Describe your blog and your blogging experiences

My blog’s name is “my cool cat”. I choose this name because of my favorite pet is cat. His name is Dwu Dwu. He is a very naughty and smart cat so that I want to share my cat for many of you. Let you know why I use “my cool cat” to do my blog’s name. In my blog, I choose black background and use bright color words. I want my blog look like star in the night are very shine. On my blog’s sidebar, most of us can link our group members’ weblog, and then we put online dictionaries that can help someone who wants to use online dictionaries and have no idea about how to choose good online dictionaries, so our links can help them to choose good online dictionaries easier. Then, we also put online ESL/EFL resources on the sidebar. ESL/EFL resources mean English as Second Language/English as a Foreign Language that can help someone who wants to learn English and do not know how to learn English by self. Some of our group members put a monthly calendar and use music which is their favorite song to do background music. At the first class, teacher told us that we should to do our own weblog in this semester. I was so happy to hear this information because I wanted to try to do my weblog.
Did these activities help me learn English? Of cause. In this semester, I learn a lot of skills about how to search good websites and how to set up links on my sidebar. It was my first time to use English blog. There were lots of things need to learn again, but I still had a lot of fun in this weblog. And then, I can use websites to train up my English ability. For me, weblog is a good space to share some information to others, especially other English learners. We can use weblog to share some good news, how to learn English skills, how to search good websites and any different kind of information what you want. In the other words, weblog is convenient and useful.
The weblog’s features attracted me is sidebar. Why I choose sidebar? Every time, I flip through websites, I admire them. How do they do? I want to learn, but nobody can teach me. All of my friends are not good users of computer so that no one can help me. In this class, I learned how to links on sidebar, even though I used a lot of time to learn. Now I can put any websites what I want. On my blog, I search good websites on sidebar and links that can help me to search which article I want quickly and easier to find. It can help me to retrench time. I don’t need to read all articles and read all articles slowly.
What were my difficulties? At the beginning, I thought it is easier to do weblog just like post something on Internet. We should not use any syntax on weblog just post on Internet. When I use it and I did not think so. In fact, if we wanted to post some special things that weblog did not have. We should to find its URL, which is some data you want to post, and to set up. For me, this is the first time to use weblog and I’m not a good user of computer so that it’s too difficult to do well. However, when I read my final weblog, I was so excited. Why I felt so excited? In this weblog, teacher told us we had to use English only and post on Internet. For me, I’m use to Chinese to post anything. I seldom use English to post on. When I read my final weblog just only English, I felt it looks so professional so that I so excited.

Describe your chatting experience with your peers

Describe your chatting experience with your peers
At the beginning, teacher told us that we should to chatting in class for 20 to 30 minutes. First of all, most of us thought chat was easier to proceed. In fact, it was not the true. It was too difficult to proceed. Why was so difficult? Most people were use to their first language. In this chatting, we should to use English with our group members.
I thought it was difficult for Chinese students, especially we should use English to proceed this chatting. Even thought we are English learners. A few time later, we didn’t know how to start our English chatting. If we had any idea that can help us easier to do our English chatting, but all of us had no idea. The other reason is we felt a little shy. Why did we feel shy? The chatting had to post on our weblog. It means many different kind of people can read our chatting contents so that we felt uncomfortable. We didn’t know how to start our chatting, and then we asked each other members that choose one topic can help us to start our chatting. Five minutes passed, we also hadn’t any idea. In fact, all of us did not have any idea because we are new classmates. In the other words, we are not familiar with each other. Suddenly, one of our group members, Ruth, started to sing a song, No Bravery, the first lyric is “ I see no bravery, no bravery, in your eyes anymore, only sadness.” But she change the lyric “ I see no battery, no battery, in my phone anymore, only turn off.” We laughed and felt very interesting. Then, Asta also change the lyric “ I see no salary, no salary, in my job anymore, only poorness. Both of their strange lyric were very funny, but members should know that song and what did they talk about, or they will feel confuse. In this chatting, I learned a lot of web-language just like what r u doin? What r u doin b4? O my god…ect. These sentences mean what are you doing? What are you doing before? Oh my god. A lot of interesting web-language I can learn from chatting and use it, but I don’t think it is use for. Why I say it is not use for? In the world, most people have inertia. It means if we use web-language to become habit, we will forget original words. However, it is convenient for us to do chatting, but this phenomenon is not a good thing so that I don’t recommend people to use web-language. Anyway, for me, this chatting experience with my peers was so great that can help us to know each others.

Blog Reflection

In this semester, I learn a lot of skills about how to search good websites and use websites to train up my English ability. Weblog is a good space to share some information to others, especially other English learners. We can use weblog to share some good news, English skils and any information what you want. In the other hand, weblog is convenient and useful.