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Well I enjoyed doing this blog. I thing it is very useful for me because I could train writing and also checking my mistakes.
I thing that I will use this instrument in the future with my students.
I learn a lot from my classmates presentations and also about what I investigate to do my presentation as well.
I think this was a great lesson and useful even thoguh we didnot have a lot of time with Mr Litman.
I would like to say that I am going to continue looking the perfection in my writing and also I will try to write carefully because when I write I do not pay attention to details.

If any person who visit my blog look find a mistake please let me know writing a comment.

large hadron collider

The last lesson I could not be present because I was working in my thesis and I think thath at the moment it was more important. One of my classmates old me that fabian presented about LHC and I think that it was an excellent topic and I decided to do a reserch about it. So this is what I found.

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, intended to collide opposing beams of protons or lead ions, each moving at approximately 99.999999% of the speed of light.

The LHC was built by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the intention of testing various predictions of high-energy physics, including the existence of the hypothesised Higgs boson and of the large family of new particles predicted by supersymmetry. 27 kilometres (17 mi) in circumference, it lies underneath the Franco-Swiss border between the Jura Mountains and the Alps near Geneva, Switzerland. It is funded by and built in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and engineers from over 100 countries as well as hundreds of universities and laboratories.

On 10 September 2008, the proton beams were successfully circulated in the main ring of the LHC for the first time. On 19 September 2008, the operations were halted due to a serious fault between two superconducting bending magnets. The LHC will not be operational again until summer 2009.

The LHC was officially inaugurated on 21 October 2008, in the presence of political leaders, science ministers from CERN's 20 Member States, CERN officials, and members of the worldwide scientific community.

cartoons, TV and videogames

Today also presented felipe who talked about cartoons, TV and Videogames.

He gave some examples like Pokemon that means "pocket monsters", through this Japanese cartoons, is possible to recognize some hidden words in the name of the characters like "Ekans" = Snake, or "Arboc" = Cobra. The other way to understand and learn new words in English is through video games, according to what Felipe said, people is more exposed to use English through video games because usually, video games are played in its original language (English).
This presentation was very interesting and helpful as well, because we can use this information in our lessons and theach the students through authentic material.

Role playing in education

Claudio spoke about "Role playing games in education", I know that he is a lover of this kind of games that is the reason why I could understand his original topic, anyway, trough this presentation, Claudio explained some different aspects about role games, and how it can be used in order to motivate the students to use their imagination and some academical skills at the same time.

Personally, I do not like this kind of games, but indirectly Claudio gave me an incredible advice "teach playing and you will be giving a significative teaching".

communication with your children

Today Peter presented about comunication. his point of view were really interesting and also He integrated his presentation with diego`s presentation and mine.
he showed advantages for a good communication and some ideas to improve the relation between parents and children.
I enjoyed his presentation and I think that he was very well prepared and he chose a song called jeremy by pearl jam that show what happen when we are not able to have a good communication with our sons.

femicide is not fashionable

The second presentation of this day was made by katherine, she decided to talk about "Femicide" a very serious topic that day to day is more present in our social context where a lot woman are killed by their stupid couples. Katherine, did not just talk about femicide, she explained how our society is accepting this kind of behaviour as some common and normal, her example was about a jeans brand that promote its products through images where girls were hurt by bad boys, this brand is called FES.

I think was an interesting topic and well prepared, she showed confidence and good speech.

teacher burnout

Today also evelyn presented. she presented about teacher burnout. she followed the steps are neccesary in a presentation introduction, definition, causes, sign and sympthoms, treatment and prevention and finally a conclusion. she gave us a handout with vocabulary and useful information.

She has always demonstrated that prepare very carefully her presentation.

stress at the end of the year

This class, Nicole talked about the stress that we as teachers might cope with at the end of the year. She gave us some tips to help us control our emotions and maintain calm.

I can say that Nicole's presentation was really useful to reload our energies to finish this year in a good way. she had a good speech, i think that nicole has been improving through the presentation because now she looks more confident so well done.