“Learned profile: Classmate Huidi."
Today,I learned a lot about my classmate Huidi. She is 19 years old. She is from China; she lives in the United States. She has
been living in New York City one and a half year, but Huidi really does not have too much feeling about the city. Actually she is living in Flushing. In this moment she works in a dessert store. Huidi wants to study business administration. One of her dreams is to visit South Korea. Her favorite hobby is sleep, she loves it. The food she likes the most is chocolate. Sometimes she spends more than a half hour taking the bus to come to the college.
Carlos YolI
Zach Kelly
Class:3A
3/27/2014
Types of Jobs I Would Like to Work
Everybody has asked, what is the most interesting job? What do you want to study? In these days, people are looking for a good job that can improve his/her future, but there some types of jobs that are not secure or do not offer too many opportunities. Therefore, people need to be careful about what they want to study. There are three types of jobs I would like to work: Soccer coach, business administration, and doctor.
One of the three jobs I would like to work is soccer coach. I chose this because I love soccer. To be honest, since I was a child, I have wanted to be a soccer player. I had that dream on my mind, but unfortunately, I had a serious injury in my knee and I could not play anymore. The reason why I want to be a soccer coach is because I want to be involved in the soccer world, even if I have an injury in my knee. I want to create new professional soccer players. I just want to teach people who love soccer how to play. Soccer is the most popular sport around the world, especially in Latin America and Europe and it is one of the few sports in which you can use your whole body: feet, arms, hands, chest, shoulders, and even your back. To be a soccer coach you need to be a boss, a father, you have to know hot treat your team and give them good advice, you need to have leadership, and you have to have sufficient knowledge about the sport. Before being a coach, you have to do a special course. After that you get an authorized license. In the United States soccer is not as popular as other sports like basketball, baseball or American football. That’s why I would like to go to Brazil and do a special course to become a coach. Many people think that this is not an important job, but in my opinion, everything related to sports is important, especially for kids. Although you can be famous and get a lot of money, I did not choose this job for money, I just chose it because soccer is my passion and it’s what I want to be.
The second job I have chosen is Business manager. Why do I decide to study this major? Business is a wide field that has many types of management positions. In these times the major companies in every operation needs skilled administrations in order to succeed. Being motivated and enthusiastic is always primordial in this job. You have to know how to deal with stress and that is important to keep you relaxed. A career in business touches on information about technology, ethics and international relationship. This is an important job. You acquire many abilities. You can also learn how to administrate money and your own business. The technology is going to be main major in the future, but all technology companies have to have somebody who manages the money and the company. I think that is I become in a business person it can bring me too many opportunities and give me a good future. In my opinion that is a good election.
Finally I would like to work Is a doctor. In my opinion, being a doctor is one of the most difficult and important jobs in the world. Everybody always will need a doctor, and as I said is not and easy job; it’s hard. You have to be prepared physically and psychologically. You have to deal with stress and it’s a busy work, but I am interested in this job. I want to be a Radiologist. A radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnostic and treatment of disease and injury. To detect this kind of injuries the doctor uses imaging technologies, such as MRI, X-rays, and CT. In the United States and many other countries this job is not too popular; people prefer to take other branch of medicine. However, this is a job which you can get a good amount of money; so many hospitals are looking for a radiologist. There are good things that this job can bring you. First, you do not need to study the whole major of medicine to be a radiologist. Second, it is not a common work and many clinics and hospitals need a radiologist. Third, you are involved in the field of medicine, and it’s always important to treat with that kind of people, and finally, the payment is totally good, if you are a good radiologist, you are going to get enough money.
These three jobs have something special to me; even if they are completely different, I got a good talent in each profession. I chose these types of jobs because it’s what I like to be since I was younger. Business, doctor, and soccer coach are jobs that I know that can give me good things for the future and I think that I can develop my best skills I these jobs. It would be fantastic if I reach my goals, so that’s why I am working so hard, because one day I dreamed it, today I am working nonstop, and tomorrow I will do it.
Carlos Yoli
Zach Kelly
Class:3a
3/6/2014
Profile about Scott Nichols
This profile is about Scoot Nichols. He is the foreman for a construction company. They build homes and buildings. He has been in the company eleven years. Scott started doing that in high school, working weekends. He went to a local junior school in Santa Rosa. In his job he gets the building plans from his boss - the owner of the company and he executes it. His boss does all the dealing with money. A typical work week is 40 hours. They have a ten-minute break in the morning , the rest of the day they are busy. Scott is worker and supervisor at the same time. He also has to keep an eye on what everybody's doing. He has to deal with a lot of Hispanic labors. At the beginning he started out making six dollars an hour and he felt good and lucky bur a lot of people do not want to start at such a low wage . However, he has lost good workers because they found a job for a couple dollars more. Although Scott has not really become close with anybody, he always shows motivation and enthusiasm, Scott explain that his job is really dangerous, especially when you have people that do not have construction knowledge.
There are a lot of things I have liked about Scott. First of al, his attitude into the job, I like that kind of person who shows motivation and enthusiasm to the others , even if they are not close friend, I think this is one of the most important things in a job. If you treat the others in a friendly way, you can get their respect, second his honesty. People who are honest never have problems. If you always say the truth you can have he confident of many people. Third he commitment that you have to have with all your obligations. It's always necessary to focus in the things you have to do. No matter what you do, you jus have to be responsible and try to make sure that you are doing a hood job. I think these aspects about Scoot make me feel wiser about how to work in a job and also I have learned some tactics or soft skills that I can put in practice in my job or in the real life.
Carlos Yoli
Zach Kelly
Class: 3a
4/2/2014
Profile about Lisa Pincus.
This profile is about Lisa Pincus. She is a dog trainer. Lisa started training her family’s shepherd lab when she was twelve and she also trained her neighbors pets. At the beginning Lisa never occurred to that would be her life’s work or anything. Even though she went to school and studied something completely unrelated to dogs, at the end she decided to be a dog trainer. She started working a part-time with trainers, and one day she just woke up and realized that she was loving it and making good money. That is why she gave up school and started training dogs professionally. Lisa has been at it now for about ten years. Actually she does not have children. She says dogs are her priority in life. Lisa works seven days a week, which is a lot, but she does not mind. She is just so happy.
Lisa mentioned some ways that owners have to follow if they really want to control their dogs correctly. First of all, you have to love your dogs and respect them like they’re your kids, but you have to talk to them like they are dogs. Second, dogs understand the tone and the intent of human words, but only when the words are consistently backed up by physical actions. Third, your dog has to see you as being what is called the alpha figure – the leader the god. You need to be god of the pack, and to become the alpha in your dog’s world. You must be physically aggressive but not abusive. Fourth way, is being creative; physically show the dog how to do what you want. Finally you have to establish yourself as the alpha. You have to get physical control of the dog, and you have to correct them immediately when they do anything wrong. Lisa makes sure that all dog’s owners have to know how to control their dogs properly. So once control has been established, the owner enforces the obedience and automatically they are both learning at the same time.
Personally I decided to choice this profile because I have always interested in how people can control animals. However, I felt an attraction about that, and for me it was really nice. I like dogs and I have always wanted to have control over an animal. I am particularly really impressed in the way she can controls dogs, I mean you have to have like a special concentration and do not lose your patience. One of the things I like the most about her way of training dogs, is that she can teach the dog and the owner at the same time , and also she gives you good advices about how to control dogs and how you need to be to avoid problems. I really like this profile. I would like to take her steps about how to train a dog and put in practice in my real life, such as: being creative, being a leader, don’t feel frustrated, and having the capacity to control everything. These steps can help me to control my bad situations and handle the time correctly. I think if I follow her instructions I can improve my actions and be a better person.
CAT-W #1
Why children become obese ?
According to the article by David Kraft, obesity is a really big problem in our society, and the reasons why many children are becoming obese is because they eat too much, especially junk food, snacks, not exercising, and they do not sleep adequately. The author also mentioned that wight problems in children could be related with the weight of their parents. If your parents are overweight, there are possibilities that your son or daughter will have the same problem. Kraft said that overweight parent are less likely to encourage healthy eating and exercise in their children because these are not lifestyle choices that they make themselves. In other words, if parents have had a bad diet before ,eating diserder, and they never corrected their children. It is obvious that they become obese. Sometimes parents are the main cause of the problem.
I think obesity is a problem that you can resolve if you really work hard and prevent it since the beginning. What i mean is that parents can not allow their children to eat fast food or junk foods. They have to be very strict. Therefore, i do not share the idea that obesity is a genetic problem. I know friends who have a good body and their parents are extremely fat. The point is that if children are raised in a house where everybody likes to eat; there are a good percentage that these children will love food but not in a good way. Children are not culpable of obesity. Sometimes their parents do not have time to cook, they have problems in the house or they do not pay enough attention in the health of their children and unfortunately children pay the consequences of acts.
I read an article and 79% of the population in the United States is overweight. This means that only 21 people of 100 have a normal weight. Therefore, the amount is big and is growing more and more. These people do not realize that if they introduce their children junk food, high calories the percentage will be the double and the problem will be biggest. Sometimes people do not know the impact of becoming obese. We all know that fat food is very delicious and you can find it in everywhere, but obesity is not the only problem. There are diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and problems in your stomach. This could be a serious problem if you do not control it adequately.
I strongly recommend these steps to all people who are overweight or for people who want to avoid this problem. First of all, i recommend doing exercise. This is the best thing you can do for your body. If you devote one hour daily , it can help you a lot and you will have a healthy body. Even though many people do not have time to do to the gym because of work , if you walk or do exercise at home , it could be a good idea as well. Second, do not eat fat food, junk food, or food with high calories. You just have to try to avoid these kind of food and eat vegetables, fish, soup and fruits. As a result of this, your body will feel better and your look will not be fat. And third, try to sleep well. eight hours is correct . Many people tend to sleep less than six hours and during the day they eat inappropriate food and that is why they start to feel problems in their stomachs. This could be the best idea if you do not want to become obese , especially for children; they really have to follow all these steps for prevent a high percentage of obese people in the future.
This article shows the consequences of having bad habits with the food. We have to stop this problem , and parents have to know that obesity in children is not OK.However, if we want to eliminate this , we need to start cooking vegetables , healthy food, doing more exercises, stop to be lazy , and educate our children , of a result of that , they can grow up healthy.
CAT-W #2
“Technology and the college generation”
According to the article “Technology and the college generation” ,there is a problem with students in universities. They do not check their e-mails regularly. Cedrick May, a professor at the University of Texas was really surprised when he noticed students did not know that he had changed the homework because they did not check E-mail. According to Reynol Junco, students download a program letting him track their computer habits; and the spend 123 minutes a day on a computer. Students these days prefer social media to E-mail, but what they do not realize is that E-mail is as important as media and even more important because at university they have to check it constantly.
I think that students do not use E-mail too much because they do not find entertainment in comparison with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social networks. Six or seven years ago, E-mail was as famous as Facebook, and people used it all time as the principal way of communication on the internet. However, technology is advancing every day and as a result of that, E-mail is not as popular as before and is not used by many people, especially students.
Actually technology is changing a lot, and we can notice that there are a lot of new social networks. As a result of that E-mail is not having as much function as before. People tend to use Facebook or Twitter as a fast way of communication with their friends or family, and they see as E-mail slow and boring. Recently I have been reading different articles about what students prefer to E-mail or social media in Latin America, and the percentage of people who use social media is higher if we compare with people who use E-mail. 70% of people prefer social media including students and other people. The other 30% like E-mail. I realized that people who like E-mail are not students; the majority is people under 40 years old. That could be a reason why professors are still using E-mail for activities in class as a way of communication with students.
I have been using social networks since 2005, and obviously I started using E-mail. I remember it was so nice and cool. In my personal opinion, I really do not have a problem with E-mail; it does not bother me either. Therefore, I like to use it a lot, especially for college’s notifications. There are several reasons why students do not like to check it often, and three of the most commons are: First, because of the “spams”, we all have unwanted messages in our E-mails. It is annoying and could be dangerous. Second, people see E-mail as old fashioned. Actually students have Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and they have the facility of sending messages, taking pictures, and making video calls in a faster way without any problem. This is an advantage with respect E-mail. Third, the low popularity that E-mail had during 2009, when other social networks achieved a great popularity in people. Those could be the main causes why E-mail is not used by students or why it is boring for others. Although I think it is useful as social Media.
In conclusion, we can see that E-mail will not be used in the future continuously. We are noticing how a lot of students are not paying attention to E-mail, and they are seeing it as a boring and slow application. We can also realize that statistics show a big difference between people who are using E-mail and social networks. However, at universities and colleges, for professors E-mail is still a good way of communication between them and students. Consequently students must use it.
CAT-W #3
Reaction about the presentations
A Power point presentation is a type of activities that everyone has to do it at colleges, universities, or many other public places. Therefore it is important to know about that, and also we have to know the importance in each student or person who is doing the activity. Last week Presentations that we did in class were about different topics such as international companies, careers, and famous people. The duration of each presentation was approximately fifteen to twenty minutes, and each presenter has five minutes to explain their knowledge about the topic. The principal objective of this activity is to have better fluency speaking, and creates good power points.
The presentations that we performed last week were a good opportunity to improve our oral skills and also to control our jitters in front of public. The main reasons why we did this activity were to get experience doing power point presentations, get knowledge in different topics, and we had the opportunity to be corrected by different students. Consequently, this was an excellent way to score our grades. These kinds of activities will be common in college. As a result, I have to be prepared and ready to do that in the future.
When everyone finished with their respective presentations, the first reaction I had was about the nervousness in students. Some students probably knew about their topics, but nerves were stronger than them. As a result, they did not speak clearly. My second reaction was about the fabulous power points that my classmates showed us, so I think they did a great job doing that. My third reaction was about “Reading”. In these kinds of presentations, the presenter cannot read too much, and if you want to read automatically, you must explain it, so in colleges or universities you could get a low score for doing an incomplete presentation.
In conclusion, having presentations is an adequate way to prepare us in different ways. You get appropriate tactics and also you get confident and lose fear in front of people. Taking notes about the presentation I think I felt a positivity reaction about that. The activity made me learn more about my mistakes and also the mistakes of others.
Today,I learned a lot about my classmate Huidi. She is 19 years old. She is from China; she lives in the United States. She has
been living in New York City one and a half year, but Huidi really does not have too much feeling about the city. Actually she is living in Flushing. In this moment she works in a dessert store. Huidi wants to study business administration. One of her dreams is to visit South Korea. Her favorite hobby is sleep, she loves it. The food she likes the most is chocolate. Sometimes she spends more than a half hour taking the bus to come to the college.
Carlos YolI
Zach Kelly
Class:3A
3/27/2014
Types of Jobs I Would Like to Work
Everybody has asked, what is the most interesting job? What do you want to study? In these days, people are looking for a good job that can improve his/her future, but there some types of jobs that are not secure or do not offer too many opportunities. Therefore, people need to be careful about what they want to study. There are three types of jobs I would like to work: Soccer coach, business administration, and doctor.
One of the three jobs I would like to work is soccer coach. I chose this because I love soccer. To be honest, since I was a child, I have wanted to be a soccer player. I had that dream on my mind, but unfortunately, I had a serious injury in my knee and I could not play anymore. The reason why I want to be a soccer coach is because I want to be involved in the soccer world, even if I have an injury in my knee. I want to create new professional soccer players. I just want to teach people who love soccer how to play. Soccer is the most popular sport around the world, especially in Latin America and Europe and it is one of the few sports in which you can use your whole body: feet, arms, hands, chest, shoulders, and even your back. To be a soccer coach you need to be a boss, a father, you have to know hot treat your team and give them good advice, you need to have leadership, and you have to have sufficient knowledge about the sport. Before being a coach, you have to do a special course. After that you get an authorized license. In the United States soccer is not as popular as other sports like basketball, baseball or American football. That’s why I would like to go to Brazil and do a special course to become a coach. Many people think that this is not an important job, but in my opinion, everything related to sports is important, especially for kids. Although you can be famous and get a lot of money, I did not choose this job for money, I just chose it because soccer is my passion and it’s what I want to be.
The second job I have chosen is Business manager. Why do I decide to study this major? Business is a wide field that has many types of management positions. In these times the major companies in every operation needs skilled administrations in order to succeed. Being motivated and enthusiastic is always primordial in this job. You have to know how to deal with stress and that is important to keep you relaxed. A career in business touches on information about technology, ethics and international relationship. This is an important job. You acquire many abilities. You can also learn how to administrate money and your own business. The technology is going to be main major in the future, but all technology companies have to have somebody who manages the money and the company. I think that is I become in a business person it can bring me too many opportunities and give me a good future. In my opinion that is a good election.
Finally I would like to work Is a doctor. In my opinion, being a doctor is one of the most difficult and important jobs in the world. Everybody always will need a doctor, and as I said is not and easy job; it’s hard. You have to be prepared physically and psychologically. You have to deal with stress and it’s a busy work, but I am interested in this job. I want to be a Radiologist. A radiologist is a medical doctor who specializes in diagnostic and treatment of disease and injury. To detect this kind of injuries the doctor uses imaging technologies, such as MRI, X-rays, and CT. In the United States and many other countries this job is not too popular; people prefer to take other branch of medicine. However, this is a job which you can get a good amount of money; so many hospitals are looking for a radiologist. There are good things that this job can bring you. First, you do not need to study the whole major of medicine to be a radiologist. Second, it is not a common work and many clinics and hospitals need a radiologist. Third, you are involved in the field of medicine, and it’s always important to treat with that kind of people, and finally, the payment is totally good, if you are a good radiologist, you are going to get enough money.
These three jobs have something special to me; even if they are completely different, I got a good talent in each profession. I chose these types of jobs because it’s what I like to be since I was younger. Business, doctor, and soccer coach are jobs that I know that can give me good things for the future and I think that I can develop my best skills I these jobs. It would be fantastic if I reach my goals, so that’s why I am working so hard, because one day I dreamed it, today I am working nonstop, and tomorrow I will do it.
Carlos Yoli
Zach Kelly
Class:3a
3/6/2014
Profile about Scott Nichols
This profile is about Scoot Nichols. He is the foreman for a construction company. They build homes and buildings. He has been in the company eleven years. Scott started doing that in high school, working weekends. He went to a local junior school in Santa Rosa. In his job he gets the building plans from his boss - the owner of the company and he executes it. His boss does all the dealing with money. A typical work week is 40 hours. They have a ten-minute break in the morning , the rest of the day they are busy. Scott is worker and supervisor at the same time. He also has to keep an eye on what everybody's doing. He has to deal with a lot of Hispanic labors. At the beginning he started out making six dollars an hour and he felt good and lucky bur a lot of people do not want to start at such a low wage . However, he has lost good workers because they found a job for a couple dollars more. Although Scott has not really become close with anybody, he always shows motivation and enthusiasm, Scott explain that his job is really dangerous, especially when you have people that do not have construction knowledge.
There are a lot of things I have liked about Scott. First of al, his attitude into the job, I like that kind of person who shows motivation and enthusiasm to the others , even if they are not close friend, I think this is one of the most important things in a job. If you treat the others in a friendly way, you can get their respect, second his honesty. People who are honest never have problems. If you always say the truth you can have he confident of many people. Third he commitment that you have to have with all your obligations. It's always necessary to focus in the things you have to do. No matter what you do, you jus have to be responsible and try to make sure that you are doing a hood job. I think these aspects about Scoot make me feel wiser about how to work in a job and also I have learned some tactics or soft skills that I can put in practice in my job or in the real life.
Carlos Yoli
Zach Kelly
Class: 3a
4/2/2014
Profile about Lisa Pincus.
This profile is about Lisa Pincus. She is a dog trainer. Lisa started training her family’s shepherd lab when she was twelve and she also trained her neighbors pets. At the beginning Lisa never occurred to that would be her life’s work or anything. Even though she went to school and studied something completely unrelated to dogs, at the end she decided to be a dog trainer. She started working a part-time with trainers, and one day she just woke up and realized that she was loving it and making good money. That is why she gave up school and started training dogs professionally. Lisa has been at it now for about ten years. Actually she does not have children. She says dogs are her priority in life. Lisa works seven days a week, which is a lot, but she does not mind. She is just so happy.
Lisa mentioned some ways that owners have to follow if they really want to control their dogs correctly. First of all, you have to love your dogs and respect them like they’re your kids, but you have to talk to them like they are dogs. Second, dogs understand the tone and the intent of human words, but only when the words are consistently backed up by physical actions. Third, your dog has to see you as being what is called the alpha figure – the leader the god. You need to be god of the pack, and to become the alpha in your dog’s world. You must be physically aggressive but not abusive. Fourth way, is being creative; physically show the dog how to do what you want. Finally you have to establish yourself as the alpha. You have to get physical control of the dog, and you have to correct them immediately when they do anything wrong. Lisa makes sure that all dog’s owners have to know how to control their dogs properly. So once control has been established, the owner enforces the obedience and automatically they are both learning at the same time.
Personally I decided to choice this profile because I have always interested in how people can control animals. However, I felt an attraction about that, and for me it was really nice. I like dogs and I have always wanted to have control over an animal. I am particularly really impressed in the way she can controls dogs, I mean you have to have like a special concentration and do not lose your patience. One of the things I like the most about her way of training dogs, is that she can teach the dog and the owner at the same time , and also she gives you good advices about how to control dogs and how you need to be to avoid problems. I really like this profile. I would like to take her steps about how to train a dog and put in practice in my real life, such as: being creative, being a leader, don’t feel frustrated, and having the capacity to control everything. These steps can help me to control my bad situations and handle the time correctly. I think if I follow her instructions I can improve my actions and be a better person.
CAT-W #1
Why children become obese ?
According to the article by David Kraft, obesity is a really big problem in our society, and the reasons why many children are becoming obese is because they eat too much, especially junk food, snacks, not exercising, and they do not sleep adequately. The author also mentioned that wight problems in children could be related with the weight of their parents. If your parents are overweight, there are possibilities that your son or daughter will have the same problem. Kraft said that overweight parent are less likely to encourage healthy eating and exercise in their children because these are not lifestyle choices that they make themselves. In other words, if parents have had a bad diet before ,eating diserder, and they never corrected their children. It is obvious that they become obese. Sometimes parents are the main cause of the problem.
I think obesity is a problem that you can resolve if you really work hard and prevent it since the beginning. What i mean is that parents can not allow their children to eat fast food or junk foods. They have to be very strict. Therefore, i do not share the idea that obesity is a genetic problem. I know friends who have a good body and their parents are extremely fat. The point is that if children are raised in a house where everybody likes to eat; there are a good percentage that these children will love food but not in a good way. Children are not culpable of obesity. Sometimes their parents do not have time to cook, they have problems in the house or they do not pay enough attention in the health of their children and unfortunately children pay the consequences of acts.
I read an article and 79% of the population in the United States is overweight. This means that only 21 people of 100 have a normal weight. Therefore, the amount is big and is growing more and more. These people do not realize that if they introduce their children junk food, high calories the percentage will be the double and the problem will be biggest. Sometimes people do not know the impact of becoming obese. We all know that fat food is very delicious and you can find it in everywhere, but obesity is not the only problem. There are diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and problems in your stomach. This could be a serious problem if you do not control it adequately.
I strongly recommend these steps to all people who are overweight or for people who want to avoid this problem. First of all, i recommend doing exercise. This is the best thing you can do for your body. If you devote one hour daily , it can help you a lot and you will have a healthy body. Even though many people do not have time to do to the gym because of work , if you walk or do exercise at home , it could be a good idea as well. Second, do not eat fat food, junk food, or food with high calories. You just have to try to avoid these kind of food and eat vegetables, fish, soup and fruits. As a result of this, your body will feel better and your look will not be fat. And third, try to sleep well. eight hours is correct . Many people tend to sleep less than six hours and during the day they eat inappropriate food and that is why they start to feel problems in their stomachs. This could be the best idea if you do not want to become obese , especially for children; they really have to follow all these steps for prevent a high percentage of obese people in the future.
This article shows the consequences of having bad habits with the food. We have to stop this problem , and parents have to know that obesity in children is not OK.However, if we want to eliminate this , we need to start cooking vegetables , healthy food, doing more exercises, stop to be lazy , and educate our children , of a result of that , they can grow up healthy.
CAT-W #2
“Technology and the college generation”
According to the article “Technology and the college generation” ,there is a problem with students in universities. They do not check their e-mails regularly. Cedrick May, a professor at the University of Texas was really surprised when he noticed students did not know that he had changed the homework because they did not check E-mail. According to Reynol Junco, students download a program letting him track their computer habits; and the spend 123 minutes a day on a computer. Students these days prefer social media to E-mail, but what they do not realize is that E-mail is as important as media and even more important because at university they have to check it constantly.
I think that students do not use E-mail too much because they do not find entertainment in comparison with Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or other social networks. Six or seven years ago, E-mail was as famous as Facebook, and people used it all time as the principal way of communication on the internet. However, technology is advancing every day and as a result of that, E-mail is not as popular as before and is not used by many people, especially students.
Actually technology is changing a lot, and we can notice that there are a lot of new social networks. As a result of that E-mail is not having as much function as before. People tend to use Facebook or Twitter as a fast way of communication with their friends or family, and they see as E-mail slow and boring. Recently I have been reading different articles about what students prefer to E-mail or social media in Latin America, and the percentage of people who use social media is higher if we compare with people who use E-mail. 70% of people prefer social media including students and other people. The other 30% like E-mail. I realized that people who like E-mail are not students; the majority is people under 40 years old. That could be a reason why professors are still using E-mail for activities in class as a way of communication with students.
I have been using social networks since 2005, and obviously I started using E-mail. I remember it was so nice and cool. In my personal opinion, I really do not have a problem with E-mail; it does not bother me either. Therefore, I like to use it a lot, especially for college’s notifications. There are several reasons why students do not like to check it often, and three of the most commons are: First, because of the “spams”, we all have unwanted messages in our E-mails. It is annoying and could be dangerous. Second, people see E-mail as old fashioned. Actually students have Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and they have the facility of sending messages, taking pictures, and making video calls in a faster way without any problem. This is an advantage with respect E-mail. Third, the low popularity that E-mail had during 2009, when other social networks achieved a great popularity in people. Those could be the main causes why E-mail is not used by students or why it is boring for others. Although I think it is useful as social Media.
In conclusion, we can see that E-mail will not be used in the future continuously. We are noticing how a lot of students are not paying attention to E-mail, and they are seeing it as a boring and slow application. We can also realize that statistics show a big difference between people who are using E-mail and social networks. However, at universities and colleges, for professors E-mail is still a good way of communication between them and students. Consequently students must use it.
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Reaction about the presentations
A Power point presentation is a type of activities that everyone has to do it at colleges, universities, or many other public places. Therefore it is important to know about that, and also we have to know the importance in each student or person who is doing the activity. Last week Presentations that we did in class were about different topics such as international companies, careers, and famous people. The duration of each presentation was approximately fifteen to twenty minutes, and each presenter has five minutes to explain their knowledge about the topic. The principal objective of this activity is to have better fluency speaking, and creates good power points.
The presentations that we performed last week were a good opportunity to improve our oral skills and also to control our jitters in front of public. The main reasons why we did this activity were to get experience doing power point presentations, get knowledge in different topics, and we had the opportunity to be corrected by different students. Consequently, this was an excellent way to score our grades. These kinds of activities will be common in college. As a result, I have to be prepared and ready to do that in the future.
When everyone finished with their respective presentations, the first reaction I had was about the nervousness in students. Some students probably knew about their topics, but nerves were stronger than them. As a result, they did not speak clearly. My second reaction was about the fabulous power points that my classmates showed us, so I think they did a great job doing that. My third reaction was about “Reading”. In these kinds of presentations, the presenter cannot read too much, and if you want to read automatically, you must explain it, so in colleges or universities you could get a low score for doing an incomplete presentation.
In conclusion, having presentations is an adequate way to prepare us in different ways. You get appropriate tactics and also you get confident and lose fear in front of people. Taking notes about the presentation I think I felt a positivity reaction about that. The activity made me learn more about my mistakes and also the mistakes of others.