The Technology

The technology is a tool that improves our lives; we can use it for entertainment, communication, and other things. In my case, I use the technology to keep in touch with friends and relatives. When I was in elementary school, I remember my father wrote letters to keep in touch with his relatives and friends and I used to do the same to get news about their lives. It was complicated because it was necessary to write a letter with many things, It was important to be very specific if you wanted to get complete information about their things, about their lives. A few years later, the internet improved my relationship with them, because there was a new tool called e-mail, with this instrument I could keep in touch with my cousins, uncles and aunts; It was easier to write e-mails than common letters and it was not necessary to go to the post office to send them. Once or twice a week I used to write e-mails and I used to read the answers, my father was with me in order to know the different stories written by our relatives. The main problem was the connection; we used to use a kind of connection called dial-up, while we were reading the messages, it was impossible to pick up the phone because we were using the phone line to connect us to the internet. After that, some tools were created and we could share more information with our family, the dial-up was not necessary anymore because a new media was used, and while I was looking different things in Internet, And while I was surfing the net, my mom could use the phone without any problem and the capacity of the network was bigger. Several applications like chats, Facebook, Skype, drop-box and another more, were important to improve our familiar link or familiar feelings because we can talk several times a day. Even my father learned how to use the internet to talk with them because sometimes, my sister and I are not in home to help him. My father share familiar videos with my aunts or uncles, he is informed about different situations in each home all the time. About me, I can write to my cousins through gmail or chat, that´s good in order to know things about the family in other cities or countries and if I have the opportunity to meet them, we can talk about more things than if I talk with them a few times a year. Víctor M. Zambrano T.

FINAL PROJECT

THE TECHNOLOGY IN MY LIFE

I use technology to make my life easier, so this tool has become indispensable but that´s true my life doesn´t depend on this though. Maybe, I use video calls, chat, cellphone, e-mails and video conferencing to keep in touch with friends and coworkers who can´t see me in person.

Of course, in this globalized world, the technology crossed unimaginable limits which has allowed to know another cultures; the technology impacted the transportation, if weren´t Metro system I couldn´t across the city soon. According to this, I can travel to another cities and countries for to advances in aviation.

How would I work without internet?  I don´t know, Internet provides connections anywhere, so I can do my duties from my home, office, bus or include my english class. For example, when my connection internet works out, I have delayed my tasks.

On the other hand, I´d say that medical advances are incalculable; so when I´ve been sick, doctors have done test on me with latest technological tools.

Furthermore, in my free time I have learned about culture, music, cinema, literature and general information. As far as I´m concerned, I´d use internet to buy my favorite song or watch some chapter of a TV series, or include I´d download my pictures to my cellphone.

To summarize, I don´t consider myself an addict to technology. However, I think some people really use it all the time; those people think that it´s cool, you know what I mean, but it is important to use this wonderful tool following security protocols.

By: Maria Isabel Jaramillo

TECHNOLOGY IN MY RELATIONSHIPS

TECHNOLOGY IN MY RELATIONSHIPS

Technology is an important tool nowadays and it is used in ours relationships.

In my life it is an important means of comunication,  for example  in my work, whith my friends, with my coworkers or my classmates.

For example in the relationship with my friends through of tools or social networks as facebook, email or whatsApp, I can talk someone about somethings and know about their lives through of photos.

Technology is very positive for my because is a medium that lets keep me in touch with important persons for my.

Mainly, I use the technology in my friend relationship with Alejandra, she is my friend from school, she studies biology in canada , so her life is very differen from me, for example she lives away from her family, she is very outgoing and she likes studying in an other country, it was her dream.

I met Alejandra when I was 10 years old, in San Martin school. Alejandra was a girl who sat next to me, she is my best friend.

Alejandra moved to an other neigborhood 3 years later, in this moment the internet was not common for me,  but Alejandra’s mother an she were going to my house, then we created our  first email and we share the emails and it was our first contact with  email.

Then the computer was my principal tool, specially with my friend because she moved for canada and I was very sad. Then, I signed  up in facebook and  it was my first social network , we talked every day and I watched her photos and know Canada .Also through mesenger and email I talkedwith my friend, we enjoyed this because our comunication was very important.

Also in my work the technology influence is important because we use many tools and the main is email because we can sent and receive important information for our work.

Also ith my family it's very common use technology because some cousins are living in New York, and I use skype for talk with them for example.

I think, the most part of my relationships, the technology has positive impact, but some people abuse of this tool, If I were this kind of person, I could decrease the hours of use for example the social networks for example,  and I would talk with my relatives face to face for sharing special moments.

                                                                           By KAREN LIZETH VELASQUEZ MONA

Why in the parks nobody is in there?

I remember when I grew up, that´s not long time ago but it is so different to this moment, now the kids not share with other kids like in my time.  The technology changed the way of the relationship between everybody even among our grandfathers and I am not kidding.

Juan is my nephew who changed my point of view; he loves playing with technological tools, and he does it better than my parents. When I was a girl, I loved going out to play with other kids in the neighborhood, we practiced different sports, we were run and every day we played in the park of our neighborhood.

With the technology the way how  people is connected changes every day, but I think it is awesome although when people do not handled it well I guess that comes troubles in the relationships for the society. I wanted to write about the relationships between friends, but now kids don't have friends in their neighborhood because all the time they stay at home playing with computers, tablets, video games and this kind of things that they never need to share with friends.

Probably in this it century is more important to be connected with the entire world, anywhere and with anybody because technology can do it, though it is more important to talk, see, and share time with the people that in this moment is sitting in the chair across the table, you should turn off your cell phone and pay attention to your family or your friend they want to spend their time with you. I wish I had more free time to play with my nephew, if I had more free time, I would go out with other kids in the block and taught them all the games that I use to play when I was a kid like them. If I live closer to them we would be best friends forever, and we would play at the park every weekend. I wish my sister and my brother in law were not so busy with their work, I wish they paid more attention to my nephew but at this moment it is difficult that  mom´s stay at home to be housewives like my mom was for us. Now parents only have enough time on weekends to play with kids, so kids start to using technology so fast too keep in touch with other people, as a fake circle of friends, or only virtual friends.

Maybe if parents could work part time that would be a temporary fix to control the behavior of children and they can share more time with other kids. If I were my sister I´d prefer other kind of job, or I´d search a job which I could do at home to spend more time with my kids.

I want my nephews and my niece grow up in a simple way, with other friends with the same age, playing at the park as it should be.

Natalia Carlota Salazar Robayo

A CULTURAL CHANGE IN HOSPITAL BUSINESS

(By Verónica Carvajal Tabares) 

3 years ago, a community formed by a network of agents of the hospital area arrived in the colombian hospital business which through web solutions, integrates hospitals with to the production chain of the sector.

This tool creates business opportunities between suppliers and buyers transparently, and fortifies ethical values ​​in relationships.

This platform is called Bionexo, and it´s the largest reference on "market place" of health, contributing decisively with professionalization of the sector supply and market growth. This technology guarantees safety, confidentiality and protection of customer information.

This platform has achieved an important change in cultural mind by purchasing management, where the most important health institutions in Colombia receive offers from over 2,000 suppliers, taking advantage of the solutions offered by Bionexo.

This technology is profitable both, for us like suppliers as for clinics and hospitals sector, because it provides alternatives to improve efficiency, and reduces the waste of time spent on purely operational activities, that don´t add value in the supply chain area of health. Hospitals are benefited by reducing important costs in their internal processes, creating greater visibility for their institutions, and consequently better results that are translated in economy, transparency and innovation.

All of us involved in this chain obtain better results, from the health institutions, the distributor, until the end patient.

The solution is a quick and efficient quote on- line, where suppliers receive quotation requests from health institutions around the country. Each health institution enter the items that they wish to quote, in the required amounts of the different product categories. They establish the specifications, terms of delivery and response time of suppliers. All information is confidential and private, between the supplier and the institution to which they quote.

The advantages of relating to major health institutions in the country through the platform are several:

• It makes automatically links between suppliers and institutional buyers.

• It offers quick view of business opportunities.

• It reduced costs associated with the operation.

• It gives clear and accurate information available.

• It guarantees security of information.

• It´s available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• It creates dynamic and efficient processes.

• It gives access to all institutional buyers within platform.

This is how this tool or technology has influenced the relationship, between medical suppliers with the almost all Hospitals around the country.

iTechnology 

by Juan Carlos Hernández C.

The development and improvement of technology has greatly improved our lives. Technology is pretty much in everything we do now. From the coffee maker that makes our coffee in the morning, to the cashier at the checkout counter who we pay our groceries to. Computers and machines are now doing the work that used to be tiresome for people to do every single day. They do massive computations of numbers and work every single day without stopping.

There are various ways through which technology has impacted our lives, and affect our relationships and this includes the following:

I start my day by checking email, skimming the latest headlines, and posting something ambiguous. Then, I spend the rest of my day texting, messaging, browsing, posting, updating, watching, and sharing.

Although too often we develop shallow friendships with people who share a common interest or friend, without engaging in meaningful discussion. In fact we hide behind a screen to avoid pain and sometimes our real personality.

Privacy, sincerity, and personalization is what’s lacking in today’s interactions; we tend to only communicate with others when we need something. Even holiday greetings aren’t as meaningful anymore. Sending out those generic mass messages lacks the personal touch of a call or card.

In order to stay in touch today, we have to keep up with the times whether we like it or not.

What all this does mean though is that we need to learn how to balance our offline and online communication. Make yourself available in a variety of ways and know when each method is appropriate.

The problem, however, comes when we find ourselves subtly substituting electronic relationships for physical ones or mistaking our electronic relationships for physical ones. We may feel we're connecting effectively with others via Internet, but too much electronic-relating paradoxically engenders a sense of social isolation.

For example, we write things like "jajaja" to describe our laughter, but they're no real substitute for hearing people laugh, which has real power to lift our spirits when we're feeling low. People are often uncomfortable with face-to-face confrontation, so it's easy to understand why they'd choose to use Internet.

For transferring information efficiently, the Internet is excellent. For transacting emotionally sensitive or satisfying connections, it's not.

Recently my ex-girlfriend and I came to be together like a couple through Skype, at the beging everything was wonderful, later she began to change her personality and soon I got bored with this relationship, we decided to leave us.

On the other hand in my home, I miss that days when we gone to the table and taste a good flavors of fresh meal and our only company was a old-radio. Now I usually eat with my tablet or my cell phone chating with someone or simply surfing on facebook, and it’s so hard to quit.

I really need a balance between my personal life and my use of technology!!!

Proyecto - Nivel 11 - CLG

Catalina Luján Gómez

Nivel 11 – Centro Colombo Americano

Project

I have been a virtual English teacher for 4 years and it has been an amazing experience. Technology has changed the way I was used to teach, learn, live and of course, the way I interact with people. At the beginning it was a challenge and it was difficult for me to understand that online education was possible but then I realized that it is possible and, in fact, it can be better.

To be a successful virtual student or teacher you have to be even more disciplined, engaged, responsible and constant because you also have more freedom so you must be able to control your time strictly. You have to be honest, too.

Since you can work at home, there are many things that can catch your attention; you might want to take a nap or maybe you could get another job and earn more money, but if you did, then you wouldn’t do your job well and you would also fail in each activity you did.

People usually think that what I do for a living is a piece of cake, that I earn money for doing nothing; If I could earn money for doing nothing, I would be the happiest person in the world. I could spend my time rescuing stray dogs, travelling, being with my friends and family, and taking care of my body, hair, skin; among other things that I actually cannot do because of my job.

As everything in life, my job has pros and cons; I am happy with it, but I have to admit that I have forgotten about many other important things such as my family and best friends; I am always so focused on my things that I have lost touch with them, I don’t use the phone anymore, I never talk to anybody, I only chat. When they want to go out and invite me, I always have an excuse and lots of things to do, so I have already had trouble with the people that I love the most. Sometimes my time is not long enough so I cannot exercise, I do not respect mealtimes, I do not rest on weekends…

I try to distribute my time between being a good housewife (well… I am not married but I have to do the housekeeping chores, cooking, taking care of my pets) and, of course, being a good teacher.

I have many students so checking their assignments is exhausting.

Sometimes I have to be an informatics teacher instead of being an English teacher as I am supposed to be. It is a negative aspect but also a positive one, because I am proud and happy about being able to help people learn English and at the same time, I get them to know internet and the thousands of possibilities and tools that the web gives us.

Being a virtual teacher has given me experience and time to prepare myself to become a regular teacher, I have strengthen my patience and my skills to transmit my knowledge, and now I can do both jobs, although as a regular teacher, I feel a little insecure and I need to improve my pronunciation, vocabulary and fluency. 

 

SANDRA MILENA PANESSO MORENO

MY RELATIONSHIP WITH TECHNOLOGY

We live in a World where technology is the most important thing for People, and I think that for this reason, People prefer to keep in touch with friends and family by this means, I think, that technology is great because it allow that people to learn more things about other countries, People, manners and cultures. I have always loved technology but  when I was younger and I didn't work , I could not have access to it  because I didn't have money. Currently, I have more proximity with technology and I like to use a cellphone, a laptot, a smart TV and a tablet. I wish I had a lot money to buy the latest technological products. To tell the truth I enjoy it a lot because it makes my life so easy and I can buy and pay different things from my house. Technology affects relationships because the communication is more impersonal, and you prefer to spend your time using it, instead of visiting personally or talking face to face with your family, boyfriend, and friends. The specialists in the topic say that sometimes technology can affect children and young people in a negative way because it can cause isolation from the real World.

 Technology has advantages and disadvantages. It's good because you can research more things very fast, and there are different communication ways with other people.  You can speak with a person in another country and you don't need to spend much money, otherwise it makes our life more routinary and people prefer to stay in their houses and spend the time use it.  Technology is insecure, too.

I truly try to use it moderately, although sometimes. I spend too much time using my phone. Lately, I have had many problems with my friends because when we are meeting, I use my phone so they want to kill me.  Anyway I know that I have to try to change my behavior because I don't want to lose my friends. ..

My history with technology

Érika María Serna Giraldo

My mother is person who gave me my first computer, she is who started my relationship with the technology. When I was 10 years old, my life turn around the plays and the school, I could spend my time in the street with my little friends and other time with my books, but sometime I found with the technology.

With my first computer I learned to surf the internet, to consult and reduce my research time in libraries, but always increasing my time reading about topics that interest me as literature, mystery and more communication themes.

I like learn all the time since that time, if I had more time, I would spend it learn about interesting themes as the social media, digital marketing and analytics social media. But in this moment, I can't spend my time in this things.

Nowadays, the technology is a important tool for my job, and my relationship with the technology is my principal implement for it. With the computer and the internet I work all time, even when I'm not in the office. So, if I not had a smartphone, maybe I could spend my free time in another thing but I not was update with my job.

With the technology development, the communication with the other person is easier and faster. You can talk with friends are in another country, with your boyfriend in another city, your family in another place or, even, with your boss when you have a little rest. But if you have a boss as mine, you can turn off your smartphone and logout.

If the technology was not as developed as today, I could not telework, always need to have a computer closely and would not be as easy to fix as now. If we did not have smart phones, people would talk less with those who are far and more with those who are close, but could also find other distractions that do not allow them to share with their surroundings.

Actually, I wish had more time for my study, for me and for learn new things, maybe less spend time with the technology but I will always be kept updated in technology.

THE DIFFICULT SEARCH OF LOVE- By Javier Ramírez

This is a story about Betty. She was born in a little town called Raquira. When she was 8 years old her parents and she moved away to Bogotá. She didn´t like this city because people were too unfriendly and the weather was cold. They arrived to the new neighborhood called San Mateo and she didn´t know anyone in this neighborhood. But this situation change on January 4^th 1985 she looked a handsome boy named Felipe who lived in the same neighborhood. He was a tall and athletic boy. He liked to practice skating.

She met him in skating club. Later they hung out in elementary school, so they were classmates and she was definitely happy because she had a friendship with Felipe. He was organized, bookish, athletic, polite and sometimes arrogant and laidback. Frequently they liked to go skating, they went to the art museum and they did the school homework. Step by step Felipe became her obsession, one day Felipe confessed to her that he had a crush on Catalina. Betty ran to her house because she didn’t believe that Felipe had a crush on Catalina because she and Felipe grew up together. She arrived at her bedroom and cried a lot. She didn’t eat and didn’t leave her bedroom for two weeks because of she was depressed. Her worried parents made a decision: They took her to a psychiatric hospital. There she had a lot of therapy for her depression and she learned to manage her anxiety and to improve her self-esteem. In the psychiatric hospital she met a handsome boy his name was hector who was sick too and he was depressed too. She was in the psychiatric hospital for three months and then Betty left the Hospital she knew that Felipe was moved away to the United States. This situation is better for her because she was relaxed. Ten years later Hector came to create a website that help people found their old friends. He started to buy a new laptop because of he had an old computer. As following he needed internet connection for achieve his objective. He called her internet company; finally he had internet connection three months later. But he had a lot of problems to create a new webpage, he didn’t have good software, therefore, he bought complex software to create webpage, later, the battery of the laptop was damage and Hector repaired the battery. Hector work hard and he had a lot of obstacles, one of them it was his laptop froze up frequently therefore he called up her company tech support. This company repaired his laptop. Finally six years later Hector finished his website named H&BS, it was a resounding success, when his webpage had two months running, and it was attacked by virus attack, Hector was very sad for that situation, he repaired his webpage.

Hector had a lot of memories that Betty and he looked for her in her webpage. Hector found her and they started the communication. Hector lived in Medellin and she lived in Bogotá. He said he was boring in Medellin and he wanted to get back Bogotá. One month later he got back Bogotá. They kept in touch and they started to going out. One year later Betty wanted to settle down and Hector agree with Betty, On October 5^th 1996 they got married. Today they have a good relationship and they get along well.

Love story through Internet

My boyfriend went to Mexico in 2009, for studying his last semester. In that time we had three years of relationship. This situation was very hard for both, because we saw every day, we studied in the same group and we went out on weekends.

I had a computer, but my computer didn´t have a camera, then I had keep money and bought an economic camera. We connected three or four times a week, I helped him with his project in Mexico and he helped me with my project in Colombia, we exchanged literature, I scanned it and send him.

I always saw my e-mail, because he wrote me an e-mail with the hour that I had to connect, but sometimes I couldn´t see the e-mail and for that day we couldn´t communicated. Unfortunately in that time didn´t exist Line, what’s App or I didn´t know these applications and I didn´t have a Smartphone.

We spent one or two hours connected through messenger, I talked him about me, the University, our families and friends. He talked me about his experience in the University and his new friends.  He sent me photos about his travels to Cancun, Veracruz, Mexico city; I wished I had been with him.

When come December I was more sad because we did many things on vacations, we saw the lightings, traveled to some towns, we went to dance and we spent time with our friends and families.

I remember that on December 24^th we were connected since 10 p.m, he was alone because his classmates were in their houses, I was in my house with my family, but I felt some sad for him. That day we talked until 12 at night and later I shared with my family. He always said that he was very good because he knew that it was for few time.

He had the trip to Colombia in January, and I was waiting connected with him on December 30^th, but I couldn´t do it. That night I was very worry about him, then I listened the bell, it was very late and my father opened the door, when I saw my boyfriend, I was very happy and I couldn´t believe. That day ended four months of separation.

I think technology can distance people in some cases, because many times people prefer be with the cellphone and don´t talk with the person that have in front. On the other hand if you had a Smartphone or a computer you can be in touch with your family and friends.

Today I say thanks for technology, because I could see my boyfriend and talked with him. In other time calls were very expensive and you had send letters but you couldn´t see that person that you love.

Alexandra Ramírez F

Course 11