September 23, 2013

          It was over already the interesting time with my lovely teacher Usa Noytim. I still wanted to continue learning with her in next course. I had to say thank you for the time that we were together I would say I was very happy every time I attended this class. I gained many things from this course; reading strategy, being on time, speaking practice etc. I am looking forward to studying with her again and I wish her good health, long life, money and be love for students.

September 23, 2013

                Today was the last day of learning critical reading course. I learned about facebook which I know very well because I use it every day to communicate to my friends. And today I submitted all present works and backlogs. I also did the exercise at the end of the lesson;

1. How many users does facebook have? - There are 400 million users.

2. With what websites has Facebook recently begun sharing users’ personal profile information? - Facebook has begun sharing user's personal profile information with Pandora and Yelp.

3. What other changes has Facebook recently made to the website? - Facebook made it so that they could sell information about a user even if that information was thought to be private by the user. Facebook has also begun to be included on other websites.

4. Even if you block information shared from your site, how could your personal information still be made public? - The information could still be shared from a friend's account.

5. Do you think Facebook should automatically share your info, and only refrain from doing so if you know about it and go into your settings to opt out?  Explain your answer - Facebook should not automatically share information because many people do not know that Facebook will share their information and the user should know that information will be shared before it is shared to keep the privacy of the user. Facebook can still make money by displaying targeted advertisements on its own website without having to share the information with other companies or people.

6. This article states “Facebook wants to make money by selling user information.”  Do you think that is their motive for sharing your info, or is it as Facebook stated, to assist users by "promot[ing] social activity" by sharing your info? Explain your answer - Facebook's motivation for sharing information is based on making money. Facebook can sell the personal information of its users to companies which will use it for marketing. All for-profit companies exist only to make money. In addition, if Facebook does intend to “promote social activity”, then they will also make money by enhancing the features of their service and attracting new users.

I felt regret that this course would end but I hope next term I will enjoy with Dr. Usa again in any course due to my fate. I had no problem at all and I was excited too.

September 19. 2013

            Last Thursday, I studied with Dr. Usa Noytim in Critical Reading course. I learned how to read editorials: it was about Micheal about Obama Care insurance. I think this topic was very difficult because I had to realize the vocabulary and the policy of Obama which I never knew before but I understood that this insurance doesn't cover all benefits and the Americans are not pleased with this insurance. After that I learned the light rail cars collide in San Francisco, which was also difficult, 44 got hurt. I had a little problem that some word was hard to understand but I tried to repeat reading twice. I like learning the topic about either in America or Australia. I was happy very much.

September 12, 2013

             Yesterday, I had a critical reading class with Dr. Usa. I continued learning advertisement in hand out. First, the teacher asked the students to write mind mapping about advertisement and then we discussed about the it. I did some exercise and then the teacher gave me the correct answers. I think advertisement lesson was not very difficult because I could understand it but I had some unknown words.  I had no problem and this class yesterday was excellent. I wish every class was like this. We had to finish earlier because the teacher had a meeting.

September 4, 2013

             Last Thursday, I studied with Dr. Usa Noytim in critical reading class. First of all, I started learning about book review. The teacher reviewed the same lesson again and then I learned in new hand out about The first grader review and small advertisement. She gave some examples for me and I did the exercise as well. I didn't have any problem. I was very happy to study with her because she is a good teacher.

August 29, 2013

            Today I had a critical reading class with Dr. Usa. I felt that it was relaxed because the teacher was unstudied with the students. I studied about the review of the books. Then I did some work in class and the teacher gave me new homework. I enjoyed this class very much and I was happy. I had no problem at all.

August 22, 2013

              Yesterday. I studied with Dr. Usa Noytim in critical reading course. I had midterm test and it was very difficult. After the test, I learned the review of The First Grader because the teacher just wanted me really understand the story. Then I got new hand out about the story structure; author's purpose, tone, point of view, and intended audience. I found that it was not easy I had to pay more attention to this class. I was happy and I had no problem at all.