Tuesday, June 9, 2015

27 Google Drive and Google +

Google Drive and Google + are another great tools to use in class. I don't use Gmail, I open my account only for this class. Basically I had to play with it only when I am in class working with the documents.
In Google Drive we had the chance to share our documents with the professor and the classmates for peer review. I think this system is awesome, you fix stuff, you can leave comments, you write your document and it saved it automatically, the professor leave suggestions and comments you can see and resolved them. I know Google Drive have more stuff to do, but that's what we mostly used at the class.

Google + is another good one, again I had never used this one, but I believe is like a Facebook type. Where you can add people, chat, share pictures, videos, status, also you can see others status too. 
I can conclude saying that I am happy to learn more about Gmail and all the tools that this provides.

Professor thanks for everything!
Classmates I wish you the best!

Monday, June 8, 2015

26 Wiki in Class

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, is a great tool to look for information. Is one of the most google search place that people look for. I use to used Wikipedia a lot for all the assignments that I had. Until one day a professor told the class "Please don't use Wikipedia for any of your assignments, I would not grade it". I got so upset, because for me Wikipedia was perfect, everything is organized, they divided in sections, that make it easier for you to look for a specific thing of a topic. Later I found out that people is constantly changing the information there. Good thing to hear is that in this class we are allowed to use it, which is great. It make it easier for us, but we can not forget to look for others sources, credible sources that we all had study and learned before.

Here a little of information about Wiki:

- The History of Wikipedia formally began with the launch of Wikipedia on Monday 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger.

- As of December 2014, Wikipedia includes more than 34 million freely usable articles in 288 languages that have been written by over 50 million registered users and numerous anonymous contributors worldwide.

Sunday, June 7, 2015

25 Blogging in Class

Blogging in class was fun, I know for some this might be boring, extra work, or something else. The truth is that this help us putting a lots of thoughts together and communicate with others. I am OK doing 3 a week, well sometimes I forget to blog one out of the three and I am going crazy Friday night before 12 midnight to get it done. The good thing is that in class we have the opportunity to write 1 blog each class, so you get 2 out of the way, but the third one is the one that I keep forgetting. Another advantage is that we can write blogs anytime and any day at home or at any other place. Also this blogs are extra points that you can accumulate during the semester, it is not difficult to get it done :). Overall blogging at class is a great tool for us college students.


Wednesday, June 3, 2015

24 Death Dreams

I want to share some information abouth death dreams. I was curious to find out and it actually a good thing. Dreaming abouth death is nothing to be alarm of in order to best understand your dream of dying, it is important to look at what is going on in your waking life that may have triggered such a dream. Dreaming of your own death symbolizes inner changes, transformation, self-discovery and positive development that is happening within you or your life. If you are getting married or divorce, being promoted to a new position, moving to a new country, you may experience dreams of your own death. Metaphorically, dying can be seen as an end or a termination to your old ways, bad habits, destructive behavior or some other aspect of yourself. So dying does not always mean a physical death, but rather an ending of something. To dream that you die may mean that you are desperately trying to escape from the demands of your daily life. This may be some major stressor, obligation, responsibility or perhaps you want out of a painful relationship. It is not that bad dreaming with death, changes are ocurring or about to occur in your life.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

23 Death

 Emily Dickinson, it's probably that she was a reclusive poet from small-town Massachusetts who wrote tons and tons of poetry in the 1800s that wasn't published much until after her death. Oh, and that death and dying were among her favorite subjects. We can add "Because I could not stop for Death," first published in 1862, to the list of Dickinson poems obsessed with the idea of death. In this particular poem, the speaker encounters death, yet the tale is delivered rather calmly. Here probably isn't one person among us who hasn't considered what will happen after we die. This poem explores that curiosity by creating a death scene that's familiar to the living – something we can all imagine, whether we'd like to or not.


Because I could not stop for Death – 
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.

We slowly drove – He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility –

We passed the School, where Children strove
At Recess – in the Ring –
We passed the Fields of Gazing Grain –
We passed the Setting Sun –

Or rather – He passed us –
The Dews drew quivering and chill –
For only Gossamer, my Gown –
My Tippet – only Tulle –

We paused before a House that seemed
A Swelling of the Ground –
The Roof was scarcely visible –
The Cornice – in the Ground –

Since then – 'tis Centuries – and yet
Feels shorter than the Day
I first surmised the Horses' Heads 
Were toward Eternity –

Monday, June 1, 2015

22 Doc2


My Doc 2 is about the short story of The Chrysanthemums. It has been a long and intense document for me. I have been working with Doc 2 since the first weeks of the semester, one reason is because I chose this story since the beginning to start working with the Wiki Doc. That is why it is been a long journey. I have been working hard and I dedicated a lot of time in this Doc. I am hoping to get it right. I am not an expert when it comes to writing I just try my best, also I look for help and ideas from others. I do this because I remember one of my papers that I wrote in the past, I did it by myself and it was a totally mess. Since my first language is Spanish I guess we invert the words and yes the professor did not understood my paper very well. This does not mean that I write the greatest paper, I do have many errors and language errors but not as many as before

Friday, May 29, 2015

21 Emily Dickinson Poem


Sunrise in the Valley
I’ll tell you how the Sun rose –
A Ribbon at a time –
The steeples swam in Amethyst
The news, like Squirrels, ran –
The Hills untied their Bonnets –
The Bobolinks – begun –
Then I said softly to myself –
“That must have been the Sun”!
But how he set – I know not –
There seemed a purple stile
That little Yellow boys and girls
Were climbing all the while –
Till when they reached the other side –
A Dominie in Gray –
Put gently up the evening Bars –
And led the flock away –
Emily Dickinson