Respond of E-tivity 4

Social Bookmarking is fantastic, as in a few minutes it is easy to find every kind of information required. I wanted to have the possibility to watch my favourite TV-series such as for example Desperate Housewives, CSI Miami, The District, Doctor House and going through Del.icio.us I found Francesca’s (Manieca) interesting link to “TV.com”. I added it to my bookmarks lists and I assure you that this is a golden opportunity of relaxing and enjoying during the free time. Go there if you want to be well-informed on the latest but also on the oldest TV-series and programmes. However, I found also this Website: “focusenglish.com” on Francesca’s page and I assure you, dear reader, it is really useful. It demands attention and patience but the results are really rewarding. I thank my teacher for having taught me to use Del.icio.us. I can find quickly sources I wouldn’t have found so easily with Google. I am conscious of the advantages on using Google, but the results are not always satisfactory. Del.icio.us links people from all over the world, not only with my same interests but also with other pastimes, which become useful when we don’t expect them. (Sarah, I hope to have given a good translation of : “quando non te l’aspetti”). If we keep on working in this way, we’ll became C1 speakers, I’ m sure =)).

Social Bookmarking

Hi dear friends!
If you want to learn some good Internet Websites about English and German online newspapers and broadcast, go and wisite these here, I found using "Delicious". Some of you study at the moment or studied during their university career also the German language, so why don't improve our English and German skills at the same time, using the Web. Let's start with this one here. http://www.dw-world.de/ The "Deutsche Welle" is a German Channel, which also has its online Website. Here you can read news and listen to radio programms. Moreover, Do you want to have fun and to listen to something screamigly funny? Here is a wonderful Website for you, where you can find pop-culture parodies and politically incorrect humor: http://www.madtv.com/ .Beside this, if you are interested on sport, go to: http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/. Here you can listen to live news and live sport . Than, if you want to relax listening and watching to fiction programms, try: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio7/. Last but not least, if we want to speak like English native speaker study carefully on this Website here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/grammar/pron/. Your and my pronounciation will be fantastic. Dear visitors, have fun and improve yourself =). It's easy.

My experience with with feeds and feed aggregators.

On Thursday I learned both what a Feed is and what a feed aggregation is. The first one is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content, while the second one is a collection of web feeds. Moreover, RSS are feed readers, feed aggregators, news readers or search aggregators, which not only aggregate text-only news feeds, but also convert them into audio recordings for offline listening. I have just searched for some useful feeds to add to my playlist in "bloglines". I added online newspapers feeds such as for example, that of "The Guardian", of the "CNN", of "The National Geographic". I hope I did everything in a correct way. Fortunately, I attended the Thursday lesson, otherwise, I wouldn't have understood anything. I am realizing, how wide the world of the Internet is and how important it is the fact of having someone teaching you all these interesting information. In the future I will say, I have some specific technological competences, that not lots of students have. I am well motivated to go on with this technological challenge, as adding further feeds, I am sure, I will improve my English. I have already planned to look for radio feeds, as I want to improve my listening. Unfortunately, this is a very busy week for me, as I am taking two exams. From next week on, I will be more active and I will go straight to the feeds, I think to be the more reliableto improve my reading, listening, and writing.

Reflective Blogging

In this 2nd semester I'd like to improve my listening skills. Indeed I want to focus attention more on radio programs, which are not so easy to understand, because of the colloquial language and the idiomatic expressions that are used and that need to be learned for a successful understanding.

Moreover, I need to improve my writing. Business letters and tecnical language, such as for example, that of politics, science, and journalism, are what I strive for . I think I have already started to achieve this goal, through the task of last week, when I had to choose a blog, through "Tecnorati", and justify my choice and advise the blog i found to my class mates. Here is the url: http://www.vinography.com/. If someone want to learn something more about wine, but through experts' language, here is good example to consider.

Then, I realize I need to improve my speaking, especially I aim to learn more colloquial language, as I am aware that it is not easy to understand English native speaker, when they use idioms. Nevertheless, I hope to use the language with more precision and I take as example the news language.

In order to achieve these three goals, I need, firstly, to find helpful radio Websites, where I can follow go lives. Then, I should try to speak with more accuracy during the Thursday language, in order to speak as journalists of BBC and CNN. Last but not least, I have to find a way to write about specific topics, such as for example about politics, economy and science, in order to become more familiar with tecnical language.

As you can see, I am still at the beginning of my language challenge. I have done only something to improve my writing and reading, through the wine blog, I found in "Tecnorati", but I need my teacher's help to achieve the other two goals.

Welcome

Hi guys !!!I want to welcome you in my personal blog. Have fun with me to build up a creative and successful personal page. This is my first blog experience and I have to say that I am embarassed, as it is difficult for me to use it and to understand where I have to go to post messages, to load photos and so on. Patiently, I managed to do it. Some of my class mates are familiar with blogs and they are really good!!! I'm getting down, as I can't do what the others do!!! Be patient with me please! I am sure this blog will help me to get acquainted with the Internet and the technological tools used in it. However, I am really motiveted to go on and to overcome the initial problems, as I am confident, that I will improve my English and in particular I'll be more carefull and accurate with the use of language.