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,

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 8 Sample Post

Cinema: moving pictures or the industry of making films

Today I’m going to write about cinema. I’m interested in this topic because watching films can help us understand a great deal about life and human relationships. Every time we watch a film, we learn about other worlds and lifestyles and at the same time, we travel about two hours to other realities. Cinema is important because as a teacher, I can use films, short films, documentaries, trailers or clips to present topics or issues so students can discuss or debate.

I will be talking about where cinema came from, secondly who invented it and finally, I’m going to mention the most important periods of the history of cinema around the world. Let’s begin with the origins of cinema; moving images have always been popular. In China, for example, 5,000 years ago, they used firelight to project images of puppets onto screens and this was called “shadow plays”.

Cinema became possible by the invention of two French brothers, Louis and Auguste Lumiere, in 1895. The Lumiere Cinematograph” allowed large audiences to watch “moving pictures”. They showed several short films and they were all documentaries. Let’s continue with the periods of the history of cinema. There are seven important periods; the history begins in the Far East, with shadow plays. The, The Lumiere brothers in 1895, The Silent Era (1912), The Talkies (1928), The Golden Age (1932), The TV Revolution (1950) after the Second World War and currently, the Modern Film Industry.

I’m going to conclude by quoting Auguste Lumiere, who said: “Cinema can be exploited for a certain time but apart from that, it has no commercial value at all”. I’d love to hear what Auguste Lumiere would say about making films in this century, after all the commercial value given to the Modern Film Industry.

Blog Session 8 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 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.

Leave a comment on 3 of your classmates' posts about the topic of Blog Session 7.



Good luck!



Belén

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