7th July Group 4

Group 4

Chelsea Wong 3S (32)

Nichole Cheung 3T (9)

Alison Kwok 3T (17)

Sharon Ng 3A (25)

7th July, 2016

Lecture 1-Neuroscience:

We learnt about neuroscience today. We found out that neuroscience was actually about the functions of the brain, and how the brain helps us to adapt to our surroundings. We also learnt about the methods of studying the brain, which includes both invasion and non invasion of the body. We discussed about different studies and methods to explore the various parts of the brain, and learnt more about how different parts of the brain help to control the body, and that the brain is actually something really important out of all parts of our body.

Reflection on the lecture of neuroscience:

We felt that the lecture was really interesting. Our teacher was really nice and throughout the lecture, she kept telling us stories about neuroscience and to keep us all going and interested with this topic, and we agreed that this was a very good way to keep us all learning with full attention and concentration. We all thought that the teacher taught us really well on the subject of neuroscience and actually helped us to get into the depth of neuroscience, building an interest to that particular subject. We all thought that we got a lot out of this topic and we really hope to have further chances on expanding this topic.

Lecture 2- Blogging and the media:

After lunch we had media and storytelling for our second lesson of the day. First, we learnt about the history of story, which was originated from five thousand years ago! It really shocked us to know that ancient people had the knowledge to draw cartoons and different pictures on cave walls to show the life at those times. This clearly showed how our ancestors developed writing for the past years. As we hadn’t learnt these in the school’s history lesson, we can familiarize ourselves with the Western history and we all listened attentively and appreciated the teachings of the teacher. After that, we learnt how to create a blog and decorate pictures by using ‘Canva’. We could share everything including our thoughts of our journey in Stanford or even using our imaginations and write a story!

Reflection on Blogging and creative media:

We felt that this creative media and blogging lesson was really fascinating and we learnt a good lot from this lesson. We understood more about the history of blogging and the uses of blogging, which helped us improve our writing skills and our methods of writing. We also learnt about empathy through media and the emotions radiated through the uses of media, creating an emotional impact on all of us, making us understand more about how the media affects our emotions and our feelings. We would apply the knowledge we learnt today of  how to write blogs in our daily life, for example, we could try blogging ourselves and write about our other trips to other places. This would greatly improve our writing and our creativity, and would also improve our art sense as we also had to edit photos in the web ‘Canvas’. We all thought that this activity was really innovative and helped a lot with boosting our writing skills, media skills, and our creativity overall.

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