lunes, 14 de julio de 2008

LAST BLOG ASSIGNMENT - Sumary Writing


Summary of the “Learning the joy of reading” Article.

Nowadays, the Uganda children haven’t received benefits from the “Country’s Reading for All Programme” promoted by UNESCO, the International Reading Association and other partners. The Progran consists in the teach reading and talking poor children of the primary school and the teachers. Inviting the parents of the children in their education.

Teaming up with the Uganda Library Association, the programme also organizes reading camps during which children are brought together. There are kids like John that now have access to the information, the idea is turning Uganda into a reading nation.

The dificult of implement the programme are the frustrating efforts to achieve reading for all, because there are few teachers in this country. They say that Uganda needs to train more teachers to improve the education.Another dificult is the need of library and materias to the learning reading of the poor children.

A similar programme has started in Tanzania.

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martes, 8 de julio de 2008

ASSIGNMENT 5 CAREER-RELATED TOPIC





The subject in general terms.

My subject is “Dance and expression”, this subject is about the movement, the game. My teacher is Yasna Lepe. This subject is is part of my syllabus. This subject is special because allows me to connect the spirit with the body.

Describe what you have done or learnt about it so far.

In my class I have learnt the African dance, different body movements that express happiness, sadness, tension, relax, and other feelings. I have learnt to work the group and to mix with team member. An important factor is the rhythm of the music, because it invite to dancing the emotions of the students.

Say what else you'd like to know (or do in connection) about it.

I like the relaxation, because the university is very stressful, and I need the techniques of relaxation for my body and mind. The great majority of the class and subjects only teach theory but dance and expression permit to learn together.

The dance is very interesting for me because, my carrier is Education and the children from primary school are very messy in this subject. And I feel free in the class. I would like to know more techniques of relaxation and more types of dance, beacuse are very interesting for mi.

Explain what attracted your interest in it.
I invite to visit this two websites connected from this particular topic. I visited this websites http://www.pura-danza.com/, http://www.bailedeportivo.net/

I selected http://www.pura-danza.com/ because there is information about different dances of countries. In the other side I selected http://www.bailedeportivo.net/ because is important and is interesting because gives different information and teory.