Month: December 2018

Hi Edubloggers,

 

Wow! These 10 weeks of blogging have passed quickly! In order to officially close the Winter 2018 Student Blogging Challenge, I will do a evaluation and audit.

Q. How many weeks of the challenge did you participate in?:

A. Up to today, I participated in nine of the ten weeks (I inadvertently forgot to do week 4.)

Q. How many posts did you write in the ten week period

A. In the ten week period, I wrote eight posts total.

Q.How many comments did you receive from classmates, teachers, or other visitors?

A. I got two comments from oversea bloggers.

Q. Which post did you enjoy writing the most and why?

A. The post I enjoyed the most writing was from week 9, because it helped me undust an old hobby of mine, coding! Also, the website has introduced me to a plethora of coding games to test my knowledge.

Q. Which web tools did you use to show creativity on your blog?

A. I believe the web tool that showed creativity in my blog was my theme, which showed nature simply and the snow icon.

Q. What are your plans for your blog now? Will you keep posting?

A. Currently, my class continues using our blogs to write posts of our interest. For me, I will be writing about crisises and my opinions and thoughts.

Finaly, here is my audit. All the answers came from my mom.

Q.  What were your first impressions of this blog?

A. It looked very simple, yet positive. Not too distracting.

Q.  What captured your attention?

A. The picture.

Q. What distracted you on the blog?

A. The snow kind of threw me off a bit since the picture is a fall scene yet it is snowing.

Q. What suggestions do you have to help me improve my blog?

A. Add more pictures and details into your post. Excite the readers.

Anyway, thank you for reading! Have any questions for me? If so leave a comment on any post and I’ll try respond ASAP.

Bye,

Hmschad

Hi Edublogers,

In this post I wanted to talk about my experiences with Hour of Code. Before I started it, I was a bit skeptical because I didn’t think I would be pretty good and that I would give up before a hour has passed.

However, it was the complete opposite! Having experience with another coding site called Scratch, I don’t feel like a stranger to coding. However, since I haven’t creating an animation for a while, I felt like I could attempt the advanced activities.

I tried the “Build Your Own App” activity, which was pretty challenging, yet requires a idea and creativity. I realized how we take for granted apps made by produces and how much hard work they put into a app.

I want to take the time and encourage you readers to play this coding game and many others in the link above. The producers have put a lot of effort into compiling a website to learn, practice, and review coding.

Bye,

Hmschad

Hi Edubloggers,

 

For this week’s post, I tried using the text section on this post to italicize and bold words by using this helpful link.

After trying it out for a few minutes I feel like it is pretty easy to remember and had no difficulties with imputing the links. I feel like I’ve taken the text section for granted knowing there are a lot of easier shortcuts such as just pasting the link onto words. I guess somethings I learned were just some of the basic codes. I tried the more advanced codes and I had no technical issues. It sort of helped me appreciate coding before these less cumbersome alternatives.

 

Hi Edubloggers,

 

In this week’s post, I will talk about a few objects that I think bring up Bon Odori or the Bon Dance. Just to give a brief introduction, the Bon Dance is a Japanese-Buddhist holiday when we honor the spirits of one’s ancestors. Lately, especially on Hawaii it has become more of an anticipated social event where you don’t have to be Buddhist. Anyway, here are the objects you’lol definitely see at a Bon Dance.

 

When you first see a Chochin, you may think it is just for decoration, but it has a much more spiritual meaning to it. Buddhist believe when the spirits come back to Earth, they might not know who they are or where they are. So we write or laminate names on the Chochins so they can find the way and light up the night. You might even see them dancing when the wind blows the lanterns.

 

Another Bon Odori staple is something you’ll see a lot of regular attendants wear. Its called a Happi coat which is a Japanese straight-sleeved coat usually made of indigo or brown cotton and imprinted with a distinctive mon (crest). They are usually worn only to festivals. Originally these represented the crest of a family, as happi were worn by house servants. Now today, it is a well known costume.

Bye,

Hmschad