Hi,
I 'm here again writing on my first blog of my life...Thinking better about it, it's really wonderful to have a private corner where I can write whatever I want and how I feel.
What can I say about the first two weeks of blogging?
First, I must admit that I had some difficulties at the beginning of the course and that everything appeared to me to be too hard, taking a lot of my time to complete the activities. I remember the first day when Prof. Guth spoke us about blogs, blogs' etiquettes, etc. and asked us to give a brief presentation about ourselves adding a picture from flickr.."and here starts complications", was my first thought when, after a number of attempts, the picture didn't appear on my screen. Soon I realized it was not so difficult as it seemed and when I posted my presentation with a beautiful picture of a sunflower I was satisfied, at all. However, very unexpectedly I noticed that I liked to write feedbacks to my peers (especially to the members of my group) and received them. That's why I think that blogging is a very good way to learn how to interact with people using the second language. In my opinion, interaction in the language we study is an important part of our whole knowledge we have in that language: grammar and literature are not to be left out, obviously, but I think that learning a language only in 'theory', without practicing it in real contexts, may be very unuseful.
Till now, at the university, I was always supposed to study grammar and translation and in this way worked just with the formal side of the English language. But, I think that, while studying a language, one should also be aware of the more informal side of it, which emerges exactly from blogs.
So, I see the blog first as a private corner where I write whatever I feel, second as virtual a place for communication. I would like to compare it to a square, for example, where I meet my friends and change with them my ideas on different topics.
However, a blog can be something more, it can be a place where one need to share his culture and his experiences with other people, so I would compare it to a small encyclopedia written by our own.
These are my impressions after the first two weeks of blogging. Maybe, when I'll more expert in the field (hope so!!!) I'll change some ideas about it and surely get you updated.
I 'm here again writing on my first blog of my life...Thinking better about it, it's really wonderful to have a private corner where I can write whatever I want and how I feel.
What can I say about the first two weeks of blogging?
First, I must admit that I had some difficulties at the beginning of the course and that everything appeared to me to be too hard, taking a lot of my time to complete the activities. I remember the first day when Prof. Guth spoke us about blogs, blogs' etiquettes, etc. and asked us to give a brief presentation about ourselves adding a picture from flickr.."and here starts complications", was my first thought when, after a number of attempts, the picture didn't appear on my screen. Soon I realized it was not so difficult as it seemed and when I posted my presentation with a beautiful picture of a sunflower I was satisfied, at all. However, very unexpectedly I noticed that I liked to write feedbacks to my peers (especially to the members of my group) and received them. That's why I think that blogging is a very good way to learn how to interact with people using the second language. In my opinion, interaction in the language we study is an important part of our whole knowledge we have in that language: grammar and literature are not to be left out, obviously, but I think that learning a language only in 'theory', without practicing it in real contexts, may be very unuseful.
Till now, at the university, I was always supposed to study grammar and translation and in this way worked just with the formal side of the English language. But, I think that, while studying a language, one should also be aware of the more informal side of it, which emerges exactly from blogs.
So, I see the blog first as a private corner where I write whatever I feel, second as virtual a place for communication. I would like to compare it to a square, for example, where I meet my friends and change with them my ideas on different topics.
However, a blog can be something more, it can be a place where one need to share his culture and his experiences with other people, so I would compare it to a small encyclopedia written by our own.
These are my impressions after the first two weeks of blogging. Maybe, when I'll more expert in the field (hope so!!!) I'll change some ideas about it and surely get you updated.
