Being transparent
15 years ago
Hi everyone !
- Second, Anglais Facile. I know, it's in French, but this way everyone is sure to understand the grammar explanations, ect... The website is quite ugly and too old, but the contents are great, very complete. For example, you can find many grammar sheets. I also use the Spanish version.
- And last but not least, Apprendre l'Anglais, it's a blog about the difficulty to learn english, helping french people to perfect their skills. What I like about it is that it's not a teacher who is talking to you, but somene like you, trying to find origial ways to learn the language, like for example watchinf movies and seeries in English.
It's not because I write in English that my English is perfect, not at all. But this is something I really want to improve. So this week, we are going back to the basis.
I took an English test Online. This one was veryyyy easy ! All my answers were correct. But that was just a warm up.
So I found my own English language online learning resource. Well, in fact, ressources. Just like Belbin says "Nobody's perfect, but a team can be". So I made my own team to improve my English. Here are my team-mates :
- First, English learner. This website has very nice tests ! I like it because there are many tests so you can challenge yourself quite often, and also because there are different levels. Plus, the quizzes are really simple to do:
And my result was... 96% ! Not that bad !
- Second, Anglais Facile. I know, it's in French, but this way everyone is sure to understand the grammar explanations, ect... The website is quite ugly and too old, but the contents are great, very complete. For example, you can find many grammar sheets. I also use the Spanish version.
- And last but not least, Apprendre l'Anglais, it's a blog about the difficulty to learn english, helping french people to perfect their skills. What I like about it is that it's not a teacher who is talking to you, but somene like you, trying to find origial ways to learn the language, like for example watchinf movies and seeries in English.
Enough chatting, it's now time to get to work, English Oral exams are on Friday ! Wish me good luck !
This week it's going to be all about contributing to the Internet. But not only contributing, also sharing my point of view on my experience of e-contribution. So this week I'm making an intelligent contribution, meaning no videos of my cat or of myself looking for myself all around Paris. I'm done with Youtube, this week I'm contributing to...
So this week I wrote an article on the Encycopedia about Pink the series, which is a webseries. There was no article about it online so I took the opportunity to create one. Truth is, I started a war with Wikipedia !
First, I met my adversary. I created an account and the website. So far, things were going OK, the target seemed to welcome me on the battle field.
But then, finally arriving there, I realized that Wikipedia is far from being simple ! The enemy, I've gotta tell you, is very complex ! Writing an article took me hours !
I arrived on the home page, and couldn't find anything there about starting to write an article. So I spread my net over, check every corner of the battle field, without success. I finally decide to be strategic. I enter the name of the article I want to write about in the search field and the enemy finally asks me, as there is no article existing, if I want to write one. So I thought great, let's start contributing to this great community of democratisation of knowledge, but then no...
The enemy is acting strange. He is not telling me the rules I should follow, neither is he clear about how we should fight. I really don't know how to use this page. The enemy attracts me to "the Wikipedia:Your first article" page.
Oh my god ! It was a trap ! I am now in the quagmire, sinking in the stream of informations ! See how long their explication pages are ! Same for the footnotes explanation page ! It's gonna take me hours to escape from this situation !
But I'm not the type of person who gives up like that. My troops are counting on me ! I have to fight to release the information I have ! So I hang on, and finally get some reinforcement. I found a secret passage, a pre-written page with codes so I just have to fill the blanks.
With some intuition and after quite a lot of time, I finally fulfil the mission !
Here is the proof I infiltrated the enemy field and conquered it !
