Blog by Tomo

In the past, I have indeed learned about the posture to have when giving presentations, in the past class by Rab Paterson. In todays class, rather than learning what to do, we have learned about what to not do. Don't become a robot. Don't put coins in your pocket. Don't do martial arts style guarding (where it hides the center of your body).

Different languages have different pronunciation difficulties. For example, Japanese people have difficulties with the L and R sounds, since the sounds by those letters are not familiar to them. Personally, I had no problems with R and L sound when I was learning english at a young age. Therefore, I have a personal hypothesis that young people have better flexibility over accents. (edit: It was in fact true)

Today, we learned about many different types of presentations, and the roles of those presentations in events. The types of presentations of which were introduced to us were: Keynote Plenary Featured presentations I have been familiar with keynotes, since I have watched  https://www.f8.com/ . Facebooks, keynote, and had a general idea of "keynotes" being the supreme of the presentations in any event.

This semester was mainly about finding a topic to research about and gather information, as well as sharing the information with others through an essay. I would like to write briefly about what I think about "how" it is important to have these skills in the future. In the world today, it is reasonable to consider the internet as our major platform for gathering information. When we see documents and essays by others, we can almost always see from the works cited, that most of the sources are from the internet (webpage, article and etc.). Moreover, the world today is centered around not just the internet, but all informational platforms. Since the breakthrough of the informational revolution within our world, the value of an individuals information has decreased, and the need for information from multiple sources has been common for many tasks. As we can see from the changes of our world, the ability to gather information has become more valuable in the world today. Furthe...

There are many exciting new tools to work with online these days. However, if you are like me, you would have wondered why new apps and tools are produced even today online from companies like Google and Atlassian. This is, from my point of view, the tool to "work together online" is advancing in the world today. For an example, when Google Docs was released, it wasn't popular until a certain update came along the new product. Unlike the other updates Google made on Docs, the update that made Google Docs become popular was the tool to edit and work online with others online. The reason why we go online to work or do games or whatever is because we have someone to think with, and the "turning feel" we get when we get ideas and comments from others is fun and exciting for our brain. It's like getting inspired easily, but for free. Then, here is the conclusion I run into. The theory of working together is not only positive for your grades and performance...

-- Class Log-- In class today, we were showed how to use Zotero and its great features for collecting and crediting sources. Zotero was made by researchers, and its open source (yay!). There was a problem about "installing" on the school PC. I believe you can install and use the app without getting permission (plus, you can launch the app from USB drive) by installing a "portable version" of Zotero. With the portable version, you can carry the app with the USB and launch it with any device without re-installing. The DOWNLOAD LINK . -- Dev Log-- From the fact that Zotero is open-source, i believe as a developer myself, creating a new Japanese article reading plugin for Zotero will be a great help for many users here in Japan. Also, I believe integrating the whole app format to whole web app will help in cases of device support and the time that it takes to sync the data. Although this can be easily made, I don't have the permission to use Zotero'...