Wednesday, October 24, 2012

#2 Benefits of blogging for student-teachers

These days, in class, we are talking about the importance of being connected, as student-teachers, to other education professionals and our university or work colleagues, using different applications and communities. I'm discovering that there are a lot of web 2.0 applications and websites to share knowledge and experiences, to find resources and to be constantly recycling myself as a future Pre-School teacher. 

Blogs give us the opportunity to express ourselves, to post our thoughts, ideas and reflections about education and our daily practice, and, at the same time, what we write can be useful for other people. I personally find remarkable this idea of sharing everything, of making all public, democratic and not only for a few. 

Moreover, blogging can helps us store a huge number of files, such as documents and media without occupying unnecessary space. It is easy and practical and I'm happy to have started using it.  If we follow other blogs we will always be informed of the latest practices or tendencies in education, and at the same time we will be able to compare our daily practice with the one from other teachers, getting different points of view and a more critical vision of this complex and every day changing universe that is teaching and learning.

Thursday, October 18, 2012

#1 Introduction

Hello everybody and welcome to my blog! 

My name is Helena and I'm from Barcelona, a beautiful city in Catalonia. I'm 28 years old and i'm studying to be a Pre-School teacher.

I love children and I am lucky to work in a school in Gracia, one of the loveliest neighborhoods in my city. I help 3 year old kids to eat and to sleep before their teacher comes back in the afternoon. I have been working in the same school for 5 years and I enjoy it every single day. Kids are amazing and I know I have so much to give to them.

Apart from kids, I also love  cinema and music. I go to the cinema and to concerts and festivals any time I can. I've chosen this song to break the ice with my followers in blogger. I hope you like it as much as I do!





One of my other passions is to travell. This summer I was in Thailand for 3 and a half weeks with 6 friends. What an awsome country! It is so different from Spain...its people, culture, food, landscapes...we had such a great time there! I hope to go back sometime, maybe to visit my uncle, who lives there.

Well, now you know a little bit of me. I think that's enough for today! =)