Evaluation of my blogging experience

I think this semester was a challenge for every one of us but the blog experience was a good opportunity to forget the stress of the university and can share your opinion.

When I was in the high school, my English teacher always said “Ok, this year we have to try to talk in English” but that it was never true. Here that experience was completely different because for say our point of view, you necessary had to talk in English. That was a challenge for me because I’ve never be a good English speaker so you will understand that it was difficult for me.

About the blog experience, it was really interesting because I had the possibility to know about the personal life of my classmates and their opinion about different topics. When we’re start, I thought that do a blog will be really boring but I really enjoyed each one of the blog. I think the topics of the blog were very diverse and liked the majority of my classmates. My absolutely favorite blog was the “Favorite series/TV shows” because I laughed so much doing it but it was really hard to choose some of the hundred series that I watched.

Definitely writing in a language that I don’t handle is really hard but I always felt supported by the teacher and if I made a mistake it doesn’t matter because we are here for learning and try to do the best.

I always have the same blog partner and I really feel comfortable with her.  

A subject I've enjoyed studying this semester

My favorite subject in this semester is laboratory techniques. I think the reason for my choice is because I have a vacuum with the subject of laboratories since school because although we had a laboratory equipped, I was rarely taken to work there and I didn't take advantage of it. Now, it is completely different because we go to the lab every week. At the beginning of the course, we did many experiments to "play" and lose the fear of working with glass materials and learn to use it correctly.

An area that I like about this subject are the teachers, which are clear when they are explaining the experiments that we will perform in the class and the technician of the laboratory is very nice, so much that when I go to the lab we laugh so much

I love the trust they have with each of us by providing us with a drawer with the necessary materials so that each week we can carry out our activities.

Although this course is only to learn the use of the measuring instruments and the application of the basic techniques of the chemical laboratory, after all, this seeks that we be able to do achieve basic operations, using criteria of precision and accuracy. I think that it is really good because it allows us to be all at the same level of knowledge and, from now, we can act to the right way in that place. I go Wednesdays in the afternoon and it is a pleasure to end the day having experiences like these. I have to accept that I hate the controls but the practical part is sensational.

A career-related website: "Unicoos"

If you read my posts, you know that I love YouTube and I watched so many videos. Since three years ago, I discovered a YouTube channel called “Unicoos” that helps me with chemistry, physics, and mathematics and since that moment, I have never let it. "Unicoos" It's a project created by David Calle who is a Telecommunications engineer who founded his own pre-university academy. He had about 30 students in his class but with the crisis in Spain, several of these were deserting. Then it occurred to him to do a YouTube channel where he would be able to help his students, through that platform uploading videos and answering their doubts and helping those who could not pay an academy.  Then he began to make his videos and little by little his visits grew exponentially until the present day having almost 700 videos, 43 million views and about 890 thousand subscribers on his YouTube channel.

Apart from the YouTube channel, he created an online platform that has more than 200 thousand subscribers. 

He was nominated in two important awards. One of them was the “Bitacoras 2016 awards” like Youtuber of the year and the second was the “Globalteacher Prize” which is cataloged as the "Nobel of education". He was in the top 10 of the best teachers in the world.

He currently has a working group of seven people who help him answer questions, make books with solutions to problems, recording videos, etc.

When I discovered the channel, I was going through a stressful time between school and Extraprogrammatic activities so my grades went down a bit and I needed to upload them. Then this incredible channel appeared.

I continue to use this method to study since because he explains in such a simple way the subjects that it is impossible not to understand. Apart from its content is for young people who are close to leaving the school and for the university students. Then it is dedicated for us.

Chile is the second most active country on this platform opening the door to ask ourselves: we will be doing well?

Link for all the playlist: https://www.youtube.com/user/davidcpv/playlists

Link to the website: http://www.unicoos.com/

Link to the fan page: https://www.facebook.com/unicoos