my conclusion? stop worrying about it and enjoy life to the fullest. ]]>
Andrew, you’ve truly inspired me with your understanding of the possibilities inherit in our online universe, AND with your honesty and apt analysis of the effectiveness of technology at our school.
Keep writing, keep inspiring me, and for heaven’s sake, keep coming into my room - you’re wonderful, and I’ll miss having you in my class.
skp ]]>
HAHA oh yes, I am most definitely a student in KIS’ class of 2010
]]>….still trying? Well, it ain’t happening.
And yeah, it’s damn hard to try and measure intelligence. Who knows why we bother! But, we have IQ tests, which are obviously flawed. Then there’s Gardner’s multiple intelligences, but I don’t know if that actually measures anything.
]]>i shall comment like i said.
i don’t go to korean international school but this is still so funny. especially #2. but i disagree with #3. i loathe snsd. ]]>
i want to go paintballing GRRRR ]]>
but i gotta admit paintball was fun ]]>
nice picture 
nice andrew
i’m gonna have to steal your idea on my blog : )
Mine will be Top 10 Signs that You are a Noob at DoTA
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]]>Nice connection, by the way.
Can’t wait for the next act.
]]>I also have SAT II and finals … but unlike you, Andrew, i did not wasted my time on Blockles. : )
]]>my name’s soomi. (and no, I’m not a guy with a girly name) I’m Korean as well but currently attending high school in the states.
how about I comment the next time you post something? mmm. i did enjoy the ap for soul and the play….
]]>and jinsoo lets play sometime i’lll pwn u
]]>comment on my posts too!
]]>Let’s go Andrew! 1 on 1
Nice post by the way
]]>wow, i think you’re the first one to visit my blog by googling. and thanks for the compliments! good luck on your homeworks=] ]]>
it’s so true….humor humor humor! ]]>
Yay! ps. nice study guide you made!
]]>Like you, I’m still waiting for the album to be release here. I’ve been searching for it since last year and until now, no news about it.
Screw it Pure I and Pure II album conflicts. Because of this there’s the delay for international release, and we’re not sure whether we’ll be getting Pure I or Pure II.
I’m more interested in Pure I though, but I heard it has been discontinued due to copyright issues with EMI because Pure I is released under MBO.
Updates on Maksim available at MaksimMrvica.com.
CLF
PhantomCLF.net
Hope it pays off well in the end!
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“Highschoolers” from “Earnest”
nice!
Act 2 +0+!! ]]>
]]>I too want to read the next act.
More please. ]]>
How can you said that Marcel Jacob plays Drums on LAD - He is able enough to do, it but he is world wide know as Bass player - Seach Yngwie Malmsteen or Talisman’s records.
BTW Jamie Borger - not Borgir also didn’t played bass on this record. He is an amazing swedish drum Machine’s boy who also played on Talisman.
]]>you guys encourage me
]]>Gwen: hey
Jack: hey
Algy: hey
Highschoolers in often time forget that there are many other ways to greet their friends other than saying “hey”.
Henrik - Marko - Tony - Tommy - Jani
and the guitarist on this album is Jani not Elias. Elias joined later, in the summer tours. 
yeah blogging can be fun if you knew what or how to do with it. I will visit yours often! ]]>
I agree with your points on how none of use are actually connected. I’m not using the laptop to its fullest potential. In class I’m always commenting on Facebook or leveling up in Wow. I’m starting to realize how fun blogging is now. I was kinda shocked at how you were checking out your blog that time at Jihyungs house. Come to mine, although it has nothing ]]>
WRITE ACTS 2&3 SOON PLEASE
]]>yes and I am hoping for more connections
]]>the delegate of soojin congratulates and believes that delegate of Aron has mentioned great points that further elaborates the delegate’s post! Delegate agrees that fundings in schools must be provided in order to prevent them from becoming potential criminals. However, the delegate still believes killing would not be the best solution, as nations could bring up more useful solutions such as making mandatory for the prisoners to work, perform public services, or ‘educate’ them to become ordinary citizens.
@hannah
according to my memories, killing off isn’t as easy as it sounded. I heard that there were a lot of paperwork to be done for each executed, and keeping bodies safely was another issue i heard. Don’t remember the exact details…
In war, it is the loser that is punished.
But when a special needs student goes on a college shooting rampage and is sentenced to life in jail, is he given the opportunity to improve? Is he, in fact, going to be anything but a drain on the nation’s resources?
No, there is only one way to deal with this problem: at the root. Almost all crimes occur because the killer has had a weird childhood…. whatever… and statistics easily confirm that developed nations, nations with better education systems and more accommodating systems have far lower crime rate than other nations.
So, invest in good teachers and good schools and free education and free counseling and professional psychologists and racism free lives and opportunities for students with special circumstances.
But until then, what are you going to do with the drain on a system’s resources? It is the money that could be channeled into education to prevent further crimes that is being wasted on the feeding of hundreds of people for the rest of their lives, where they will die anyways, rather than killing them now.
]]> I’ll link my blog… someway… don’t know how to with a Reply Box… lolAnyone wanna teach me?? Come to my blog: sungwoom10.kiswrites.com and leave a comment
Oh and Hannah thats my blog right there so if you want you can scroll down and its the second one from the top
It would be easier to leave a comment on your blog if you linked to it :p
Satire is hard to write. Sarcasm solely for the sake of itself isn’t funny or witty. It has to be smart. That’s hard.
I’ll go *actually read* A Modest Proposal, then comment more..
]]>Satire for me isn’t the best writing. I think i’ll rather read stuff like fantasy, better yet manga. Reading satiric books for class is a cool thing though, because then you get a much better concept of the time period or an ideal (even though you have to try like 100000 times harder to get an understanding). I understand you idea of how satire is th hardest to write, but, is it really?? I mean, its probably really easy, just hard to understand. If you have basic information that you want to deliver, write it like a normal essay, and just depict images, metaphors, and use extreme sarcasm, BAM! you have ur satiric piece of writing. At least thats what i think…
If i had the determination, time, and some liberty in having the choice of what i want to do, i think i can write a satiric essay about this thing i wrote about on my blog. try checking it out (P.S. leave a comment… my blog has no visitors… T^T).
Oh by the way… don’t read the Communist Manifesto… Its just really really long and… badly written… its like “The Origin of Species” by Charles Darwin… except that its about the ideal communism and Marxism rather than evolution and natural selection… I recommend you to just talk to a marxist and ask why communism is good… Last year I had to research about Marx using that book… nearly killed myself in confusion and boredom… yea… I highly do NOT recommend this… just talk to a marxist or read an book or article that talks about the book and the concept of communism…
]]>uhh,, notice word Evil and Unncessary are italicized? I italicized them on purpose to show an emphasis. How should I explain… of course I know communism isn’t ‘evil’, duh. But I was rather trying to say that people had to give up their freedom and rights because that is widely done in a marxist state, which is not nice in their view. Sorry if that caused a misunderstanding. :’(
One day I really want to read that book called something like Communist Manifesto. I want to know if, I too, would be a marxist for a moment like mr burell or mr spivey.
I like how we are getting deeper, and understanding in a more profound way in satires. For me, Satires are best types of writings to read but hardest to write one. Modest Proposal picks out problems in the society in a very witty yet subtle way. I call that creativity.
Thanks for such a long comment, didn’t have one of those in such a long time!
Actually thinking that world would could be a better place, if our economic basis was run under marxism and still get freedom of choice, speech , whatever. And here goes the concept of utopia. dang
]]> . The satire in the piece of writing is not only directed towards the noble class but towards the concept of having a social class by the way. The idea of teasing the poor and homeless may be funny, but to be a satire, you have to make a point. Without the point that the writer is trying to deliver, the writing would be classified as a comedy rather than a satiric piece of writing. Plus, if you read the writing, it talks about how the poor do not have a choice but to sell their kids and live a life of labor. Thus this leads to the idea that the poor aren’t to blame. Then is it the nobles that are to blame? Not really, because its just the way it was ever since they were born. They couldn’t really think “outside their box” at the time. They were too busy enjoying their time and pleasing the king. Swift, however, who was educated and was open minded, had the capability of seeing that this was not an issue of which class caused it, but that it was an idea that caused this unfair distribution of the wealthy and the poor. He saw that the poor was living a life of labor and that they were too uneducated to find solutions to the problems that they were facing. He also saw that the nobles were not responsible because they did were too lazy to see what was going on. The idea of buying children and making them do labor was justified by the actions of their parents. Their parents did the same as they did, which, they thought, allowed them to do so also. The idea of social class and certain rights that were given to them were so built into their minds that they were unable to see that they could make changes in their routine-like lives. To them, the rich and the poor, there was no problem to be fixed because it was like that for years.
Wrapping up, the satire is directed towards an idea rather than a certain group of people. Also, Communism was the most ingenious idea of government. It’s just that the concept was defected and is impossible unless the entire world participates in it to help each other. The concept itself is not evil, it is just toooo good to be true, especially in a world like today where people will rather kill each other for a piece of bread rather than sharing it.
]]>Yeah guess that is true ;p
@clay burell
yeah always quality not the quantity
I see that you are checking me back often recently
@Anycall
thanks for such compliment annie. My voice here sounds different probably because no one calls me heuk-in or scooby. lol.
People always want something.
]]> Anyway, I think you’re right, that we shouldn’t be writing for the sake of gaining popularity among bloggers, but instead, should gain popularity because of our writing. Still, it’s in our nature to be greedy all the time and always want more visitors You’ve already got tons, though, I see!
]]>Thanks for listening!
I think you are trying to mean “space”, the digital magazine?
Space is viewable to everyone, just submissions happen via YouthTwitter. But I think submission place is going to move towards http://youthnet.wikispaces.com for the 3rd edition.
Space for 1st and 2nd issue is http://2008space.googlepages.com/
]]>for my title, I was referring to every kind of music. My title’s just saying “i am fond of music”. I write about music once in a while though, so I kept my title like that :] ]]>
Well, in that case I applied to habitat for humanity.. and i’m going community service once a week to teach korean elementary students how to spell the abc’s.
or I can say that I have excuses that as a student, i have better things to do like studying for fives in AP’s :p
I personally think internet translators would never be perfect… but still i hope it might not be too far off as well
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The most interesting point to me in this post was the language barrier inhibiting collaboration and connection between all people. I hope the day comes when web translation is advanced enough to remedy that. It might not be too far off.
]]>Thanks for the link.
]]>My name is Soojin, first of all..
hoping more areas are involved in PGC!
@skpatterson
yay ms patterson! of course, i’d love to use this idea in class, always welcomed!
Recording is open now! Good to hear this audio cast will be heard by many people! And you talked with korea before? that’s very cool, a public one or american school in korea? Yeah, I wish Skype was used more in classes too, addition to its powerful learning, it’s fun!
@Kristie,
Actually i’m quite new to this place as well, just a couple of months. Guess we can help each other out :p
@Patricia, Sara, Nik and all people who linked me
I’m actually quite surprised, that my little rambling thoughts was perceived seriously by someone else, and change and difference occurred. Thanks for the thanking you guys! make sure you guys visit my amigos on my blogroll too!
and by the way Patricia from Pixie Dreams ]]>
My english class thanks to you now has the ability to write our minds once a week for our blog post.
thanks again,
sara
http://two11.learnerblogs.org/2008/04/25/soojins-impact-on-our-writing-freedom/ ]]>
Thank You ]]>
Let me know if that makes sense.
Very cool. Keep going.
I’ve been aware of the blogging world, but only just became a part of it myself in the past few weeks. I feel like I’m starting out a mile behind. Any tips or suggestions you have for me are quite welcome!
]]>I think the eating your babies part was most definitely a metaphor….
There’s a definite cycle of poverty in cities, and right now in my English class we’re reading the Freedom Writers Diary, which is a series of diary excerpts from students in Los Angeles, California. Most of the students are poor and have major problems in their lives. Some are in gangs because they need protection just to walk around their house. Their family has no money, so they have to find a way to make some to pay the rent on the house, and the easiest way (which I guess could be an opinion) to make money quickly is to sell drugs. They then drop out of school, because they don’t have the guidance to realize that they can be anything outside of their neighborhood. Their parents are eating them as babies, figuratively, because the parents are poor and desperate, and don’t know how to help their kids.
Poverty can also be seen as intellectually poor. Lack of education often comes along with lack of money because they can’t afford higher education.
And people sometimes say “You poor child” or things along that line. They don’t mean the kid doesn’t have any money, they mean they feel sorry for him/her. Poverty could then be defined as “a sorry state.” It could be a function of anything, anything that makes someone deserve pity.
]]>We also love using skype but time differences with Europe and USA, mean that so far it is one of the teachers from another country teaching the class in the alternative country.
However, we have used skype with your country of Korea for a week last year and found that very powerful learning. My students demonstrated cricket, Aussie meat pies, vegemite and showed a blue tongued lizard to the web cam for the Korean students to see. The Korean students showed us their uniforms, food, mobile phones (our students were quiet jealous) and the weather snowing outside. That was such powerful learning.
Mr Burrell led me to your post so thank you for the very comprehensive content. It has given me much food for thought. ]]>
If you are there twice, that means you are not the ‘unknown’ for sure! thisis becoming a mystery… hmmhmm haha
and why is ‘texa$’ as block word? Very interesting…michigan works…
]]>Wow, Slovakia and Italy. And Flower Mound, T****. Wonder where that is…
Post was revised due to blocking…
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Thanks for showing interest to the conversation! By the general flow, unschooling seems to be a better way for the students. Proper mixture of two would be the best possible way ]]>
thanks! you guys are so cool. I am getting into this, and thank you all for the inspirations and encouragements. I have gone through my conflict with my readerships (one of previous post dealt with it) and I am finding my identity here.
and MrMayo, nice to hear that my post was worth debatable! Yes, I agree to that girl, whenever I write, whether self inspired or schoolwork, I get a ‘wholeheartedly’ feeling. Writing is fun, it’s the most fun when a writing moves people.
And i’ll be looking forward from you Maryland people also!
I just posted a tweet on YT thanking you for your inspiring post. I’ve been thinking since the webcast Wednesday night about my own use of blogs with students. Today, I showed your post to one of my classes and we had an honest conversation about the writing they do on their blogs. One student said that she only considers writing “real” when she chooses what to write about. Obviously, I have to assign SOME assignments. However, next quarter I am going to give my students much more freedom to write about topics of their choosing.
Your thoughts and comments, as well as the other voices on the Teachers Teaching Teachers show this week have made me rethink how I use blogs in class. Like everything, teaching is, and must be a reflective practice. You have to continually rethink, and evaluate what you do. Thanks again Soojin. Your post made me rethink an important part of my classroom practice. As the next quarter progresses, you will be hearing from us here in Maryland.
PEACE George
]]>I’m commenting too much……
]]>I love Ginger (”virtually”), but disagree about using Twitter to say “New Post”. Lots of people have been wondering about the “etiquette” of that around the blogosphere lately, and most of the replies I’ve seen have voted that it’s okay. I know I use twitter more than my RSS readers (Bloglines OR Google Reader) to read links now.
And readers? Seems you’re doing a good job of making connections now, forming your own network, reading and linking and replying and commenting. That’s great.
Finally - purpose…. I wrote on my BS for a good couple of months before I discovered myself, in a sense, or who I wanted to be as a writer. I want to say there is a process of writing to find yourself, to find the ideas you want readers to return for, of finding the voice you enjoy writing with.
And as Lindsea said elsewhere, writing because you love to write (for me it’s a need now) is a beautiful thing.
Keep it up, Andrew. We’re all busy, but we’ll check back in
Hey, have you tried Kwout? See if you can embed (go to “Code” view) a screenshot of the Teachers Teaching Teachers site that the webcast will be posted on soon as a podcast.
I really appreciate you linking to the other student blogs around the world (and our school). It helps us all find others worth reading.
See you on Twitter