Reflection on EAP course

My Favorite Artwork

Title:                                      Fruit bats

                                       1991

Artist:                                    Lin Onus

                                               Australia  

                                              1948-1996

                               Media category:                     Sculpture

                              

                             Dimensions:                        250.0 x 250.0 x 250.0 cm overall

Fruit bats 1991 is made up of fiberglass sculptures of bats decorated with rarrk (cross-hatching) hanging on a Hills Hoist clothes line. Under the Hills Hoist icon there is wooden discs designed by dot painting which representing bats’ dropping. Fruit bats sculpture is a mixed contemporary and traditional Aboriginal artwork.

The reason that I liked and impressed by this artwork was that in this artwork the artist shows different between two culture and the contrast between values. In this artwork aboriginals have been shown as hanging bats on Hills Hoist which is an invention of Australia representing western culture. By this artwork the artist means that according to Australian people, Aboriginals are all the same and one group, nasty and noisy like fruit bats. Beyond to this the artist decorated each individual fruit bats by different cross-hatching which shows that they are not the same, they have different groups, languages, stories and from different places. They artist shows that they have been hated by Australians and their natural way of living have been destroyed. As in naturally fruit bats living in tree branches, but by the time trees had been cut down and their nest had been destroyed so they have gathered on clothesline. the same it happened to Aboriginals and that is why they have gathered in small town.     

Art Gallery Collections

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Academic listening video

Excursion next week to art gallery of NSW

We plan to go aboriginal art gallery next week to see some types of traditional and contemporary aboriginal art. this excursion will be in 20 oct. 2016 and we have planed to go by train. This excursion is a part of our listening class we go there in order to listen to the art gallery guider and takes notes from that.
Here is the direction

 

Aboriginal Art At The Gallery

Reflection on the use of twitter for academic purposes

Twitter is an online social network service which also called social network, microblog, and social utility that enable users to send and read short 140- character messages called "tweets". It can be accessed through website interface, SMS, and mobile device apps. The users of twitter must be cautious that as default it is not private as it warns that “What you say on Twitter may be viewed all around the world instantly.” By going to the settings the user can change the privacy and make it public which permit only the followers to read them and retweet.

Twitter has a broad range of usage such as communicating in a social online space, sending and receiving short public massages on different topics, conversation with others and so on depending on the users for which aim they use it. But one of the most important usage of twitter is its academic usage like its use in universities, research, projects, and teaching.

As today many researcher, teachers, and other academic bodies using twitter, it is an easy and useful way for academic students to follow them and gain knowledge and information from what they tweet. The academic bodies usually using it alongside with blogs which means that they simply tweet one or two sentences about the things which are going on in a seminar, conference, research trips, projects and put links to podcasts, webcasts and further details where to downloads papers, other materials and so on. The teachers using twitter in teaching to give advice on each week tasks, readings and helping the students with problems.

The students can use it in groups on particular subjects with hashtag # and the other group member can follow the hashtag and become aware of what is going on. In addition, the students who are aiming to learn something without being present in the class from far ways can follow particular bodies or groups in twitter and referring to the specific hashtags to see what is happening.

If someone wants to tweet anything on a special and specific subjects or events can use hashtag #. Also if the user wants to mention particular bodies can use @ username. Furthermore, it is possible for user to retweet a tweet and also can reply to it using @ username to mention someone.

Reflection on use of delicious for academic bookmarking

Delicious is a social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks. It can help academic learners to add bookmarks of a wide range of useful topics which can help them with their studies. It has the features that let us to search specific topics in the search box and has the options to follow or be followed by others. The feed option shows the post and links which are published by those whom we are following.

I personally believe that the delicious can help me to interact with my colleagues and is useful on group projects to see each other works, sharing ideas and can comment on the issues. It can always keep me in contact with my bookmarks, my works, and the useful links which I added them to my account. It is simply a portable way of carrying my links with me all the times. In addition, during adding bookmarks we put the exact URL of the intended articles or topics as links, brief evolution of the content of the text, and some keywords as tags to help us remember what the article is about.

Furthermore, the delicious has the features which lets us to publish our bookmarks either private or public. The private mode is just let the user to see the bookmarks but the public mode permits others to see them. The delicious has a limitation regarding to follow or being followed by others. It is that, it needs the exact URL of delicious user in order to follow or being followed.