Happy Easter!

Hello all,

I just want to say...

Buona Pasqua (Italian) :)
Vrolijk Pasen (Dutch)
Joyeuses Pâques (French)
Frohe Ostern (German)
Καλὸ Πάσχα (kalò Pàskha)(Greek)
E ʻôlelo mâlie (Hawaiian)
Boa Páscoa (Portuguese)
¡Felices Pascuas! (Spanish)
IPhasika elijabulayo (Zulu)
復活節快樂 (fùhuójié kuàilè)(Chinese Mandarin)
ਈਸਟਰ ਖੁਸ਼ਿਯਾੰਵਾਲਾ ਹੋਵੇ (īsṭar khuśyāṅvālā hove)(Punjab)
Христос воскресе (Xristos voskrese)(Russian)
Geseënde Paasfees (Afrikaans)
عيد فصح سعيد (Arabic standard)
शुभ ईस्टर (śubh īsṭar)(Hindi)
イースターおめでとう (īsutā omedetō)(Japanese)
สุขสันต์วันอีสเตอร์ (Suk-sənt-wən īs-toer)(Thai)
Heri kwa sikukuu ya Pasaka (Swahili)
חג פסחא שמח (chag pascha same'ach)(Hebrew)

Just a few of all the wonderful languages all over the world!

OMG!
I ate too much...My mom and my aunts do not understand the words NO, THANKS - NO, I'M FINE - THAT'S ENOUGH! - I'M BLOWING UP!

BTW,I just want to post a link to an interesting .pdf on 'personal learning environment'. I found it using Google Scholar and I'm going to analyse it using what we've learned on reliability. I'm going to bookmark it too.

Have a nice day!

Bye
Giorgia
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Del.icio.us Feedback

As I learned a few days ago, to have an account into Del.icio.us give me the possibility not only to store my bookmarks, but also to create a personal network with other users, in my case with my classmates. So, I went in and took a look to my peers' choices.

I found out that Francesca and I have the same interest in punctuation. Personally, I want to learn more about the right use of English punctuation because I usally tend to reproduce the Italian one while writing in English, and this is a bad habit! :)
She bookmarked the WikiHow page on punctuation; the content of the page is clearly organized and full of useful examples. There are a lot of tips and warnings to use some of the most tricky punctuation symbols correctly.
Feedback: clear, simple and very useful.

Among Valentina's choices, I found the bookmark on Internship Mistakes very fun. It's a website on the most common mistakes, bad behaviours and habits in the working field. Perhaps, it is not directly linked to our field of study, but it can come in useful while approaching any job field...thus, our next future!
Feedback: fun and job-oriented.

Take a look to them!

Bye
Giorgia

...some Del.icio.us links...

While I was surfing on the big waves of the net through both Technorati and Del.icio.us, I found some interesting websites and blogs that I'd like to tell you about. I decided to store them as bookmarks in my social bookmarking account.

I've pasted there the links and I've given a short description of them. Anyway, if anyone interested has an account on Del.icio.us can find my bookmarks using the search toolbar...just searching for the tag 'bloggingenglish_09'.

My bookmarks:

• Omniglot is a blog concerning a plenty of linguistic issues, such as translation, ESL, education and foreign languages learning. It is very interesting, its style is formal when talking about language games and fun stuff, and it becomes formal - but not too technical - when exposing specialized issues;
• Livemocha is an online international community, where people from all around the world sign in to take online language lessons and give feedback to the others. Anyone interested can choose among 20 different languages and take lessons at 4 different levels;
• BBC English page is a webpage inside the BBC website. This page is full of tips, links, games, crosswords, audio files and fun stuff for learning English while enjoying;
• GrammarGirl is a blog full of 'quick & dirty' tips and suggestions for better writing in English. It gives a lot of lessons through both written texts and podcasts. These lessons particularly focus on word choice, grammar and punctuation;
• Two Expats is a blog run by two young Italian guys living in London. Gioia and Matteo (their names) write about food, life style, music, friends and everything else about their lives in London. The blog has a catchy and funny style, it is obviously written in English with some Italian words here and there.

Hope you like them as I do!

Bye
Giorgia

To Bookmark or not to Bookmark…?

The more I go on learning new things about the web, the more I get scared :P
Well, we all know how huge is the net…scary!
We all know how huge is the blogosphere…twice as scary!
Now we can make them smaller…at our fingertips…SUPER-SCARY!

What about creating your own 'little' world wide web?

I’m talking about bookmarks, or better, Internet bookmarks.
They work just like real paper bookmarks we commonly use while reading books; therefore, we use them to find what we need easily.
When you frequently visit a website or blog you can save their URLs in order to be easily retrieved. You can do it on your pc or you can subscribe in a social bookmarking community, such as Del.icio.us and store your bookmarks in the personal page you’ve created. Being a social community you can share your bookmarks with the other people in the community. Also, you can create your network of users and see their bookmarks.
Social bookmarking communities are better than your pc, since you can visit your bookmarks from any computer, while if you save bookmarks only in your pc you can retrieve them just from it.
What's more, to make the search of bookmarks easier anyone usually put tags, that is to say, key words to label the URLs stored (i.e. if you type ‘language’ in the community toolbar, will appear all the shared bookmarks with the tag ‘language’).

I think it's a really good tool to keep track of our favourite websites, without searching for their URLs all the time, or without writing them down on a piece of paper that you may lose!

Well, I think it’s all…
Let's enjoy with this new tool!

Bye
Giorgia

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