我最喜歡的神話故事

我最喜歡的神話故事是“生肖的來源”。那在英文里就是“The Chinese Zodiac”。


十二生肖是這樣來的：有一天，玉皇大帝生日了。他要他的十二個動物比賽來慶祝生日。這個比賽就代表年數。十二個動物都要在湖邊比賽，誰游得最快，誰就贏了。原來，最快的是老鼠啊！那是因為牠跟貓騎在牛的背上。但是，還沒到終點的時候，老鼠把貓推到湖里了！第二名是牛。後來，一只疲乏的老虎到終點了。牠是第三名。第四名是兔子，那是因為一條好心的龍在吹著牠 游泳。龍就是第五名。第六名應該是馬，但是蛇嚇跑了牠。所以第六名是蛇，第七名才是馬。第八名是羊，第九名是猴子，第十名是雞。牠們三個乘了一個木筏。第十一名是狗！很奇怪吧！那是因為牠去洗澡了。最後呢，是豬。牠很慢因為牠去睡覺了。比賽就比完了！


我很喜愛這個神話故事因為我很喜歡動物。我也喜歡這個故事因為它很有意義，人屬什麼動物，他的個性就像那個動物。


我覺得這個“生肖的來源”的神話故事很有趣。我相信這個神話故事因為故事講得很生動。我想這個神話故事是世界上的最好的神話故事！

ICT Comics!

We, as a class, have been looking at comics and creating them on ComicLife, a software for creating comics. We learnt various types of comics for different types of audiences. We have been doing a project, to create our own comics in pairs. Below, you will see the comics me and Lois (as a pair) have created. It took us a lot of work... 

我最喜歡的名人

我最喜歡的名人是 Taylor Swift. 


她是一個唱歌家。她現在二十一歲。她的生日是 一九八九年十二月十三日。她有金色的頭髮，天藍色的眼睛。她生在賓夕法尼亞州，她是美國人。


我喜歡她因為我覺得她很好看, 她有甜美的聲音，還很會在舞台上表演。她唱歌很有力量，也很有感情。我最喜歡她寫的歌是 Love Story，You Belong with Me，The Way I Loved You，Fearless，Should've Said No，Mine，等等。她的歌全部都講的是愛情。


在泰勒是歌唱家之前，她是詩人。 她贏取了國家詩歌比賽，當時她只是9歲。Taylor Swift 說 “你如果你寫詩歌，你就會把它們便成歌。”


我覺得Taylor Swift 真是一個很有天才的人！

Internet Networks

We learned about the networks from Mr. Parker in IL, and also by the video the year 9 students had created in ICT.

Here's what you need to know about internet networks:

In the school there are many different networks which the internet connects them. What you send to your friends on Facebook can be put into packets. The packets take any route to get to the IP. This structure is called network of networks.

To learn more: visit the ICHK website and see the year 9s youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZB6rjeiUg

Comics

We (year 7) started a new unit in ICT about comics. This is an example of a comic. Below are some descriptions of this comic strip.

• Title: Garfield
• Audience: for young kids, boys and girls. 
• Feature: Fiction and entertaining. 
• Genre: a comedy strip. Its pictures are interesting and colourful. Its story is in speeches. It's written in capitals.                                 

Here is the link:

http://www.google.com/imgresi...

Mahima was chosen to make a mind map about comics - features, titles, audience, genre and so on. So here is the mind map this lovely year 7.3 student had created.

How to put Podcasts on Google Reader

This is how to put podcasts onto google reader.

1. First of all, find a podcast with a RSS feed.
2. Copy RSS feed i.e right click on "RSS subscribe" and then click “copy link”.
3. Go to your Google Reader account.
4. Press "add a subscription".
5. Paste the link.
6. Press "add".
7. One more thing, enjoy the podcast!

This way it would be a lot easier and quicker to listen to podcasts. Good Luck!

Project Summary

I have done a lot of work during this unit. Now I want to share the things I learned.

This is how you put Wordle into blogger. You save the Wordle picture with any name. Then there will be a paragraph of codes below your picture. You copy the codes on your blog with "insert gadget" function. Then your Wordle picture will appear in your blog as a small picture. But if you click it, it will lead you to your original picture. I saw a lot of people's Wordle, if you click their's, it won't lead you to their original picture. I think they didn't use my way to do it.

I also leant how to put Delicious into blogger. You first bookmark delicious. Then you use RSS to put it into blogger. You attach a gadget and click the RSS feed. Then Delicious will appear on you blog. But it will only show five bookmarks. If you add more than five, then it won't show on your blog.

I learned how to add labels. You click "design" and "add a gadget". You click the "label" gadget. You can also make it like clouds by clicking "label clouds". When you have done it,it will appear on your sidebar. You can add labels to your posts and it will appear on your sidebar. That's all. Pretty simple right?

I learned how to add fish on blogger. It's like a design (not real fish). You go to "design" and "add a gadget". You click the gadget "fish". You can change your fish colour too. OK that's it.

Now, just one more thing I want to share. I learned how to insert Library Thing onto blogger. Mr. Parker helped me a little. After you added your books on Library Thing, there's a paragraph of codes. You copy and paste the codes as a new file. Save the paragraph. Then go to "design" and "add a gadget". Click "HTML Java Script" and insert the codes. Save and publish the post. Go to view blog. Then you will see Library Thing has appeared on your blog.

I hope the things I told you are useful. That is the end of my project summary. Good luck with your blog!