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.