Friday, June 26, 2009

- He had never seen anything so beautiful before.
- He had seen something that beautiful before.
- The effects are only now becoming apparent. / - The effects are not only now becoming apparent.
- Rarely you do find a coin of this age in such good condition.
- Rarely you don't find a coin of this age in such a god condition.
- Not until/ Only when she got home she did realize what had happened
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Friday, June 19, 2009

Language V writing experience.

Today I am going to write something that I consider I should have written about a long time ago. It is about how important it is for me to have a blog to express everything I want to say, without worrying whether it should be written in a formal way or not because I think it is an instance of self-expression.

First of all, I feel super glad for having experienced this situation and for having shared it with my classmates as well. I believe that this was an excellent instance for learning, practicing and helping other students too. I consider that this is exactly what I wanted it to be, because I felt like I was going through a stage of non-developing regarding my writing skills or maybe I was kind of forgetting how fun and important writing is!

Secondly, I must confess that a long time ago, especially when I suffered existential crisis, I used to create a blog account almost every month just to express how bad I felt in that moment. Therefore I thought that blogs where just for those kinds of situations and I never thought that it could be something interesting or meaningful I mean in an entertaining way.

Thirdly, I strongly believe that making and working with blogs as classroom activities at schools or Universities is a pretty good way to catch students’ attention and to motive them, because nowadays we are transforming into a technological culture and the more you use technology the more you are going to be able to manage more interesting and different ways to catch the eye of the pupils.

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Lucky Number

This is great, I love talking or writing about these kinda things... that's why I'm gonna get into the blogathon... but just in this occasion.

I don't think I have any lucky number actually, but I consider that number three and thirdteen are like the best ones, they rule! specially number THREE haha for me it sounds like perfection, magical things and a ton of weird stuff that I'm the only one capable to understand.

If I had to choose one number as my favorite one, I would definitely say 3, maybe because every time I go to some specific place I have two more friends by my side and I just cannot get away from them, when I was young I used to live with my mum and sister and we were three, I love the American series CHARMED and it was about three sisters, so YEAAAH I have been my whole life sorrounded by number threes!

I also think that when you have friends it's pretty cool to be in groups of three because there always have to be the bad guy the good one and the balancer LOL.

See ya around!

Monday, June 8, 2009

Motivation.

The topic that I chose to write the essay is motivation. Pretty obvious considering the tittle of this post.

I will try to demostrate how important is motivation in our education system, or maybe how important it should be, because as I've seen in my labour experience and even more in my personal experience as a student, I think motivation is something very important and fundamental to catch pupils attention. So I think it's a tool that can be used for or against teacher's purpose.

I think that we us teachers or future teachers in our specific case have to be aware of the things that students like in order to make them relate their tastes and lives with every subject we teach, because I think that's the only way a person can really learn something, when people just do things because they're are told to do it they are not going to learn a thing, so that's called reproduction not concrete learning. Therefore teachers have to be able to motivate their students, how? we have to try to make a balance between learning time and fun time, and it's perfectly possible, so that's our challenge.

I hope my essay has a good result, because right now I'm not very clear of what I'm gonna say, but basically that's it. I have to make up my mind though.

Friday, June 5, 2009

The importance of creativity



What’s up! Today I’m going to talk about something super interesting –At least for me- which is a very realistic talk about how creativity is being killed in the education system that we are in.

I absolutely agree with Ken Robinson’s talk because in my opinion, education has been seen for a long time, I mean since like forever as “something” that you have to share with others, in this case with students, BUT because they have to be prepared for this economic system. So having said this it’s crearly easy to notice how creativity is taken in most of schools now, you have to do things that have been pre-designed for you, it’s almost impossible to be creative in a place where everything is given to you almost done, none critical thinking is used, there is no improvement of your skills either, you can hardly nurture the million ways of creativity that a person just for being a human being has.

I realize that this is not something exclusively from chilean schools because this conference took place in an English speaking country where I thought these kind of things wouldn’t happen, but yes I was obviously mistaken. So this was very easy to understand and assimilate because it's so Chilean culture LOL, and I just had to look back at the past and remember how my school was, and yes! It’s horrible to tell that it was just like this, I Could barely think on my own when my teacher was behind me telling me what to do and kind of tying my hands or my mind in this case…

Try to take a look at the video, It’s pretty awesome.

Friday, May 29, 2009

Yeah sure...

Hallo guys, how are you'll? well actually I don't care.

Today I'm gonna do a kind of review of victory city which is a web page that shows some ideas of a surrealistic city, the always-thought-of city of your dreams.

When I first got into the web page, I realized that there were so many things that are way too untrue or idealistic for human being to think of or try to do.

I think that we, as human beings have been taught to be this way, maybe not consiously but we destroy everything we should take care about and care about stupid things such as, computers, cellphones, money, among others.

So considering the fact that we are such fools, I don't really think that this could ever happen, unless something very big happend here on earth that we could not avoid and make us more concious about this planet. To sum up, yes the idea of the person who wrote it, was very brilliant, but I'm kinda really sure this is not gonna happen... ever.

Anyway, If you can try to visit this webpage, at least you'll be happy to think about a perfect place...

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Currently listening to...


Hi everyone! 

I'm just passing by to tell you guys about a song that has got me crazy! It's called If U seek Amy by Britney Spears,  who's one of my favorite singers of all times. I particularly like this song better from the rest of the songs I'm currently listening to, because It's such a catchy song! Besides the title of the song has a hidden message "If U seek Amy: If U see kA my" got it? If not, say it out loud fastly and U will LOL. 

I recommend you to listen to it, I'm telling you, It's a masterpiece.

Here is the link for you to listen to it and watch the video. BTW the video for the song is really cool, it matches perfectly with the concept of the song, and it's controversial as well , seriously.