Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Playing Video Game

There is nothing wrong to play video games. It is an entertainment as any other, such TV, movies, internet. But when it becomes addictive, it is a serious problem. I’m not avid player, but this does not mean that I do not like playing, I love it. I like to play everything related to sports. I found that video games are very interested furthermore of being an excellent teaching for motivational and learning process. However I have experimented other feeling very different from researcher state about these games. According to them, one of the reasons people play these games is for stress relief; in my case, it did not happened, quite the opposite. I get anxiety and I cannot stop playing. When I realized that I spent great deal of time to get the top level while I left many more important outstanding things I placed a limit myself. Now, I only play with Tiger once a while in a virtual world. There is nothing more enjoyable that playing with my friends in a beautiful park where everything is real.
But what happen when children and youth do not limit themselves? It is a crucial issue; even more when the most popular games are associated with violence allowing players to engage in a serious simulate aggression. I think that to avoid any negative effects on children and youth, parents must play an important roll in this issue, once parents limit the amount of time and types of games, those games are more useful and fun .

Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Oral Presentation Experience

Talking in public is not easy task, at least to me. It was a big challenge. Being first in the list I think it is hard, after 6 presentations I have learned a lot, thank you guys. PowerPoint was a useful tool, it was a important guide, it made me feel more comfortable, at no time I felt doubt about which is the next step or link. I admited that part of my topic is was not easy to understand but I did my best. Definitely it was a good practice. I guess that before long I will have more presentation as you guys as well. I wish to everybody the best and when we will be there we are going to rememeber our first presentation with Marley and Scott and what we have lerned here. I always learn from my mistakes.

Monday, August 4, 2008

Research Paper Experience

It was a very busy week but thank God, we finished one the most important part. Today, after everybody handed the research paper looked more happy and relaxed. It seemed me a fantastic idea of going the park and sharing a moment of relax after an active week.
It was a great experience because one never knows how capable we are until we do it. It was not an essay job but it gave the essential tools all what a university student need as base to start a research paper. Not only I learned to link ideas, to paraphrase, to focus, to summarize, it means, the research’s body, but also, there are small things that it seems unimportant but unfortunately they are, such as to cite the author in each paragraph, to refer every single paper that I read and how to handle my time. I have never written 19 pages in English, it was a great challenge. In this course I have learned lot things, now not only I read my first book in English but also I wrote more than 4000 words, and the next challenge is to present all what I have learned. I think that this week and the next one will be the most fascinate part because everyone is anxious to learn more staff. I wish to everybody the best because we deserve it.