Blog Session 10 Instructions

Dear Class,

This is the last post, so please write about your experience using blogs in the English Class.

Write:

a) What you think about the experiene in general
b) How much you feel your writing skills have developed
c) What would you like to include in the future
d) What else you would like to write about

Wordcount: 200 words minimum plus 3 comments on your classmates' posts.

Best,


Belén

Blog Session 9 Instructions

Dear Class,

Today you choose the topic again. Maybe you can write about the present, the future or the past, about a place, the country, friends, a theory, you choose.

Remember to leave at least 3 comments on your classmates' posts and this time you have to write 180 words minimum.

Best,

Belén

Blog Session 8 Instructions

Dear Class,

This time you have to remember everything that has happened to you this semester so far, so you can choose the best or the worst experience in the Faculty.

Write about the following in 150 words minimum:
a) What happened (the situation)
b) How you felt
c) Who were involved
d) Any other important details

Good luck,


Belén

Blog Session 7 Instructions

Dear Class,


Today, you will write about a) an expert in your field or b) about career-related website. To do so, consider the following:


An expert in your field


a) Mention two contributions to your area of studies.
b) Explain his/her importance nowadays.
c) Say how you found out about him/her.
Also, provide a picture if possible.


A career-related website

a) Say how did you discover it.
b) Why you use it for.
c) Two reasons why you would recommend it.
Also, provide the link to your career-related website.



Write 170 words mminimum.

Remember to leave a comment on 3 of your classmates' posts every time you write in your blogs.



Good luck!

Blog Session 6 Sample Post

Free Post 2

The human brain

I have always been interested in how the human body works. One of the reasons to be interested is that I practice sports, so why we sweat, stretch and how we can work out our muscles are intriguing facts about our bodies. Those, among other incredible facts like gestating as to have new generations. Sleeping, dancing, walking and reading are just some of the activities that have to do with the brain.

Biology and Education are closely related if we analyse the brain activity. As a teacher, when we study the way human beings learn, we study Psychology but unfortunately we didn’t study Neuroscience. Therefore, as this science has always caught my attention I wanted to learn more about it. A couple of years ago, because of the Masters programme I was studying, I had the chance to read lots of interesting papers about how the brain works when we read as well as how the way we stimulate the brain affects our learning process.

The human brain is a complex organ and as human beings we are supposed to be the only ones to know something about the way the brain works. With that skill, Pierre Paul Broca (1824-1880), a French pioneer doctor was able to draw a map of the brain and consequently, he discovered a small area in the left hemisphere, which controls the production of language. Thus, 100 billion neurons in our brains* are responsible for language, communication and many other aspects of our lives.

*http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/sciencetech/facts-about-your-brain/7038?image=2

Blog Session 6 Instructions

Dear Class,

This Tuesday is time for the second free post. You can choose what to blog about and visit this link for more details on how to organise your ideas. 
You can organise what you want to write with an outline, which is a list of the ideas you want to cover in each paragraph, section or chapter.
Please write 160 words minimum. 

http://www.fuelyourwriting.com/4-easy-rules-for-a-successful-outline/


Good luck,


Belén

Blog Session 5 Sample Post

A photograph

To choose one photograph I like it’s not possible because I love colours but I also enjoy black and white. There are so many choices; photographers round the world have always been “making” photos. I definitely prefer black and white and I miss going to the dark room and developing my own film and pictures.

One of the photos I will always remember was taken by Luis Poirot, a well-known Chilean photographer. In this photo you can see Chilean song-writer, actor, singer and activist Víctor Jara, killed in 1973 by Chilean military officers. That day Víctor and Luis were near Cerro Blanco, in Recoleta. They were trying to obtain a photo for Víctor’s new album cover. Here we can see part of the complete photograph. I found this darkish copy on the internet but it’s not the photo I have on my wall at home -or the postcard version of the photo I was given.

In the portrait I have, apart from Víctor Jara holding his guitar, and the old lady behind him, there’s a boy to the left, next to Víctor, and the boy is looking at the camera. You can also see the entire guitar Víctor is holding. One more difference between this picture and mine is that Víctor is not looking at the camera.

This photo was taken in 1969. According to Luis, the photographer, this photo wasn’t authorized by the Communist party, so Víctor’s new album cover for “Pongo en tus manos abiertas” was the one – you might have seen- with two open palms.

Last but not least, I really like this photo because Víctor Jara is in it and of the various photos where Víctor appears, this one is my favourite portrait of him. I admire and respect everything he was and did.