"Advantages and disadvantages of blogs in the English classroom"

In this last semester of the English course, we started doing blogs work. At first I didn't like very much the idea, because I wanted to practice my oral english and also, I wasn't very fond of computers. I have never had a blog before so I didn't know what it was for. In the first classes it was hard for me learning this new kind of teaching method, but then I realised that it wasn`t that bad or difficult.

I think that there were many advantages of working with blogs in our english classroom this semester. One of them was that we could practice our written redaction, orthography and fluency, all at the same time. Also, the blogs were importan for knowing our partners, because through them we had to express ourself about personal taste or things that we had done on vacations, or things related with our degrees. Finally, I think that this method allowed the person in charge (in this case Ksenia) to correct the posts in a very efficient and flexible way. The reason of this is because it is a cibernetic program so you can correct the posts from any place; from your house, from the university, from your work, etc.

Now, in spite blogs are a good way of learning and practicing your english, I think , giving the context, that it takes a lot of time from the students. Having seven subjects in parallel leaves you very little time and motivation for posting and redacting texts in a foreign language (wich is a difficult task because you don't have the fluency or vocabulary that you'd like for expresing your self in the best way). And in addition to this, we had to finish the English Discoveries program, so at the beginig it was too much. Then we talked with Ksenia and she was very flexible with us and arranged the classes so that we could finish all the assigments.

As a conclusion, I would like to say that this english course allowed me to keep my school english level and also, that it was very interesting having a native "private tutor", like it was Ksenia, because she show us a different culture (a bit of it because of the little time that the classes last) and forced us (in a good way) to talk and express our self in english, and also, but not less, made us eat lots of exquisite ice creams (thank's for that!).

It was a great year, my best wishes for all the persons that participated in this course.

MATTA

This piece of art belongs to a famous Chilian artist called Roberto Matta. I first so his work when I was at second high school year. A friend's mom invited me to an exhibition of all Matta's art work. There I fell in love with his paintings. Their surrealism and mixture of colors make you want to look at them for long minutes, appreciating the lines and tridementional effects. This is the kind of paintings that you never get bore of seeing it. Generally, Matta paints crowded scenes so you always find new things on them. Some people hate this kind of art, but I think is a very creative, interesting an beautiful expresion of art. I would love to have one of Matta famous paints hanging from one of my future house walls.

"...there's nothig written about tastes..."

I' must say, I'm not realy a cibernetic fan. I mostly use my notebook for doing works, for cheking my mails or sometimes, for posting in friend's blogs. I don't even use messenger any more, it bores me. So, because of these, I don't have a favorite website to recomend you, I only can tell you about my friend's blog so you can meet them and know a little more of my life. It's adress as www.fotolog.com/to_amigas
I hope you visit! It has funny pictures and also funny coments about some of them.

Sixth Sense

This is one of the best horror films that I'd ever seen.Their main actors are Bruce Willis, who plays the role of a children's psychologist called Malcolm Crowe, and Haley Joel Osment, who plays the role of an isolate and misfit child called Cole Sear.
Malcome was in the middle of a matrimonial crisis when Cole went to his office and asked him for help. They started having a very strong relationship in wich Malcolm tried to help Cole convinced that he had esquizofrenia or some psychiatric patology.
Finally, Cole told Malcolm his secret, and after some events he realised that Cole really was able to see and talk with dead people. Once he kneew this, he started helping Cole to overcome the fear of making contact with the spirits, and so it is how Cole started helping them as well.
But the end of the film is the most interesting and emocional part of it. Cole's mom finally believes him and Malcolm found out that he was dead as well. It's very tragic but the hole film you are feeling shiver on your back.
I have no critics for this movie, it's exelent and it has exelents actors, if you haven't seen it, I recomend you seeing it as soon as you can.