Final Presentation

Video About Twitter Narrative

Twitter Narrative Summary

What surprised you about your narrative? How did you adapt?

Compared with other project, the twitter narrative summary is far away from projects that we usually do. I never thought that we could use twitter as one of tools to develop our school work. This project is less in writing than comprehensive developments project. Thanks to this project, I adapt to know how to use twitter; study how to make an infographic; learn the new software about edit video. This twitter narrative requires me all kinds of abilities, and I also develop myself during this process.

Identify the points you are most proud of.

      The most points I proud of is that I generate an idea about how to develop out story in the twitter. Although my idea was not the best at first time, my group members still supported me and polished our story. As a group project, the most important thing is Group Corporation. I think we do it very well

What form of media was most useful?

      As for me, the most useful media is infographic, because it can explain our twitter narrative in easy and clear way.

What form of media did you enjoy the most?

      I enjoy doing the video very much. Since our company is to make Chinese traditional food buns, we take a video about making buns. It is very interesting.

Least useful?

      I think blog is least useful, for we did not use it a lot.

Least enjoyable?

      In my mind, twitter is the least enjoyable thing, because we should post twitter every day, sometime it is boring for me.

Identify the points you would change and what you would do differently.

      During the process that we post twitter for our twitter, I find the plot is simple and is not attractive in the whole story. If possible, I would do make more conflicts in the whole story.

Optional: is there anything else you would like me to know?

       We enjoy this project!

Three Topic

1. Who has the biggest mouth among Angelina Jolie,  Julia Roberts, and Anne Hathaway?
2. How to have a good mood in the terrible weather?
3. Tayler Swift's ex boyfriends

Entry 12

Vlog can help our customers know more about our company. For example, the main production of our company is bun. Therefore, we can use a media about the process of making buns and put it in company twitter. During this process, we can show that our company pays attention to the food safety, and we spend a lot of efforts on our productions. Besides, it is also helpful for us to make advertisement about our company. Using vlog makes our company become more visual to customers. They do not have to come to our company, but they still can know our company. Vlog attracts customers to company more than ordinary blog.

Essay for Vlog

English Learning Experience 

      Learning a language is not a simple thing, no matter whether you learn the second language or your mother language. Therefore, it is no doubt that using language to write and read must be more difficult than to know it. Students in China need to learn English and use English to write and read as fluently as they can. Although I spend a lot of time in class learning English, and practice English reading and writing, I still encounter many difficulties.

      I remembered the first time that I got to know English was in my third Grade at primary school. At that time, learning a second language became a mainstream in China. A growing number of parents require their children to study English reading and writing. However, English reading became a torment to me. Only did I know the words’ meanings, I can start English reading and understand it. Unlike Chinese characters, English words are composed by 26 alphabet letters, but Chinese also have 26 Pinyin to mark pronunciation; sometimes I got confused among English letters and Chinese Pinyin. Besides, as a third Grade student, I already had relative mature Chinese language system. Chinese characters are pictographic, and I got used to study words by remembering their patterns and read them in books. Nevertheless, I need to remember each letter in English words. It is easy for me to forget words and it also make a lot of trouble in my English reading. I always needed to look up words in the dictionary, but I already forgot what this paragraph said after I knew the meaning of word. Therefore, the first trouble for me to read in English is that I did not have enough vocabulary.

      I still had difficulties not only in English reading, but also in English writing. When I go to the senior year of studying, I began to learn how to write in English. I started writing in Chinese before I entered in first Grade, so I was accustomed to write article in Chinese style. However, there are plenty of differences between Chinese and English. In Chinese paper, we pay more attentions to use some beautiful words and some figures of speech, and do not place many values to grammar. As long as a writer can express his meaning, no matter that one simple sentence has two verbs or not. However, in English writing, the first thing I learned was about grammar. When I write paper, I should care about how many objects and subjects in one sentence; use right preposition to fit verb; notice the ambiguity of sentences. Moreover, sometimes due to two language systems, I cannot express my meaning accurately. In addition to this, tense is a special part in English that Chinese does not have. There are so many tenses which confuse me completely, even until now I still cannot distinguish them clearly, not to mention the subjunctive mood, inverted sentences, and adverbial clauses and so on. On the way to learn a new language, I face a lot of difficulties that I did not expect.

      Although I know learning a language is not a simple thing, I still feel upset owing to so many troubles. As a child, I inevitably have some bad tempers that I always get tired of the English at that time. Whether the classes in school or the books about novel, I always kept away from them as long as they were connected with English. In terms of my attitude, it was natural that my English grades were falling day by day. Therefore, about English, not only did I get tired of it, but also I was afraid of reading and writing in English. However, my mother did not know my feelings. In order to improve my English level, she registered some outside English classes to help my English reading and bought numerous English workbooks for me to improve my writing skill. Maybe, in her opinions, my English scores went down because I lack more exercises and extracurricular counseling. However, these things not only made any constriction to my reading and writing, but also made I feel more tired about English; moreover, I even lost confidence to study English. It was just like that I walked in a dark and disorienting forest, and I did not know how to find my direction to go out. My eyes were full of disappointment, even no moonlight can lead me to go out of this confused forest.

       Luckily, I had the best English teacher in my high school. I still remember the first class that she did not use English textbook as the teaching materials. She read an English poem for us that named the “The furthest distance in the world.” At that time, this poem was very popular among us, and our attention was attracted by her. Then, she just taught us how to read this poem and how to get the right pronunciation to recite it well. It also was the first time I was interested in English reading. Every class, she would introduce us a new English poem at beginning and spent 5 minutes to encourage us to read an English poem in front of the classmates. Most of us fell in love with such kind of English class, not like the previous classes always pay attention to grammar and text books.

      However, good times did not last long. After losing interests in English poems, the fear of English came to me again. When my teacher taught grammar and tenses, my minds always wandered in the class and my grades was poorer than ever. Nevertheless, my teacher did not give up on me and found me to talk her. She did not focus on my falling grades, but asked me which kind of English novels I like. At first, I was very nervous that teacher may criticize me due to my bad grades. However, with the relaxing topic, I talked a lot with my teacher and spitted out all my difficulties with English reading and writing. After I expressed all my troubles and confusion, my English teacher comforted me and suggested me to ask my mother to stop redundant exercises. She said it was detrimental for my English reading and writing, and it would cut my interests in study. Interests are the best teacher in reading and writing, if I lose the interest, everything will become a burden for me. Therefore, she advised me to find the interest in English and she introduced a plenty of English novels and poems for me to spark my interest. Under my teacher’s help, I gradually knew the beauty of English and fell in love with English culture. I am curious with the history of England and especial the exchange of the throne, therefore, I found many England history books to read and became totally immersed in reading. I enjoyed the poems that Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote, and “Ode to the West Wind” was the one I like most. I even like to write some short funny story in English due to the influence of the English novel.

      With time going by, my English grades improve a lot and I am no longer afraid of the English reading and writing again. Moreover, English even become my favorite course. Thanks to my high school English teacher, she took me out of the dark forest and gave me a torch to lighten my way. She even solved all my troubles about English reading and writing. About reading, because I have trouble remembering words, she told me the first thing is to learn how to pronounce it rather than to recite it. If I have right pronunciation, I can recite words and their meanings very easily and quickly. About writing, she said there was a long way for everyone to write well. Therefore, I have no need to be upset that I cannot write well. As long as I practice my writing again and again, I can write paper well one day. My English teacher built my confidence again, and I am so lucky that I can meet her in my life.

      Now, I am an undergraduate and I choose English as my major. Although there was a time I felt trouble with English reading and writing, I overcame those difficulties with my teacher’s help. I hope I can be an English teacher after I finish my college course, because I want to be a teacher likes my high school English teacher to help students who have difficulties with English reading and writing.

Entry 11

      It is useful for us to put different kinds of media to create a layered narrative in your Twitter narrative. Because our company is Food Company that is making buns, we should pay attention to the food safety. Therefore, we can tweet the news media about the food safety, and attract audience attentions. It is helpful for them to know our company, and trust our company compare with other buns company. What is more, our twitter narrative is a story about love. The stuff fell in love with the waitress, but the waitress liked the manager. Due to envy and hate, the stuff slandered the waitress. However, in the end, the manager knew the truth and fired the stuff. About this story, we can use some picture and video to show how the stuff slandered the waitress. Due to different kinds of media, we can make our twitter narrative more reliable.