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FINAL SESSION :(

Monday 22 August 2011 17:01 Posted by Clau Llamin 0 comments

According to the Royal Spanish Language Academy, technology is defined as: "A set of theories and techniques to the practical use of scientific knowledge." We can say that I improved technologies facilitate knowledge. This year in the different subjects we had to incorporate new technologies such as the internet and other electronic platforms to carry out research. The use of such resources, should ease and often improves the outcome of a report or presentation, helping in the learning process and cognitive and academic development. However, we must recognize that this resource can be misused to take ideas and expertise of other people that maintain information online.

While many of our teachers in their past time studying with very different resources than ours, they have been renovating and adding sources of support teachers. Most teachers in the faculty use the power point platform or online university platform such as u-cursos. For this reason, we had to present papers or research on these platforms, such as lectures, group works, reports, etc.. and somehow we must adapt to the new challenges ahead. Working online, although most of the time is fast, and often is not as efficient as we wanted.

In general, when looking for information on the internet and when it is against time, it tend to search the first thing we found and all the research it is based in a few papers and there is often no reliable funds. On the other hand, there are also excellent tools that deliver new technologies, especially on the side of the almost instantaneous communication and the thousands of databases that can be found "surfing the web" are some of the many good and bad characteristics or uses that can give us.

Among the good experiences using technologys this year at the Uni, I want to emphasize the proper use of these in Economy. I think that the professor has incorporated the resource efficiently. Although many times the tasks that we must do each week resulting a little tedious.

Undoubtedly, new technologies give us a variety of benefits (convenience, speed, knowledge, etc.).. However, in my opinion I think you lose some group work, in other words, the work "on the ground," where the personal union and live among classmates. Often for convenience and ease we simply divide the work and develop in our homes, so you lose that connection and you don't know the judgment used for the classmate in his task. For my part, I prefer the different opinions presented in the course of an investigation and also gives me more confidence a book instead of an electronic search, I mean I am pro libraries and old books. :)

Chilean Society

Tuesday 2 August 2011 14:40 Posted by Clau Llamin 0 comments

In my opinion, the Chilean society during the past 30 years has been prudent, not change radicaly but it is significant, I would like to say that, while in the past there was much suffering, inequality, intolerance, discrimination and many other evils affecting any society in a bad way, today this has not changed much.

As we all know, the 70-80s were tarnished by a military dictatorship, where the Chileans were subjected in an obviously non-democratic regime and where people who felt different were harshly punished, without any valid reason, which at that time the atmosphere that existed was fear. I can confirm it with the experiences of my parents and people close, my father, for example has to work at night, assuming the risks of what this means, I am referring to the dreaded "curfews" and yet it should do so anyway to feed her three daughters.

Were undoubtedly difficult times. However, I believe it is important to know and comment on all the crimes that were committed during that period, therefore I recommend to visit the Museum of the memory which is located in Quinta Normal, in front of the subway station, I believe that it is a good place to reflect and to ensure that such events in our country never again happen.

Later in the history of our country, returned as cherished democracy that continues to this days. But, despite the fact that it was assumed that they should have ended the injustices, even today, continue. First of all, I'm mapuche and believe that they have committed crimes as brutal as those that occurred in the past. Once my grandfather told me that in the Church of the mapuche, the sky is the roof and floor is the ground, I think this could explain the fight of my people.

In my opinion in the 90's and until today, Chilean society is still prejudiced and discriminatory, not only by the indigenous cultures, also with the underdogs. I think that as society there is so much to grow, we must be more tolerant and fight for what we believe is fair.

Challenges in Veterinary Medicine

Tuesday 24 May 2011 11:29 Posted by Clau Llamin 3 comments

The main challenges in Veterinary Medicine, are in the health area: open heart surgery for example.

In Chile there is not animal's open heart surgery, only for humans. I think that it would be an excellent area to work with. The heart in animals is only studied in situ, with an animal death, just auscultating outside, i mean listen the chest or in the books. This is a challenge for the investigation, the science, and the veterinary medicine of course.

Another challenges, in Veterinary Medicine, in topics like education, are the vocational professional o vocational training. Some "teachers" in the practice of small animals (i write "teachers" because the majority of them are graduated Vets, and they are in charge just of medical consulting, and not pedagogy), are quite bighead, some of them they haven't patience to teach us, they forgot of they also was students like all of us and all we want to do is learn. With this i don't say that every graduated Vet is bighead, i just complaining of some Vets behavior.

Also in education challenges, i think that the teachers in this faculty in particularly, have to do a pedagogy courses or master degrees in pedagogy, etc., because they can be an excellent experts in their areas, but if they can't teach us or through their knowledge, means that we can't learn in a good form their subjects.

There is so many challenges in our area, but depend of we, the new generations do it well and make it come true.

Education in Chile

06:26 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

Education in Chile is in crisis. This is evident in the quality of many institutions of higher education, little access to system most vulnerable, over-indebtedness the families of students, generating profit - out of the law - by many private institutions are some of the demands required of the government of Mr. Piñera, are resolved.

The main problem is the nonexistence of the right to education and the false assurance that higher education serves as a real tool of social mobility, and in this sense, it is not faithfully contributing to national development in the areas cultural, social, political and economic.

Solutions: -Equitable access, quality, integration and heterogeneity social in enrollment, this means rejecting the PSU, as this only detected socioeconomic status.

-Restructuring the system of scholarships and student aid for end the system based on debt of the student's families. Ensure that scholarships for students who fail to be in the second quintile, ie remaining in the third quintile, can cover all its university fees and the following quintiles can be a differential pay according to their ability to pay. Besides, the maintenance and feeding scholarship should be adjusted according to reality national.

-Demand the right to participation of all triestamental Higher education institutions in the election of officers and in making decisions.

This is not just a problem for students, but the entire society, because there is nofuture without quality public education.

For this we need to inform, mobilize. Become aware of what it means QUALITY PUBLIC EDUCATION.

Felines frisky: the science of why cats roll

Tuesday 3 May 2011 18:18 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

“Both male and female cats display rolling behaviour, researchers report, usually in the context of mating”

Domestics cat ROLL, this behavior caught the attention of scientists because is a often perform, so in 1994 Hilary N Feldman conducted a formal study on this behavior called “Domestics cats and Passive submission”. In this study Feldman center in roll and spent six month observing cats in kept in a large outdoor enclosure.

Feldman defined the concept of “Rolling” like "involved an individual cat rolling onto its back, with forepaws held cocked, often with the legs splayed and abdomen exposed in response front of another cat in the majority of cases (79%).

But this study focused only in adult cats and specific that kitten behavior wasn’t examined.

Over the course of the half year Feldman was concluded that this conduct “had a obvious recipient”, because females rolled mostly while they were in heat, rolled also exclusively for adult males. For the other hand, males rolled “throughout the year” and this activity was directed toward other males.

Young males rolled toward adults, but the reverse almost never happened, so this suggesting to Feldman that “rolling may act as passive submission and inhibits the development of overt aggression".

In summary: "Rolling behaviour in domestic cats appears to have two functions. Females roll primarily in the presence of adult males, demonstrating a readiness to mate". But "males roll near adult males as a form of subordinate behaviour" and may have relevance for a similar behavior between pets and their owners.

From:http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/feb/07/cat-mating-behaviour-improbable-research

My faculty :)

Saturday 30 April 2011 19:12 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

Today i'll talk about my faculty.

I study in the best university of my country, the University of Chile, but this is a state university, that means is more cheap compared with the private universities, but the teachers are the best.

My Uni, like it is a state university, has many problems in infrastructure, problems that I can't explain, because is cheaper than a private university, but still has a high annual fee with which could make many improvements.

If I administrate the money of my university and specially of my faculty I improve in first place the class rooms, because are very narrow and have bad acoustic, then buy better sound equipment with good speakers and microphone. Also reduce the number of student per room and hire more teachers for take the same classes simultaneously (because now in some classes my course is divide in two and take the same class in different days).

Now in terms of infrastructure I would create more toilets, because my faculty has a very large extent and only have three bathing areas for all students and would implement better supply of toilet paper and soap.

In class materials needed best examples of cadavers in anatomy since there are quite damaged if not completely destroyed. Improvements are needed also in labs, in terms of new machinery, and highest number of these.

In hygienic terms, my faculty has many animals, so many flies too, and bad smells that should be controlled better, so I hire more cleaning staff because the existing doesn’t rough with many tasks.

So as you can see my university doesn’t stand out for having the best tools, but excels in something more important for me that is the formation of the best professionals in my country and for being one of the best universities worldwide, and then despite material weaknesses, I am studying in the right place.

Greece !!! :)

Tuesday 19 April 2011 08:59 Posted by Clau Llamin 1 comments

If i had to choose a country that i would like to visit, it is Greece !!!. It has so many history, i love that, i like learn about other cultures, specialy when are cultures significant in the human development. Greeks are one of the most important civilization around the world. They left, histories, policy, documentaries, greats philosophers, infrastructures, language, and the most interesting is that they still living, they currently remain.

I would like to visit archaeological sites, museums, went all over the city, streets, beaches; with blue water, gardens and of course taste gastronomy. I would love visit Athens; the historical capital of Europe, the Acropolis, temple of Olympian Zeu, Parthenon temple, Greek islands. Oh ,my God, there are so many places to visit, i think that i have to begin saved money !!!, a lot of money. Someday when a finished my carreer, i will visit Greece, it will be my objective.

Miss: thank you for let us dream !!! lalala :)