The Blog Project

I think that the Blog Project is a very good way of expressing things to your classmates that maybe you wouldn´t do at class. It´s a wonderful way of interacting that allows you to use another register of the language and it´s a space where you can give opinions, explanations or help. Maybe some people can have problems with this project if they don´t have internet or a computer, or both; but I don´t consider that a big problem because you can always go to the computer lab. What can I say? I don´t know who had the idea of this project, but I would like to congratulate her or him.

...about Present-ations

During the preparation of my presentation I basically learned how to organize the information I wanted to provide in order to talk only for 30 minutes maximum. It was not easy, the evening before the presentation I had to change my thesis and my conclusion because I decided to cut one part, the presentation was too long, so I couldn´t tell you all that I explained in my paper. But it doesn´t matter, I think that it´s more important to explain well one thing than explain poorly many things (and if anybody is interested in learning a bit more about jazz and its apearence I can pass you my paper ha ha ha).
I don´t like talking in public very much, I recognize that I´m afraid of that and that i have a bad time before doing it, but just before I do it. When I start talking I really enjoy it, I like explaining things and I like when people pay attention to you and learn something. I think that my presentation was not very complicated to understand because I focused in only two or three points. I guess it was not so bad, I hope you enjoyed it.
From listening to others presentations I learned some things about water resource managament, about the explotation of children and fair trade, about diabetes, about "slow suicide", about the use of cell phones and its history, about the sense of smell, about smart purchasing and the tricks of ads, about computer companies history and competence, about credit cards and debts, about the relation of memory and stress and about the dangers of tobacco. From all your presentations I learned something because all of you made me think. Thank you.

Research Project, "The Making Off"

To be honest, it´s not been easy to give birth to my paper. My biggest problem was to put in twelve pages all that I wanted to say about the origins of jazz music and the discriminative and racist environment that has always surrounded this music genre. I enjoyed the part of looking for books and articles, reading and thinking. But when I started to write I thought I was not going to be able to present a decent and objective development of my thesis; to my surprise things flowed and the ideas got clearer while I was keeping writing. Finally I had to change a little bit the thesis and the final product was not exactly what I had in my mind, but it doesn´t mean that I don´t like what I wrote. I wouldn´t change any word of what I said, and if I did it I would just provide more information like more examples and other approaches to the subject.

I have the feeling that my written expression has improved very fast in a few days, as well as my capacity for organising ideas and develop them. Especially during the last days in the computer lab, I enjoyed the process of writting. It´s been a very rich and educative activity (now that is over I can say that).

Oh! I almost forget!! The best thing it´s that I´ve been listening to a lot of good jazz during these last two weeks!!