thanks, and a comment

Hello everyone!
Thank you very much for your comments, and for your interest in making progress and getting to know your classmates better.
There is only one little "but": a few of you have made somehow negative comments on other subjects and teachers. This blog has the aim of encouraging progress in the knowledge of the subject, and of building on what you already know. They are positive, constructive aims. Therefore, let us please use the blog only for its original purpose, and omit any negative comment about any member of our institution, be it authorities, teachers or students. This kind of comment has absolutely no relationship with what we are trying to do, and with the topics that we need to debate. You are free to give your opinion provided you respect everyone. Remember it was one of the rules: always be polite. Blog moderators can choose to view all comments before they are published, and decide if they will be published or not. I have chosen not to do this, and I hope I will have no need to change my decision.

Our first contact

Hello, everyone! This blog was born from a comment that a student made in class several weeks ago. She said that she had difficulty to express her opinions in writing and, especially, to support her ideas with reasons or arguments. As it is not easy to have debates in class in which everyone can participate as much as they want, I think that a blog can be a good alternative: it will, I hope, give you the opportunity to exchange opinions with all the other students in the course. In this way, you will see a variety of points of view about the same topic, and you will have to support your ideas when someone disagrees with you.
So here comes our first topic of discussion: the blog itself. Do you think that it can help you to enlarge your critical capacity and make your opinions sounder? How? What would you like to see in it? Is there anything else that you expect from it? What?