What are the advantages and disadvantages of using blogs in the classroom? Write from your own experience this semester. Support your views with specific examples. These could include tasks you have done, reflections you have made or things you have commented upon with your classmates. Write between 300 and 350 words.
Students are bored of the typical homework or task so applying new kinds of exercises to the learning process is really useful.
I think to use blogs in the classroom has more positive points than negative points. Using blogs in the classroom has an important advantage because students must reflect about a topic. The depth of the topic depends on the teacher’s instructions. Sometimes the teacher can ask the students to reflect and to write about a light topic like favourite food or favourite place, etc but also it is important to write about important and profound topics. The point is to encourage our students to be informed about important issues that happened in our world. Global warming is a good topic to analyze in a blog because students can learn many things and also the student can add videos, pictures, music, etc.
I really enjoyed using blogs and I am going to use it with my future students. Using blogs in the classroom allows the students to face up to reality but also teachers make aware students about the world through an attractive and technologic activity.
The disadvantage that using blogs in the learning process has is the difficulties of checking grammar mistakes. It is necessary to check them because it is very difficult to erase mistakes from students’ minds. I believe that walking around the students in the computer lab and trying to resolve doubts is an important step. For this reason it is very important that the teachers guide students in this kind of activity. The most important thing is that the teacher must never affect the personal view of the students’ - the idea is help them to express themselves in a comprehensive way in the second language.
As a student and a future teacher, I think this kind of activities affects students’ learning process in a positive way because to do new things is always something attractive and motivating
Finally anything that can improve our learning or refresh the teaching process is welcomed by students and teachers. I like the idea of mixing teaching/ learning with the technological advances.

Essay

Compare and contrast the relevance of social class in The Commitments and Rumble Fish. How are working-class people represented in these novels?

Working class refers to a society group that must to work to survive. In comparison with others social class sometimes to work is not a necessity because family background is going to resolve money problems if a lack of money exists. A big part of the world population belongs to the working class but the big difference is the focus on the energy that people release producing money to survive.
Sometimes people produce money but with positive energy and they assume that they must work without another alternative. This case is very clear in the Commitments. All the characters were conscious of their working class condition, but they concentrate on music and they could connect something very attractive by working. They were very lucky because they could really enjoy working through the music.
On the other hand some people never assume their working class condition and their lives become hell. They want to have a lot of things without any effort and the idea of working is related to something bad. In Rumble Fish this situation is very obvious. Main characters suffer the consequences of a father who never accepts his condition. It is necessary to underline that sad and horrible episodes in lives affect and produce this stage of social resentment against to others and work.
To conclude it is very important the energy that people release through working. Maybe the work is not the appropriated but if the person assumes it with positive energy his or her life will be good and every thing will seem less difficult. Even to change this condition would be easy because in a positive stage appear new ideas, people that can help. In contrast when people release negative energy or working is relate to something negative every thing around this person will be negative.

When I was thirteen I was obsessed with unicorns so my artist uncle gave me a present, this picture. I was so happy because finally I had a unicorn in my bedroom on my wall. This was the first time that I saw this picture and I started to research about Salvador Dali and after this situation Salvador Dali became my favorite painter. I like this picture because I love this imaginary being. Also I like it because the colors are soft and every time that I felt sad this picture produced me a good feeling. A clean blue sky with fresh air and without noise and calm and this beautiful free unicorn in the midle of the sky.

My least favorite school subject

My least favorite school subject was physics, I really hated it! I hated the teacher too, he was incredibly boring. I could never understand his way of teaching he never tried to motivate us for example we never did an experiment we were always doing long exercises.
Well I must be honest I just a few times I studied or at least I told to my mother that I had to go to a classmate’s house to study physics. Instead of study we always finished doing other things like drinking alcohol or smoking, so going to study to other places did not work. Fortunately I had always purples and blues in my physics tests.
I think I hated this subject because I hated to the teacher I always associate subject and teacher. For example also I hated math but when I did math in the university it was completely different I could learnt a lot of thing that in the school they were impossible for me. But the real problem was the teacher because at the university my teacher was so nice that finally I learnt math!