-Review of Screen-o-matic-

                                         -Review of Screen-o-matic-

Today I learned how to use Screen-o-matic. This is a free online screen recording tool. It is free to install but you have to pay for a premium one that has better features. This tool enables you to record the screen and your voice while you are working on computer. Before starting recording, microphone is needed. Today, I demonstrated the editing music tool. First, I pushed the red button and explained and showed how to download and use the tool. Lastly, I saved it as mp4 file. It was really easy to use. The only thing I needed to do was to install and push the red button. You can pause whenever you need to and restart recording too. Also, you can control the size of the screen. After recording is finished, it is able to publish to u-tube, mp4 and AVI file so you can share the file with others. The only thing I didn’t like about is I need a microphone in order to use it. Overall, it is very useful and wonderful tool when teachers need to demonstrate something on computer. Also even students can use it to show how to do something that is complicated to explain in words. I definitely would use it for educational purpose in the future and am willing to learn more in-depth later. 

-Review of COCA-

                                              -Review of COCA-

 I got to know another useful web-site and learned how to use it last week called COCA, corpus of contemporary American English. It is a web-site that contains more than 450 million words that are searchable. After searching words, you can see how the words are used in different genres such as magazines, books and poem etc. and check frequency information of the words. After using this site, I really liked that I could find out how frequent the words that I searched were used and in where they were used. In addition, I could use it for free. However, it was so complicated to use because I have to know the instruction in order to use it properly and the instruction is not provided in the web-site. Also, it looks very boring and busy to use, because it has tons of texts. Overall, I think I would only use it for educational purpose. It will be useful to use when I need to make a quiz or test. I can just use the sentences from the site. However, I don’t think it is easy for students to use. It will be somewhat challenged to use but it would be great if students know how to use it. 

-Corpus assignment-

● Assignment ●

① Copy assignment and attatch on your Google Docs

② Find out To-infinitive phrases and Gerund phrases using COCA

③ Fill in the chart below and write five sentences form COCA

④ Share and attatch on assingment submit in canvas

VERB
keep	mind	love	promise	begin	expect
avoid	decide	delay	continue	put off	plan
To-infinitive		Gerund		Both
decide expect plan promise		avoid  mind put off  delay keep		love  begin continue

▶ And when they leave their table to take action, we decide to jump in before someone gets hurt.

▶ some general education students even appeared to cross to the other side of the hallways to avoid interacting with students.

▶ Rees didn't expect to be in the area for very long but he said politely.

▶ But pleasure may be the main reason I keep memorizing poems.

▶ I love working with students as they contribute to these efforts and create their own web-based knowledge-building centers. 

[출처] #1 Linguistics-Exercise|작성자 oyunao88

OneStopEnglish assignment

-Can you think of any other inventions that their creators might regret? (E.g. dynamite, sun beds, plastic shopping bags) Suggest why they might regret them. 

I think all disposable products such as plastic and paper bags and cups etc. are inventions that their creators might regret. I know they are convenient to use and I've also used them for a long time for its convenience. However, using disposable products is one of the biggest cause of polluting the environment since we throw away them after using them only once. It takes a really long time until they get decomposed. Most of them are buried in the ground, it causes soil pollution. Therefore, people should reduce use of disposable products.  

-What are the greatest inventions of all time? How have they helped people? Have they also been used in any bad ways? 

I believe a smartphone is the greatest invention. A smartphone has offered people more convenient life. For example, through a smartphone they are able to watch videos, send e-mails without computers and even work on their documents. Also they can find out bus and subway schedule and by down loading apps so they don't need to wait for a bus or subways.

However, on the other hand, nowadays many people are addicted to using a smartphone. Especially, children and teenagers spend a lot of time on using it every day. It will interrupt them socializing with their friends and family. In addition, it will cause sleep disorder and memory problem.  

Review of onestopenglish

                                                  -Review of OneStopEnglish-

 Today I experienced one of useful web-sites for English teachers and went over how to use it. It is called OneStopEnglish. OneStopEnglish is number one resource web-site for English language teachers. This site offers over 8000 resources, including worksheets, lesson plans, audio, flash cards and videos. In order to access to the site, you need to register, but it is free. Once you register on the site, you are able to find various sections at the top of the page such as business, exams, grammar and games etc. and use them as teaching materials. One of advantages of the site is that it provides a large number of resources for free including vocabulary worksheets, English activities and news articles etc. Also, when teachers prepare materials for their class, various materials and lesson plans on the site can be used and they will make the class more interesting. They are also able to use the materials according to levels and age of students. Finally, it enables you to search available jobs by category and country that match your dream job. However, there are not many jobs available. I was trying to find a job in Korea, there was no Korea in country section. I even tried to search jobs in Japan, but it produced no results. It was the only thing that I was disappointed at it. Overall, I was impressed by quantities of resources and a variety of materials and lesson plans. It will definitely give teachers the opportunity to teach their students in more interesting way and also use materials by the levels and age of their students. OneStopEnglish is incredible and really useful site for teachers and I can't wait to use it in the future. 

-Review of google Docs-

                         -Review of google Docs-

Today we learned new technology called google docs in class. It is online collaborative writing tool offered by google. It enables people to create and edit documents collaboratively online in google site. So as to access to google docs, you need to log in google, go to drive and create documents and can share documents with others. One of the advantages of this tool was that it allows people to use it anywhere via computer, smartphone and tablet etc. if the internet connection is available. Also, through using this tool, they are able to work on documents collaboratively at the same time. When sharing the document with others, they can make comments on it. In addition, it is automatically saved every second so you don’t have to worry about losing a file. The only thing I felt uncomfortable about this tool was that the internet connection should be installed in order to use this tool. It should be used online only. Overall, it was very simple and easy tool to access to it. It would be a really great tool when working on group project. Moreover, it is very a convenient tool because it can be used anywhere when software such as Microsoft is not installed.