Chat, IM, and SMS language

First, read this short explanation of SMS.

SMS (Short Message Service) is a text message service used by GSM and other mobile operator/carrier companies. Similar to paging, these messages are sent in a text form to and from your mobile device and/or in instant messaging systems like ICQ, MSNmessenger, and more. These short text messages can be constructed on your computer or a wireless enabled device where limitations drive creativity!

Typically, on mobile devices, such as cellphones, no more than 140-160 characters per message can be sent as a result of system limitations. SMS is convenient and cost effective way of communicating fora number of different reasons. When you compare it with the cost of air time for voice calls or wireless web access, SMS remains cost effective. Messages remain discreet, and you never get a busy signal! Because of these advantages, the SMS text message craze has caught on with youth and teens. Almost 1 billion messages are sent each day in Asia and Western Europe.

Someone is Australia has translated the Bible into txt-lingo.
(http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4318750.stm)

The examinations board in New Zealand said thatit would be OK to use txt-lingo on university entrance examination essays!

Also read these introductions to text SMS language
http://www.answers.com/topic/sms-language
and
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A765722
For examples, look at these pages. http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/textmessageabbreviations.asp
http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm
http://www.geocities.com/eedd88/abbreviations.html
Notice that some are common and well-known, others are not well-known or not shared across lists. I do not know many of these, and I don't think many of them are well known. These are most of the onesI have seen before: ASAP B4 BF BTW CU CUL CUL8R cuz DK EZ F2F FAQ FUBAR FWIW FYI GR8 ILU IM IMO IMHO IOW KISS LOL MYOB OIC OMG OTOH POS ROTFL RUOK SNAFU SO TGIF TTFN WTF? WYSIWYG.

Question 1: Which of the "SMS lingo" words (from any of these lists or from anywhere else) have youseen or heard of before?

Question 2: Which ones have you used? (I sometimes use b4, CUL, EZ, f2f, fyi, FWIW, imo, RUOK?, btw,and wtf.)

Question 3: Are there any other abbreviations that you use (in English) that you did not see on thelist?If so, what are they, and what do they mean?

Exercise 1: Try to make these text messages back into ordinary English:

wot iz yor nAm?

whr do U live? whr wer U born?

Do U live w yor parNts?

How mNE bros & sisz do U hav? wot R thR nAmz?

How old R u? R U married?

Do U hav a 3:]?

hav U Bin 2 NothA cuntrE?

hu iz yor favorite celebrity?

wot iz yor favorite f%d?

wot sports cn U plA?

hav U eva Bin 2 a concert?

wot iz yor favorite animL?

Do U drink Cofy?

cn U swim? cn U spk NE 4n lngwijz? Do U lIk 2 ski?

Do U hav a part-time job?

whr do U wrk? whr do U go shopin?

wot colRz do U lIk?

Do U lIk ice cream? wot iz yor favorite flavor?

wot R yor hobbies? wot do U do n yor frE tym? Do U lIk mviez? Do U watch TV?

cn U plA NE musical NstrumNtz?

Did U lIk hI skul? whr wz yor hI skul? wot wz yor favorite subjec?

wot R U studying? wot classes R U tkng?

wot do U wnt 2 do aftR U gradu8?

wot iz yor religion?

wot iz yor dream?

I havnt finishD DIS yt bt wud lIk 2 finish b4 9.

U inclUd d 4m whch hz aL of d posebL opinions presntD.

I especalE lIk d 1 hu sumtimz sez hi 2 me.

Exercise 2: Now, try to translate these messages into simpler text messages.

"Why are you late?"

"I will see you tomorrow at the meeting."

"I am waiting for you at the Starbucks."

"Don't forget that we need the document before Christmas!"

"Are you coming to school today?"

You can check your answers here at the English to Txt-lingo translator!

http://www.transl8it.com/cgi-win/index.pl

Question: Is this person in favor of letting students use txt lingo on exams,or opposed? What is this person trying to say? Pls trns8.

nzqa: u mst b jokN. or r u smokN sumthg? lol. so what F kidz pruv they no sbjct mtr? F u cant communic8 yr noldg, it's prty much wrthlss. nz alrdy has svr prblms w stndrd nglsh speling, punc. & grmmr. dont mAk wrs!!! Phil Steven

Some Shakespeare:

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
som R born gr8, som achieve greatness, & som hav greatness thrust upon dem.

Pray now, forget and forgive.
O/ nw, 4get & 4giv.

To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day, thou can'st not then be false to any man.
2 thine own self b true; & it must foLow, az d nyt d dA, thou canst not thN b falz 2 NE man.

Communication Ability and Recent Technology (essay by YS)

The dictionary says Communication means the activity or process of expressing ideas and feelings or of giving people information. Human can’t live by themselves, so people gather and help each other to live. People have to give people information to live, so communication is a tool for people to live.

There is communication whenever a human meet, another human. In ancient times, the gathered people made many groups and then that became society. We can’t live in society without communication, so communication is very important for people to live.

In these days, a lot of convenient technology has been developed and we have come to use it easily. For example, the telephone makes us able to talk to a person who is far away without meets. Talk is one communication tool, so we can communicate with just a voice to a person without seeing them. And other example is e-mail and internet. These things make people less communicate face-to-face. There are a lot of communication styles. So sometimes there are some problems between people without face to face communication. For example, on the telephone, we can’t see our partner’s face, so we can’t know what he or she feeling about what I say. If we use a telephone we have to guess our partner’s feeling with just a voice. When us use E-mail or Internet, it is more difficult for us to guess what people are thinking about. Using E-mail and the Internet, we also can sometimes communicate sometime or exchange information with unknown people. That’s when sometimes people can’t feel that their communication partner is a real person. That’s because we don’t know anything about our communication partner or we have never met them. This anonymity causes problems to make problems that are to hurt someone over PC these feeling are. So now our lives have become very convenient but sometimes we have to think about how to communicate or how to do good communication. Recently there have been many news reports.

One of Internet communication table is slander to someone on the internet. On internet nobody knows who you are. And we don’t have to say to face to face so there isn’t feeling of that is real. The internet can connect and communication all people so a little thing makes very big slander or hurt someone. We have to think about people’s feeling over PC. To think about communication partner’s feeling is base of communication but I think recent children’s this ability to understand other’s feelings is getting low. That’s because the technology developed before we could learn about communication ability between play with friend but now there are a lot of play by themselves without communication. For example TV game, I-pod, PC and so on. So we have to educate children to communication ability that is very big problem for our future, I think.

We have to think about communication ability more and be very careful to communicate without face to face communication. The technology always makes our life convenient but also we have to think about how to use it and always we don’t must forget ability of the face to face communication that the base of the communication.

The Care of Old People (Essay by KM)

My grandmother on my mother’s side is in a rest house. My grandmother on my father’s side is in her house alone. Although the method is different, they are both receiving care. They are not bedridden and do not have dementia. Twice a year, when I go to my grandmothers’ houses to see them, they always greet me warmly. Their care has continued for several years. Their care is a part of life for my family. But it is, in fact, a burden.

My grandmother on my mother’s side has been in the rest house for four years. There are several reasons to enter the rest house. The biggest reason is her daily meals. She also likes cooking and sewing. She is bowed. Furthermore, since her muscles have also declined, she moves slowly. Therefore, it takes time for her to do anything and she will get mentally tired. My aunt lives near my grandmother’s house and visits the house some days in a week. In fact, my aunt has her own lifestyle, so it is not easy to keep visiting and taking care of grandmother. After entering the rest house, her life rhythm was improved. She wakes up in the morning and has three regular meals a day. There are some classes like flower arrangement, seasonal events, Mochi rice-cake pounding, Christmas Party, and so on. She makes some friends.

The bad point of rest house is where it is located. Sometimes my mother and aunt visit the house, but the rest house is located far from any station. A car or taxi is necessary. Because the location is bad, family members may not visit the rest house often. There is a possibility that a family would leave an old person there and neglect them.

My grandmother on my father’s side lives alone in her house since last year when my grandfather passed away. When my grandfather was living, they had a care helper to shop and clean the house for them. Since my grandmother had chronic heart disease and cooking became impossible, they took meal delivery every dinner. Handrails were attached throughout the house. An emergency button was put in to call an ambulance anytime.

An old person living alone is in danger. It is easy to be made a target of thief and fraud. The family always worries about old relatives who live alone. If an emergency happens, there is nobody else in their house. Help may come too late.

The common issue of caring for both grandmothers is the high cost. Although care insurance was established in 2000, it is difficult for all people to receive such service. The situation of care is important. But the relation between the people who are cared for and the people who care for them is more important. Caring for the elderly is a very hard job mentallty and physically. Cooperation of the local areas, families, and the government is important.

The Baby Hatch (Essay by KF)

Recently Kumamoto Jiei hospital established “ The Baby Hatch.” This is the first attempt to make a baby hatch in Japan. I was very surprised when I watched the news about the baby hatch. Then the news started me thinking about that. This issue has many opinions. There are many different opinions about it.

The reason for making the baby hatch was to save newborn babies from being killed and to prevent abortion. The newborn baby has less resistance to disease than adults. The main purpose of the baby hatch is to keep babies temporarily.

The baby hatch has a long history. For several centuries, prototypes of the baby hatch existed in various forms. The original form of baby hatch was set up in Germany from 1996. In Germany, it can begin by The NPO Law of Hamburg in 2000, and the public private hospital established baby hatch in about 80 places. At present, it has spread in Italy and Switzerland, Rumania and more. In brief, it is recognized throughout the world.

The baby hatch has some good points. The baby hatch helps with economic difficulties. The baby hatch can protect newborn babies from death due to abortion and desertion.

On the other hand, the baby hatch has some problems. For example, the baby hatch may cause increases child abandonment. It is easy to give up awareness as a parent. Parents are afraid to admit that they cannot care for their own child. Soon after the first baby hatch opened a 3 years old boy was left there. This is not only the problem of morals. Many intricate issues arise. It is difficult to solve these problems.

I think that the baby hatch is a useful facility. Lately, child abuse is increasing. I hope that the baby hatch helps children. However, people must not depend on The baby hatch too much. The government supports parents engage in child-rearing and women who bear a child women. People who are around children should pay attention more. It is necessary to consider child-rearing once again.

Bullying increase and serious problem (Essay by MM)

Recently, bullying is a very serious problem. Victims are increasing now and the people who killed themselves because of bullying. Do you understand why such unusual things happen?

First, I talk about the bullies recently. There is the Internet now and bullies use this tool. There are online bulletin boards now where users don’t have to write their name, so they can easily bad-mouth the people they hate. Sometimes, they fight on the internet, and then this exchange connects to real bullying. Some bullies put the photo and movie of the victim who they are bullying on the Internet, so many people can see these things. Of course, force is used on the victims by bullies. The victims can’t stand these offenses, they do not know what to do, and kill themselves more easily than in the past.

Recently, some bullies were arrested. Recently, one boy killed himself. He was bullied and his money was extorted. When he couldn’t prepare the money, he stole his family’s money. Why did he do that? Because bullies punched and kicked him if he couldn’t bring the money. So bullies were arrested for extortion. Some victims are forced to steal some goods like a video machine game. Victims can’t stand such heavy bullying, so they kill themselves and bullies were arrested.

I was bullied too when I was an elementary school student. Bullies demanded money from me, beat me, and called me names. At last, I was isolated from all my classmates. I couldn’t tell other people this thing, so I thought that I wanted to die in those days. I spent a painful time. I am very happy now, but the victims who are being bullied think that they have no future, maybe.

I want to say something for the victims. Bullies are people whose heart is very poor. They think that they want to be stronger than any other people. They want to see that they have power over other people, so they bully you. Of course, you may suffer from bullying, I see. But, in the future, you will get a happy life absolutely. If you choose to die now, you will never have a happy future. Please let people know if you are being bullied now, and please ask other people for help!!

Expectation (Essay by Yu L.)

Former Prime Minister Abe’ s resignation and the election of Fukuda was the biggest events this year in Japan. Then it also to be a hottest topic people discussed. Along with the Yasuo Fukuda was elected as the new president of Japan, the various countries' heads express the anticipation to his attitude of Asian diplomacy. They hope he can improve the East Asian countries relations which situation of becoming rigid during Koizumi ruling time. Especially China, America and Korea pay attention to the Fukuda diplomacy. The Bush American government anticipated for repairing their relationship by this chance. At the same time, they also hope Japan could maintain the good relations with China and South Korea, then, maintains East Asians stability. President of South Korean telegram President Fukuda and congratulates Mr. Fukuda to be elected new prime minister then, anticipated bilateral close cooperation for developing the Japanese and South Korean relations. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao also sent a telegram the congratulation then called that China is positive preparing for visiting Japan in spring. Simultaneously, to me as a study abroad student in Japan hope to see good development between Chinese and Japanese relations.

Present Yasuo Fukuda was famous by his mature and steady style. When he was 41 years old his father elected as Japanese prime minister then he transfers to his father’s private secretary and entry into politics. When the first time he became councilor had already 54 years old. After this, he attended to every detail, with a sense of balancing and stabilizing power, content to fall behind others, all of these decided his political style. This caused him got deep trust from Koizumi Junichiro and Mori Yoshiro then, became chief cabinet secretary which authority only inferior to Prime minister. Mr. Fukuda is handy in this position and became a longest reign of public building senior official in the Japanese history. When the reporters asked Present Fukuda “Why was he elected?” He answered that “Maybe they think I’m stable don’t act unreasonably.”

After he took office as Japan's prime minister, he designated America as his first visiting country. In order to gain the supporting from America, he put up the Japanese and American union relates prominent and make it as base of Japanese diplomacy. Fukuda takes U.S. but it doesn’t mean he despises China and other Asian countries. Fukuda's strategy is maintains the balance at these two aspects. He emphasized that he will establish strategy of reciprocal benefit relations with China and advances the Asian diplomacy positively then continues to improve the China policy on his first lecture. Moreover, he will not pay tribute to the Yasukuni Shrine during the tenure of his office. Certainly, stemming from the national interest, the Fukuda cabinet has many differences with China in the very multiple greatly international problems. At some controversial problems, Fukuda will not easily make the concessions. On the other hand, he will attach importance to dialogue and cooperation to solve the problems. It is not possible to manufacture or intensify the contradiction artificially. No matter in administrative or in policy ponder and utilization Present Fukuda is all extremely experienced and mature.

Finally, I hope Fukuda's election may bring a good turn for the Chinese and Japanese relations, both countries may collaborate together, promote trade development. Then, build a good Asian system.

At the Festival (essay by R.K.)

I love the festival at my grandmother’s hometown. Every time I hear the Japanese drums beat, and the festival music makes me feel so excited. When I was little I went to Sawara’s festival and was overwhelmed by the heated atmosphere. I was attracted to this festival.

My grandmother lives in the countryside in northern Chiba. The name of the town is “Sawara”. Sawara is an old town and you can still see the rows of old houses standing shoulder to shoulder. The town looks like the Edo period. Whenever I go to Sawara I feel like I went back to the past and it makes me think how people have created and maintain Japanese culture. Now people come to Sawara as a sightseeing place and also it is used for television or film for period dramas. What I like about my grandmother’s hometown is not only the way the town looks, but also that the town is made attractive because you can feel the warm hearts of friends and family, especially at the festival.

Sawara’s festival is one of the famous festivals in Japan which has a long history and tradition. It has been continued since the middle of the Edo period, so it’s been almost 200 years. It is just almost the same as 200 years ago; there are 14 floats for each district and they are pulled around though the town. It’s not easy to pull the floats because the floats are really big and Sawara has many narrow streets, so they need skills, knowledge, and, of course team work. But the narrow street is one reason that I like it because you can see the float really close up and it is powerful.

All the people in the town dress up in their Japanese “hanten”, a short coat which looks very nice on them. Even little babies in baby carriages are dressed up. All generations enjoy and take part in the festival, and when I look at them I can see how proud and passionate they are. I think it’s really nice that all the people in the town have a really strong bond. It’s been continued over the generations and people have been part of this festival since they were little kids. The younger generation learns how by looking at the older generation.

When it gets dark the festival comes to the climax. You can hear the dance performance and music throughout the whole town. After the festival I felt something is missing recently in big cities. It’s people’s connection with their families and neighbors and the passion of their traditions and culture. There are many things changing these days, but it is also important to keep traditional culture. My grandmother lives in the countryside in northern Chiba. The name of the town is “Sawara”. Sawara is an old town and you can still see the rows of old houses standing shoulder to shoulder. The town looks like the Edo period. Whenever I go to Sawara I feel like I went back to the past and it makes me think how people have created and maintain Japanese culture. Now people come to Sawara as a sightseeing place and also it is used for television or film for period dramas. What I like about my grandmother’s hometown is not only the way the town looks, but also that the town is made attractive because you can feel the warm hearts of friends and family, especially at the festival.

Sawara’s festival is one of the famous festivals in Japan which has a long history and tradition. It has been continued since the middle of the Edo period, so it’s been almost 200 years. It is just almost the same as 200 years ago; there are 14 floats for each district and they are pulled around though the town. It’s not easy to pull the floats because the floats are really big and Sawara has many narrow streets, so they need skills, knowledge, and, of course team work. But the narrow street is one reason that I like it because you can see the float really close up and it is powerful.

All the people in the town dress up in their Japanese “hanten”, a short coat which looks very nice on them. Even little babies in baby carriages are dressed up. All generations enjoy and take part in the festival, and when I look at them I can see how proud and passionate they are. I think it’s really nice that all the people in the town have a really strong bond. It’s been continued over the generations and people have been part of this festival since they were little kids. The younger generation learns how by looking at the older generation.

When it gets dark the festival comes to the climax. You can hear the dance performance and music throughout the whole town. After the festival I felt something is missing recently in big cities. It’s people’s connection with their families and neighbors and the passion of their traditions and culture. There are many things changing these days, but it is also important to keep traditional culture.

Ten interesting blog trends

This article is about blogging, by the same author mentioned below. She observes several types of blogs that perform different functions. What kind of blog do you want to make? Can you think of any other types? Who is blogging? Why? What kind of media content? What kind of topics are they touching on? Who are they writing for?

• Informative
• Cultural
• Travel
• Corporate Humanization
• Creative Ranting
• Creative Writing
• Reporting on Events with Personal Accounts
• Pioneering Ideas
• Niche Topics
• Family Blogs

http://blog-services-review.toptenreviews.com/10-interesting-blog-trends.html

Ten Things NOT To Put In Your Blog

According to Pamela S. Stevens, you should never put your name, the names of family members, where you live and work, telephone numbers, personal e-mail address, plans for when and where you will be, travel itineraries, or pictures that include identifiable information about your home, work, or car! Do you agree with these? Are they good suggestions? Why or why not?

If your blog or journal is posted for “Everyone,” meaning that
anyone can look at it, you should hold back identifiable information.
Here are 10 things to never put in your personal blog:

1. Your full name.
2. Your kids, friends or family member’s full names.
3. Where you work.
4. Where you live.
5. Telephone or cell number.
6. Personal email address.
7. Where you will be and when you will be there.
8. Pictures of where you live or work that include identifiable information.
9. Pictures of your car that show the license plate number.
10. Travel Itinerary.

If you hold back identifiable information you can be assured that most of your thoughts are safe to share. If you are not concerned with generating traffic to your blog, just write and don’t worry about whether it is going to be read, linked to or even liked. However, even if your blog is set to “Protected,” meaning only certain people can read it, you still need to be careful about writing content that may come back to haunt you later. If you really just want to write and not worry about sharing, set your blog to private, and keep your posts to yourself. Either way, public or private, blogging can be fun, cathartic and informative.

Visit the site to read it there.

A Comparison of Blogging Platforms

You can find a comparison of the features of some blogging services at this site.

According to Top10Reviews, the best blogging services are:

	WordPress.com
	TypePad
	Blogger
#4	Yahoo 360
#5	AOL Journals
#6	Windows Live Spaces
#7	Xanga
#8	LiveJournal
#9	Vox
#10	MySpace

The most-popular MySpace is in last place! Their reviews seem to match what I have heard elsewhere. What do you think?

Self-knowledge and the internet: 3 lessons wrap-up

We did three lessons that focused on learning about yourself, particularly

Learning style
Psychological type
Career Interest

These three lessons had several components.
First, you and your partner discussed some questions, such as:

Learning Style: What kind of study method was effective for you?
Psychological Type: What personality type is best?
Career Interest: What kind of careers are you interested in?

and you wrote some answers, such as

Learning Style
My partner’s answer: preparing and review
My answer: listening and speaking

Psychological Type
My partner’s answer: She thinks positive thinking is best.
My answer: I think there is no best; they are all needed.

Career Interest
My partner’s answer: travel or trading business
My answer: education or art

We are trying to practice reading, speaking, listening, and writing, as well as vocabulary and grammar. I think you can do all of these in this task. After discussing these questions and writing your answers, there was an online survey, or questionnaire, that you had to read, understand, and answer by selecting a response. The questionnaire was usually in English, but in one case was in Japanese. Completing the questionnaire gave you a result, such as

Learning Style: The result of the questionnaires could tell you whether you
are a Visual learner, Auditory Learner, Kinaesthetic (Physical) or other type of
learner. Then, you could read recommendations about what kind of learning
techniques usually work best for people who have the same way of learning that
you have.

Psychological Type: The questionnaire was a Jungian, Keirsey, or
Myers-Briggs type questionnaire that would identify your personality type from
among 16 different types based on the way you think, feel, relate to other
people, express yourself, and so on. This can be used to match you to certain
kinds of work, and even identify who would be a good marriage partner!

Career Interest: The results give you your RIASEC code, or Holland code,
that tells you which of 6 different kinds of work you are probably best suited
for (Realistic, Investigative, Artistic, Social, Enterprising, or
Conventional). Some people get results which are a combination of 2 or
three of these letters. You could then see a list of jobs which match your type,
and some movies about the jobs.

All of these types of self-knowledge can be very useful. Look at what may happen if you do not understand your self.

Learning Style
If you do not understand your own best way to learn, you will not be able to
memorize or learn new things. You may get bad grades and start to think that you
are stupid.

Psychological Type
If you do not understand your own psychological profile, you may try to
change into a person that you are not. You may marry someone who is not really
compatible, too, for example.

Career Interest
If you do not what jobs are right for you, you may try to do something
which is not suitable for you, and may not like it. Then, you will have to quit
in a few years and start over in a new career.

Finally, you have been asked to write about what you found. I said that you should be able to write about 150 words on each topic. In order to evaluate your performance on these tasks, I need to have your written work for the questions with your partner, and you short written report. You written report shows me that you worked on discussing and answering the questions, that you tried the questionnaire, that you interpreted the results, that you thought about the results, that you tried to relate the results to your prior experiences, and that you were able to write a little about the whole process in English. Naturally, when you write this, you might also refer to the answers to the questions that you did with your partner.

The written reports that I have received in the past have not been very good.
• Some have been too short. (Please write more.)
• Some are very rough machine translations. (Please write human translations, not machine translations. We do not need any student or employee to make machine translations.)
• Some have just copied the results text from the computer onto the paper. This does not show any evidence of thinking about the results. In other words, you could copy Italian or Spanish results from the computer onto a paper, too, without understanding or thinking about anything. Copying has no meaning and no value. Write ABOUT your results. Do not simply COPY your results.

I will provide an example of what I think your report might look like, for each of the three tasks.

Learning Style

I am interested in learning style, because I have seen that people can learn in different ways. When I meet someone who is good at English, I try to find out how they learned English. There are many different replies. Some people said that they learned from NHK broadcasts on the radio or TV. Other people said that they learned when they traveled, lived, or studied abroad. Other people learned by exchanging letters with a pen friend. Some people learned English by reading lots of books. I realized that there are many ways to learn a language.

When I began studying Spanish, at university, I couldn’t keep up, and I was getting a D. I quit Spanish, and later, when I studied Japanese, I realized that I needed to memorize kanji, vocabulary, and grammar by making word cards. The questionnaires for learning style told me different results at different times. Sometimes it told me that I am a Kinaesthetic learner. Another one said I was Visual. I think that I love language and playing word games, too. It could be that there are more than 3 or 4 learning styles, and that I am good at using 2 or 3 of them. I think I am able to use different learning styles at different times to match what I am learning. For example, sometimes I memorize a phone number by the sound the numbers make in Japanese, sometimes I think of pattern my fingers make when they push the buttons, and sometimes I hear the phone number or see it written in space. I hope that I can continue to learn, and get better at remembering students’ names! (278 words)

Psychological Type

I took the Keirsey temperament sorter and the Humanmetrics Jung test. On the Keirsey test, I have had several different results since I first took it about 4 years ago. I have had the results of Mastermind (iNTj), Architect (iNTp), and Healer (iNFp). These results are matched to Eisenhower, Einstein, and Princess Diana. If I average those different results, the result is INTP. Also, when I take the Humanmetrics Jung test, I also get INTP. However, the “T” part is only 1% strong. Of the four basic types, this means I am a Rational, not Artisan or Guardian. I am close to Idealist, too. The Idealist type includes “Teacher” and “Healer”. I think this result is correct. I feel farthest from the Guardian, because the Guardian trusts the government and authority, and I do not; the Guardian likes business, and I do not; and the Guardian likes safety, security, and physical work, and I like to take a chance. INTPs are precise, and often go into linguistics. This matches me! The INTPs include many philosophers, scientists and people I admire, such as Jung, Midori Ito, Tiger Woods, Rick Moranis, and Isaac Newton. They say INTP feeling tends to be all or none. INTPs love mathematics, language games, computer systems, and any complex system. The description at http://typelogic.com/intp.html sounds a lot like me. (222 words)

Career Interest

I took the career interest quiz. Sometimes I get different results when I take these quizzes. After taking several different ones at different times, I notice that I usually get Investigative jobs. These are jobs like scientist or detective. I think it matches me, because I have always been interested in the FBI and science. I also get Social as my second result. This matches my true feelings, because I think it would be great to work as a doctor or a nurse or teacher or something that helps people in some way. I do not like to think of trying to sell things to people or make them spend money, but I like to try to help somebody. I also sometimes get high results for artistic and realistic work. I like art a lot, and I like to express myself with some kind of art or music. I also think it is sometimes good to work with real physical things, and use my hands. It can be refreshing, but I don’t like to do it all the time. (179 words)

My writing was 150-300 words. In your case, try for 100-150 words. The 3 reports altogether should be about 300-450 words. Do not copy or use straight machine translation. (You are a human.)

Career, Job, or Occupational Interest and Aptitude: Part 3 of Learning about yourself on the internet

Part 3 Career/Job/Occupational Interest Survey

Warm-up Discussion:
Talk about these questions with your partner.
Use English!

How can we classify or organize the different kinds of jobs or careers?
What different “types” of jobs are there?

Have you ever had any kind of aptitude test or career interest survey?
If so, what did the results tell you?

What kind of careers are you interested in?

Why?

How well do you know about these jobs?

Vocabulary Preparation:
Before you do the survey, look at this vocabulary.
Ask your partner or your teacher to explain words that you do not know.

• following a
  budget
• flying airplanes
• studying people in other
  lands
• going to concerts
• fixing cars
• creative writing
• physics
• playing music
• interior
  decorating
• typing reports
• reading art and music
  magazines
• keeping detailed
  records
• being with
  leaders
• being in a science
  fair
• teaching children
• working on a sales
  campaign
• foreign languages
• talking to
  salespeople
• advanced math
• belonging to a
  club
• making new
  friends
• working in a lab
• carpentry
• buying clothes for a
  store
• talking to people at a
  party
• word processing
• fixing electrical appliances
• astronomy
• filing letters and
  reports
• using a cash
  register
• attending sports
  events
• being in a play
• working nine to
  five
• giving speeches
• being elected class
  president
• putting together model
  kits
• working with the
  elderly
• working with
  animals
• fashion design
• cooking
• helping people solve personal
  problems
• doing puzzles
• using business machines
• drawing
  orpainting
• selling life
  insurance
• going to church
• wildlife biology
• using a chemistry
  set
• take a course in car engine
  repair
• counsel other people your
  age
• study earth
  sciences
• construct wooden
  furniture
• work with scientists to design
  a new jet engine
• design an office filing
  system
• manage a sales
  force
• sing in a musical variety
  show
• paint a mural
• describe how sunlight is used
  for energy
• participate in community
  activities
• conduct research
  studies
• lead a seminar on taking
  business risks
• track company sales and
  finances
• direct theatrical
  productions
• work with abused
  children
• use weights and
  measures
• do automotive body
  work
• write scientific
  reports
• improve the accounting system
  of a small business
• find people to invest in your
  business
• write songs
• take a course in marriage
  counseling
• build a house
• read to blind
  people
• enter data into a
  computer
• think of ideas for starting
  your own business
• learn how to arrange the
  subjects for a photograph
• invent scientific
  products
• participate in a big brother
  big sister program
• compute wages for payroll
  records
• take a short story writing
  class
• repair a wooden
  fence
• help your business
  grow
• learn how to use a word
  processor
• play a musical
  instrument
• learn about
  childcare
• use a prism to study
  light
• assemble a new
  bicycle
• change the structure of a
  corporation
• tax accounting
• design greeting
  cards
• teach adults how to
  read
• explain how satellites
  work
• replace a broken light
  switch
• learn how to develop real
  estate
• identify different types of
  science lab equipment
• restore an old
  car
• design a set for a
  play
• provide counseling to people
  with drug or alcohol problems
• write a business
  proposa
• lfill out order forms for a
  company
• be a file clerk
• teach learning disabled
  students how to read
• cut wood with a
  handsaw
• write a script for a
  play
• lead a project team or
  committee
• conduct an audit
• manage a new area of a large
  corporation
• build a radio

Vocabulary OK? OK, then, let’s start.

Internet Action Research:
Now you are ready to take some occupational interest surveys in English! We will try 2 different ones.

The first one is the Career Interest Checklist.
It is here:
http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/careers/inventories/Interest-Checklist.xml
or
http://www.learnmoreindiana.org/@students/students_ms/careers/interest_inventories/Interest-Checklist.xml
There are 48 choices here. You simply check the ones that you think you would like to do.
Then click SUBMIT.

The second is the Work Interest Quiz.
It is here:http://www.myfuture.com/toolbox/workinterest.html
From among the 60 choices, check the jobs that you think sound interesting. Then click GO.

Both of these surveys will give you a RIASEC code. It tells if you like jobs which are
Realistic,
Investigative,
Artistic,
Social,
Enterprising, or
Conventional.

These are also known as Holland Codes.

You will also see a list of careers. If you click on a career name, you will go to a page which has summary information, wages, the job situation, and a short film about the job. Select “SLOW CONNECT WITH TEXT” from the “Video Options” menu and you can watch a short film about the job.

(I am sorry to see that some of these links are no longer working or have changed in the past year since I first wrote this. You can also try to Google for the phrase "Career Interest Checklist" or "Work Interest Quiz" to find these interactive quizzes at another site.)

Reflection and Writing:
Please write a short report about your results. Did you learn anything new? (Look at the answers you wrote earlier.) What did you learn? Does the test seem to be accurate? Is this job the same or different in Japan? Would you consider working abroad? Were there any differences in the results from the two tests? Try to write 100 to 150 words, please. No machine-translation or copying, please. Make it into your blog post. Hand in your writing on a separate piece of paper, if there is no room on this paper. Or, you could e-mail it to me with the Subject Line “Career Interest Survey writing”.

Learning Style (Learning About Yourself on the Internet)

This is the first activity of Learning About Yourself on the Internet that I gave you. I think we discussed it back in January.

Action: Internet Research (45-90 minutes)
Learning Style Links:

***** This one, DVC, may be the easiest one. It has 32 questions.
http://www.metamath.com/multiple/multiple_choice_questions.html
At the end, it tells you your best way to study immediately.

**** The VARK Questionnaire
It just has 13 questions, multiple-choice. You will get a result with a link to a page which explains the characteristics of your learning style. You should be able to go to a page which gives the results for your learning style. After you read about your learning style, you can look at the other learning styles (according to this VARK model), which are linked to on the same page. It gives really good advice, so I recommend this link. The result you get will be one of these words: Visual - Aural - Read/Write - Kinesthetic - Multimodal.
Ask me for help if it is not working.
http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=questionnairehttp://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/vark.htm

*** This Is the Felder Scale. It has about 44 items. http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
You may want to make a translation of the questions. Sometimes it is hard to choose one.

** This is a simplified learning style test. You read the chart and see which column you usually match the best. It groups people into three kinds of learners.
http://www.chaminade.org/inspire/learnstl.htm

* These are links to do a pencil-and-paper version of a Learning Styles
Test, if you want to do it off-line.
http://www.rrcc-online.com/~psych/LSInventory.html

Reflection and Writing (60-90 minutes)
After investigating your learning style on one or more of the sites above, print out your results, or save them so that you can review them. If you went to more than one site, did you get the same results? (I didn’t! One told me I am kinesthetic, and another told me I am Visual!) Do the results sound like you?

Write a short report about what you found out from this exercise. Print it as one A4 page and give it to your teacher. About 100-150 words would be appropriate.

You can post your writings about yourself on your blog as a blog entry if you like.

Learning about yourself on the internet: Personality Test

Learning about yourself on the internet.

Self-knowledge. (=) Knowledge of Self.

Part 2

Personality Type
Warm-up Discussion:
First, discuss these questions with your partner:

What is "personality type"?
What personality types are there?
What personality type is best? Is one personality type better than another?
What do you know about your own "personality type"?
Are your friends the same personality type as you?
Is it easier to get along if you are the same type, or if you are complementary types?
Are the members of your family the same personality type as you?
Do you think it is possible to change your personality type?

Discuss these and record your answer and your partner's answer.

After you write your answers from your discussion there, you are ready to take a psychological test!

Internet Action Research:
Here is one in Japanese! Easy! The results are in English, though.Choose one answer for each question.
Keirsey Temperament Sorter II (Japanese version)
http://keirsey.com/japanese/japanese.html
There are 70 questions. It takes about 15 minutes to complete. After you answer all of the questions, click the “score test” button on the bottom of the page.You will then go to a result page which will say
"Keirsey Temperament Sorter II Results"
"Your Temperament is " (CLICK ON THE LINK HERE FIRST!)
"Your variant temperament is "
(COME BACK AND CLICK ON THE LINK HERE AFTER THE OTHER LINK!)
The result will be a word that indicates a basic type, such as Artisan, Idealist, Rational, or Guardian. When you click on that word, you will go to a page that has the 4 sub-types of that type. Therefore, this test finds 16 different types of personalities.There are pictures and examples of the 4 types. Below that is a description. Read the description and try to understand what it says about you. Do you think it is accurate?You can click the BACK button to go back to the previous page and click after “Your Variant Temperament is…” This result is very interesting. Read that. Translate into Japanese if you want to.If you are curious, you can read more about this test here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiersey_Temperament_Sorter

Second choice:
Humanmetrics Jung Test
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
This one is in English. There are 72 yes/no question. Answer and click SCORE IT.You will go to a page that will link you to 2 expert’s explanations: one is by Keirsey, and one is by Mr Joe Butt. Joe Butt gives a lot of information, such as how you can get along with other types of people. There is also a marriage test, so you can see if you are compatible with another person (or if you will fight)!

Reflection and Writing:
Now, write about it. What do you think about the result? Do you think it is an accurate result? This test is said to be accurate 75% of the time, so it is wrong 25% of the time. Write about either test, or both, if you have the time to do both! Do not copy and do not write a machine-translation. (100-150 words.) You can write your findings on your blog. If you can write your findings on your blog. If you don't want to do that your blog. If you don't want to do that, write them on the paper or as an e-mail.

Tasks to do at Blogger

Your assignment for Blogger is the same as the 3^rd year students.

Here are some things you can do at Blogger. Show me what you can do.

Make a blog (or make two blogs for two languages, or make three blogs for 3 languages).
Notify me of your blog (by e-mail or by posting here).
Make a profile (but don't give away too much personal information).
Make a post. (Write several posts. Keep posting.)
Write a post to say hi, introduce yourself to us, the world, or whoever.
Tell your goals and plans for the future.
Write about your studies, thoughts, or your daily life experiences.
Upload a picture (to your profile, or your header, or inside a post, or to your sidebar…)
Add links.
... (add hyperlinks to your posts and/or sidebar)
... (link to other students and teacher's blog)
... (link to sites that you like and use)
Use some styles (colors, bold, italic, font, size, bulleted lists, etc., etc.)
Manipulate or change your template (add elements)
Adjust your settings to your liking (privacy, etc.)
Help your fellow students by showing them how to do things.
Make another blog at Wordpress or another blogging platform to compare features.
Add comments to other student's blogs.

These are some basic blogging skills that you should master! There may be some others you want to use and demonstrate.

Hello to seminar students

Hello. This is a blog, and this is my first blog post on this blog. It is very easy to set up a blog at blogger; it just takes a few minutes. After you make a blog, send me an e-mail (or post a comment on this blog) to let me know of your new blog. Second, you can make a new post to say hello. You could also make another post about your future plans and goals. Include your short-term goals for this year and this class, your medium-term goals for the next 5 years or so of your life, and your long-term goals (what you want to do with your life). Third, you could edit your profile. Do not post too much personal information in your profile. This blog will be a place where you can put some of your writing. It is another way to express yourself.

Try to upload a picture. Add some hyperlinks.

If you want to compare blogging platforms, you could also make a blog at Wordpress. We could then write a few paragraphs about the differences between the two. In order to do that, you would have to use both services a little and experiment with different features until you know which one you like best.

Can you link your flickr page into this blog? You can make a flickr badge here: http://www.flickr.com/badge.gne