A HAPPY NEW YEAR

A Happy New Year.
This year is 2009. It was very early last year. I'd like to exert myself strenuously this year.

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PORTFOLIO FOR WRITING IV

Portfolio for Writing IV,
Section 1a OR 1c

[Please delete the unsuitable class section and "OR" (above), along with this line of remarks.]

(See: Note 1, below)

0.0. Overview

Reviews, Posts, Words, and More

(See: Note 2, below.)

[Please embed your proto-portfolios here; then remove this line of remarks, including the square brackets.]

1.0. Essays

(See: Note 3, below.)

Please complete this table with data gathered from essays on your blog. See the Key (below) for definitions of the symbols in row one, and complete columns four through nine with numerical values (0, 1, 2, 3, ...).

1.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates yy.mm.dd	¶	W	C	L	P	M
Website review 08.09.29 (375+ words)
Favorite place(-s) 08.10.20 (450+ words)
Mrs. Doubtfire 08.11.04 (500+ words)
Community life 08.11.17 (default length*)
Kumamoto's best-kept secrets 08.12.01 (5+ ¶¶)		08.12.03		131			3
Learning with computers 2008.12.15 (6+ ¶¶)
Totals	---	---

Key:

¶: number of paragraphs five (5) or more sentences in length

W: number of words

C: number of comments

L: number of links

P: number of photos or other graphics
M: number of other media included in post
*: "long enough to cover the ... [communities] you choose," Writing Studio Blog, Preparation for Next Essays, 2008.10.29)

1.2. Best Essay

Selection and Assessment: Which of those six assigned essays do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets, then identify your best essay, and write out your reasons for selecting it here.]
  

2.0. Comments

Showcase	Titles of posts with links	Dates of comments yy.mm.dd	Numbers of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.1. Your first comment on your instructor's blog*
2.2. Your best comment on a classmate's blog*
2.3. Best comment by a classmate on your blog*
2.4. Most comments on:	Titles of posts with link	Dates of posts yy.mm.dd	Total number of words in comments	Qualities of comments**
2.4.1. Any one of your essays*
2.4.1.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.1.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---
2.4.2. Any of your other posts*
2.4.2.1. When did you respond to those comments?	---		---	---
2.4.2.2. How did you respond to those comments?	---	---

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* Current semester comments on essays and other posts
** Please list the most important qualities of comments on each type of blog post. That is, explain briefly what makes them good comments.

2.5. Recent comments display

Does your blog display recent comments from blog visitors in a prominent location, for example, in a sidebar, header, or footer widget? Where, or why not? Please explain.

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2.6. Additional reflections on comments

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then write out your reflections on both giving and receiving comments here.]
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3.0. Book Reviews

3.1. Showcase	Short titles with links	Dates (yy.mm.dd)	Words	Comments
Example:	Vampire Killer	07.05.16	39	1
2-01	Flood!	08.12.07
2-02	The Rainbow Machine	08.12.07
2-03
2-04
2-05
2-06
2-07
2-08
2-09
2-10
2-11
2-12
2-13
2-14
2-15
2-16
2-17
2-18
---	---	Totals:

Note: Please calculate and list book review Totals for words and comments without including those from the example (above).

3.2. Best Book Review

Selection and Assessment: Which of those book reviews do you feel is the best that you've written this semester, and why? Remember that a complete answer is better than a short answer, focus on your writing, and give at least two reasons to support your assessment.

• [Please remove these remarks, including the square brackets; then identify your best book review, and write out reasons for selecting it here.]

4.0. Blog Layout, Labeling, Linking, & Media

Showcase	Yes	No
4.1. Does your blog display an archive?	√
4.1.1. Does the archive display the titles of posts?	√
4.1.2. Is the archive organized by month?		√
4.1.3. Is the archive at or near the top of the sidebar?		√
4.2. Does your blog have labels displayed in sidebar?	√
5.2.1. Do your labels include these required labels (typed accurately):	---	---
"books" (plural) AND "reviews" (plural)	√
"essays" (plural) AND "portfolios" (plural, without "proto-")	√
"quickposts" (plural, with no space between quick and posts)	√
"links" (plural) AND "media" (plural)		√
"movies" (plural) AND "websites" (plural)		√
"brainstorms" (or "brainstorming"), "essay prep.," AND "free-writing" (or "free-writes")	√
4.2.2. Does your sidebar display other labels?	√
How many other labels have you attached to three (3) or more posts? ___ other labels attached to three or more posts	---	---
Which labels, and to how many posts each? Please list those labels instead of www, xxx, yyy..., and list numbers of posts instead of n, m, o... (in parentheses), below. www (n) xxx (m) yyy (o) zzz (p) ...	---	---
4.3. Links & media	---	---
4.3.1. Does your blog include photos or other graphics?
Does your blog profile include a photo or graphic representation?	√
How many of your blog posts this semester include photos or other graphics? ___ posts including photos or other graphics	---	---
4.3.2. Does your blog include posts with multiple links?		√
How many of your posts this semester include three (3) or more links? ___ posts including three or more links (including this portfolio!)	---	---
4.3.3. Does your blog include other media?		√
How many of your blog posts this semester include other media? ___ posts including other media	---	---
What kind(-s) of media have you included in posts this semester? Please list the kinds here: ... ... ...	---	---
What media content that you originally produced, if any, do your blog posts for this semester contain? Please list and explain each item briefly, and add short links and dates (yy.mm.dd) for reference. ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date) ... (short link, date)	---	---

4.4. Overall presentation

What have you done to enhance the overall presentation of your blog? List and explain the three most important content, display, formatting, layout, or other presentation changes that you have made on your blog this semester.

1. ...
2. ...
3. ...

5.0. Additional reflections on your blog and your writing on it

Please feel free to include reflections on both spring and fall semester work, as well as on the content of this portfolio (proto-portfolios, showcases, and reflections).

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6.0. Advice and suggestions for yourself, your peers, and your successors

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Notes:

1. This portfolio template derives from the templates for Writing IIIc and Writing IVc portfolios (2007-08), and Writing III, §§1a & 1c (Fall, 2008).
2. Please use the same code in section 0.0 that you used to embed your proto-portfolios (PPFs) in the footer of your blog, which you should already have revised to display your 2nd (fall) semester PPF first.
   
3. The essays section (1.0. Essays, above) derives from Proto-Portfolio 2-02 (2008).
   

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Essay Learning with Computers

I think that computer is very important. Because it very convenience, and helpful. So we are need it. We can't to life nothing them.
There are a lot of functions it. For example, we can be able to anything it. There are mail, internet and shopping. Mail is very interesting, because we can letters for other people by computers. We can be able to get the latest news and a lot of things by internet. Shopping is very convenience. For example, I can't shopping when I was very busy. But I can be able to buy anything by computers.

Braintorming-Learing with computers

Learning with Computers(2008.12.10)

Communication
- People
- Tools
- Computer applications: Mail
- Web applications: Blogs,Chat,Gmail,Email
- Blogging
- Mail: Gmail, Email
- Chat

Information
- Internet: Sesrching

Connecting
- Connections
- Connectivity

Convenience
- Dictionaries
- Movies
- Pictures
- Shopping
- Translation
- Typing:speed

Knowledge
- Educstion
- Games
- Information
- Internet: Searching

Other stuff(alphabetical)
-ful
- Helpful
- Useful

Free-writing Learing with Computer

Introduction
Communication
Knowledge
Qualities
Convenience
Helpful
Usefulness
Other

BR02-02 The Rainbow Machine

I read this book. This book is a story that children make the rainbow. We can't only the see a rainbow after rain. So when I could saw it, I become very happy. A rainbow made us happy.
One day, the children looked up and saw a rainbow across the sky. In a place for away, there was a lorry. It was a very big lorry because on the back was a very big machine. The machine made rainbows and was called The Rainbow Machine. There are seven colors in the rainbow. It took seven people to look after the rainbow machine. They cleaned it and polished it and they made sure it worked properly. When there was a rainbow, everyone stopped to look at it. Children got on the track without permission when seven people were in the restaurant. And, the machine in the track did work. Then, a big rainbow was able to be done with the track. But, the machine has broken. The sky gradually changed from blue into red. Men put a machine in order in a hurry. Then, the sky returned to blue. I like rainbows made the blue sky. It is very beautiful.

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BR02-01 Flood!

I read the book named "Flood". This book is very interesting!
It had been raining for days. There is no sign in which raining for a long time and continuing stop. A girl named Biff. She and her mother took a dog out for a walk in the outside. Of course, the outside is a heavy rain. She and her mother walked across the park. They wanted to cross the little bridge, but the stream had flooded. She began to wade cross the bridge, but her mother called her back. The next morning, when Biff and Chip were at school, it was still raining. The children couldn't go out to play. In the afternoon it stopped raining. That evening Biff, Chip and Kipper were watching TV. The weather forecast came on. Some bad storms were coming, with a lot of more rain. The storm came in the middle of the night. It was so loud that Biff and Chip couldn't sleep. Theirs mother brought them a hot drink. Next day, Theirs father took a dog for a walk. Chip went with him. When they got to the park, Chip gasped. The park wasflooded. It was like a giant lake. Chip thought the floods were fun. His father looked worried. It didn't stop raining, and the floods grew worse. The water reached the edge of the park. The children watched the cars going through the flood. One car had broken down and was stuck in the middle. That day, the school was closed. It rained in the night. Father couldn't sleep. And everyone woke up. The lights didn't work, so mother lit a lamp. They all looked downstairs. The hall was full of water. They will take shelter on the next morning. Then, a cat was stuck on a fence. The fire officer stopped the dinghy. They went to a hall in the town. A lot of people were there. When the floods were over they went back home. They gasped when they saw the house. They put the room in order all.
I thought that it was serious to put a room dirty due to the flood in order reading this book. So I like that sun is better than rain.

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Free-writing Kumamoto

I thought that unpopular is a summer festival in a Ueki town. This festival is call "Ueki' hattensai". Hattensai is summer festival once a year at Ueki town. There is a festival once a year at Ueki town office. This festival is opened every year. The many people visit there. There are many children and an old person. And there are many street vendor stalls. For example, candy floss, yakisoba, and apple candy. There is lottery. A lottery is very popular to children.

There is Ueki town office when I was child.

And there are a lot of food wagon an open space in there. The elementary

schoolchildren make a portable shrine. The portable shrine made an empty can by children. The children march with a portable shrine on one's carry.

5000 fireworks are launched one after another in the fancy pyrotechnics and the night sky, and it becomes the mood of summer with a lively quiet hot spring street at a dash in the river. It's very beautiful.

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