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April 5, 2016

Humans of Cambodia (HOC)

This is the exploration that I feel like I get to know and understand about Cambodia nation’s life looks like. Our group comes up a name called Human of Cambodia (HOC). This exploration is mostly focus on Cambodian life by going outside in different places around Cambodia to interview all those people about how their lives going and their personalities. We come up with this idea by on website called Humans of New York (HONY) and you go to visit that page by this website humansofnewyork.com. In this class the whole class needs to know the technique of taking the pictures for first of all by our first practice is shooting our friends with different themes. For myself I love to shoot photograph because I can be an expert of it in one day. We learn all the technique of interviewing by this man, Brandon Stanton who is the owner of HONY. For the first start of our exploration we start to write our own creative story which just posted before.

And here are the techniques of what questions we should ask?
Ask about the person’s action
Specific actions and habits NOT beliefs
Ask “forward” questions
(What keeps you up at night?) specific- (What’s going to keep you up tonight after this interview?)
forward question is talking about the future
Ask open-ended questions
can answer with YES and NO.
HOW or DESCRIBE
Ask dumb questions
If you don’t know what they saying just ask for “CLARIFICATION!!!!!”
Confused = ASK!
Ask pointed questions and light-hearted questions
controversial – lots of debate
light-hearted – funny, something random, brainless
Ask short questions and then follow up
ask something really short and then follow up

In our exploration working so hard on transcribing the audios that we had been interviewing from Khmer to english. For me sometimes it’s hard for to transcribe because I need to transcribe it exactly word by word so we can’t change the speech of the people saying. When we transcribe we don’t have to transcribe the whole this we need to listen and choose the best part of it. Sometimes when I listen to the audio I felt so happy because it’s funny but sometimes it’s normal. One of my big challenge in this exploration is when I go to interview people it’s hard for me approach them but I always think of the techniques that I learn. Our website is in two languages because we want it to balance and we can let all the Cambodians read it and foreigners too.

Here are the techniques to approach people:
energy you are giving off – non – threatening

escalating levels of intimacy

standing alone (it will be more likely to approach someone who alone)

broad? (broad to personal ex. to be optimistic)
→ He wants personal story

ask about moments (most success, most is specific -sadness, happy…)

if it makes you laugh
→ If it makes him laugh he puts on the blog.

We also follow the process how to get things done faster because we have many audios to work on so this is the process: 1. Choose the audio
2. Transcribe (English and Khmer) & Choose the best part
3. Check english with english facilitator
4. Check Khmer with Khmer facilitator
5. Choose the picture of the interviewee
6. Send it to Website Editor
7. Post it on the Website

During we interview we can’t just taking the picture as we want. We need to ask the permission from them and we need to ask them can we post in the website so it’s public. Go to our Websit NOW! To know about all Cambodians lives: humansofcambodia.ligercambodiablog.org

Here the example of our works:

តើនៅក្នុងជីវិតបងមានរឿងអ្វីដែលពិបាកចិត្តជាងគេ?
ក្នុងជីវិតបងអ្វីដែលពិបាកចិត្តជាងគេ គឺពេលដែលបងមានមិត្តភ័ក្តអត់ស្មោះត្រង់នឹងបង ។
ពេលខ្លះគាត់អត់និយាយស្មោះត្រងនិងស្អប់បង គាត់មានរឿងអីគាត់លាក់បង ប៉ុន្តែពេលបងមាន
អីចែករំលែកដល់គាត់ បងអត់លាក់គាត់ទេ បងផ្តល់ភាពស្មោះត្រង់ឲ្យគាត់តែគាត់អត់ផ្តល់ភាព
ស្មោះត្រង់ឲ្យបង។
“What is the saddest time in your life?”
“The saddest time in my life (is) when I have friends who do not (show) integrity to me. Sometimes they don’t talk the truth and they hate me; when they have something, (they) always hide, but when I have something, I always share with them. I don’t try to hide from them, I give them a faithful, but they don’t give me a faithful.”

April 4, 2016

Hidden Voices Exploration

This is the first exploration of the fourth year in my school and this exploration called Hidden Voices. This is the most favorite exploration that I’ve ever had because it’s about Cambodian Singers and all the endangered songs in Cambodia that our next generation needs to preserve and it’s threatening to live this world. Our goals in this exploration are trying to collect many songs as we can by contact to some people on phone, went outside to interview all the people. In my exploration we have three facilitators are our Khmer teacher, sophorn and our foreign teachers, Rich and Trish. All these three main teachers always help us to get everything done and help us to get everything in place. Our exploration had a trip to different provinces in Cambodia to discover all that endangered songs by interviewing people there. We went to Phnom Penh,
Kampong Spue and Mondulkiri. Also we aren’t just trying to get our old Cambodian songs we want to save the traditional Phnong musics and dances. So we went to Mondulkiri to see the show of the Phnong singing and dancing and record some of them talking about how all of their tradition arts important to them. During our trip we met a lot of people that gave us the precious songs and some of them we never heard before. At the end of our exploration we came up a product is Podcast. We created a podcast for our Hidden Voices exploration and it’s the first episode of our school. Our group worked so hard in the process to make this podcast. We transcribe all the Khmer audios into english. In our podcast we have two hosts, producers and the interviewees. My friend, Dalin and I are the main host in the podcast. Trish, our facilitator gave us a great opportunity to perform the songs that we have in Hidden Voices exploration to audience at Luna. I feel very excited and proud of my group because we can share all of our endangered songs to others. After that we have a sharation and we can share all the information to the visitors that came to our school.

You can listen to our Podcast by ligercast.ligercambodiablog.org and visit my host, Dalin by dalin.ligercambodiablog.org.

February 16, 2016

Artist of Cambodia Description

Exploration Name: Artist of Cambodia
Exploration Dates: January 8 – September 28
Number of students: 5 students
Essential Questions: 1. What is ART?
2. Why ART is important to Cambodia?
3. How ART can make Cambodia develop?
4. How to use art in a business?

Description: Artist of Cambodia is an exploration that the students need to create your own exploration as known as CYOE. Sovannary, Sythong, Vornsar, Sokea and I create this exploration and the ideas up. Our exploration also collaborate with other create your own explorations too such as: Khmer Interior Design Exploration and Robots Exploration. Why we collaborate with them because both of these explorations are focus about recycling stuff. So our main ideas in our exploration are try to create a lot of recycling products. Our goal is to change Cambodian perspective by showing them our products through having a trip with different places. We had a campaign near the market because we want to show what our exploration is doing, also we feel strongly to change Cambodian perspective to see how trash recycles into the useful products. For the first time we arrived the market we set the table full of the our products and there weren’t a lot of people come to us. Then we start to execute our plan by holding our products and talk to people. At that time it was hard but we try our best. Also we had the plan that we collaborate with the villager near our campus that every weeks we collected the dry wastes from them and they need to pack the wastes for us.

Then we had a trip to Takeo Province. We went to NFO and invited the students to join us. The students at there were welcoming us a lot and at that time I felt so excited to share them all of our projects. Our plan to go there is trying to teach the kids to understand how wastes is affecting to our country. All the students at there are smart and enjoy of what we did. So we came up with an idea to have a competition let the students think what can they make the the dry waste. After that we gave a topic to make a school material like pencil case, bottles to keep pencils, pen, ect. Then we divided the students into nine groups because we thought that if we had more groups of student there will be more ideas. Each group had there own cool name Electric Boy, Red Ant, etc. At the end the Electric Boy team won the competition and we gave them the handmade books to them as the prize.

When we arrived back to our school, we needed to prepare everything for sharation. Our sharation was an unusual sharation that we never had in our school before. In the event we had ten explorations. Each team had ten minutes.
I was very happy to share what my team had done in the project and we showed all the products of our project on the big table to the audience. Also we shared all these projects to our parent too and they were very impressed with us and enjoy what we had done.

January 27, 2016

Creative Writing “Ferocious Schnowlzer: The Strange and Brave Creature”

On the sunny day in the dead forest filled with snow, a group of visitors and a dog named Schnauzer came to do a trip around there. In that dead forest there were a lot of aggressive animals hiding in the holes, on the trees and on other places. While the visitors were walking around the forest, a massive and strange situation happened. A strange creature just rushed to them and that creature was called “Towel.” This creature is from a tiger and an owl who have joined with each other and live in the forest for a hundred years. The visitors didn’t know what they were going to do because they were all full with fear. They ran immediately into the forest. After they ran into the forest for a while, they just knew they had lost Schnauzer, so they needed to break into small groups to find him. Schnauzer was a brave dog, so he had left the visitors without letting them know. He had to leave because he knew himself that he had a strong magical body that he could attach to other flying animals. After that, he saw an enormous owl named Ferocious, who had just flown to him and that owl was very kind to Schnauzer, so they became friends. Five minutes later, Schnauzer’s face was getting depressed and Ferocious wondered why Schnauzer was sad. Then Schnauzer told Ferocious that his visitors were in danger and only one strategy could help them: they need to attach both of their bodies to become the strongest and bravest creature in the dead forest. Next, Ferocious and Schnauzer just attached to each other and marvelous magic appeared. They became a huge creature called “Ferocious Schnowlzer.” Usually, birds lay eggs, and mammals have babies, so this creature can’t reproduce. It was just made from an animal and another animal by magic. Ferocious Schnowlzer flew to the Towel and attacked him. While Ferocious Schnowlzer and Towel were attacking each other, all the visitors saw their dog attacking. They all were very happy that their dog was brave and strong. Finally, Ferocious Schnowlzer killed Towel and everybody just screamed out loud with excitement. Suddenly Ferocious and Schnauzer just became normal again. The visitors gave them a prize; Schnauzer got the beef and Ferocious got frogs to eat. So both of them were very happy with their prize.

January 26, 2016

Independent Discovery

Discovery Title: Expert of Cambodian Art

This is my specific art and it’s about our traditional art that show on the temple’s walls, such as Angkor wat, Bayon.ect. Why I chose this project because I want Cambodian kids to turn their feeling to appreciate our art that our ancestors are keeping for us. Also I want to make a small hands about our works and designs in the small hand book too.

My goal is to create a new style of the traditional art because I like and enjoy it. Also it can help me to improve my brain to think quicker because when we in the process to design the new style. One more of my goal is I would like to teach the students about what I have done. Example: When I design a new traditional style, I can teach them how to get an idea of a new style of art.

This what I drew for the first week. This drawing is all about the small designs in each part. I found this image from Google Images. When I saw my feeling was falling with it. I start to draw it for my practice .

First I drew the grid on the picture I had printed. Then I use another clean paper have a grid on it. Next I drew each design in each block.

January 17, 2016

Ministry Day

On January 12th of 2016 in our school (Liger Learning Center) had a big event is ministry day. We present to the minister of education youth and sport, other minister and some principles are from the school in Phnom Penh. This is our special day that we had in Liger’s history and this event. All the students in the school is presenting to the minister about Liger’s curriculum, such as Khmer and English literacy, STEM, Liger Model, Recruitment team and more. For me, I present about Khmer and English literacy that we tell about what are the project that we do in class. In our literacy class we had a lot of projects, such as an idiom project, English Speaking Challenge, reading test and more. For myself I focus on fun projects are the idiom project and English speaking challenge and I feel so happy and proud of myself that I can share all the principals. The goal of this day is wanting the government school principals to get some ideas that we have in our school to do at their school. For this big event in our Liger’s history, it is a marvelous opportunity for us to change Cambodian government schools and a great pleasure for us to give them a great chance to try new things that we have made.

October 3, 2015

Physical Educator (PE) Description

In our first seven week we have different expertise classes. This post is about Physical Education (PE). Our teacher name Karen she from USA. This class is about sport and we had play a lot of different activities that related to sport. In PE we played activities such as: football, capture the flag and a relay activities. Relay activities means there’s a lot of activities in one row. This game is after we finish one activity we need to change the partner. These are some activities in relay activities are arm wrestling, running around sport court five rounds, 100 jumps with jump rope, ten pushups and more. For sometimes in this class we had the competition like a race between girls group and boy is by laying on the ground and use our legs to pick the ball and pass to our teammate. At that time my group won two times but we all have fun.

September 23, 2015

I Go to an Unusual School

Name: Venghour
Class: D
Date: 9/10/15
I go to an unusual school. This school gives Cambodian kids an opportunity to a brighter future. This school is called Liger Learning Center. The Liger Learning Center (LLC) has 50 students. In this school there are a lot of subjects, such as math, khmer, literacy, exploration, expertise. One of the Liger’s cool projects is called Independent Discovery (ID). Independent Discovery means creating our own project, for example: my independent project is about Experts of Cambodian art. Everyday I try to find the information and find some pictures to draw for my project. Also this school is different from other schools by letting students have a chance to do an experience and learn outside the school. So it’s the best opportunity for students to know a lot of things about the outside world.
I think this unusual school is one of the best school I ever learn. Also this school gives me a lot of opportunity to go outside for a study trip. It’s an unbelievable school that have in Cambodia and helping kids for a brighter future.

August 8, 2015October 24, 2017

2013-2014 Yearly Reflection

In my life, I dream that I have change Cambodia this year. I have change a lot of things in Cambodia. The first things that I have change Cambodia is I had taught Cambodian children in one organization in Takeo that name NFO. We taught the children in NFO to be a creative people in Cambodia for them thinking a lot of an idea for creating somethings new. The second is we make the fabric bags for instead the plastics because plastics are so bad to our environment and our health and one more to think a new idea and practice at painting. The third one is ecology we are writing our blogs to give more educations to another people that live in the world. Don’t let cutting the tree and killing all organisms because it is the bad situation and natural environments are important to us. If we don’t cutting the trees or killing the organisms, we can help our country and in the word. We can give the habitat to the organisms and we can help to grow the plants for the organisms having the diets and no more extinct of the animals in our country and the world too. Fourth is in my crisis management members went to the government school to give the education the the children to know more about natural disaster, crisis and crisis management. The students at there is very smart and they can understand what we talking and taught about the somethings that we taught. So this is the result that we get is good for them to understand. Fifth is public relations we helped the Liger students to help edit their work and give some educations for them to practice. In our class we have our own Instagram that we post our activities that we do at Liger to other people in the world know what we doing at Liger school. One more is Presentation skills to help student to know we acting when we present to other people and some another skills. The last one is about to give some information to the villagers to know more about how bad plastics are? We present to the villagers what kinds of plastics are bad for our health and environment. So I very exited that I have help my Cambodia country and all the people.

October 21, 2014

Entrepreneurship Description

Exploration Name; Entrepreneurship

Dates:10/6/2014 – 11/21/2014

Number of Students: 12

Location of Trips Taken: ARC Hub PNH, Northbridge, Small World,

Central Market, Cham Pu Ka-ek Market

Essential Questions: How to make a business?

Course Description: In our Exploration is called Entrepreneurship. We had four groups. There are HP-Pro, Shook, Sa-art Action and CPH. Every person in each group had different job to do, like leader, marketing, blogger, designer and website. Every Friday, we went to Arc Hub to study with Kichong. We’ve been learning some terms. All the terms that we’ve learned are connected to business. Here are some terms that we’ve learned: profit means how much money we earned ; loss means the money that loose from our business ; feedback is comment, suggestion, improvement, advice ; prototype is the sample to learn from ; insight means understanding people vision ; proactive is to cause something to happen and not waiting for good luck. On the last day, we take a test to make sure that we understand all the term that we’ve learn. We wrote essay for the test.

This is my team business website: http://sweethangerhook.weebly.com/