Friday, April 17, 2009

Reflect on the ENGL 396 CALL class

This semester I have learnt some basic skills of using dream waver and movie maker. The last project, my favorite place slide show is my favorite. Because it's much more complex than the other ones. It concludes both visual project and sound. Also I need to match them at the best second. Moreover, this kind of media tool is really useful for me because I am looking forward to make something interesting via movie maker.
This semester, in English 396 CALL class I started my account on face book and blogger. They gave me a lot of happiness~ I love the feelings that reading comments written by friends. I also like to give some comments to others.
One day, in the library I saw a book by accident. The book teaches people how to use dream waver. I was surprised that dream waver has so many inner useful aspects that I had never known about. I think what I have learnt from this class is far less than I really need to know about in the future. As a result, I decide to make some project by myself, just do something interesting.

For the final project, my partner Jim and I will make a project which topic is transportation. We will introduce the evolution of transportation as a history progress. It will be an interesting journey to learn and pay attention to transportation.
I am going to make a project about diary after this semester. An electronic diary book, better than the one in the movie Princess Diary. That's a plan by now. I will accomplish it in summer. Good luck, Doris!

Transportation~~

My partner and I chose transportation as our topic. As we know, transportation concludes many branches which evolute year by year. It is not a difficult topic, however, it is not easy to chose a perfect way to name them by categories. For example, we thought of time lines, electronic lines, evolution lines, and distance lines.
Finally, after discussing, we decided to make them to different categories, on the land, in the water, and in the sky. So the problem is solved. The next step was much easier and the progress goes quickly.
It is my first time to make a project like this. There may be some other problems in the following days, but I am prepared to face to difficulties. Just do it!

Monday, April 6, 2009

My Favorite Place--Metropolitan Museum of Art


My favorite place is Metropolitan Museum of Art. It is located to the east of the Central Park in New York City. The museum is the best one I have ever visited in my life. It was so marvelous and graceful, like a princess who is going to become a queen. My tour to the museum was on January 2, 2009. My friends and I spent all day in the building and enjoyed it all the time. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s biggest galleries.

The art works are displayed all around. When stand in the hall, I feel I am covered by art, from the roof to the floor, from my head to my toes.
Some of the departments are dark because the museum tries to build the most likely atmosphere. For example, the time I went there was in winter, and there was a huge Christmas tree on the first floor. I remember that the lights on the tree were not the same with simple Christmas trees. They were bow shaped. I really enjoyed staying under the tree.
I like this museum because it has many my favorite painter, Monet’s works, include Water Lilies, The Path, and so on. With great passion, I visited the greatest artists’ works and was shocked by the marvelous paints.
Great art works have magic to attract people. I remember that day when I saw this painting, I couldn’t help to stop there and I lost myself in the painting. That was amazing experience.
I almost lost myself in the modern art display hall. I have to say that I don’t really understand all the works and the deep meaning of the projects. How extraordinary, I had that chance to spend my whole day with the greatest art works in the museum. That is a place I will never forget! Whenever I think of that place, my heart flies to enjoy the atmosphere again.