Since March 2010 the MoLementors Bi Youne, Juliana and Mar have meet once a week before English class.
At the beginning discussed about how to start our blog and how we could encourage our MoLementees.
We thought our blog had to be attractive enough that they could either enjoy the blog or learn English.
Thus, we have created our blog with two main frames. One is for posts where everyone could put their homework, which Jane, our teacher, gave to us every lesson. The other contains helpful links such as websites, grammar, rules and games.
Once a week on Thursdays in our English class we have been using our notebooks to research before write our classwork.
It has been a really helpful instrument of work.
Monday, 5 July 2010
OUR EXPERIENCE
We have been involved in Mobile Learning Network (MoLeNet) project for three months.
MoLeNet project gave us the oportunity to develop a blog space where we have met new people, we have improved our listening and grammar skills among other things. As a result you can read before everybody's answer to three important questions.
We decide to do this course
- To meet new people
- To improve English skills, to change job
- To find a job
- To go to university
How do you think IT has helped you with your English?
- It is the best way to improve my knowledge
- I can check my grammar mistakes
- I can improve my pronunciation skills
- It helps me with my writing
- It helps me a lot
Did the computer help you to improve your learning skills?
- Yes, without doubt
- Faithfully
- Watching films and listening to the radio
- Checking my grammar and vocabulary
This MoLeNet project has been useful on different ways to each of us and always important.
We cannot be blind and live apart from IT technology when it is part of our daily life.
MoLeNet project gave us the oportunity to develop a blog space where we have met new people, we have improved our listening and grammar skills among other things. As a result you can read before everybody's answer to three important questions.
We decide to do this course
- To meet new people
- To improve English skills, to change job
- To find a job
- To go to university
How do you think IT has helped you with your English?
- It is the best way to improve my knowledge
- I can check my grammar mistakes
- I can improve my pronunciation skills
- It helps me with my writing
- It helps me a lot
Did the computer help you to improve your learning skills?
- Yes, without doubt
- Faithfully
- Watching films and listening to the radio
- Checking my grammar and vocabulary
This MoLeNet project has been useful on different ways to each of us and always important.
We cannot be blind and live apart from IT technology when it is part of our daily life.
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
Charity Shops
This report is about charity shops. How important are they in this country and how people enjoy buying different things from them. It doesn't matter when or where.
Have you been in a charity shop?
Everybody in this city has been to a charity shop for different reasons: to buy a present, to find something curious or vintage,.....always trying to find a bargain. Some people go everyday as a habit, others go everyweek looking for a special piece or a unique dress and others include charity shops on their lists of things to do when they go anyplace.
Do you know how they work?
People know what are they for, but they are lost when you ask about how they work. Volunteers; volunteers are the backbone of these shops. They work for free in their spare time and put their skills in benefit the shop. Some of them make repairs on jewellery, others being sellers and sorting out donations or cleaning shoes. All of them are very proud of what they do because they know, indirectly, their hard work help others to overcome poverty and suffering round the world in innumerable proyects.
Conclusion
If you come from another country maybe you find these shops very different from others shops in the High Street. Don't hesitate to pay them a visit it will be like going into another world always enjoyable, always adventurous.
Have you been in a charity shop?
Everybody in this city has been to a charity shop for different reasons: to buy a present, to find something curious or vintage,.....always trying to find a bargain. Some people go everyday as a habit, others go everyweek looking for a special piece or a unique dress and others include charity shops on their lists of things to do when they go anyplace.
Do you know how they work?
People know what are they for, but they are lost when you ask about how they work. Volunteers; volunteers are the backbone of these shops. They work for free in their spare time and put their skills in benefit the shop. Some of them make repairs on jewellery, others being sellers and sorting out donations or cleaning shoes. All of them are very proud of what they do because they know, indirectly, their hard work help others to overcome poverty and suffering round the world in innumerable proyects.
Conclusion
If you come from another country maybe you find these shops very different from others shops in the High Street. Don't hesitate to pay them a visit it will be like going into another world always enjoyable, always adventurous.
Monday, 31 May 2010
Reflexive Diary
Over the past month, I have used my netbook to: customise the blog, uploaded images, post about my first best friend, post an essay about Freud, to check my email, research on the internet, to study vocabulary and grammar.
As a result of this, I have been able to: learn more skills, reading, writing and listening skills, improved my pronunciation, gain confidence, improved my grammar skills, communicate more with my classmates, feel more motivated.
For next month, I would like to focus on:writing skills, making a film together, chatting via skipe in a small groups, share experiences through writing, post opinions and solve difficult problems on the blog, post a blog about an interesting unknown aspect of your country.
Juliana
As a result of this, I have been able to: learn more skills, reading, writing and listening skills, improved my pronunciation, gain confidence, improved my grammar skills, communicate more with my classmates, feel more motivated.
For next month, I would like to focus on:writing skills, making a film together, chatting via skipe in a small groups, share experiences through writing, post opinions and solve difficult problems on the blog, post a blog about an interesting unknown aspect of your country.
Juliana
Monday, 24 May 2010
One Among Thousands
Instead of listening to the radio, BBC 4, I thought it would be more interesting if I were to the British Museum and choose one object on my own. I have to confess I love history, so it was difficult to choose something special among so many wonders.
But one in particular caught my attention, Mrs Delany's paper mosaic. A beautiful, precise and colourful picture made of cut paper.
She was a keen gardener who created images of plants. She was sent plants by different people, botanists most of them, and created over 1,000 accurate pictures of plants with their Linnaean names. They were an inspiration to Wedgewood and other ceramists who, inspired by her illustration and shapes, created beautiful designs.
I love it. Maybe because secretly I would like to have my own garden and grow apart from nice plants, vegetables. I cannot imagine how a salad of my harvest would taste. I guess I need as Mrs Delany, a lot of time and patience.
It was a wonderful time spent at the museum. At the end instead ofgoing to a library I sat down on a stool in one of the medieval corridors and wrote this report. It is time to go. Who knows if now behind the closed doors eveything comes to alive.
Mar
But one in particular caught my attention, Mrs Delany's paper mosaic. A beautiful, precise and colourful picture made of cut paper.
She was a keen gardener who created images of plants. She was sent plants by different people, botanists most of them, and created over 1,000 accurate pictures of plants with their Linnaean names. They were an inspiration to Wedgewood and other ceramists who, inspired by her illustration and shapes, created beautiful designs.
I love it. Maybe because secretly I would like to have my own garden and grow apart from nice plants, vegetables. I cannot imagine how a salad of my harvest would taste. I guess I need as Mrs Delany, a lot of time and patience.
It was a wonderful time spent at the museum. At the end instead ofgoing to a library I sat down on a stool in one of the medieval corridors and wrote this report. It is time to go. Who knows if now behind the closed doors eveything comes to alive.
Mar
Saturday, 22 May 2010
S. Freud - Hero or Villain
Sigmund Freud (6th May 1856 - 23rd September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist who founded the psychoanalytic method of psychiatry.
He is best known and can be considered an hero for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of repression. He also created the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient, technically referred to as an analysand and psychoanalyst.
However,he is considered a villain by many people because of his psychosexual development theories which were based on the famous Greek tragedy "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles. Freud named his new theory the "Oedipus Complex" in which he argued that children passed through a stage in which they fixated on the mother as a sexual object but that the child eventually overcame and repressed this desire because it is taboo nature. Many anti Semitic-people dislike him.
Although there are reasons to hate him there are also reasons to love him. Freud was an scientist of human behaviour and his theories are still used by almost every psychotherapist. In my opinion he created an important theory that helped many people in the past and nowadays his ideas are even more respected.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud
Thursday, 20 May 2010
TIRADENTES HERO OF INDEPENDENCE OF BRAZIL
JOAQUIM JOSE DA SILVA XAVIER, passed into history as "Tiradentes". He was born in Minas Gerais, in 1746. He was an orphan and his brother educated him, which helped Tiradentes to be knowledgeable about the history, people and situation at that time. He was an officer in The Brazilian Army (Dragoes de Minas Gerais).
He left the army, then dedicated his life to mineral, but later returned to the military and worked as a dentist at that time. Like others, he was enthusiastic about the ideas of the French Revolution. In 1789 he was head of a conspiracy, called Inconfidencia Mineira, which collapsed.
He was arrested in Rio de Janeiro, where he intended to spreading his ideas about the moviment.
Tiradentes was hung, then slaughtered and parts of his body were displayed in the main Vila Rica Square for the public to see as an example.
He was not a villain, because he was fighting for the liberty and Independence of Brazil, when the country was suffering the domination and exploitation of Portugal. At that time Brazil did not have a Constitution or rights to create new industries and the people suffered with high taxes.
Tiradentes was considerate a National Hero and his day is celebrated every year in 21 April, to this day he is an example for all of us.!!!!
Efigenia Ramalho Ribeiro
Source: http://www.suapesquisa.com/tiradentes/
He left the army, then dedicated his life to mineral, but later returned to the military and worked as a dentist at that time. Like others, he was enthusiastic about the ideas of the French Revolution. In 1789 he was head of a conspiracy, called Inconfidencia Mineira, which collapsed.
He was arrested in Rio de Janeiro, where he intended to spreading his ideas about the moviment.
Tiradentes was hung, then slaughtered and parts of his body were displayed in the main Vila Rica Square for the public to see as an example.
He was not a villain, because he was fighting for the liberty and Independence of Brazil, when the country was suffering the domination and exploitation of Portugal. At that time Brazil did not have a Constitution or rights to create new industries and the people suffered with high taxes.
Tiradentes was considerate a National Hero and his day is celebrated every year in 21 April, to this day he is an example for all of us.!!!!
Efigenia Ramalho Ribeiro
Source: http://www.suapesquisa.com/tiradentes/
Thursday, 6 May 2010
My first best friend
Well, I grew up with three sisters and there is one or two years between us. So, as I remember I was always with them. We did long walks through the countryside and we went to places where there were rivers to swim. Also we played funny games together. One in particular which I still remember was so nice. It had to be during the night because had to be dark. We switched off all the lights at home and one of us had to count until one hundred, the others had to hide. After that the sister who was counting had to find the hidden ones(it is a game called hide and seek). It was so scary and funny! Yes, my best friends always are my sisters.
Juliana
Juliana
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