ELP Journal

Day before yesterday, for the ELP class, we spent two hours at a computer lab. at the ILC building. I was excited to attend to that class because Rab told us that on every friday we will be using those cool Apple desktop and doing something exciting, something fun.
First off, we were thought how to use Gmail effectively. I learned many things that we can do with it and I found that it will be a very helpful tool for our studies. I sometimes tend to avoid using technology and go with a old fashioned ways. For example, writing my research papers with a pencile in my hand. But considering the amout of work I have to do at university, there is no way not to use technology. After that Rab showed us two music videos on youtube, which the contrasst of the two videos was a great analogy of two kinds of papers. One is a paper whichs' ideas are from various sources and are well connected and the other paper which is made of similar sorts of ideas and is not so well organized. I thought this analogy was great because by watching these videos, the difference was so obvious. Not just the importance of writing papers with different ideas, but I also learned the effectiveness of images and sounds. I would like to learn the ways of using visual and audio tools for our studies such as presentation.
We then looked at some stereograms on the internet. I was not able to find some of the patterns and images hidden in pictures but many of my class mates were excited to find them. I was surprised of how decieving some things that we see can be and how difficult it is for us to find out that we are tricked. This experience reminds of me the biased information that we find in our everyday lives. These information often look trustworthy because we tend to believe that if they are on TV, or written in a book, they can be trusted. But as we have been learning here at ICU, we sould not just trust what we hear and what we see. Instead, one must have a critical mind and think wthether something infront of you can be trusted or not.
Overall, I found the class very fun and useful and I'm looking forward to take the next class on this coming friday.