February 2011
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WatchLearning Experiment - Last day - Phase 14c
After some weeks of non-practising, I put on a final test just to see, if I could read it all through and see all the possible mistakes in advance. And I did. Mostly. Reading splitted in three parts. Reading of this text isn’t inspiring anymore. And I should start preparing for the next level (talking about something fluently without additional...
WatchLearning Experiment - Last day - Phase 14b
After some weeks of non-practising, I put on a final test just to see, if I could read it all through and see all the possible mistakes in advance. And I did. Mostly. Reading splitted in three parts. Reading of this text isn’t inspiring anymore. And I should start preparing for the next level (talking about something fluently without additional...
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Learning Experiment - Last day - Phase 14a
After some weeks of non-practising, I put on a final test just to see, if I could read it all through and see all the possible mistakes in advance. And I did. Mostly. Reading splitted in three parts. Reading of this text isn’t inspiring anymore. And I should start preparing for the next level (talking about something fluently without additional...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 11 - Phase 13c
Another three recordings in a row, all with the same clothes. If this is beginning to seem silly, be aware that there are actually lots courses for people, who want to overcome their current limits as a person. I think that that applies to me as well. I randomly selected 6 paragraphs of text and read them.
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 11 - Phase 13b
Another three recordings in a row, all with the same clothes. When the concentration is dispersed, one needs to multitask like computers, but as resources are limited, one can’t do well everything. It easy to make waves with one hand and read at the same time, but touching fingers of one hand with same hand’s thumb, is not easy. “You can...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 11 - Phase 13a
Another three recordings in a row, all with the same clothes. I made the text shorter and rewrote parts of it, as it didn’t benefit anymore to read it all. I like this new voice of mine. I spelled everything by streching the words in syncronization with my face stretchings.
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 10 - Phase 12c
Three recordings in a row, all using a bit different camera’s angle and distance in relation to me than earlier recordings. I printed the text, cut it in pieces (one paragraph per piece) and placed them next to the webcam. That way there would be shorter route for eyes to move between. If I’d be closer to the webcam, it would be in my mouth.
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 10 - Phase 12b
Three recordings in a row, all using a bit different camera’s angle and distance in relation to me than earlier recordings. I changed the hand position. After the first text paragraph I start to read much faster.
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 10 - Phase 12a
Three recordings in a row, all using a bit different camera’s angle and distance in relation to me than earlier recordings. I had scanned the booktext and run it through OCR (Optical Character Recognizition) -software and corrected few mistakes it had made while reading. In this one I wanted to seem like being closer to the screen, which you are...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 9 - Phase 11
I visualized the text by showing photos. This also develops my spatial abilities. While reading I explained certain words by aid of online dictionaries, from which I had printed some pages. Using webcam’s autoexposure might give strange or bad resul, if shown photo contain lots of light areas.
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Credits for the used photos (all from Flickr,...
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Learning Experiment - Day 8 - Phase 10
As this was becoming too easy, I decided to drum while reading; interesting thing is that it all became even more easier — like extra stimulation of any kind, synchronized to rhythm of the speech, had something do with it. Seems like I’ve made few wrong quesses about how certain words are spelled. How would you spell word ‘birch’?...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 7 - Phase 9
Bought some strawberries and ate few of them while reading. Eating and drinking does affect my concentration a bit — at this time atleast — but I think that generalization of this conclusion shouldn’t be extended too wide. Have I actually learned anything new about the text or become a better speller since 2 earlier phases? Not very much,...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 6 - Phase 8
All went just fine until I burst into a laugh at 6.00. As my hands were holding the book and I tend to use gestures of some kind when I talk in real life, I used my head to emphasize parts of the text (not in the beginning of the video). I’m beginning to like being on screen. Only few words left to spell more carefully and words like...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 4 - Phase 7
Went and bought a new webcam B. I shouldn’t place the condenser microphone as low as I did this time, because then I’ve to amplify the audio even more than usual (I just didn’t want it to be visible). This time I read slower as in earlier phase, as I wanted to see, if I do mistakes at the same positions (in text) as when I read faster. And...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 4 - Phase 6 (low-res)
No speed records this time, but I felt the reading quite confortable as I was becoming confident to myself at this task. I purpously “took my eyes of the text” and looked forward as it gave a different impression, and I also wanted to see how well I can remember the next few words without looking straight at them. Rhythm was better than...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 3 - Phase 5 (low-res)
I’m glad to notice that I remember all the spelling corrections, which I looked from the dictionary. While reading and getting closer to a word that I was tough earlier, the correct (or almost correct) spelling comes to awareness as some kind of “silent spelling suggestion”. Today I spelled aloud news I read from through my...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 2 - Phase 4 (low-res)
There were aproximately 40 words that I had spelled slightly wrong and some ‘ubiquitous’ I had spelled totally incorrectly. Managed to squeeze the reading time by 30 seconds, even with the new (more correct) spellings, but I accentuated many words too much. By reading a bit faster than earlier, some detail got lost. I need to work the...
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 2 - Phase 3 (low-res)
Managed to squeeze some more time; reading time has decreased by 2 minutes. Reading feels more relaxed. It has become easier to understand whole sentences at once, instead of focus being mostly targeted to single words.
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 2 - Phase 2 (low-res)
The text has became more familiar. Too much seanconnerish. Reading time dropped by a minute. While reading, text ahead will become to awareness earlier.
WatchLearning Experiment - Day 1 - Phase 1 (low-res)
Slighly sluggish reading. Tries to mask wrong spellings. Gets a bit distracted after a troublesome word. Tried to be funny.