Starting a blog and my personal Digital Era

Hi everybody,

I have been thinking about starting a blog for a long time... so long that I started to think that it would be better to do a Vlog instead. I see that most of you are using Wordpress, which I am not very familiar with but given that I signed for Blogger a few years ago, I have decided to use it during the Elearning and Digital cultures course.

I am currently working as an administrative (civil servant) in Catalonia (Spain) mainly in the mornings, and teaching English to High School students in a Language Institute in the afternoon-evening. I love teaching more than anything else, and right now I am transitioning from a job I don't really enjoy to become an online Spanish teacher. I also teach English to 4-7 year-old students in a different Language Institute- very fun!!. Learning a foreign language takes time, perseverance, motivation, will and humor. I learned English - I meant really learned, not what you do in classes where there are 30 students and you pronounce a sentence once every three weeks- after I finished college (I hold an Economics Degree although I always wanted to be a Biologist- it is a long story). I always thought I was bad at learning foreign languages, and even thought I am not the most talented foreign language learner, I just think I had terrible teachers. In the 90s, people's lives were revolving around internet - like nowadays- so to learn a foreign language, most people thought they had to live in the country where that language was spoken for a few months to be able to learn.  Now you can learn it using the internet if you are a hihghly motivated and indepedent learner or with the guidance of a teacher, if you are not so independent when it comes to learning. Anyway, I really wanted to learn English because I felt that without it I could not work for International Third-Word Cooperation non profit organization and I decided to work as an Au Pair in the US for a year- what a great and life-changing experience.

To make a long story short, I never worked for a International Third- World Cooperation non profit organization because I came to the conclusion that what needed to be done, was raise people awareness of the global economic situation in the First World. Right or wrong I ended up spending 6 more years in the US working as an Environmental Educator in MN and GA- another great and even more life changing experience. So... where I am now? still growing... discovering the benefits of ioga and living in the present moment, long evening walks, free Stanford University lectures on youtube, life coaching and spirituality and wanting to become a social entrepreneur. I love technology and I believe this course will push me to start a new direction towards this digital world that co-exists with the real one.

Hope we have fun these coming weeks.