HoDong Choi

Ho Dong Choi
ESL Listening & conversation 2
December 18, 2009

First Semester

During first semester, I experienced 3 things at the ESL listening & conversation class. First of all, I made power point presentation slides and presented about the topic “Sleep early for the good condition at the test vs Stay late to study more”. For example, I made the power point slides. Making the slides, I tried all of the animations and effect to know which are funnier and more interesting. I also took resources, such as slide designs and pictures, from the website of Microsoft. After I got the slide designs and pictures, I put them into the power point slides. I thought many times about designs, animations, also contents, so I had been confident of my presentation. However, when I went to front of student, I got nervous too much and became stiff. I was even hard to smile. In my opinion, I should have a lot of practice to be accustomed to present. Second, I made a video about World greatest. For example, I took many pictures of many themes, such as nature, piece, love, and friendship. Additionally we, especially Mimi, Alex, and I, went to many places in hays to film many good scenes. After we got many videos and pictures, we started using movie maker to complete our World greatest videos. At the first, we were not good at using the program, so we made many mistakes. However, we made a surprising video as we practiced several times. The video made many Americans surprised. I thought that making effort never betray me. Also, I thought that we couldn’t be successful without our cooperation because it was necessary to get many ideas, pictures, and films for our project. Third of all, we made own t-shirts. For example, we searched the silk screen painting and went to the company to get specific information of it. Following the steps, we bought frames at the Wal-mart and stapled the silk on it because it was the cheapest way. If we bought silk screen frame which is made in the factory, we must have paid a lot of money. It was really hard to staple them on it. I got hurt many times. At the same time, we drew our faces on the transparency because we would put emulsion under the transparency drawn our faces to make a form of our faces. Finding the good time for burning the emulsion was also hard. After we did the all procedures, we put inks on the frames and test it with gray t-shirts given by Mr. because it was dangerous to print it at the first time. When I was done with the first T-shirts I was very satisfied and happy. I showed it to everybody and wore it often. As we were done with first T-shirts project, we started making second ones using the other way. The difference from first one was that we used “Adobe photoshop” to make stamp styled pictures. For the stamp styled pictures we asked to several teachers and student like Marry, Father Fred, and Steve first because they will get angry with us if we use their pictures without their agree. Working with the program, I used many kinds of colors, especially pink and purple. I thought that I was good at this work because I could find good matched colors well. I also felt good. Everybody asked me how I could make it and how much I used. In my conclusion, this t-shirts project lets me confident and satisfied.