My Blogging Experience

My experience with the blog was good because it wasn’t very difficult for me to do the tasks, it probably would be a lot more painful if I had to think a lot to write. I think blogging in the English class was positive for me to create a discipline and habit to write more extended in this language, instead chatting or another shorter ways. Also it helped me to learn some words I had to search (I use this online dictionary) to complete my ideas.

The advantages of this system are you have feedback with the teacher and your classmates (you can read their posts, posting in their blogs, know about the next homework, etc.) and being updated with the new ways of communication. You can edit the posts so if I made a mistake I can fix it later (if I have doubts I search on the dictionary I named). As I use Word first to write my ideas, it correct me instantly when I spell wrong and can count the words with the tool bar instead counting them in my mind as I have to do in the final test. Also, you can show pictures related to the subject, put some links, etc. and in general, you have more resources to present your topic compared to writing in a paper. And no less important, in this way we can all help to not cut down more trees ‘cause we don’t use any paper.

The disadvantages are you have to be very fast to do the homework in the class time, if you’re not, you can get late. If the computer you’re using in the lab is slow or display an error you delay a lot (technology dependency) and that happened to me many times. I think sometimes it gives the chance to be more “relaxed” and no going to class and doing the task at home ‘cause people think “I have to upload it so I can do that anywhere, no necessarily at class” and because of the point before, sometimes it was better for me to write at home ‘cause my computer is faster than the lab’s computers.

Concluding, I think blogs are a good tool not to learn more English but to practice and improve your actual English level.

This is my final post for this class. I hope I continue posting in this space to keeping practicing my writing English.

Bye bye.

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Blade Runner (or the movie I didn’t watch)

First of all, I have to say I didn’t watch the movie, and then I ask if we have to do homework about it and no one told me so, and wasn't anything on Simon's blog either so I just realize we had to ‘cause I saw Dani’s blog today.
Instead, I’ll write about my experience “not watching it”.

That day I went with a workshop classmate to “Vargas Bicycles” factory in La Cisterna (El Parron Station) so we could get some information to do the workshop project. I wrote in Simon’s blog so he can get notice. It was very interesting ‘cause we saw the whole process, the people who attend us they were very nice, even they let us taking pictures and gave us “classified” information (material prices and stuff).

Then Dani told me you were watching the movie Blade Runner and couldn’t end. She told me she was sleepy and the beginning was a little bit boring. Then I tried to investigate about the movie, and my boyfriend told me it was some kind of a “classic” with Harrison Ford, actually I never heard about it, it sounded like a new movie to me and I said “I’ll download it”.

The next class I was very busy at work finishing a PowerPoint for my boss and I got late so I couldn’t see the movie’s end. Then I talked to Camila and told me she didn’t like it much either, so didn’t want to see the movie’s end. Instead she was reading a paper Simon gave her about Murphy’s Law. That was really interesting and funny. Later I asked for one and showed it to my boyfriend and he told me he read a whole book about it.

Because of the comments and my lack of time, I wasn’t interested in watching the movie and never downloaded it. That night we rather to search on the web and found this very funny page I want to share with you so you can laugh: Murphy's laws .

Finally I didn’t watch Blade Runner, but I learned something about Murphy’s law in colleges:
“The 80% of the final exam is extracted from the class you missed or the book you didn’t read”. In this case....

“The task you must to do is about the movie you couldn’t watch”.

"Smile. Tomorrow can be worse."

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