Post # 12 (last post!): A brief essay

Technology it’s a tool to the studies, because exist so many programs to make easier our university student work, like word (to write essays or for made researches) or excel (to calculate things like scores in a test or to do a statistic analysis) or SPSS (to made statistic research) and tools like msn messenger because it’s a good way to talk with your partners or internet with Google, because it simplify our searching for research or to complement the study, with articles and exercises. Summarizing, technology helps us to do a better work at the university, in a good quality and esthetic form. In other way, helps to study more completely.

In a first point, I use SPSS, word and excel; in other topic I use Google for my different subjects, like Laws (to search the different laws like 18575 or 19880 and then edit it in word), in Macroeconomics I just use one time Google to find the Phillips curve, who represent the connection of unemployment and salary. In Sociologic theory I used SPSS, because we have to do a sociologic research and in my group decided to do a survey, so we have to made a information base that we have to examine with this program, using descriptive statistics, like frequencies and contingency tables. In a similar way at Method class we have to use this program to for statistic analysis, and we use word to do tables. In this subject we have to do a research to, so we have to use Internet to search useful information. In English, we have to use internet to do exercises in English, and we have to use a Blog to talk about so many topics, like music, Transantiago, Places that we want to go, and more. At least, in accountancy I use excel for calculate in an easier way.

So, I think I have been so connected with technology at this year, overall in this last semester because I have to do two researches that need necessarily specific computer programs, first because these programs simplify our work and because they were obligatory for the subject contents. But, I think that helps me to learn more about the different uses of the different programs and obviously it helps me for delivered esthetic works and it serves for gave me more information to complement my knowledge and learning.

So, I think that this semester be a good way to become familiar with the different technologies in a best way, to complement my knowledge about this topic. I think technology it’s a great tool for people to simplify their life, and overall for the students who have to use a lot of different programs to do their researches and university works or homework. The point lie to the access that we have to this tool, because not everybody can have the opportunity to have a computer or a laptop, or their computers don’t have the minimum abilities to have all the necessary programs to their careers. So he must to pay attention at this point.

Post # 11: Commenting the news

I think the most important news of this year, or maybe the most important event for Chile considering the year that we are living right now it’s the presidencial election . This is a local story because it’s the chilean election and would be define the politics point of view that would command our country for thw next four years, and define what would be the most important topic to the develop of the country. This kind of news are displaying in many mass media like internet (in newspapers or blogs, twitter and facebook), you can see at tv in the news or in the debate, and in the newspaper too. You can see this kind of news everyday in every mass media, because, if you have to choose the next president, it’s the labour of the journalists delivered the necessary information (and unnecessary too) to have you informed and you have a big kind of information to have a best point of view, with a lot of arguments to discuss. I think this news are so important for me, and specially for the country, because, as I said before, it would define de politics point of view and the importance gived to the most important needs like education, health, culture, sports and many other things that would command our country for the next four years.
I think that it’s an special election because there are four men who wants to be the next chilean president, three who have a more chance and two of them are so closed in the surveys, so we must have put attention on it.
In other way, we are choosing the bicentenary president! So we must think that in next generations, because they where remember that, because it’s an important date to the country.

Post # 10: Challenges in your discipline

This discipline it’s not just about one topic, in fact covers areas like economic, statitstics, laws, sociology, politic science. So, we have to be according at all the changes that those disciplines could do. But, if we have to talk about the challenges in general in de public management we can say that we have a big kind of social and educational challenges, overall if we considered Chile like the point of discussion.
We have to be atending all the society requirements, because we want to work for them.
In my personal opinion, the most important challenge would be the education, because I think that this topic it’s the key for the development. I think if the people have a good education from this begginings they surely would be better persons, because the knowing give tools to be a better persons, and the surely will have better works and will be more considerated with the other people.
So, if we teach with tolerance and respect, we surely have a better society.
I know, those things sounds utopic, but i’m a convenced person who think if we only take the education like the fundamental base of society, I believe that the chilean situation would improve a lot.
The government have to increase the percentage of the education spend, because it’s the only way to improve in this area. Improve the education stablishment, their infrastructure. In other way, the government have to put attention at the professors work, they have to promote their job, and the importance that they have in the society formation, and society must considered too. They are forming the future society, so they have to be people of quality, with values and knowing who need to be according the state requirements.
In technology we have to improve in things like the way that we are attending the bureaucracy, because technology give tools to simplify the government employee work, and I think that we don’t used like it would to be. This challenge it’s important because we have to simplify people’s life, not complicated more with (sometimes) useless deals.

Post # 9: Improving your faculty facilities.

In this faculty we can find a lot of problems about the environment like the chairs, the computers, we don’t have any grass where you can sit and study or talking with your friends. In other way, we don’t have so much space to eat or study, because this palace it’s very little to the number of people that study or work here. But, in the past year we can find a lot of solutions: they put new computers and make a study and reading room, and they put air conditioning to the winter and summer. So, we can’t say that we are in a worst situation, but obviously we have to think in other improvements that we can do in this place.
I think the painting must be improved because when you bring here a friend who doesn’t came before they think that this place it’s a bad place where nobody cares about it, but if you fix that we can stay in a most beautiful place, where the people take care about it. After all, this place it’s a national patrimony, and the last Sunday of may, anyone can visit it. Another thing that can be improved could be the place where we eat, in the “garden” or in the casino. In the first place, we can find aphids, and they fall down the trees and stay in our food, a really disgusting thing. In the second place that I mentioned, when we are eating, the cock pigeons enter to the casino and fly and walk in the tables, and the smell of the food are disgusting too.
We have to solutions those things, because the different situations are unpleasant. But, if we don’t have the institutions support, we can’t fix anything, because we don’t have to money and it’s a thing that don’t correspond to the students. This improvements can make more comfortable our study and stay in this palace.