martes, 23 de junio de 2009

Blogging experience

I didn’t enjoy my blogging experience. I like writhing about things, but I prefer to do it in my idiom, even I have other blog in Spanish. Is too much difficult to me to write correctly in English, I forgot everything that I learn in school. I still didn’t know why I fall on this class. When I was in school I was the best in the English signature, but I think that the level is a lot different from that. If I could had the option of chose in principles of this semester, I will prefer to take a more basic class of English, maybe this sound like the easy way, but I really think that maybe I couldn’t approve this signature. However, force me to writhe in English, obviously make me practiced, thing that in some part of my life I wild be force to do if I want to continue in this career. I didn’t know well if this helps me. Maybe helped me a bit. For example I learn how to write with dependent and independent clauses. If I have to evaluate myself, I think that I still writing the same wrong at the principle. Maybe I must to put more effort from the principle, but I really worry for do it the post every week, maybe a little bit late, but I worry for do it.
I think that are many advantages of blogging in the English’s Class. You can practices your English writhing in lots of different contexts. For example, in the last post we had to use words that we have to use usually in ours career, while in the post before of that we have to use words related to art. Secondly I think that learn to use a blog, and in general electronics tools is something really practices. Third, I think that is a really good experience to know what your classmates think about some kind of things.

jueves, 18 de junio de 2009

What your ideal job would be

It would be a job in the Council of Transparency of Chile. I would need qualities like: be a professional in social science, have knowledge about: law, public administration, international law etc. I would have to develop skills like execution of investigation on publics political and manage methods of investigation in the ambit of social science. I think that I would be good in this job because I like the topics of transparency, corruption and methods to avoiding corruption. I don’t like politic; I will never consider becoming a politician. I prefer the public administration’s topic, how transformed the administration in a better system more closely to people. I think that people can participate of the government not only by the way of the vote. People can supervise the action of their politic authorities if they have the tools to do it. I think that the Council of Transparency of Chile is a good way to supervise that the right to scrutinize the activities of the public employees in general. I think that this job would be difficult to find because: I will need a lot of previous experience to be accepted, first I need to graduate from university and I also need to do some major.

jueves, 11 de junio de 2009

Madame Lebrun And Her Daughter



I chose this piece of art as my favorite. It’s a self portrait of Madame Viggé-Lebrun and her daughter. She was the more famous female painter of the XVIII century. Along her life she made 660 portraits and 200 landscapes. This painting have a great history: Madame Viggé- Lebrun was seated in front of a long mirror ready to paint a portrait of herself, when her little daughter went into the room. The little girl threw herself into her mother's arms. Madame Lebrun looked the mirror and thought that they make a very nice picture.
I saw this piece of art for first time when I was a little girl. In a shelf of my house we have a lot of books of all type. When I was little, I usually revised it. One day I found a very old book of art, I looked all the pictures that the book had. In one page I found this painting and I thought that it was a very lovely picture. I like it because I think that the more pure love expression is the love between a mother and her son. This picture represented this kind of love very well.

miércoles, 3 de junio de 2009

Do schools kill creativity



I love this Ken Robinson’s talk. I think that he is a very funny man, but the topics that he touches are really important, especially in this time.
I agree whit him about the importance of creativity in education. As he says: the art’s subjects in every part of the earth are in the bottom of the others subjects. However, the art’s subjects are really important to develop the creativity and their own specials abilities in children. On this time the education focus in develop the brain skills and the society in general thinks that graduate for university is the more important goal of a human being. But, as he says, people have a lot of different abilities, each people have a different skill from other: Some people can have abilities for math, others for languages, science, etc. Creativity is the same important than any other skill. Ken Robinson defines creativity as “the process of having original ideas that have value”. In my opinion, if you only have knowledge and no creativity you will can`t resolve problems in the future. For resolving a problem you have to think in every ways that helped you to do it, and for that you must have a lot of creativity capacity.

martes, 26 de mayo de 2009

Jean Charles Bonnin

In my opinion, I think that the best on my field is Jean Charles Bonnin. He was a French specialist on public administration in the beginnings of the XIX century. He was one of the first men who defined exactly what the public administration is and he established the principles of how a public administrator must be.
Bonnin had a clear vision about the public administration on his time.He established the principles of the public administration in opposition to the practices that where development in the period of the Absolute Monarchy. He thought that the employees of the monarchy government were proud, indifferent to the public happiness, unconcerned of their obligation and that they commit a lot of abuses and humiliations.
He is the best because he formulated the bases of the public administration profession. In his book “Principes d` administration publique” (Principles of the public administration), we can observe important basics principles like: The merit principle, the competence principle and the idea of an employed career. All of these principles watch over to create a better public administrator.

Bonnin's best contribution

martes, 5 de mayo de 2009

My career

I’ m studying the major of Public administration, because is a profession who have an important place in the society, and a extended labour field. Also, I like it because, I love the city where my department take place. The professionals of my area contribute to society because they are in charge of solve social needs, join technical expert with political decisions, and contribute to make a better government.
A professional of Public Administration, needs to develop a variety of tools for his future: needs to know about law , dominate management techniques, understand economical process, and analyze political events.
My favourite subject is History of the Institutions of Chile, because we have to: analyze the historical events from a new scientific perspective, understand oldest political decisions, and realize how institutions influence society. Is a very difficult subject, me and my partners have to read a lot, study for weekly tests, and do some “ayudantía” homework. How ever still been very interesting.

martes, 28 de abril de 2009

My favourite photograph



I really like this photograph. It was take by a partner of secondary education when we went to our study tour in Punta de Tralca. It shows me with two of my three bests friends, the other of my friends didn’t go to that trip. I don’t remember well when It was took, but I think It must be took around December 2007. I like it, because I think we look very pretty, and It make me remember a lot of good things that we had live together. Also, I really like the beach, so I think that It's a very nice landscape for the picture. It's a crazy thing but I think that the partner who took the photo, didn't really like us in that moment. We appreciate that he offered to take it.

Web Quest: Stages of Life / Your Twenties

Read Section 01: “Your Body”, and then work with these activities:
a) Which of the suggestions mentioned here are you actually following, or thinking of following soon?
I’ m following the second suggestion because, almost every day, I getting with me some fruits, speacilly when I gone to the university. I don’ really like the salad, but I really like fruits like apples, pears, oranges etc.

b) With your teacher, talk about the meaning of these phrases from the article:

Your puppy fat has gone and you have your own place : You are now a independent adult
•Give your liver a breather : Take a rest of all of your activities
•Quaff beer with your mates : Drink alcohol whit your friends
•Stock up on plump, fresh fruit: avoid getting fat, you have to eat some fruits
•Do regular hamstring stretches : you have to stretch your body extremities
•Many blokes regard their 20s as their cowboys-don’t-cry decade : many people consider themselves invincible when they have 20s

martes, 21 de abril de 2009

U-Cursos

Hello, today I’m going to tell us about a web site related to my career of Public Administration. It is called U-Cursos, and their link is https://www.u-cursos.cl/ .

I found this web site because my Professor of “Introduction to Public Administration” asked us to register there.

When you register in the website as a student of the Universidad de Chile, you can find information about your subjects like marks, exam dates, or teaching material, and also you can upload your own works. So, I use this website really often, especially to get information about marks.

I like this site because is very easy to use, keeps informing about everything of my subjects, and have a nice presentation.

martes, 14 de abril de 2009

My favourite piece of technology.



My favorite piece of technology is my Notebook PC. It was a present from my parents last Christmas. I guess it was a reward fo all the study I dedicated to the PSU. I used for a lot of things. First, I used to complete or do works of class subjects. Second, I have a webcam and microphone, so is very useful to communicate me whit my family and friends in my hometown. Third, I like to check my facebook and review what are my friends doing, how they feel, view photos and videos of the university events, and inform my self about new events. Finally, I like to work whit design software’s like Photoshop, I’m not very talent in that, but is a good activity to relaxing and distract about all the hard work in the university. An example of my intent of design is the headboard of this blog, I hope you like it.
I like my notebook because make everything easiest, they are not very modern, of have a lots of new things, but almost for me is very practice and easier to use. They are a bit heavy, but I don’t use to getting whit me to others places, and I like their big screen, is very useful when I see high definition movies.
I think that, my daily live will be a lot boring and difficult without my notebook. I’m not saying that I will die without them, but I think I will miss them a lot.

martes, 7 de abril de 2009

Hello everybody!

Hello I am Rocío, a new student of Public Administration at the University of Chile. My hometown is Chillán, so I come to Santiago with the purpose of continuing my higher studies. I expect that the English class and the blogs will help me to intensify my knowledge and practice about this language. My dream is to do well in all the subjects, graduate from the university and become a good worker and specialist.