1. Attendance email
2. Free posting and commenting
3. WEI
4. Questionnaires
   

The end of the semester is approaching. As you are preparing, keep these targets in mind:

1. at least 42 posts
2. a sidebar, with LibraryThing, Labels, Archives, and Links
3. some links and some photos in your posts (remember to add labels "links" and "photos")

The final test will be on August 3rd. In the test you will need to create a WEI post. I will show you how to do this next week, but linking is the basic skill, so you should practice doing this before next week's class.

Try V-Flash at lexxica. (Don't forget to register.) This will tell you your vocabulary size. Then move to V-Flash to learn some words. It's best to use V-Flash regularly; it will remember the words that you know and don't know for you.

Please report your score on your blog!

Please also do a science vocabulary post and a science translation post, as you did before.

Free time? Work on your LibraryThing collection. If you click edit on a book without a cover, you may be able to find a cover.

Remember that 10 minutes is often enough for one post. So today I'd like you to write 3 posts, finishing each one within 10 minutes:

1. Last weekend or this coming weekend or something you did this week
2. Some vocabulary from your biology or ecosystems translations
3. A difficult sentence from your biology or ecosystems translations: in Japanese and English.

1. Today, please comment on 3-5 friends' posts in the class.
2. Most of you need to write much more. The minimum number of posts by next week's class (May 18th) is 15; and by May 25th the minimum is 22. Short posts are OK, but you must write them yourself (i.e. don't use computer translation).

Please note 3 useful grammar rules:
1. Be careful of singular nouns. Usually they need "the" or "a/an" or a similar word. So, for example, "Yesterday, I went to see movie" is incorrect.
2. There should always be ONE space (hankaku only) AFTER a period or comma (not before).
3. Don't use RETURN (kaigyou) without a reason, for example a new paragraph. A new sentence is NOT a reason for a RETURN.