A Journey to Success
"Life is Real"
My favorite part of "Life is Real" was finding the way to express who I am as a writer and what experiences have defined me.To analyze oneself is not an easy task and in my case, it took me back to important moments in my life. Thinking about the first book that I consciously read and enjoyed brought me so much memory of my favorite books and their stories. As soon I thought about these stories, the rest of the "Life is Real" paper was pretty much done. It is amazing how much you can recall of a good reading even after several years. That is the power of writing!
As I said in "Life is Real," my goal is to keep an honest writing style, full of life. I really hope you can see my writing style in every part of my work.
As I said in "Life is Real," my goal is to keep an honest writing style, full of life. I really hope you can see my writing style in every part of my work.
Website Design
This is the first time I have ever worked on the creation of a website. At the beginning, it was really time-consuming and confusing, but practice is the key. The more I worked on it, the easier it became. My favorite part was deciding how everything was going to be organized and presented. As the webmaster, I was responsible for the set-up of the site and to be sure it was done according to the instructions given by the professor. Another important detail was to make sure my teammates agreed with my ideas. For example, at the middle of our work, I didn't like how our first template looked and I talked to the girls about it, giving some suggestions of other templates. As a group, we decided to change it to the template design we finally published, which looks way better for the content of our research.
Research Study
My research was a very enriching experience. It was very gratifying to look at my proposal and the results of it. The collection of sources was my favorite part, especially because there was so much information to choose from. Most of studies agree on the advantages of learning a new language which made it easy to present and prove my argument. The difficult part was to make a selection out of so much information. I wanted to put everything I learned out there, but there was some information that was irrelevant to the subject or would take my research in another direction. I learned about myself: how good I am on selecting relevant information that would get my research to where I wanted. This study will impact not only parents thinking about teaching their kids another language, but also adults in search of a new adventure, an adventure that will change their life in every single aspect. I am very happy to be able to tell the world about the powerful tool it is to learn a new language.
Digital Writing in the 21st Century
This is the first time I presented a research study online. At the beginning, it was scary and challenging, but now I see the advantages of it. You not only can reach more people, but during the process you also think more about your audience and the message you want to deliver. I was constantly questioning myself about the importance of the information I was sharing and about the clarity of it. I think this is one of the advantages of digital writing; you are more aware of your audience's needs.
Digital writing in the 21st century is the new and future way of transmitting a message to a great amount of people. Education around the world should adapt teaching methods to give the students the opportunity of becoming part of this amazing communication system.
During class, we watched a video that expressed in a very interesting way why digital education is so important today. Let's watch it together!
Digital writing in the 21st century is the new and future way of transmitting a message to a great amount of people. Education around the world should adapt teaching methods to give the students the opportunity of becoming part of this amazing communication system.
During class, we watched a video that expressed in a very interesting way why digital education is so important today. Let's watch it together!
A Digital Classroom
As the video shows and expresses, a classroom without digital education leaves the students "unequipped for the future". Technology is changing amazingly fast. Every year there is a new gadget or internet page changing the world as we know it. Pages as Facebook, Google, Airbnb, and others are changing the lives of millions of people around the world. There are also thousands, if not millions, of new jobs in different areas. The only way to provide a good education is integrating the advantages of technology in the classroom, otherwise students will be at a huge disadvantage in a completely digital world.
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Image 1: Banner http://www.listentech.com/blog/giving-thanks/
Image 1 Slideshow: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/gabriel-garcia-marquez-9780747594765/
Image 2 Slideshow: http://www.ecured.cu/index.php/Relato_de_un_náufrago
Image 3 Slideshow: http://journeysanddestinations.wordpress.com/2010/04/27/gabriel-garcia-marquez-month/
Image 4 Slideshow: http://anyiko.wordpress.com/2013/01/08/11-quotes-from-living-to-tell-the-tale-gabriel-garcia-marquez/
Image 5 Slideshow: http://reviewtune.com/?p=268
Image 6 Slideshow: http://springyjottings.blogspot.com/2010/05/one-hundred-years-of-solitude-by.html
Video: http://youtu.be/qM_1IEJsy2Q