Cooperation

Hi everyone!

I know I'm late with my reflective blogging, but I had to work this weekend and I was very tired yesterday.

Anyway, in this topic I'm going to talk about cooperation. Last week in class Sarah (my prof.) read the post I had written in my blog (the previous to this one) and if I had to be sincere I was a bit disappointed because nobody commented what she read. I mean, at the end of that post I had written that in a wiki it's not important ONLY what you write but ALSO how it is written concerning the structure. I only hope that my classmates didn't get angry for what I wrote because I didn't want to play the role of the teacher but I was only giving some pieces of advice.

In order to create and edit a good wiki page the most important thing, in my opinion, is COOPERATION. You don't have to add something that is already written in the page only in order to show that you've added it but you have to correct what in your opinion is bad written. As I've already said many times, in a wiki a structure is very important and I think that when you write something you have to care about form too. I mean, when you finish editing a wiki page, check out the structure too and if it's not like the rest of the page (in font, colour etc...) go back and edit again and don't wait that someone else do it for you.

Linked to what I've just said I have to say that I'm happy because even if my classmates didn't comment my post in class, this week they gave an eye on structure too and not only on the content...well done!^_^

I know that this post is not adressed to my classmates, but if anyone should create or edit a wiki page I hope this little pieces of advice could help.

Cheers

Alice

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It's wiki-time

Hi guys and girls!


How are you?

The topic I'm going to talk about this week is our wiki project. Last week I was so excited because of the skype exchange that I forgot talking about the wiki we are building on...^_^


The subject we are dealing with on our wiki is RECYCLING. If I had to be completely sincere I'd have to tell that is not my favourite topic, because as I have already told you in my indtroductive post my favourite topics are soprt and TV, BUT (pelase notice that I've written it in capital letters) I want to add that thanks to this project I'm learning a lot about recycling.


There are two pages: Recycling in Italy and Recycling in the USA

In the Recycling in Italy page we collected a lot of information about how recycling is organised according to the different regions or towns in Italy. We also wrote about recyclable and non-recyclable materials and how these materials can be re-used. At the beginning maybe I didn't appreciate very much the topic we were supposed to talk about but now I'm satisfied because I learnt a lot of things that before I didn't know about how to recycle.

In the Recycling in the USA page we collected the information our American colleagues gave us during our skype exchange. Unfurtunately last Monday I had another lesson so no skype for me...T_T. BUT (again in capital letters ^_^) I contributed to that wiki the week before. Thanks to what our American friends told us we have been able to write a quite good Wiki page withe a lot of information...


It is very fun and interesting to contribute to a wiki page BUT (third 'but' in capital...) there is one thing I can't stand: why someone has the power to "destroy" what I have done If I did it for the whole group? For example, last week I was trying to give the wiki a good structure and after a hard work I succeded in dividing the page in sections and put all the text with the same font and it came out a well-done job (not only because it was my job...^_-). When the following day I checked out if someone had edited the page, I discovered that the adjustments made were not in the right section and with another font...I've found it very annoying because it is not for my pleasure if I work in order to give the wiki a comprehensible structure but for the whole group...SO please, pay attention to these "little" things too and not only to the content of what you are writing.

That's all for now and I hope nobody will get angry for what I've just written...I hope you will read it as a constructive criticism...^_^

Cheers
Alice


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Let's have a talk

Hi everybody!





How are you? I haven't written on my blog for many time but it's all because of the exams I had to take...but now I'm back. ^_-


Last Monday during my English class my classmates and I all had the opportunity to talk with our American peers on Skype. This experience has been very exciting and I'm looking forward to doing it again, and again because it is very useful both from the cultural and the linguisitc points of view.

I talked with Lea, a girl from New York who studies Italian at the Tulane University of New Orleans. So, since she speaks Italian and I speak English we decided for a compromise: she talked in Italian and I talked in English. I am a very shy person but when I began to talk with her my shyness disappeared and I didn't care about the mistakes maybe I was doing while I was talking. Since in class Isabella, the girl next to my pc, didn't have a correspondant to talk to we began a three people conversation. What a cool thing! ^_^

I also have to add that I feel lucky because Lea was the only girl (or just on of the few pepole) of the American group who tried to talk with me in Italian and not only in English. I really appreciated it very much!

The topic we were asked to discuss was recycling so we began our conversation talking about the situation there in New Orleans after the hurricane Katrina. Lea told me that recycling should be compulsory but only a small number of students in the campus use different containers for rubbish (or garbage if you are talking to an American person ^_^) and nobody checks if people do it. So in theory there are rules for recycling and there should be sanctions too for those who don't respect these rules but in practice quite nobody respect the law and there are no sanctions for them. I was wondering the reason for that and at the end I understood that maybe there are more important problems to face such as the reconstruction of New Orleans before thinking about recycling.

It is very useful to talk to girls and guys who live in another country because in this way you have the possibility to compare your culture with their and to learn a lot of new topics as well.

Cheers
Alice


P.S. if you want to see why we did it, let's have a look on our Wiki project!

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