“Uses of Technologies at the University”

Without a doubt, technology in every area of our lives, plays an essential role. It has made our life much easier, and every new generation that is borned has get accostumed to it at the point that we can´t live without it, things such as television, computer and Internet have transformed in indispensable things in our day by day. But what I am going to write about today, is how and what role plays technology in the university, specifically in the career of Physycal Therapy. In this career the uses and tipes of technology are very varied, in every subject we use different things, common to other careers or stuff that only we, as Physical Therapists, use.


Use of technology in comunication
As students and as common people we need to be connected with our friends, with our classmates and teachers. The use of computers and Internet is indispensable. It is a need and an obligation to be informed about new experiments, new clinical cases and new papers related with a subject or just for “general culture”. At the university we have many computers, where we make all kind of works, from reports (use of Word office) to presentations (use of Power Point). And in the way we have to get connected with our classmates, we need Internet (it works a little bit show in the university library), to see our emails, that is the way we send the our works, both to teachers and classmates.

Use of technology in classes
In class, we use a varied technology, I can clasiffy it in technology use in theorical classes and the one is used in practical classes. Inside the classrooms, there are computers where teachers put their presentations, or a power in order to guide the materias that will be exposed in the class. This presentations or “powers” are proyected with a data in a big screen.
In practical classes we use microscopes to see differents samples of different tipes. For example in Histology, we used microscopes to see samples of body tissues. But there is a practical subject named, “Functional Anatomy”, where we use an instrument that is used only in Physical Therapy (and in Occupational Therapy ocassionally), the Goniometer. It measures osteokinematic movements and it is essential in every class of this subject and in every evaluation to a pacient with range of movement problems.


As you could saw, we use technology in every aspect of our life, specifically in university life, we use different type of things, with the object to make easier all the work we have to do. The technology used in here, can be classified in different ways, one of it, is classifying instrument we use like a common denominator, this is technology that every student use in different careers and universities, and technology or instruments that are own of Physical Therapy, like the goniometer. Of course, in this career we use more medical instruments, but the goniometer is the one used only by phisycal therapists.

Challenges in my discipline and country

Hello my friends today I am going to talk about the challenges in my career and more over, about the challenges that my country needs to solve, in general.

Starting with my career, Physical therapy, I would like to reffer about the challenges in the new curriculum that has been an important thing since the very first day of classes. As the new generation with this curriculum, we have lived all the process of “marcha blanca”, and as a new thing, as a new curriculum, it has many problems or shortcomings.
The level of diffilculty and the demand or requirement of this curriculum, has been a pain in the head during all the year, our challenge as students is to get accustom to it and be able to integrate the information that the teachers give us in every subject, with the objective to be more competent and more complete professionals in the future compared to the previous generations and obviously to other universities, and I think that the objective that the creators thought for this new curriculum will be achieved in the future.
The things that I have mention, will be like a point for the university, at the time to choose a career and a university.

About my country, in my personal opinion I think that there are a lot of points that have to be improved. Starting with the transport or Transantiago theme, it has carried a lot problems since it was inaugurated. But more than that I think our challenge as chilean people it to get organised in some way, to be capable to take a bus like civilized people, as we should be, like forming a line at the time take the bus, to have always the bip charged and not criticisizing the system every time, because we have a big quote of guilty in its poor operation.
Education in our country is a matter that has not been resolved in no aspect, starting for the education given in fiscal schools, I think that the goverment has to invest more time and money to improve the quality of the education that is given there. Touching other education point, there is the PSU theme, it is totally necessary to change the way of evalutation to get a place in the career and in the university we want, it is very well known that some students that get the maximun point in the PSU or obtain a really good score in the test, dye (not literally) at the university, because the PSU isn´t a good way of measuring how much do we know about maths, biology, chemistry, etc.

Well I think it is enough talking for today.
Good bye my friends.
See you.

Improving my faculty

Hi friends, today I am going to talk about my university, specifically of my faculty.

I think my faculty is great, I really wouldn´t do any changes to it. The classrooms i think are good, except for the anatomy auditorium, i think it is too old, it is literally falling to pieces, but the other rooms are great. And what can I say about the library, it is awesome, when i first walked into the library I was kind of shocked, the only thing is that the silence floor is not as silent as it should be.
About my teachers, I think that as here in my faculty, every university and every faculty has bad and good teachers and I think it also depends if you like or not the subject, for instance if you don´t like a specific subject or your career for different reasons, I think that if the teacher is not a motivating person, you will hate even more that subject.
Something I would improve? I would put more green areas in this faculty and eliminate the plague of doves, but nothing more.
Oh! I know what i would take out at once is the well known “Kiosco Rojo”, I think the prices are too high, the stuff that is sold in there is very expensive, the prices should be as low as in “Don Amable”.
Apart from what i have mentioned, I think that my faculty does not need any changes, it is not a beautiful building, but it has special places. In here I feel like relaxed, my friends have a great influence in the way I feel, if i didn´t have any friends, this faculty would be the worest of all.

Well, hope you enjoyed it
See you
Bye.