Evaluation 06

During this year of 2006, we have worked on many things and used many different tools, like different blogs (WordPress and ECML), along with many other different things. I’ll try to sum up each and every function of each one of them.            The blogs (WordPress and ECML) are meant to be the window from where every person from the world can see us. Our first blog, on ECML, was a blog where only members from the ECML community were were able to get into. It was a project between many schools, with the goal of making students talk to each other in English, to develop a better language level. Or second blog, on WordPress, works as a normal blog: anyone can read it, comment on the posts, etc, and anyone can have a WordPress account.            Other tools we used were aggregators (suprglu and bloglines). Suprglu aggregates things we have written on flickr, on our blogs, the comments we have on our blogs, the posts we left on 43 things and 43 places, every thing, and puts it all together as one new blog. On the other hand, bloglines wraps together the blogs from our friends, and exposes all the new posts the have made on a single page, so it’s easier for us to see them.            We have also created accounts on 43 thing and 43 places, sites where we talk about our wishes and travel experiences. In these sites we made contact with other people and learned how to speak an informal language.            Flickr is a site where we post photos we take and people comment on them, and we can comment on other people’s photos as well.The last thing we used was Community Walk, a site where we can add markers to a map, in a way that we can tell stories through the world. 

            Overall, I think the most useful thing we did was create the blog, because that is the only place where I really made contact with new people (through comments). I think what we should do to get more vocabulary and learn an even more “normal” english is to start entering chat rooms where people speak english.

What is the must-go place in Berlin? And what would be the must-do thing there?

See more progress on: Berlin

If some day I visit Morroco, what should I visit first?

See more progress on: Morocco

Do you feel weird being there? I mean, is it really as special as some people say it is?

See more progress on: Stonehenge

Why?

Why is it so hard? Isn’t it loud enough? Is it annoying enough? What are your excuses not to wake up when it goes off?

See more progress on: wake up when my alarm clock goes off

Looking for…

All of us in this “community” if I may say, don’t you all think that we are never really going to be happy if we don’t settle for what we already have? I mean, even if we all get rich, find someone who loves us and who we love, etc etc, we’re always going to want something more, and we’ll neve be really happy… We have to stop LOOKING for hapiness in the things we haven’t got, and FIND it in the things we do have…

See more progress on: be happy

Do you all play?

Does everyone here play? Or is someone like me, who never plays but hopes to win? I know it is quite a stupid idea, but it simply seems so useless to buy the ticket knowing you have a one chance out of I-don’t-know-how-many-millions…

See more progress on: win the lottery

My ferret

My ferret, sleepy

Originally uploaded by Thomas Brasil.

This is my ferret, Joey (yes, I did take his name out of “Friends”). He is now 5 years old and I adopted him in July 2000, a few months after I changed schools, and entered the French school. I got it as a present for my persistence: when I started here at the French school I couldn’t understand a word of French, so I had a really difficult time adapting, so Joey kept me good company in the beginning.
Lately I’ve felt really bad because I haven’t been giving much attention to him, because I’m always doing something else…
Well, in this picture he’s yawning (no, I’m not trying to kill him), which is quit a normal thing because he sleeps about 18h a day…
That’s pretty much it…

Project Red

In this site http://blogking.learnerblogs.org/ you may find a little information about project red. It is a project develloped by Bono, the singer from U2. The main idea of the project is quite simple: some companies like Motorola produce red products (like the cellphone on the picture) and some of the money gathered from the sale of those products is sent to institutions that help people with AIDS. This project only shows even more how much Bono is worth admiering: not only he is a great singer, but he also cares about the world he lives in. That’s what we all should do, but unfortunately only very few can (and specially, only few want…).