Creative Commons

 In the last class, we’ve leaned about the reference. Now we are in the internet’s era and it means that we can easily find and use a lot of information like photos, movies, and so on. But we Japanese students don’t really understand the rules there. We can’t use any information and datas without a permission. And the permission theory is called reference. We watched a video about cc kiwi. There was the word creative commons. It is an icon that shows us how strict the permission of the information is, so we can understand what can we do with it. One of the easiest way to find information with a cc icon is to use cc search. If we use it, only the photos with cc icons will be appeared.

 Academic referencing is very important. 

we all should have had seen this in our lifetime experience↓

“(         )" and also the bottom W.C work cited list. 

Whenever we make slides, report, etc, we have to use this. But yes you know, almost all the Japanese students don’t know the right way of using this, and it’s a big problem. If we break the rule, it means we also break the law but we don’t understand it seriously.

 Next, he said that if the URL of the information is too long, we can use bitlly account and it will become easy to shorten the URL. At last, we discussed several things in groups and decided the main big theme of our presentation. It was fun but I realized how difficult it is to make presentations and also slides. I have to think more about how can I improve the skill of making them from now on.

Think always and be better.

 Rab said that the most foolish, and dangerous word in English is ‘It’s the way we’ve always done.’ We don’t have to do do things just because it’s the way we do. The reason is simple. If we do like that, there will be no improvement. We always have to try to make ascent and be better than the present.  

 Rab told us about the book 'who moved my cheese?’ This was about how to be successful, and how to be able to cope with changes. Everything has been changed, so we have to get over changes somehow. And this book will tell us about it.

 Next, we’ve made groups with people who have the same or similar interests like environmental problem or clean energy.

Rab said that there are some important points about making presentations.

Before we start thinking about the constitution, we have to think about this.

･Main massage→key points. 

We have to decide what is the very opinion or massage of the presentation. And try to raise good key points that support the main massage. We also need to think about who is our audience, what position we are, too. What will we do? What kind of actions? What are the Benefits? We always have to think.

At the last of the discussion we made, we decided a theme for our group’s presentation. The theme is  ‘We on earth have to use clean energy.’ We’ll start making discussion with the theme and try to come up with ideas. It’s so hard maybe, but I'll try to to the best.

Angels On The Moon

 Last time we learned how useful and creative the twitter, youtube, and the good way of making or recording songs at first.

 We’ve followed Rab’s twitter account and understood how great the retweet system is, though I locked my account so followers can’t retweet mine but I realized that the correct way of retweeting. I’ve seen the system was used for spreading useless and crap information like I’m drinking this in Starbucks coffee with friends now:-) or just want us to look at him/her in the pictures so that we can understand how cool or cute they are. And the thing I irritate is that the way they say like this. ‘OMG what a cute girl my friend is! look at this♡’ But the true reason is that she just want to show how cute she is but not the friend is! It’s tooooooooo easy to see through her heart because it’s a patent fact, whoever see the picture must say she is better than the friend. What the hell… But yes it’s a joke, we can use the twitter the way we want lol. By the way, we can get great information from using its kind of apps. 

I love the song Angels On The Moon Rab told us.↓ Let's take a break.

 Next, we continued watching the videoclip and the theme this time was about managers, individuals. and the environment. Maybe you think that all people(especially CEOs) want is, money money money many money. And  you may also think that they don’t care about the environment at all. It’s almost correct I think. But I understood that some of the CEOs of companies don’t think it doesn’t matter whatever bad effects will be fallen on to our environment. They just don’t know the actual condition. In fact, the CEO of nike said he’ve never been to one of his own factories that is located far away from him, and he don’t want to. He also said I’ll go there maybe, because I have a plan to go to a golf competition in the country. I was surprised and irritated because it’s not the way he the CEO have to act. That’s the problem. They don’t know anything about their own company. It’s an obligation to know all the facts that are happened in the factories all over the world and it’s the first thing they must do. I think the CEO of nike will never think about environment even he knows what are happened in his factories. I hate him… By the way, there must be some who will hurt when he/she realizes what they did to our environment.  A man in the videoclip who realized the facts after several years said he was sad because he understood how badly he ran a company at last. But it was too late. What a shame! They have to realize it firstly by going to all the factories of the company.
 Another reason is that, almost the case, even CEOs can’t decide what they will do because the real owner of the company is not the CEO but the people who have the shares of the company. And of course all the things in their blains are about money. For example, which is the best way to get the highest profits etc. A person who was in the video said he was s sad to hear the news but he also hoped the 9.11 will happens one more time at the same time because he can get lots and lots of money from a jump in prices of gold caused by the 9.11. Further more, the first idea he get when he heard the news of the 9.11 was that he can earn many money. Rab asked us how do we think about this, what will we do if we are the shareholder. This question was so difficult to solve because if I’m one of the shareholders, I get confused of deciding which stance I have to take. Sure I want as much money as possible but I want to care about the environment, too. Then I understood the reason why they mix up executives and individuals that was said in the movie. It’s related on our mindset. It’s like a bias that we all have. Ordinary people take the first stance because they can’t control their self-centered thinking. But almost of them have conscience and don’t think it’s a good way. They are a part of human society. But people like us are under a misapprehension that he/she is brute because we think they have no human heart. This is the mixing-up of managers and individuals. 

 The level of discussions we make in the class is getting higher and also it's becoming difficult to come up with good ideas to solve it. But this is the best class I take in HOSEI now. Thank you.