Evernote and CRAP

Hi 2D's! How are you? I am busy and cannot wait for the festival to be over. I have had enough business of the year.

1.Today I learned how to use evernote and I had never imagined it was this useful! I am taking a course that students have to do presentation in groups. In slides of other group's presentation, there was a screen-shot-looking slide and I was wondering how they got the screenshots of Internet page.  Now I know how; using evernote! Using evernote and sharing with peer reviewers, it's really easy and useful to share the online sources, especially when working in a group. Also, if I keep the screen shots of each source in evernote,  I will not loose the track of where we took the information from.

Using evernote web clipper was really a cool experience since I always wished I could edit or put comments or arrows on photographs. This is going to help me a lot with collecting information and preparing images for presentation slides.

I think I will use the screenshots more often than any other features. When I want to do research for essay or presentation, I always hop on google crome and keep too many tabs and windows. The problem with this is that if I click a little red cross mark by accident, all the tabs and web pages I wanted keep will disappear. I have experienced this shock many times. If I use evernote screenshots, I will not be bothered about this and I think it is really convenient.

2. I also learned the tips for making good presentaions.
 "C" stands for contrast. This suggests us to consider the contrast of colour of background and words. Also, it suggests to change the size of words depending on the title, subtitle and content.
"R" stands for repetition. This suggests us to use the same font and same size for words, and consistent themes for background.
"A" stands for alignmnet. This suggests us to think about the place where you put words so that the meaning of image will be effectively showed.
"P" stands for proximity. This suggests us not to squash all the information in a small space in slides but instead make some blank between different topics.

I knew most of the tips but it's hard to keep all of them in mind when rushing to make presentation slides. The only thing I did not know was using clipart was old fashioned. I will start using photos instead.

4. For my final project, I am in a media group. I am going to write my essay about how Japanese media is not straightforward when it comes to reporting the nuclear explosion in Fukushima. I am curious what our group's presentation is going to be like.

Thanks for reading, good luck for your preparation for the ICU festival. Bye

Sources from Wikipedia and using Zotero

Hello how are you surviving this crazily busy time of the year handling with your mid-term exams/reports and preparation for ICU festival? I am managing things much better than a few weeks ago.

I was very surprised and glad to know that there is a rating system in Wekipedia. Last ARW teacher said we could not use sources from Wekipedia, so I was always struggling to not to get any information from it. I was only looking at the references part of wiki pages to see if there is any resource maybe I can use for my essay. Now that I know the information from Wikipedia can be reliable, I will restart using it! I tried to find a FA class page that is related to my essay topic but it was really hard. Most of the page did not even have any status. The only page I could find which somehow relate to my essay topic, which is about womenomics in Japan, was a page named "Japan". Therefore I imagine that there IS a possibility that we can use wekipedia sources for our essay but it is going to be really difficult to find a page that is high classed.

I also learned how to use Zotero again, including the way to cite a in text citation. Here is my work.

Newspaper Source

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Book Source

Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exerc. Irure dolor in reprehend incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. “Very important quote here”(Sugimoto). Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse molestaie cillum. Tia non ob ea soluad incommod quae egen ium improb fugiend. Officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum Et harumd dereud.

Works Cited

Mie, Ayako. “Maternity Leave, Day Care Still Elude Many Working Mothers.” The Japan Times Online 18 June 2013. Japan Times Online. Web. 4 Oct. 2014.

Sugimoto, Yoshio. An Introduction to Japanese Society. 3rd ed. Cambridge; Port Melbourne, Vic.: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Print.

Zotero worked well for in text citation. However, for works cited part, Zotero did not do well with the book source. When I just copied and pasted the source, the works cited for the book included Japanese words. It said "3版" instead of "3rd ed.". It may be because it was an English book written by a Japanese author. So I had to change that part, but everything else smoothly worked out. How useful Zotero is for you after having today's lecture? For me, today's lecture made so much more sense than the last lecture and have a feeling that Zotero is going to help me from the next essay.