Social bookmarking

Have you ever seriously thought about an easy way to collect, share and interact with online information from anywhere? Well, go to del.icio.us and explore. It will make you sure you can visit your favourite web pages from any computer, anytime without having to remember the page URLs or rely on the computer programs.

It has become a means for users to share similar interests to locate new websites that they might not have otherwise heard of, or to store their bookmarks in such a way that they are not tied to one specific computer.

Social bookmarking is a very useful service that lets you save, tag and search your own bookmarks and notes or browse and search other users links and tags. You can be open and share your thinks with others. It helps you find like-minded people, discover new and interestig sites and publish your bookmarks.

My first experience with social bookmarking has been very interesting: it has opened the door to new ways of organizing information and categorizing resources. Because social bookmarking services indicate who created each bookmark and provide access to that person's other bookmarked resources, users can easily make social connections with other individuals interested in just about any topic. Users can also see how many people have used a tag and search for all resources that have been assigned that tag.

This has been the way in which my course friends and I have been working in developing a unique structure of keywords to define resources about learning English as a L2 using blogs.

-Lara has suggested an English blog where you can find very useful information about English culture, its grammar, its literature, etc. but also many links to FilmBlog and Podcast.

-Isabella has found a funny Dr. Grammar who will answer to your grammar questions. This webpage may provide help in learning English as a L2.

-Daniela has recorded a very complete website where you get in touch with English Club which is full of lessons for students and jobs for teachers includung interactive pages such as forums, games, quizzes, chat, help, etc.

-Francesca has provided a list of business letters and forms which may help in doing a good job. What one has to do is just select the type of document he/she needs.

-Daniele has discovered a very interesting page where you can recover newspaper websites. you can retrieve information from all over the world just searching per country.

-Valentina has indicated a great blog full of good stuff for people who cannot get started writing in English seen as the international language of business.

Have fun looking at them ;-)

Alice