- Use proper language.No vulgarities, obscene words or inappropriate language.
- Be active in group discussion.
- Do what you are supposed to do.
- Update the blog regularly etc at least 3 post with 5 comments in each post.
- Contribute ideas when we have discussion.
- Be responsible.
- Everyone must participate.
- No rubbish in this blog.
- NO copy and paste.
- CHECK your spelling before posting.
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Rules and Regulations.
Rules and Regulations:
The mind mapping tools.
There are different mind-mapping tools you can use.
1.http://bubbl.us/
2.http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
3.http://dmc.umn.edu/flash/mindmap/mindmap2.html
1.http://bubbl.us/
2.http://cmap.ihmc.us/download/
3.http://dmc.umn.edu/flash/mindmap/mindmap2.html
Way to solve our group's problem..
-Regarding the participation of each member, the leader can personally talk to the member and encourage her. If the member find it difficult to post as she might not have a internet access or does not have computer, encourage her to make an effort by going to library to research.
-On the video lesson, if the member do not paid attention and talking, give a signal of silent first. If that do not stop her, write name in the blog to able to inform teachers.
-leader take the responsibility to check that every member have interact with each other
-Hope that one of the member can help me search together wth me for suitable music as four hands and 2 brains better than one.
please comment if you have an idea to solve the problem
-On the video lesson, if the member do not paid attention and talking, give a signal of silent first. If that do not stop her, write name in the blog to able to inform teachers.
-leader take the responsibility to check that every member have interact with each other
-Hope that one of the member can help me search together wth me for suitable music as four hands and 2 brains better than one.
please comment if you have an idea to solve the problem
Elizabeth Choy
Elizabeth Choy Su-Mei nee Elizabeth Yong a.k.a. Yong Su Mei http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2006/10/10/db1002.xml
Elizabeth Choy died on September 14,she was 95 years old then.She had risked her life supplying medicine,messages and money to British Civilians interned in Singapore's Changi Jail during the outbreak of the second Word War.
She and her husband Choy Khun Heng ,who were running a canteen,incurred further risks by sending inradio parts for hidden receivers on a daily ambulace run until the Japanese instituted a crackdown after a British-Australian raid sank seven Japanese ships outside the habour in September 1943.
The kempentai -Japanese military police,suspected that the raiders had acted on information was sent out from Changi by a transmitter ,hence they seized 57 internees on October 10, known as ''The massacre of the Double Tenth''. Fifteen subsequently died from torture and maltreatment ,but no transmitter was ever found.
Elizabeth Choy's husband was arrested first and she was lured to the YMCA in the hope of seeing her husband.She found herself placed with 20 men cramped,bug-infested cage that used to be a single commode ,which used to be for drinking.
She was slapped,kicked,spat at and subjected to electric shock treatments leaving her reluctant to touch any light switch ever again as she refused to confess.
Unable to suppresss her screams or stop the tears rolling down her face, she still insisted that she was merely helping those in need and always walked back to her cell . Eventually her courage and reputation for altruism impressed the though the kempetai who released her after 193 days though her husband,who was sentenced to 12years of jail, did not come out until the japanese surrendered.
Elizabeth Choy died on September 14,she was 95 years old then.She had risked her life supplying medicine,messages and money to British Civilians interned in Singapore's Changi Jail during the outbreak of the second Word War.
She and her husband Choy Khun Heng ,who were running a canteen,incurred further risks by sending inradio parts for hidden receivers on a daily ambulace run until the Japanese instituted a crackdown after a British-Australian raid sank seven Japanese ships outside the habour in September 1943.
The kempentai -Japanese military police,suspected that the raiders had acted on information was sent out from Changi by a transmitter ,hence they seized 57 internees on October 10, known as ''The massacre of the Double Tenth''. Fifteen subsequently died from torture and maltreatment ,but no transmitter was ever found.
Elizabeth Choy's husband was arrested first and she was lured to the YMCA in the hope of seeing her husband.She found herself placed with 20 men cramped,bug-infested cage that used to be a single commode ,which used to be for drinking.
She was slapped,kicked,spat at and subjected to electric shock treatments leaving her reluctant to touch any light switch ever again as she refused to confess.
Unable to suppresss her screams or stop the tears rolling down her face, she still insisted that she was merely helping those in need and always walked back to her cell . Eventually her courage and reputation for altruism impressed the though the kempetai who released her after 193 days though her husband,who was sentenced to 12years of jail, did not come out until the japanese surrendered.
Problem We Faces
Not every group is perfect, there will be some problem. Here are the problem we have in this group.(my opinion)
-Not every member participate in the group posting
-Not paying close attention during video lessons(some)
-Very few interaction between the member
-I am in charge of the music but have difficulties in finding suitable one
-I realise that most of the photo and video are useless to the topic of elizabeth choy
-Lose many photo and clip because of some problem(example, video shaky)
Above is all the problem i found out in these month. i will continue to see if there any problem, i will updated to the blog. Hope we will solve the problem soon.
-Not every member participate in the group posting
-Not paying close attention during video lessons(some)
-Very few interaction between the member
-I am in charge of the music but have difficulties in finding suitable one
-I realise that most of the photo and video are useless to the topic of elizabeth choy
-Lose many photo and clip because of some problem(example, video shaky)
Above is all the problem i found out in these month. i will continue to see if there any problem, i will updated to the blog. Hope we will solve the problem soon.
Monday, April 7, 2008
Our presentation
Most of the slides will reveal the narrator's face and some will include voice over effects.Those clips that are quite shaky,I suggest voice over so that no one will notice we have shaky scenes.Some slides will include Elizabeth's Choy photos,both old and young.We do not have that much pictures of her so most of our clips will be rather revealing.We will have an introduction of her life at the start and we tried to put in interesting transitions but they take up lots of our time.The video can only be about 5 minutes and we are having trouble with the time limitation.The suggestions of transitions was from Miss Joyce Lee and she said we could still improve.Thanks to her,we can finish up a little bit of our video.We will put in some very heroic music from www.sounddogs.com to add in war effects.We followed everything on our scripts and chose our own natural backgrounds but we considered cropping some of our videos.
Our new 'jobs'
Hey everyone,the jobs we are holding now are totally wrong.Let me just make this right~
1)Leonda-Group Leader
2)Dion-Part time narrator
3)Rebecca-Part time narrator 2
4)Hafizah-Part time narrator 3
5)Mei Peng-Script holder
6)Joyce-Suggestor/advisor
7)Celine-editing videos and photos
Please take note~
1)Leonda-Group Leader
2)Dion-Part time narrator
3)Rebecca-Part time narrator 2
4)Hafizah-Part time narrator 3
5)Mei Peng-Script holder
6)Joyce-Suggestor/advisor
7)Celine-editing videos and photos
Please take note~
Please,everyone...
Please,everyone,I beg you to do what you can right now.Joyce,I beg you not to talk so much anymore and contribute during video lessons.I am very stressed right now knowing that we will fail our english and history real soon.I suggest we work together to patch up our broken blog or,we make another because this blog is way too messy and that I don't really like it.There are several links we cannot access and it is so tough trying to find sources.I am trying my best to make this blog a better one so we can all pass.I don't really want to burst so I think we should work together to pass this round.
Reference - videos about Elizabeth Choy
1.Ms Elizabeth Choy (story part 1)
2.Ms Elizabeth Choy (story part 2)
3.Tribute to Elizabeth Choy
4.The passing on of singapore's war heroine,Ms Elizabeth Choy.
Please comment on those four videos I found at YouTube.Thanks.
2.Ms Elizabeth Choy (story part 2)
3.Tribute to Elizabeth Choy
4.The passing on of singapore's war heroine,Ms Elizabeth Choy.
Please comment on those four videos I found at YouTube.Thanks.
Script(Modified)
Narrated by: Dion,Rebecca,Hafizah
We are discussing the perspective of Singapore's own heroine: Elizabeth Choy. Elizabeth was born in Kudat in British North Borneo. Her great-grand parents had been assisting German missionaries in Hong Kong and their work brought them to North Borneo. There the Yong family set up a coconut plantation.
Her father had been the eldest in the family of two children. After completing his early education in China with some English education in North Borneo, he gained employment as a civil servant. He was transfered to Jesselton and later promoted to District Officer and moved to Kalimantan.
Elizabeth then was looked after by a Kadazan nanny and acquired Kadazan as her first language.
In her later life, she worked as a canteen operator with her husband at mental hospital reknowned as the Miyako Hospital. They secretly brought food, medicine, money, messages and even radios to British internees. Unfortunately, they were caught by the Japanese and Elizabeth was arrested on fifteen November 1943 following her husband's arrest on twenty nine October a few weeks earlier.
Believing that their activities were related to the Double Tenth incident, she was interrogated by the Kempeitai but she never admitted to being a British Sympathiser. She was released only after two hundred days of starvation diet and repeated torture. Her husband was released much later.
After the war, she was one of the previlaged few who were invited to Britain to recuperate from the war and was invited to meet Queen Elizabeth. She was a celebrated war heroine and stood out as the only female to have been incarcerated for such an extended period. She was decorated the Girl Guide Bronze Crossly.
The Bronze Cross,the highest award of the Girl Guide movement, is an award for gallantry. She was also conferred the Order Of The British Empire.
lizabeth was a symbol of courage and a true living testimony of the Girl Guide's Promise and law to the final moments of her life, particularly Guide Law number seven being quote' A guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties.'
A remarkable and an inspiring role model, a pioneer in Singapore girl guiding, her passing is a great loss to all of us. But let us with thanksgiving, remember Mrs Elizabeth Choy, her life living in commitment to the Promise and law, shall be a legacy to us all.
-END-
We are discussing the perspective of Singapore's own heroine: Elizabeth Choy. Elizabeth was born in Kudat in British North Borneo. Her great-grand parents had been assisting German missionaries in Hong Kong and their work brought them to North Borneo. There the Yong family set up a coconut plantation.
Her father had been the eldest in the family of two children. After completing his early education in China with some English education in North Borneo, he gained employment as a civil servant. He was transfered to Jesselton and later promoted to District Officer and moved to Kalimantan.
Elizabeth then was looked after by a Kadazan nanny and acquired Kadazan as her first language.
In her later life, she worked as a canteen operator with her husband at mental hospital reknowned as the Miyako Hospital. They secretly brought food, medicine, money, messages and even radios to British internees. Unfortunately, they were caught by the Japanese and Elizabeth was arrested on fifteen November 1943 following her husband's arrest on twenty nine October a few weeks earlier.
Believing that their activities were related to the Double Tenth incident, she was interrogated by the Kempeitai but she never admitted to being a British Sympathiser. She was released only after two hundred days of starvation diet and repeated torture. Her husband was released much later.
After the war, she was one of the previlaged few who were invited to Britain to recuperate from the war and was invited to meet Queen Elizabeth. She was a celebrated war heroine and stood out as the only female to have been incarcerated for such an extended period. She was decorated the Girl Guide Bronze Crossly.
The Bronze Cross,the highest award of the Girl Guide movement, is an award for gallantry. She was also conferred the Order Of The British Empire.
lizabeth was a symbol of courage and a true living testimony of the Girl Guide's Promise and law to the final moments of her life, particularly Guide Law number seven being quote' A guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties.'
A remarkable and an inspiring role model, a pioneer in Singapore girl guiding, her passing is a great loss to all of us. But let us with thanksgiving, remember Mrs Elizabeth Choy, her life living in commitment to the Promise and law, shall be a legacy to us all.
-END-
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
the ph0t0s
MRS ELIZABETH CHOY was born in Sabah in 1910 and came
to Singapore in 1929 to further her studies. When her mother died two years later, she was left to bring up her six younger siblings on her own. During the Japanese Occupation, she became a canteen operator at a mental hospital with her husband. They secretly helped British internees by passing them food and radios.
Also a teacher and social worker, Elizabeth Choy touched many lives SHE was best known as a war heroine to most Singaporeans. But Mrs Elizabeth Choy was much more than that to those whose lives she touched: A teacher for more than 40 years, she also founded a school for the blind and served as a politician for a spell.
BLIND from birth, Ngiam Quek Bee had little hope of an education back in the Singapore of the 1950s. Even when a school for the blind was started, the 15-year-old boy's family was reluctant to let him attend. But the school's founder, a feisty woman called Elizabeth Choy, refused to give up.
A SHORT CONCLUSION..
*1933 : Became a teacher at C. E. Z. M. S or Church of England Zenana Mission School (currently, St. Margaret's school)
*1935 : Transferred to St. Andrew's Boy's School, probably the only untrained teacher at that time.
*1949 : Began a stint as an artist's model, when she was 39 years old and was working in London. She posed for the famed sculptress, Dora Gordine, who did two works of her entitled Serene Jade and Flawless Crystal.
*1950s : Returned to Singapore as Senior Assistant, or Deputy Principal at St Andrew's School.
End 1953 - beginning 1954 : Conducted a lecture tour of Malaya in the US and Canada at the request of the Foreign Office in London. Prior to the tour, she took time to visit Malaya to get a better understanding of the country. At that time, it was in the throes of Emergency.
*1956 - 1960 : Became the first principal of the Singapore School for the Blind.
*1960 - 1974 : Returned to St Andrew's Junior School and promoted to Deputy Principal in 1964.
[EnDoFbP0St]NOTE
Dear fellow members, changes were made to our short clip/presentation/video. The introduction has been completed. There are some adjustments we got to complete by the next class/lesson. Hope you all have a few ideas to make our video interesting. If there are any suggestions, please comment to this entry. Thanks and have a nice day!
The narration(backgound fort siloso)
Elizabeth was born in Kudat in British North Borneo (today Sabah). Her great-grandparents had been assisting German missionaries in Hongkong and their work had brought them to North Borneo.
There, the Yong family set up a coconut plantation. Her father had been the eldest in a family of 11 children and after completing his early education in China with some English education in North Borneo, he gained employment as a civil servant.
He was transferred to Jesselton and later promoted to District Officer and moved on to Borneo's interiors in Kalimantan. Elizabeth was looked after by a Kadazan nanny and acquired Kadazan as her first language.
She worked as a canteen operator with her husband at the Mental Hospital which was renamed Miyako Hospital (the predecessor of Woodbridge Hospital) where patients from General Hospital had been moved to.
They secretly brought food, medicine, money, messages and even radios to British internees. Unfortunately, they were caught by the Japanese and Elizabeth was arrested on 15 November 1943, following her husband's arrest on 29 October a few weeks earlier.
Believing their activities were related to the Double Tenth incident, she was interrogated by the Kempeitai but she never admitted to being a British sympathiser. She was released only after 200 days of starvation diet and repeated torture. Her husband was released much later.
After the war, she was one of the privileged few who were invited to Britain to recuperate from the war and was invited to meet Queen Elizabeth II. She was a celebrated war heroine then and stood out as the only female to have been incarcerated for such an extended period.
She was decorated the Girl Guide Bronze Cross by the World Chief Guide, Lady Baden-Powell, in 1946. The Bronze Cross, the highest award of the Girl Guide Movement, is an award for gallantry. She was also conferred the Order of the British Empire.
Elizabeth Choy was a symbol of courage and truly a living testimony of the Guide Promise and Law to the final moments of her life, particularly, Guide Law #7-- “A Guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties”.
A remarkable, inspiring role model and a pioneer in Singapore Girl Guiding, her passing is a great loss to all of us. But let us, with thanksgiving, remember Mrs Elizabeth Choy; her life, living in commitment to the Promise and Law, shall be a legacy to us all. (rebecca will do the girl guide sign)
There, the Yong family set up a coconut plantation. Her father had been the eldest in a family of 11 children and after completing his early education in China with some English education in North Borneo, he gained employment as a civil servant.
He was transferred to Jesselton and later promoted to District Officer and moved on to Borneo's interiors in Kalimantan. Elizabeth was looked after by a Kadazan nanny and acquired Kadazan as her first language.
She worked as a canteen operator with her husband at the Mental Hospital which was renamed Miyako Hospital (the predecessor of Woodbridge Hospital) where patients from General Hospital had been moved to.
They secretly brought food, medicine, money, messages and even radios to British internees. Unfortunately, they were caught by the Japanese and Elizabeth was arrested on 15 November 1943, following her husband's arrest on 29 October a few weeks earlier.
Believing their activities were related to the Double Tenth incident, she was interrogated by the Kempeitai but she never admitted to being a British sympathiser. She was released only after 200 days of starvation diet and repeated torture. Her husband was released much later.
After the war, she was one of the privileged few who were invited to Britain to recuperate from the war and was invited to meet Queen Elizabeth II. She was a celebrated war heroine then and stood out as the only female to have been incarcerated for such an extended period.
She was decorated the Girl Guide Bronze Cross by the World Chief Guide, Lady Baden-Powell, in 1946. The Bronze Cross, the highest award of the Girl Guide Movement, is an award for gallantry. She was also conferred the Order of the British Empire.
Elizabeth Choy was a symbol of courage and truly a living testimony of the Guide Promise and Law to the final moments of her life, particularly, Guide Law #7-- “A Guide has courage and is cheerful in all difficulties”.
A remarkable, inspiring role model and a pioneer in Singapore Girl Guiding, her passing is a great loss to all of us. But let us, with thanksgiving, remember Mrs Elizabeth Choy; her life, living in commitment to the Promise and Law, shall be a legacy to us all. (rebecca will do the girl guide sign)
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