Group 2

7/14/2016

Group 2

Ingrid Luk

Natalie Yeung

Sharon Lau

Doris Wong

Alicia Au

Our first lesson of the day was Visual Design Thinking. At the beginning of the class, our instructor, Mr. Bill Scott, asked us to write all twenty-six alphabets horizontally on a piece of paper. It was a bit hard to do so since we had to adjust the spacing between the letters to allow them to neatly fit on a line. The technique of doing this perfectly was to first write ‘A’ and ‘Z’ in the two ends, then add the ‘M’ at the middle. Afterwards, write ‘G’ between ‘A’ and ‘M’, and so on. In this way, all letters would be able to fit into the narrow line tidily.  Moreover, Mr. Scott also taught us how to improve our calligraphy skills. Firstly, we drew many strokes and dashes. Then we practiced drawing ellipsis and chose the best ones and combined them so that the letters would look nicer and tidier. We really had a lot of fun writing calligraphy! Later on, we did some sketching on our own. Sharon and Ingrid drew beautiful red roses while Natalie drew an elegant lady. Alicia drew a cool racecar and Doris sketched a bicycle. We had a great time using our creativity and successfully finished our artwork within an hour. Sadly, this was our last art lesson and all of us wished to have more time with Mr. Scott. Today, we definitely learnt a lot of useful drawing techniques, enabling us to unleash our creativity. We are sure that all skills learnt will be extremely useful to us when we do various presentations in the future.

The afternoon lesson was was second session of Blogging Your Journey. We discussed biased journalism, evaluating the media and how to avoid being fooled. It was definitely very useful for us to understand how to look beneath the surface and not be just blinded by biased information, be it websites, newspapers, magazines, professional journals, books or documentaries. When gathering information, we should choose media source wisely and select those that were more trustworthy. We should also be conscious about not commenting about race and religion on mass media platforms. Furthermore, we should always check for fallacies and judge whether the content on the media was true or not.

After the lecture, the teacher taught us how to edit photos using Google. We had a lot of fun editing our beautiful pictures and posting them on our blogs.

After the lesson, we went to Stanford Office of Admissions to attend a talk about admissions to Stanford. The speaker gave us some tips on how to prepare for applying to Stanford for admission. The requirements of having chance to study at Stanford are high, requiring excellence in required both academics and non-academic interests.  We know that the competition between applicants is intense since Stanford is a top-notch university in the world. Therefore, we should get prepared right now if we want to get into such a great school in the future.