A brief essay

This year, it has been many manners of using technology in our subjects, especially by Internet like U-Cursos, Facebook, Blogger or simply our e-mail directions. Technology, as I said in a past post, has served us, as the new generations we are, to reduce in certain measure the time used before in search personally some books or selected info. Otherwise, technology has helped me to communicate with my classmates when I’m out from Santiago. It’s also an efficient way to negotiate issues like test dates, marks percentages, be closer from teacher or just to make a strong union between students.

U-Cursos is an Internet tool designed for academic uses. Student community can, easily, discuss about tests, marks or can upload files to study. Also it can organize the semester by posting messages on a common wall. For me U-Cursos, an Universidad de Chile website, has become a favorable source of certainty in my messy life. Secondly, Catálogo Bello, an electronics books search engine facilitates us to know required bibliography, their physic location and availability. If we’re lucky because a book has the “General Collection” category, we may ask it by RONDA, a service which takes the texts where they’re asked from.

More informally, we have Blogger, Facebook, and our institutional e-mail account to receive messages or instructions from classmates, authorities or officials. Blogger is not just an academic tool to learn; it’s a website used for several areas, made to clash points of any topic. In our case we use it to practice the English writing ability in the same manner other people may use it to upload info or to write stories. Even Facebook has helped us to make solid student community, making classmates groups, discuss about contingent themes, and conclude meetings or just to increase our social life.

Finally, I guess how harder the student life of our past generations or teachers was without current tools which facilitate us our life, increase our free time and develop other kinds of abilities. In comparison with my high school technologies, these new ones are quite much better because now, aside from Hotmail accounts, we have websites only made to avoid the time loss in a bad bureaucracy like U-Cursos,

www.alumnos.uchile.cl (to know about marks, schedules and subjects), Catálogo Bello page, and our valorous TUI (Intelligent University Card). I think that we should be very grateful of enjoying these technology gifts.