Last blog assignment

I selected an article named Increasing Vocabulary through Activities, by Celia Webb.
I chose this article because it is always interesting to know different ways of learning.

This article it is about the participation of the five senses in the vocabulary learning.
The students remember better associating a word with a smell, touch, taste, or sound. So is recommendable exploring new activities.

For example take a class, any class to learn a new skill. Choose something you are interested in and which requires you to use your hands. Each class will have their own vocabulary to describe the equipment, the processes, and the materials. The increased activity will create more connections in your brain. The greater number of connections your brain is able to make with each word, the more likely it is that the word will become part of your working vocabulary.

An other way can be visiting a museum, this is a great choice because they often feature interactive displays. You'll learn the words associated with the focus of the museum. Your brain will link the experience of the museum and record about the trip.

Also working in the garden. Their you will learn about lexicon of gardening, wich is rich in Latin-based words describing plants. Latin provides the roots to many English words in the areas of law, science, and religion. Understanding this words can help you deduce the meaning of other words that are new to you.

Learning new words can be easier, more enjoyable, and result in better retention if you can use multiple senses in the word-learning process.

CAREER-RELATED TOPIC

Construction of Environments of Learning

Construction of environments of learning is a new way of the process education - learning and his biggers characteristics are that: the child is the center of the learning, the teacher is a mediator of the learning, and the work with environments favored.

I have learned very much on this topic, for example that the child must be the protagonist in the process, must construct the learning for himself. This way the child develops the thought critic, comprehensivly of the facts, and formulates and solves problems following his own ways. He obtains significant learnings that in the future he will be able to apply in different contexts.



The teacher to the being an associate in the learning, does not direct the activities, he is a guide , leaving the child to be motivated as his own interest.
The environment adapts according to the lenses of learning, using material and psychological resources that are related in order the activity. The materials must be within reach of the children, the room must be wide, in where they can move freely, to be employed at the floor, and to sit down in pillows when they want to do it. The teacher must motivate the pupils to realize the activities, asking if they are interested in a topic, which they it would like to know on this, and of that way would approach it.
I would like to know in the practice, schools where this educational system is realized, that obviously, is very different from the traditional system.
Also I would like to know on more technical things of this topic, as activities and materials didactic.
I'm interested in this topic because it is a different alternative of seeing the education - learning, and can be a way of giving quality to our educational system, which has a very low level.

Web-sites of my area

As I mentioned in the first publication that I did in this blog, my area of study is the education, which centers in the education - learning process for children. Therefore, I have chosen two web-sites that are related to this, they are very useful for the persons that have an interest in the area.
The first web-site is, and I chose it [ http://www.education.com/ ], because it is a good tool for the teachers and students that look for help in Internet. This page offers information about of the different educational stages of the persons, of the psychological processes, and how they must be approached to achieve learnings. Also I liked that in this page there appear different articles and investigations that serve to learn different related topics.

The second web - site that I chose is [http://www.edweek.org/ew/index.html ], because this is full of research and information of any person interested in the topic of education wanted to have. Besides the information is published weekly what gives more value to the page.

My last Weekend

In my last weekend, I went to the mountains where there is snow with my family, composed for my mom and his boyfriend, my sister and my daughter. The walk was really enterteining, and we relaxed and enjoyed much of it.
We got up very early in the morning and had breakfast. Then wewent towards our destiny. The trip was slow but not exhausting. Therefore, when we got there we had energy great. Berenis (my daughter) only wanted to play with the snow, it seemed to her fantastic and really funny, but in the 30 minutes, she was completely wet. Nevertheless, we all wanted to continue enjoying, so we went back to the car to have some food and to warm up. Later we went away to cross other places and to see the late afternoon in the mountain chain. Everything was really beautiful and I was very surprised of how wonderful the nature is. We all played in the snow and took many photographies. At the end of the day we were very exhausted and only we wanted to come to house, but we were really satisfied to have enjoyed such a brilliant weekend. In the trip of return, my sister, my daughter and me, fell asleep, since we were very tired. When we came to house, we had dinner all together and we agreed to return to the snow soon to celebrate the birthday of my mom's boyfriend

My Favorite Song

I always had been many song I liked, but in this moment I have my favorite.

This song is "whit you" by The Subways. They are an English indie rockband. Their debut album, Young For Eternity, was released on 4 July 2005 in the UK and February 14, 2006 in the US. Their second album, All or Nothing, was finished the recording on October 17, 2007.

I like this song because is very powerful and also because I like the voice of the girl who sings in some parts, she is very sweet.

Whit You by The Subways

I live my life walking down this street

I meet the faces of the people I see

All the time I see your reflection

All the time I see your reflection

It's okay to feel alone

It's okay to be alone

All the time I see your reflection

All the time I see your reflection

Cause when I'm with you

It seems so easy

It seems so easy

My best days are with you

They are so easy

They are so easy

Yeah, I don't like giving up

Cause giving up is easy

And I'll see you again

Just tell me where you'll meet me

When I'm with you

It seems so easy

It seems so easy

My best days are with you

They are so easy

They are so easy, yeah!

When I'm with you

It seems so easy

It seems so easy

My best days are with you

They are so easy

They are so easy, yeah!

"How Bipolar Disorder Works"

Activity 2

I choose this article because to my it interests any subject that has relation with the "mental disease".Also actuality, many people suffer these syndromes and if it is not known about them, these can't be identified and much less to be trated medically.

In the article I found sufficient information about "Bipolar Disorder",right what hoped to find,for example the symptoms bipolar and the possible causes of its development.

The most interesting than I learned on the article was the classification of the bipolarity levels,which are:

• Bipolar I Disorder : This is the most severe form of the disorder. It includes at least one manic or mixed episode and at least one depressive episode



• Bipolar II Disorder: Patients have had at least one depressive episode and at least one hypomanic episode. A patient could experience periods of normal mooods as well.



• Bipolar disorder not otherwise specified (NOS): This classification is used for cases in which bipolar patients experience patterns that don't fall into the I or II categories.



• Cyclothymia: This is the least severe form of the disorder. It includes two years of episodes of hypomania and milder depression.

Glossary

Meaningless: lacking any significance.

Illness: an unhealthy condition of body or mind.

Mood: a conscious state of mind or predominant emotion.

Risky: attended with risk or danger.

Despair: to lose all hope or confidence.

Sluggishness: averse to activity or exertion.

Restlessness: characterized by or manifesting unrest especially of mind.

Pains: localized physical suffering associated with bodily disorder .

Delusions: a persistent false psychotic belief regarding the self or persons or objects outside the self that is maintained despite indisputable evidence to the contrary.

Hallucinations: perception of objects with no reality usually arising from disorder of the nervous system or in response to drugs.

Environmental: the circumstances, objects, or conditions by which one is surrounded.

Hypomania: a mild mania especially when part of bipolar disorder .

Anticonvulsant: used or tending to control or to prevent convulsions.

Cyclothymia: relating to or being a mood disorder characterized by alternating episodes of depression and elation in a form less severe than that of bipolar disorder .

Pumped: filled with energetic excitement and enthusiasm .

Article: http://health.howstuffworks.com/bipolar-disorder.htm

Presentation

Hello, my name is Grace Molina, I’m studyng Education at University of Chile, this is my third year. This blog was created for English class 3, with miss Claudia Flores. I expect to learn the language in this course, the grammar and the pronunciation, because this is very important at the moment, educationally as well as professionally.