Final WEI

Writing IVa: Portfolio
0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, and Words

Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Totals
Book reviews	0	1	4	4	3	1	13
Blog posts	0	2	14	11	9	6	42
Words	0	555	2256	3092	2097	854	8854
TOTAL	---	---	---	---	---	---	---

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1.0. Movie Reviews

1.1. Showcase [+ links]	Dates on blog (yy.mm.dd)	¶	W	Notes
Toy Story	07.10.08	1	435	For kids
Kill Bill	07.10.23	1	430	Violence, aggresive
Romeo and Juliet	07.11.06	1	407	Romance, fantasic
Mrs Doubtfire	07.11.17	1	487	Comedy, heartful
School of Rock	07.12.04	1	343	Impressed, Rock music
Lilo & Stich	07.12.18	1	339	Not so bad.
Totals	---	6	2441	---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs three or more sentences in length

W: number of words

1.2. Best Movie Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those movie reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• My best movie review was Mrs. Doubtfire because this movie gave me a statue of a heartful family. I love the father and his behavior for his family. His eccentric actions always made me laugh. I chose this movie review because I like such movie.
  

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2.0. Comments

Total number of comments (use dashboard)
Months	08	09	10	11	12	01	Total
	0	0	0	5	2	1	8

Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts (yy.mm.dd)	Qualities of comments*[*]
Any one of your movie reviews	Lilo & Stich	08.01.30	Good, simple
When did you respond to those comments?	---	08.01.30	---
How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	So Simple
Any of your other posts*	The spiciest war in 2007	2007/11/09	Funny
When did you respond to those comments?	---	2007/11/14	---
How did you respond to those comments?	---	---	On the Internet

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post.

Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where or why not?

• ...No, it does not. --I wanted to do it, but I did not understand how to set it up!

Additional reflections on comments

• I think it is a good idea, but I don't have time enough to write a comment and respond comments.
  

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3.0. Book Reviews

	Short titles with links	Dates (yy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
2-01	The Prisoner of Zenda	07.10.01	216
2-02	The Phantom of the Opera	07.10.09	161
2-03	The Canterbury Tales	07.10.16	244
2-04	Tales from the ARABIAN NIGHTS	07.10.23	439
2-05	Stories from Shakespeare	07.10.30	289
2-06	The Adventure of Hack Finn	07.11.06	167	1
2-07	The Wind in the Willows	07.11.12	417
2-08	KIDNAPPED	07.11.20	238
2-09	APOLLO 13	07.11.27	153
2-10	Alice's Adventure in Wonderland	07.12.04	184
2-11	The Room in the Tower	07.12.11	361
2-12	Forrest Gump	07.12.17	165
2-13	Dragonheart	08.01.08	157
2-14
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18
---	---	TOTALS:	3191	1

Note: Please calculate book review words and comments totals without the example (above).

4.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Please remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• “The Phantom of the Opera”: I love it because I like a story based on it. After reading the book, I wanted to know the original piece's story. Therefore I chose this book review.
  

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5.0. Additional reflections on your blog writing

• ... I thought that it made me troublesome at the first time, but as I typed blog spots one after another, I was used to write my blog. When I had a good idea for a post, I felt happy to write the post. This spot was made as a part of class, but I think it is educational program for us now. When I have an idea, I will write a post again. See you!

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6.0. Suggestions for your peers and successors

• ...I have a problem on this class, which is to read 3 books every week. It is very effective to improve our reading skill and how to write well, but it sometimes takes some time to finish reading them all, so we don't often have time to do other assignments. So, please reduce the number of books which have to read every week, at least 1 or 2.

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About Skype

I write about a technology of Internet. It is 'Skype'. I think that it is a kind of telephone system which used Internet. My friend told me that and I bought headphones with a mike, but I have never used it to talk to him. I made a call to the test station in England where I can listen to what I said as a test. I found that it was useful because it did not cost any money except electric bill, but it is unuseful because there is no guarantee of talking to the person at any time.
However, I was surprised the member of Skype. The system is used by all over the world, so many foreigners also use it. User can use the search system to find a tele-pal on the Skype, but I think it is not safe but a little dangerous.

Amazing Technologies

PC and Internet environment get better and better soon these days.
Now, new technologies are coming.
For example, this animation will show you a new kind of TV game. The producer will be a pioneer on this field.
Next animation is about sound system called 'Holophonics'. Before listening to it, I recommend you headphones. You will listen to the sound from all angles. I was really surprised when I had listened to it. My video bar on my top page is also about that. You can also access the pages through these.
Moreover, I want to show you this animation. At first, it shows you a cute character called 'Hatsune Miku', which is a software and a Vocaloid. Vocaloid is, in short, a kind of vocal and the voices are made from a voice actor. User can use this in their original music to attach a vocal as you like. This animation is my favorite one. There are lots of music with this system on the Internet.

From now, other amazing system and things come up on our life. However, I want to write this to you. DO USE THEM, DON'T BE USED BY THEM!

A problem-solving game

My father bought a problem-solving game. My father is interested in such a brain game. The title is "Professor Layton and the Demon box". The game is the second part game. I played the game and I thought that some question was hard for me and I sometimes took mistakes. There are over 150 questions and they are so profound. Moreover, other interesting thing is voice actors, for example Yo Oizumi, Maki Horikita, and so on. We can get more new questions with Wi-Fi connection every week. If we cannot understand the answer of the question, it may be a good way to visit a web site like this. Many players will help us with hints.

Such game will be popular among elder people and young people.

Coming of Age ceremony

Yesterday, I joined Coming of Age ceremony held at Ukara-Kan which was one of the famous hot spring facility. I was very surprised that I could not understand almost all adult women.
They got dressed up beautifully, so I could not identify who she was even if she was one of my classmate in my childhood. There were some junior high school teacher and I went there to say hello. After that, I went to a simple tea ceremony near the building with my friends.
Unfortunatelly, I had things to do that day, so I said good-bye to them and went to Yamaga and Nagashu to meet my relations. They were so pleased to meet me and I was also happy.

Book review 2-13

I read ‘Dragon heart’. This novel is Science Fiction and adventure.
In 10 century in England, young prince Einon was dying, but the Great Dragon helped him by half of his heart. Thanks to that, He became the king after his father, but he got cruel than his father. Everybody in the country was afraid of him. Then, Bowen who is a director of Einon thought that the problem brought by his heart which was the half of the Great Dragon’s. Therefore, he decided to hunt him. After the hard battle, Bowen and the Dragon faced the final battle. Finally, the dragon was dead and he became a new star in the sky.
I think that the main interesting scene is the relationship between the Dragon and Bowen. At first, they are enemy each other, however, the relationship got friendly and friendly in the end of this story. The process of the change was interesting for me.

A Happy New Year!

What did you do in the time of the countdown for 2008?

I watched TV in the living room over using computer. Thanks to the setting of ADSL, I can use the Internet very fast. After 2008 coming, I went to bed because I was very sleepy. It might be a waste, but I did not have anything special during the time. However, I sent many e-mails to my friends. I was very tired and was surprised to find my cell phone full by e-mails from them, but I felt very happy. May you have a happy new year!