Sunday, March 22, 2015

Cartoon Book-talk

I created a cartoon book-talk about The Brothers Karamazov using Bubblr
Here is the story




A Book Commercial



I created a book commercial by https://animoto.com about The Brothers Karamazov. You can watch it on the following link, so I hope you like it.  

https://animoto.com/play/2SGFs4BeqNoOtbke7bTSYQ

Daily Lit Reflection


For my daily lit I have been reading The brothers Karamazov, which was a wonderful experience. I read the book in Arabic one year ago, and I wanted to read it in English, but I had not had the time for it. Therefore, I started reading daily on my email from https://www.dailylit.com/. The book is a large one. It has 352 parts, and I got dailylit to send me the book on a daily basis, so it is probably going to take almost a year to finish it. Right now, I am reading section 32. Almost half of my readings were when I was using my email at my laptop. Some of my readings were done by my cellphone when I am using the toilet or when I am on the bus, and the rest were by my IPad. I enjoyed a lot my readings parts, I even asked twice for another part to be sent on two days. In the future, I am going to use my IPad and my cellphone more than my laptop, because I think by doing so, I will be able to do more than one task at a time, which would save me more time.

Audiobook Reflection


For my first audiobook, I had a Hero of Our time by Mikhail Lermontov from https://librivox.org/. I read the book in Arabic and decided to listen to it in English. The running time of the book was 05:55:30, and I listen to it about two weeks ago. I listened to the book while I was working at my laptop. The amazing thing about the “Librivox” website is that it is not only a public domain in the US, but it also has the audiobook of Hero of Our time divided into 20 tracks, which made it easy from to listen to considering that every track is about 20 min. In the near future, I am thinking about having my second audiobook on my smartphone, which would make my readings more productive.