Challenge

What difference has blogging made to your life at school and home e.g. how has it changed how you learn, the challenges of blogging and how teachers might make the process easier?

I think blogging makes the school day more fun. I say this based on several reasons. First of all I would say that blogging is a good way to learn about new technology and opportunities that are easily accessible on the World Wide Web. I am glad that our teacher started this trend in class, because it really makes me more interested to do assignments now that I have my own place to put my own documents. It is also a very neat setup, so that you can find all you need from previous works without struggling. It hasn’t really affected my life very much, but as I mentioned; the fun of it knocks out different teaching-methods easily. I think the blogging makes it easier for our teacher as well, because she’s got all our blog-addresses and she can comment on our work right there. I usually blog at school, and not that much at home, I think I would blog way more if I was traveling or something, so that I could keep my friends updated.

To sum up: I believe the blogging part of this class makes it easier and more fun to both the students and the teachers.

Link to challenge here: 

http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/2009/03/27/the-student-blogging-challenge-celebration/#comment-3646

Speech by David Cameron

David cameron is talking about how the union involving Scotland and England have new good ideas for how the future will be. There are very few people there, and just a couple of hundred people have seen his speech on youtube, so I think he sucks. His speech is long and boring to listen to for me, because I’m not that interested in British politics, but his main point is not to separate from England.  David Cameron gives examples and reasons why Scotland and England should maintain a union; he also explains the benefits of the union.

 Some of Cameron’s main arguments are how much the little offshore nation has accomplished since the early days, the power the countries have standing together, and a richer economy together, great health service. He is not easy on the criticism to the English government, and his main point in the speech is: “As a union, we have to stand strong together”.

Here is a random speech i found on youtube, it was posted 3 days ago, and its quite interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFYhputybNI

Northern Ireland

Cecilie had a presentation for us today. She talked about Northern Ireland, and a little bit of the conflict that's going on over there. She started off with giving us a brief explanation of how the conflict started and what the big discussion is. As far as I remember she said something like this:

The conflict in Northern Ireland involves the IRA(Irish Republican Army) and the British. It started in 1923, when the British invaded Northern Ireland because they meant that Ireland should be a part of Great Britain. The IRA’s original goal when this happened was to get all of the British establishments out of Ireland and get up an independent Irish government.  This conflict is still very much alive, and it affects the Irish government in a pretty serious way. 

 

She also told us about Northern Ireland in general, I personally think it sounded like a pretty interesting country.  The country is a part of the UK and is located in the north east. They have a devolved government within the UK. What that means is that

the statutory granting of powers from the central government of a state to government at a sub national level, such as a regional, local, or state level. It differs from federalism in that the powers devolved may be temporary and ultimately reside in central government

Me!

This is me people :)

A respond to the challenge from Carina Jurs