Growth Through Adversity

Today we are starting a new unit in English class and it is the Significant Concept Of Growth Through Adversity.

Growth Through Adversity means:
Growth= Physically and Mentally developing
Through= Going to one and another
Adversity= Misfortune, bad luck
Oscar: Having bad experiences when you are young and using those experiences to become a better person.
Fung: To experience bad things, and try to overcome them. And teach others to try and avoid. Also to change the way of others thinking. E.g. If you were a parent, would you put your child through Bad luck? Also having parents who are poor, may lead to adversity, but it can lead to a big dream.
Elspeth: Its when people grow up with misfortune or with difficulties
Maddie: When people grow up and achieve things through their misfortune

Guiding Question: How do we form & shape our Identity?
Oscar: We form & shape our identity is out of our actions and choices.
Elspeth: We form & shape our identities by our surroundings and the people around us
Maddie: We form & shape our identity by our looks, personalities and feelings (You have no control over your identity)
Fung: We try to change our personality, but it is hard to change. E.g. If you are talkative, you can't change that. (At least it is hard to). But we try to change little things such as our attitudes and our mood towards other and things in our surroundings.

Blogging Reflection

Since this is the very first blog I have ever made, I have learnt many different things along the way of making this blog. I have learn things not just about the blog, but also embedding videos from Youtube. I never tried to embed a video before, but with the help of my IT teacher I have learnt how to do this. I also found many websites that I thought that they didn't exist, so I have realized that their are loads of things to search for and learn on the Internet.

How did I do in the process? Well, many of the posts such as LibraryThing, Youtube embed videos, Google Docs, etc. All were mostly done by the help of my Teacher and friends. So I thank my IT teacher a lot for teaching me how to Search, and post things. Etc.

The first time using blogger, and not having any knowledge or help on how to post things onto blogger... I had lots of trouble finding how to post things onto it. Especially how to get LibraryThing onto the sidebar was the hardest to do. It almost took me over an hour until I managed to get it on the sidebar. But again, it wasn't me who figured it out, it was when my teacher taught my friend how to do it, and I followed him.

Although I learnt a lot from this project... I do not necessarily think it is beneficial or neither is it that superficial... Because, in the real world, how often do you use blogs? Apart from if you are a IT teacher. So I do not necessarily would say it is beneficial to my learning. But once again, I do appreciate and thank my IT teacher for using his time to teach me this.

I might use it to store some work though!

Next time, if I were to approach another project like this, I will try to approach it differently by trying to figure it out myself, but, if it does take a quite of a long time, I will approach my friends or my teacher for some guidance!

Again, thank you to my IT teacher.

5 Top Tips When Searching

5 tips that will make searching much easier is;

1. Keeping your search Simple! Keeping words simple eg. Pristine landsmarks, type in untouched landsmarks.

2. Use less words to describe. Yes, using as much detail to describe something is important in you English exam, where your teacher will say: Remember! Put as much detail as possible! But when searching, simple is best, and keeping short is easier for the search engine. E.g. Whether in Chicago Illinois, instead just put Illinois weather.

3. Advanced Search: Not always is it good to always keep it simple, sometimes, you need more detail, to describe!

4. Location: Sometimes, if you can't find the exact things you need, use where you found it. E.g. A red fish. Red fish, Mediterranean sea, stripy, spiky.

Aboriginal Art Ideas

I chose to post this because, I think that many people do not know what is Aboriginal Art, and i thought I would like to post this to share with everyone. This was just a thinking/ brainstorm for what I thought Aboriginal Art is.

Please comment if you have different opinions and ideas!

Edward De Bono On Creative thinking

Hi, this is my first video post on my Blog, this video is about Edward De Bono talking about Creative thinking. Please Enjoy

I chose to post this video because I found this video quite interesting about Edward De Bono talking about the Six Thinking Hats. I found 1 part especially interesting was when he said: "being creative is different from being different. For example making a door, and a triangular door is not being creative, its just being different. Being creative is being a risk-taker and making or designing things people have not done."

Welcome Message

Hi, welcome to my blog. My name is Fung and I am a secondary school student. My interests are reading books, and playing outdoor sports. My most favourite sport is football, because it consists of communication and teamwork.
This blog is for saving my school work, and posting educational videos to help myself remember work I have done. Most of it will be written work, although I will post some videos, reviews, and interesting texts from my school research, or research I think is interesting that I will see in my own time.