The new technologies in the university classrooms

Recently the integration of the technologies in the classroom have been a good way to improve the marks and the interest of the students in each assignment, Why is that? Many educational research during the last years have found many reasons to think about the integration of this technologies , like blogs, in the university context. But, Why is important to have this class of pedagogical resources in the languajes assignments? It`s important to know why, because it`s a tipical resources in the English class at the Universidad de Chile.

Antonio Bartolomé, Phd., says that is important to include this new technologies inside the classrooms and also is important that the teachers learn to use this kind of things, because in this modern world and in this global society where the information travel to fast, the young people use this technologies in his daily lives, for study or to know people from other places and even from other countries. In this way, the use of the blogs is a very good way to integrate this kind of activities in the academic assignments. Specially is very good for learn a foreign languaje, like English, because the languajes are a toll to the daily live in other countries with a different languajes, so is important this kind of spaces where the students can show themselves and use the languaje to said whatever they like to say and show their own cultures.

In conclusion, this kind or resources are very good, and I did not find any disadvantages of using blogs at the English classroom, because they integrate in the academic context the posibility for the students to investigate in their own areas and to show their own interest using the English like their toll for say it. Finally, with the bogs like a pedagogical resources, the students can learn to use the technology not only like a source of entertainment also like a very good resource to use in the academical activities.

Bye and thanks for everything....

American History X

This film shows the life of Derek Vinyard, the leader of a neonazis group. He was very intelligent but he committed a crime and was jailed during 3 years. After that time, Derek is free and also, he changed a lot inside the jail, now he don`t care about his neonazis group and he has only one objective, to save his brother because he has followed his steps during this time and this kind of life is very dangerous to him, his brother and his family. Edward Norton as Derek Vinyard and Edward Furlong as Danny Vinyard, directed by Tony Kaye, American History X is a very good film, because shows the cruel reality inside a great organisation like the neonazis in our times and in our cities, and the concecuences that the actions can take against the protagonists; I can`t tell you the end of the history, but it isn`t good, it is very sad and unpredictable . The history is related by Danny, Derek`s brother, this is a great idea to know the reality nearly and to know how the Derek`s behaviour influences on his family. By the way, I don´t found any bad points, I have seen it around nine or eight times and I have never bored about it. It`s a very good film and it`s easy to understang why if you follow the hatred`s way, sooner or later you will pay the cost.

Cristian `s blog

I decided to write the evaluation of this week about Cristian`s blog because he always like the computation and because of that his blog could be very interesting and funny. I wasn`t mistaken, his blog contain many links and photographs . I think that this is a very good blog, I didn`t became bored while I was reading it, because he is a student from the south of the country and for example when he was talking about the Fiestas Patrias is interesting to know how the people in another place celebate the same important holidays that we celebrate here. Also his level of English is very good and because of that he takes some permissions to break the formality, many times his blogs are similar to a natural conversation beetween friends or classmates at the university, all this points are strongs, but there are some personal suggestions for Cristian, I think that the black is not a good colour for a blog, because is very formal and sad, for the blogs is better use a "live colour" like the green or with a disign, a black blog without anything more could be very bored and not interesting for those who visit his blog for the first time. It`s too black, even the name of the blog is "black", why is that Cristian? I like it, and remember, this are some personal suggestions to improve the presentation of the blog.

"Fiestas Patrias"

Hi everyone:

This week I`ll tell you about what I did during this Fiestas Patrias. Like a good chilean boy I went to each tipical "fonda" in every place that I found, for example I went to the celebration in Maipu, there was the "Sonora de Tommy Rey" with his "cumbias", I love it, because the music is very cheer and every party begin and finish with this music. Also there I danced some tipical "Cuecas" and others not so common but very exciting,"La Cueca Chora" by Roberto Parra, a great musician from my country. I went there with some friends and in the next day with my girlfriend. I ate many "empanadas" and I drank many wine, I liked so much, because is a tipical drink here and is very delicious. At the september 18th I went with my family to the "Fondas" in the "Parque O`Higgins", it was so funny because you can see there many typical personages around this parties like the drunk old man dancing with a "china" a very funny "cueca", singing to his country and fighting with everyone and without a reason. Then on september 19th, I just go with my family to my grandmother`s house for eat more empanadas, and roasted beef with some cousins from Concepcion and play some tipical games with them. Thats all I think, it was very funny to me at less.

Bye

Moai

Hi everyone,
I love my country, so the piece of art that I choose are the Moai. The Moai are stone's sculptures created by the Rapa Nui people from the Isla de Pascua around 2500 years ago . The natives carved them directly from the volcanic stone in one piece, and when they finish with that, they rolled them until the definitive place for the Moai, It could be a beach. They represented their ancestors or kings and his families and they are all differents, one of them could be a very important king with a hat and very big, and another could represented to a king not very important, so his Moai are not so big than the other one. The Moai are distributed in all the island, but a famose place to visit is the Anakena's beach because there are 15 Moai, the most important and biggest, they are on a stone platform and maybe the Rapa nui pleople used them for communicate with their ancestors. A Moai was finished when they put his eyes. I saw them just on pictures to many years ago, but it`s my dream go to the island and see them on live. I like them because is a mistery to know how they built those things. The word Moai are an uncountable noun, so you always say Moai, not Moais.

Bye

Damage to the prefrontal cortex and the moral judgements

The psychological and neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement ahve been the focus of many recent empirical studies.Of central interest is whether emotions play a causal role in moral judgement, and, inparallel, how emotion related areas of the brain contribute to moral judgement. In the paper, six patients with focal bilateral damage to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (VMPC), a brain region necessary for the normal generation of social emotions, produce an abnormally "utilitarian" judgement on moral dilemmas, for example: having to sacrifice one person`s life to save a number of other lives. In contrast, a normal VMPC in other patients have a good judgement in this dilemmas. Then the VMPC have an important role in our normal judgement of right and wrong and the emotion for generate those judgements.

By Antonio Damasio

Little trees: Bonsai

Hi everyone!

The link that I want present to you is related with my favourite hobbie, The Art of Bonsai. This is a millenarian tradition at the east side of the world. The history tell us that Bonsai born in China around 5000 years ago and when Japon invaded China, they took this technique, perfected it, and made it popular.
Today is one of the most important activity in all the Occident and in countries like UEA, Argentina and specially in Spain exist many groups or organizations with international fame. Here in Chile the most important group is "Jardín Kyoto" and this is the website...

Enjoy it!!
Bye!!

http://www.bonsaichile.cl/

House`s problems, school`s problems

In the paper "Attention and concentration in public schools and private schools", Marta Manterola presents the differences between students from public schools with a bad social and economic situation, and students from private schools with a good social and economic situation. For this, the author use the Stroop`test to measure the attention and the concentration in all this students, and try to find problems in the quality of life of the children like students. The research found difference between the factors that the investigator tried to measure, and marta Manterola explained them like students`s problems at home. These problems could be the guilty of the low score in the Stroop`s test of the students from public schools.

The learning by discovery

One of the most important theories about education and development of the human being are the Jeronime Bruner`s theories. Bruner is a cognitive psychologist and he says that the person was an active subjet in the organitation and the interaction with the reality. Also, he says that the human being`s development can be understood by his culture and his especie`s history, not with the genetics or the chromosomes. He saiys that the development of the thought always is helped by the outside, and for that reason the education and school is so important in the integration of the boy in the society. Because the child is constructing the reality in the interaction with his classmates. It`s very interesting, because the clasroom is like a little society, and the child is an active constructor of the reality that he lives.
Yo can visit this two websites related with this topic...

www.infed.org/thinkers/bruner.htm

http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/KeyTheorists/Bruner.htm

Bye

kenpo`s tournament

Hi everyone!
The last saturday I competed in a Karate`s tournament, It was so funny and interesting because there was to many people of differents schools with to much experience. By the way, I won the form`s competition and I got the third place in combat. But the best thing of all was the visit of a great master from United States, Mister Kelly. He studied with the Great Master Ed Parker, the "Father of the american karate". I love Kenpo Karate, because the marcial arts are good for relaxation, to make some new friends and to be a better person in the daily life.

There is a photo...

Bye

psychology on line!!

Hi every one!
I bring to you two excellents websites of psychology and It could be interesting if you visit them, because It`s very important for our formation like psychologist.

The first one is the APA website( American Psychology Association); this website is the official website of APA, who is the most important referring of the last discoveries in psychology. Most of the works is in English, so you have to know how to read and write English, so take attention in classes because like psychologist, you will have to visit it regularly.

http://www.apa.org/

The second one is a Piaget`s website, who is the most interesting scientist in the psychology`s history, specially in cognitive neuroscience. But Piaget wasn`t psychologist, he was a biologist and a sciences`s philosopher, but many of their theories are used in education and psychology too.

http://www.piaget.org/

I hope that you will visit them

bye

The Trial (Waters, Bob Ezrin) 5:16

Good morning, Worm your honor.

The crown will plainly show

The prisoner who now

stands before you

Was caught red-handed showing feelings

Showing feelings of an almost human nature;

This will not do.

Call the schoolmaster!

I always said he'd come to no good

In the end your honor.

If they'd let me have my way I could

Have flayed him into shape.

But my hands were tied,The bleeding hearts and artists

Let him get away with murder.

Let me hammer him today?

Crazy, Toys in the attic

I am crazy, Truly gone fishing.

They must have taken my marbles away.

Crazy, toys in the attic he is crazy.

You little shit you're in it now,

I hope they throw away the key.

You should have talked to me more often

Than you did, but no!

You had to goYour own way,

have you broken any Homes up lately?

Just five minutes, Worm your honor,

Him and Me, alone.

Baaaaaaaaaabe!

Come to mother baby, let me hold you In my arms.

M'lud I never wanted him

toGet in any trouble.

Why'd he ever have to leave me?

Worm, your honor, let me take him home.

Crazy, Over the rainbow,

I am crazy,Bars in the window.

There must have been a door there in the wall

When I came in.Crazy, over the rainbow, he is crazy.

The evidence before the court is

Incontrivertable, there's no need for

The jury to retire.

In all my years of judging

I have never heard before

Of someone more deserving

Of the full penaltie of law.

The way you made them suffer,

Your exquisite wife and mother,

Fills me with the urge to defecate!

Hey Judge! Shit on him!"
Since, my friend,

you have revealed your Deepest fear,

I sentence you to be exposed before

Your peers.

Tear down the wall!

This song is called "The trial" of Pink Floyd, and It's from the album"The wall" of 1971. I'm chosed it because it's one of my favourites songs of all the times, It's too psychological, the song speaks about a conflict that have a person in his mind, and there are many of the main personages of his live, and they makes a judgment for break down a wall that the man had done for carry on, there is his mother, his teacher and his wife.

He lost his father at the second world war while he steel was a boy

A great song

bye

il consiglieri

Hi every one!
I do this blog because I have to do it. I'm not so friend of the computation , and I'm sure that it will bring many problems to me, I don`t hope so, but it's very probable. It's too late, and I want to go home now. By the way, I hope that this blog will be a new form of meet to you on line, and not only a way to do homeworks of the English classes.Well, time out it`s 7: 30 PM, and, I want to go home.

Best wishes to every one

By......and see you tomorrow