tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90392475464602142552024-03-14T11:55:24.243+01:00SEEKING FEDERICAfedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-64280610172948688162009-05-21T18:20:00.001+02:002009-05-21T18:25:57.532+02:00AND HERE IT IS...MY PERSONAL MINDMAP!!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsjv4HE537NkyJXjaPvtRzrOCki2CHzMDghzxQV3wvKo9McpoyfjNrOOLTz1XLDYJLWimqVmk81P_aEYlQ4ulrZx4zYIK-eMnjRCU8_L07FPRYvnwTqibtXeaMgF-3fE5QpSQRiLLu3ZJ/s1600-h/PLE.pdf.jpeg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 168px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMsjv4HE537NkyJXjaPvtRzrOCki2CHzMDghzxQV3wvKo9McpoyfjNrOOLTz1XLDYJLWimqVmk81P_aEYlQ4ulrZx4zYIK-eMnjRCU8_L07FPRYvnwTqibtXeaMgF-3fE5QpSQRiLLu3ZJ/s400/PLE.pdf.jpeg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5338314095803999410" border="0" /></a>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-21561806619494916952009-05-21T17:40:00.003+02:002009-05-21T17:49:29.280+02:00reflecting on my mindmap...<div style="text-align: justify;">It is not so easy to understand how we learn a language...thinking about it I realized that I learn English in many and many ways!<br />The easiest way is the University, with regards to my formal learning. But also newspapers, books, conferences and other things can be very helpful!<br />As far as informal learning is concerned I think that foreign friends, activities in pubs, music, newspapers, travels and of course the Internet, are just a small part of the useful 'tools'.<br /><br />If I do not consider the University way of learning (as I am suppose to finish my University career in a quite short time (at least I hope so!!) ) I'm sure I'm still having a lot of nice sources to use in order to improve more and more my English language!<br /></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-7959369779575819492009-05-18T21:56:00.002+02:002009-05-18T22:02:19.124+02:00uh.....Hello everybody!!<br />Last week we tried to understand some 'internet words' such as phishing, trojan horse, hacker etc. I think it is very important to know our enemies in the use of the web!!<br />This week I am suppose to develop a map concerning my improving during this year. I am trying to draw it in a paper and then put it in my blog (as our teacher suggested us!)...it is taking more time than expected.... I think I will postpone this task, also because I'm having two exams this week....keep your fingers crossed for me!!!!!<br /><br />see you :))fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-32576311904284481072009-05-12T20:35:00.003+02:002009-05-12T20:52:55.088+02:00INTERNET RISKS<div style="text-align: justify;">Last week we reflected on the possible risks we may find using the internet. The most important risks we found concerne the possibility for other people to have access to our personal information. There are also persons who called themselves 'hackers' and can create viruses or spyware and have access to our personal computers. They can see all the information we have on our computer and send us advertisements; they can also damage our operating system.<br /><br />I think that the most dangerous things a person can do is to use the internet in a non resposible way, which means to share personal information with others (in particular with persons that he/she does not know) and have access to web sites generally considered 'not safe'.<br />We should always keep in mind that everybody can see the information we put on the internet and for this reason we should avoid the publishing of personal information (address and phone number) or personal data (credic card number). A nice thing to do could also be to change periodically our passwords.<br /><br />With regards to web sites like Facebook we should always remeber to share our information just with our friends and with people that we know in our daily life. In particular we should avoid the publishing of photos too much private or that include other persons (we may ask the permission to those people first!).<br /><br />I don't think we should simply stop using the internet, because it is a very nice tool and a very useful one...we should just try to do everything using our brain!<br /><br />A big problem could come out with regards to the use of the internet for young people. Teenagers usually use the internet just trying to have a different life; if they are not popular in the 'real life' they may try to create a different character for themselves and search for friends in the web. In this way they can talk with nicknames and do not know the real person to whom they are talking....in this case I think that parents are still the only ones who can do something as far as the young boy/girl understands the possible risks...<br /><br />As far as viruses and spyware are concerned I think that the only one thing we can do is to download free antivuruses and free antispyware and check our computer safety many times a week!!!<br /></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-49852313905494362632009-05-04T20:19:00.002+02:002009-05-04T20:37:37.158+02:00EDITING REFERENCES<div style="text-align: justify;">Last week we were supposed to edit some references that our teacher gave us.<br />We created an account on google.docs and we created a document which has to be shared with the peers of each group.<br />Google.docs is very useful!<br />Being able to share documents and comments with other people is very helpful because we can work all together at the same time and we can see each other's work without necessity of sending texts by email.<br /><br />We should use both APA and MLA styles in order to find mistakes in the references provided and try to correct them. Here is my part of job:<br /><span style="font-size:100%;"><p style="font-family: Arial;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Lanham, R.A. (1995) Digital literacy. Scientific American, 273 (3): 198?.</span></p><p style="font-family: Arial;" align="justify"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lanham, R.A. (1995) Digital literacy.</span> </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Scientific American</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, 273 (3)</span>, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 198-</span>200.</span></p></span> <span style="font-size:100%;">Lankshear, C. and Knobel, M. (2006) New literacies: Everyday practices and classroom learning. Maidenhead (IL): Open University Press. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-align: justify;">Lankshear, C.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> & </span>Knobel, M. (2006) New literacies: <i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Everyday practices and classroom learning</i>. Maidenhead (IL) <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">and New York (2nd edition)</span>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> Open University Press.</span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> <p style="font-family: Arial;" align="justify"><span style="font-size:100%;">Lee, L. (2006) A study of native and nonnative speakers' feedback and responses in spanish-american networked collaborative interaction. In: Belz, J. A. and</span></p></span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lee, L. (2006) A study of native and nonnative speakers' feedback and responses in </span>S<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">panish-</span>A<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">merican networked collaborative interaction.</span> In J.A. Belz & S. Thorne, </span><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">Internet- </i><br /><i style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> mediated intercultural foreign language education</i><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);"> (147-176). Boston. Thomsen & Heinle.</span><br /><br />The first sentence corresponds to the reference given us by our teacher, while the second sentence contains my corrections. I basically corrected the references editing the text in the italics format when the title of the article is long.<br />Names of the authors should be written with the capital letter, in alphabetic order, and if there are more than one name we should separate them with a &.<br />It is important to put the complete name of the title and the reference to the pages and volumes of the article or book which we are referring to.<br />There are also fixed rules for the punctuation which are different in APA and MLA style.<br />In my group we tried to use more APA style becuase it seemed the clearest one. APA style provides also rules regarding different ways of writing references for articles or books.<br /><br />Well, I can say that being able to write references in the right way is a very difficult purpose...but I think that with a little more study and strenght of spirit I will learn the most important things about this topic and I will write references in my final thesis in the right way!!!<br /></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-72502661678096176252009-05-04T19:54:00.003+02:002009-05-04T20:12:37.346+02:00LET'S ANALYSE!!<div style="text-align: justify;">Unfortunately I wasn't in class last Thursday...but I made the E-tivity6 and I analysed the article I chose.<br />I based my job on APA and MLA styles and I learnt (oh, well, I think I learnt :) many useful things.<br />Here I paste the job I did.<br /><br /> <!-- ======================================================= --> <!-- Created by AbiWord, a free, Open Source wordprocessor. --> <!-- For more information visit http://www.abisource.com. --> <!-- ======================================================= --> <style type="text/css"> <!-- #toc, .toc, .mw-warning { border: 1px solid #aaa; 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margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="it-IT">This text may be freely used providing the source is credited.</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="it-IT">This page is: </span> <!-- ======================================================= --> <!-- Created by AbiWord, a free, Open Source wordprocessor. --> <!-- For more information visit http://www.abisource.com. --> <!-- ======================================================= --> <style type="text/css"> <!-- #toc, .toc, .mw-warning { border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 5px; font-size: 95%; } #toc h2, .toc h2 { display: inline; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; } #toc #toctitle, .toc #toctitle, #toc .toctitle, .toc .toctitle { text-align: center; } #toc ul, .toc ul { list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; text-align: left; } #toc ul ul, .toc ul ul { margin: 0 0 0 2em; } #toc .toctoggle, .toc .toctoggle { font-size: 94%; }@media print, projection, embossed { body { padding-top:1in; padding-bottom:1in; padding-left:1in; padding-right:1in; } } body { font-family:'Times New Roman'; color:#000000; widows:2; font-style:normal; text-indent:0in; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; text-align:left; font-size:12pt; } table { } td { border-collapse:collapse; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; } --></style> <a href="%3Chttp://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659%3E"><span lang="it-IT"><http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659></span></a></p><div> </div> <a href="http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659"><span lang="it-IT"><http: org="" x="65659"></http:></span></a><p></p> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="it-IT">Published: 21 September 2004 , last edited: 26 June 2006</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="it-IT">Viewings since posted: 7598</span></p> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <!-- ======================================================= --> <!-- Created by AbiWord, a free, Open Source wordprocessor. --> <!-- For more information visit http://www.abisource.com. --> <!-- ======================================================= --> <style type="text/css"> <!-- #toc, .toc, .mw-warning { border: 1px solid #aaa; background-color: #f9f9f9; padding: 5px; font-size: 95%; } #toc h2, .toc h2 { display: inline; border: none; padding: 0; font-size: 100%; font-weight: bold; } #toc #toctitle, .toc #toctitle, #toc .toctitle, .toc .toctitle { text-align: center; } #toc ul, .toc ul { list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none; margin-left: 0; padding-left: 0; text-align: left; } #toc ul ul, .toc ul ul { margin: 0 0 0 2em; } #toc .toctoggle, .toc .toctoggle { font-size: 94%; }@media print, projection, embossed { body { padding-top:1in; padding-bottom:1in; padding-left:1in; padding-right:1in; } } body { font-family:'Times New Roman'; color:#000000; widows:2; font-style:normal; text-indent:0in; font-variant:normal; font-weight:normal; text-decoration:none; text-align:left; font-size:12pt; } table { } td { border-collapse:collapse; text-align:left; vertical-align:top; } p, h1, h2, h3, li { color:#000000; font-family:'Times New Roman'; font-size:12pt; text-align:left; vertical-align:normal; } --> </style> </div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" lang="it-IT">APA STYLE:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">paraphrase a part of the article + in-text citation</span><span lang="it-IT">:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">According to the Bretton Woods Project (2004), the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF, made a report describing the role of the International Monetary Fund in managing the Argentine debt crisis for the decade from 1991 to 2001. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">The IEO said that the crisis has done sizeable damage to the Fund's reputation: the IEO associated the damage with inappropriate policies, and created a perception that the IMF lacked in dealing with member countries, and put its role in signalling sound policy environments into question.<br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">summarize a part of the article + in-text citation</span><span lang="it-IT">:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">IEO argeued that (as cited in the Bretton Woods Project, 2004) IMF in the pre-crisis period severly lacked surveillance. The Fund provided economic suggestion wich appeared not right and provided economic solutions that the government of Argentina did not accept. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">The Fund did not control the policies which were activated in that period and chose "to endorse the exchange rate regime itself".</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">IEO also said the the majority of problems that caused the economic crisis was due to the refusal of the government to accept the rate regime variable and proposes a stronger control in the near future.<br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">choose a direct quotations from the article + in-text citation:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">In accordance with the Bretton Woods Project, IEO, on the Fund's handling of the Argentine crisis in 2001, argues that "repeated attempts to use the same strategy when it was evident that it had failed."<br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">write the bibliographic reference that comes at the end of a paper:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Smith, A.(2004). World Bank changes its tune on tax and regulation, vol 2 (6). Aprile, 23, </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"> 2008, from http://worldbanks.com</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Jordan, F. (1998) Finance ministers fail to deliver on G20 promises . </span><span style="font-style: italic;" lang="it-IT">Washington IMF </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;" lang="it-IT"> meeting</span><span lang="it-IT">, vol3 (7). May 15, from http://finance&economics.com</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Murdock, J. (2001) Zimbabwe assets face seizure after World Bank ruling , April, 12, 2001, </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"> from http://zimbawe.com</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Madison, S. & Freeman, M. (1995) IMF: </span><span style="font-style: italic;" lang="it-IT">As bad as ever</span><span lang="it-IT">. vol 2(9).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: underline;" lang="it-IT">MLA STYLE:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">paraphrase a part of the article + in-text citation</span><span lang="it-IT">:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">Bretton Woods Project (2004), "from IMF’s “role put into question”: Argentina crisis evaluation. http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659 23 April. 2004"</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">the Independent Evaluation Office (IEO) of the IMF, made a report describing the role of the International Monetary Fund in managing the Argentine debt crisis for the decade from 1991 to 2001. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">The IEO said that the crisis has done sizeable damage to the Fund's reputation: the IEO associated the damage with inappropriate policies, and created a perception that the IMF lacked in dealing with member countries, and put its role in signalling sound policy environments into question.<br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">summarize a part of the article + in-text citation</span><span lang="it-IT">:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">IEO argeued that (</span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">as cited in the Bretton Woods Project (2004), "from IMF’s “role put into question”: Argentina crisis evaluation. http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659 23 April. 2004"</span><span lang="it-IT">) IMF in the pre-crisis period severly lacked surveillance. The Fund provided economic suggestion which appeared not right and provided economic solutions that the government of Argentina did not accept. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">The Fund did not control the policies which were activated in that period and chose "to endorse the exchange rate regime itself".</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">IEO also said the the majority of problems that caused the economic crisis was due to the refusal of the government to accept the rate regime variable and proposes a stronger control in the near future.<br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">choose a direct quotations from the article + in-text citation:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">In accordance with the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">Bretton Woods Project (2004), "from IMF’s “role put into question”: Argentina crisis evaluation. http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659 23 April. 2004"</span><span lang="it-IT">, IEO, on the Fund's handling of the Argentine crisis in 2001, argues that "repeated attempts to use the same strategy when it was evident that it had failed."<br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"><br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;" lang="it-IT">write the bibliographic reference that comes at the end of a paper:</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Smith, A.(2004). "World Bank changes its tune on tax and regulation, vol 2 (6). " Aprile, 23, </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT"> http://worldbanks.com</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Jordan, F. (1998) "Finance ministers fail to deliver on G20 promises . Washington IMF</span><span style="font-style: italic;" lang="it-IT"> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic;" lang="it-IT"> </span><span lang="it-IT"> meeting, vol3 (7)." May 15, http://finance&economics.com</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p dir="ltr" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span lang="it-IT">Murdock, J. (2001) "Zimbabwe assets face seizure after World Bank ruling , April, 12, 2001," http://zimbawe.com</span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in;"><span lang="it-IT">Madison, S. & Freeman, M. (1995) "IMF: As bad as ever. vol 2(9)."</span></p> </div><br />I didn't find many differences between APA and MLA styles. The first thing I noticed is the fact that MLA style is more specific about the references we put in a text.<br />I learnt also the importance of the two styles. It is very important to know the different ways for writing references and it is also important to know that there are many information within a text. As I said, one of the easiest ways to avoid plagiarism is to know how to do it and now I can say that Apa and MLA style are very useful!fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-19791346713057327962009-04-26T19:30:00.004+02:002009-04-26T20:13:34.803+02:00Analysing the text<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">When I write a blog post I always try to organize my thoughts and then express them in the best way possible. I often use tools such as Wikipedia and the dictionary on wordreference.com which give a big support to an Italian speaker who is writing in English.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">But when I read an article on the web I try to understand the whole meaning at a first reading and then elaborate on the content. In order to get more information about the author, the context etc, it is very useful to use some online tools; the ones I prefer are: a monolongual dictionary and a bilingual dictionary, wikipedia, google and delicious which help me to understand everything I read and maybe analyze the social or historical contexts within the article.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">For the last e-tivity I fiund an interesting article about the Argentina crisis. The purpose of the e-tivity was to analyze that article,</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">Who was the researcher?</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The researcher of my article is not a single person I guess, but the text has been made by the "Bretton Woods Project" which was "created as an independent initiative by a group of British non-governmental organisations (NGOs), it works with an extensive network to press for increased transparency and civil society participation in World Bank and IMF policies and interventions". </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:78%;" >http://brettonwoodsproject.org/project/about.shtml</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">- </span><span style="font-weight: bold;">About the research</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The article is a report realized with the aim of focusing on some problems appeared during the Argentina crisis. The researcher does not provide personal comments but makes an analitical description of the facts.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The article was written on september 2004 and data includes refer to the years from 1991 to 2004. The researcher collected all the information with regards to the mistakes of the International Monetary Fund.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">The research was made using many fonts, but there are not specific reference to the exact fonts used to write the article. The conclusion refers to a long term period because the article ends with suppositions about the future and the next steps of the IMF and the International Organizations.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">I did not answer to all the questions given in the handout 1 because that task was very difficult for me. I didn't find the information required inside the article I found. For example I was not able to answer to "what were the findings" and "what reservations or limitations on the research did the writer mention".</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Some more data about the analysis of the article refer to the reason why I decided to use that particular article.</span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">When we read articles or texts whether in the web and in newspapers we should always read the whole text and analyse the way in which the information are given. I decided to use the article I found because it is written in a very good way and refers to the topic I wish to talk about in my final thesis. The article was very interesting because it underlines a different aspect of the Argentina crisis, that is mistakes and problems of the IMF. The credentials of the author are perfectly acceptable because the article was written by a project competent about that specific topic.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">In the last posts I tried to make a complete analysis of an on-line text providing also examples. I hope this would be useful also for my future work on my final thesis.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">My next step will be analyzing the content of the article, considering the words used and the different ways of expressing things in order to persuade the reader.</span><br /></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-65353832328181037802009-04-22T18:56:00.007+02:002009-04-22T19:25:37.306+02:00MLA and APA formats....what a topic!!<p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>I look at the sites in which APA format and MLA format are presented and I am pretty shocked! They are the most common format used for writing an essay and in particular they give information about the way in which should add quotation to the text.<br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>There are a lot of examples that are very difficult to summarize in a single blog post!!<br /></span></span></p><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span>APA format </span>"Your essay should include <strong>four</strong> major sections: the <strong>Title Page</strong>, <strong>Abstract</strong>, <strong>Main Body</strong>, and <strong>References</strong>.</span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><strong>Title Page</strong></span></p><div style="font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Your title page should already include the <strong>page header</strong> (described above). On the first line of the title page flush-left, add a <strong>running head</strong>. Begin the running head with the words “Running Head” followed by a colon. Then give an abbreviated title of your paper in 50 characters or less in all caps. Note: Remember that the <strong>page header</strong> will appear on every page of your paper, whereas the <strong>running head</strong> will only appear on your title page.</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >In the upper half of the title page, type your full <strong>title</strong>, your <strong>byline</strong> (name[s]), and <strong>affiliation </strong>(university, etc.) centered on separate lines"</span><br /><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">by <strong>David Neyhart and Erin Karper. Additional material by Kristen Seas & Tony Russell.</strong>.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">Last full revision by <strong>Jodi Wagner, Kristen Seas, Tony Russell, and Elizabeth Angeli.</strong>.</span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:100%;" ><span style="">Last edited by Allen Brizee on February 17th 2009 at 12:09PM <a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/">http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/</a></span></span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>MLA style "requires that you provide, in the text, brief parenthetical references identifying the exact part of each work you quote or base your ideas on (page number or section). Examples of MLA parenthetical references are on pages 5-6 of this guide.</span></span><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>At the end of your paper, you must also provide an alphabetical list of "Works Cited" listing the complete citation for each work referred to parenthetically or in the text of your paper. in your parenthetical references"<br /></span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span><span style="font-size:100%;">by University of California Berkeley Library <a href="http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/mlastyle.pdf">http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/instruct/guides/mlastyle.pdf</a></span></span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span><br /><br />I think that MLA style is the most complete one because it provides several information about the author (how to write his/her name and references), the editor, the traslation (if made by someone) and the format in general. The APA format gives information strickly relating to the format generally used in the writing of on an essay.<br />I tend to use the APA format because it is the easiest one and I must admit that I never considered the MLA format and this is the reason why I quoted the whole explanation. I don't feel like I can provide examples by myself about his specific topic.<br />I appreciated the huge amount of examples given in these sites but I think this would be the most diffucult post I am supposed to do! I always use the simplest way of making quotation which is putting the sentence between double inverted commas. I always remember to write proper names with the capital letter and after the quotation I put the name of the author and the reference to where I got that quotation.<br /><br />I hope that these examples will help me in the developing of my thesis...in the next future!<br /><br /></span></span></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-37831529958660107002009-04-22T17:42:00.004+02:002009-04-22T18:41:30.612+02:00EVALUATING MY POST AND AN ARTICLE<div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman; font-weight: bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" >We all agree that every text we made should be well structured, cohesive and coherent. The best way to write a text is to divide it up into three main parts: the introduction, in which we present the topic we will develop, the main body, in which we develop the topic providing examples, personal ideas and references and the conclusion, in which we give additional information about the topic and reinforce our point of view.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >In an academic paper it is necessary to develop the topic following the previous division. The language should be clear (even though Italians think that it would be better to use a qualified and refined language that, however, can also appear obscure to the reader) and the topic should be developed in a coherent and cohesive way, in order to avoid misunderstandings and repetitions.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >I analysed my blog posts and I tried to understand whether I followed the previous instructions or not. In general I can say that I use to write every kind of text beginning with the presentation of the topic which will be better developed with information that I find on the web or in my personal notes and then I give my personal opinion in relation to the topic and provide a nice conclusion in which I try to give additional information and reinforce my personal ideas. I noticed that I always try to end my texts with a 'nice sentence' which could conclude my text in the best way and also give the reader the possibility to express his personal ideas and reflect on what I wrote. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >Since blog post should not be too long so that they do not seem boring, introduction and conclusion are often very short. I simply say what we discussed in class and then I try to develop a good main body in which I explain most of all my personal attitude towards the topic. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >I cannot make a definite comparison between my personal blog posts and an academic paper because they follow two different aims. My blog posts are addressed to young people like me while academic papers are addressed to people involved in the topic, often to professors. For this reason academic papers are structured in a way in which they can take for granted the fact that readers know perfectly well the topic. My personal blog post are written focusing on the fact that readers may not be members of my University and the language is mostly informal. I always keep in mind that if one of my friends reads my blog he should understand everything and I have the job of guiding him through the topic. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >I am not still sure ablout the topic I will choose for my thesis but I think I will consider the actual Economic Crisis relating it with the Argentinian Crisis (...and this is not a kind of plagiarism from Mario!! I had this idea months before I went to Argentina so I am safe from stealing ideas!!! ). I found and interesting article using Delicious</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >(<a href="http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659">http://brettonwoodsproject.org/art.shtml?x=65659</a>) which is titled: I<span>MF's "role put into question": Argentina crisis evaluation.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" >It is well structured and already divided up in six paragraphs. It follows the hourglass structure, that is the simplest division in introduction, main body and conclusion. There is a brief introduction exaplaining the role that the International monetary Fund had in regards with the Argentina crisis. The article is developed following the chronological order and it has the form of a report which focuses on the different steps made by the IMP. It is coherent and cohesive because it provides examples from meetings and declarations made during the time by executive directors of the IMF. It begins with the description of the reasons why the IMF "</span><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>14</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 2.0cm 2.0cm 2.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabella normale"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">erred by not pushing strongly enough for needed reforms" and adds other information relating to the first part. In the main body it is expressed the historical and economical situation and the efforts made by the Fund and the whole World in order to help Argentina. The conclusion supports the idea of the Argentinian old president and makes also considerations about the future. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">The writing is not very clear because it includes many specific words. I think that this text is addressed to economists or people interested in this particular topic, which is the role owned by the IMF, and to people that know perfectly well the whole situation and have the right basis in order to understand every shade hided in this article. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">However, in some way this article has also information perfectely understandable by everyone. I can understand this particular from the fact that abbreviations (such as IMF or IEO) are explained and also the role of the persons involved are well described. In conclusion, I think that the audience should have minimum basis to understang the article and economists can even understand further information relating them to their own knowledge. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">I think that a blog post may follow the structure of this article because it is n't too difficult and quite 'easy' to read. The division in six paragraphs allows you to focus on the different arguments treated.</span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><span style="">Since I found this article on the web I think that it could be a nice example of a blog post or comment made by an economist who knows who he is referring to. </span></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-88173104960550930272009-04-22T15:55:00.007+02:002009-04-22T16:57:31.808+02:00EXCUSES TO THE WORLD<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >Hello everybody! Now we are going to talk about IPR and Plagiarism!</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" >I must admit that I don't know very much about it and the first thing I will do is to go on delicious and find some information! I cannot hide that I will search on wikipedia too...;)</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>Let's start!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span>Intellectual Property (IP)</span> are legal <span>property rights</span> over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial. Owners are granted some exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets such as musical, literary and artistic works. Even ideas, discoveries, inventions and tecnologies are covered by intellectual Property Rights. </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">The majority of </span><span style="font-style: italic;">intellectual property rights</span><span style=""> provide creators of original works economic incentive. Modern usage of the term</span><span style="font-style: italic;"> intellectual property</span><span style=""> began with the 1967 estabilishment of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) but the concept itself made its appearance after the French revolution around 1818. Although the term is in wide use there are some critics who reject it.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">I completely agree with the existence of property rights because if a person makes a great effort to invent or discover something it would be completely wrong if someone else would take the same idea and pretend to be the owner! If a person is a very good musician or a nice scientist because he has the right abilities to carry on that kind of job we should recognize unanimously that specific person has something more than anyone else and should be appreciated for his skill.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">This first introduction leads us to the concet of </span><span style="font-style: italic;">plagiarism</span><span style="">. It is an act of fraud and involves both stealing someone else's work and then lying about it. Is a form of plagiarism to use another's production without asking permission or without crediting the source or to present as new and original an idea or product derived from an existing source.</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">I think that avoiding plagiarism is one of the most difficult things in our life. Every time that we hear someone speaking or we read something we try to keep in mind the exact words we heard or read and if we repeat them in a public discourse without adding the author we would fall into plagiarism. Even now I am realizing that I read information about plagiarism on blogs posted on delicious, on wikipedia, on the blogs of Mario and other peers of mine and I have already used words they had used before! However I am not completely sure whether this is plagiarism or not because I didn't copied their words but I rielaborated the same ideas (...and it could be possible that I used the same words too...)</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">On plagiarism.org I found interesting information: "according to U.S. law the expression of original ideas is considered intellectual property, and is protected by copyright laws, just like original inventions. Almost all forms of expression fall under copyright protection as long as they are recorded in some way (such as book or a computer file). All of the following are considered plagiarism:</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">- turning in someone else's work as your own</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">- copying words or ideas from someone else without giving credit</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">- failing to put a quotation in quotation marks</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">- giving incorrect information about the source of a quotation</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">- chiangin words but copying the sentence stucture of a source without giving credit</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">[...] "</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">Wow..it is pretty scaring...we are barely allowed to remember what we read!!! We should always quote what we write!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">But where is the limit between the legal and the illegal? If I copy five words out of a sentence made of fiveteen words could it be considered plagiarism? And even if I quote all the sentences that I took from someone else's text should I ask permission before doing my work?</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">The unique and genuine way to avoid plagiarism is to make quotations and provide information about the author which is also a good way to inform the audience on where you took the information from. </span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">Personally I tend to use a lot the information that I find around myself! I do not simply copy what I see or hear or read and I always try to rielaborate the concepts! If I have to write something such as this post I begin searching on the web for some information, I read them, and when I have a clear idea about the topic I start to write my post. If I do not remember the exact words that I need to express something I return on the web site and copy the exact words...and often I forget to quote them...I'm sorry....but if I really copy just two or three words could it be considered plagiarism??</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">I will enquire about it!</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="">Now I feel I learnt a lot about IPR and plagiarism but I still have to focus on the Italian laws about it because the respect is one of the most important things in the World and we always have to respect everybody, even when they create something! I cannot simply take examples from other people's works without giving importance to it...The best way for respecting the others is to know how to do it!</span></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span><span style=";font-family:times new roman;font-size:85%;" >I rielaborated some material from: <a href="http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/what_is_citation.html">http://www.plagiarism.org/learning_center/what_is_citation.html</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property</a></span><br /></div><br /></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-26811877720940767742009-04-15T18:26:00.007+02:002009-04-22T15:36:33.089+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8gqhQvQ38st4QctukcRJLkzOje4yiYhtN-w0P4yGw56s5LgEkO6kSsUXA-JmSsk9qq49HlHHN8kap_1XKIoR0LZZ5SV5J6HOaIA23dDDd6caoXa4uTIx7_E9yPhMmPptTvdRVllY7dhto/s1600-h/images.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 97px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8gqhQvQ38st4QctukcRJLkzOje4yiYhtN-w0P4yGw56s5LgEkO6kSsUXA-JmSsk9qq49HlHHN8kap_1XKIoR0LZZ5SV5J6HOaIA23dDDd6caoXa4uTIx7_E9yPhMmPptTvdRVllY7dhto/s400/images.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327509154491635170" border="0" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Hello everybody!<br />I'm very happy to tell you that I finally solved the problem in my blog!<br />I don't know what happened...one day I was modifying one of my posts (using Ubuntu) and when I saved it everything changed!!! I could not change colours or format any more! And stating that my blog had a black background and the writings turned into black it was impossible to read .....damn!!<br />Actually I still do not know how to solve that problem, or what caused it...I just created another blog and erased the old one....<br />If anyone of you out there knows what could have created my problem can explain it to me, please??!<br /><br />See you soon!!</span>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-22004972085478769562009-04-15T18:23:00.010+02:002009-04-22T15:34:44.369+02:00WITHIN THE INFORMATION<div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Hello everybody!<br />...I wasn't in class last week....But I took a peek in the blogs of my school mates! They discussed the importance of criteria that we use while searching information on the web. In general the most important things that we should examine are: the <span style="font-weight: bold;">author</span>, the <span style="font-weight: bold;">website</span> and the <span style="font-weight: bold;">contents</span>.<br />As a first thing we should discover who is the author, whether he is known in the community or not, if he can be considered as an authoritative person, other information. </span></span></p><div> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">The author is the fundamental part of the information which is given: if he is an engineer or a lawyer, for example, he may use specific terms and we would be prepared with a good dictionary! </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">Speaking about the website we should always look at the domain and the date of publication. We often think that all the things published on the Internet are fresh and new, but they're not! We must be careful! The web could also contain old websites, with old information (obviously I am referring to political or economic information). Another important thing that has to be considered is the fact that in the Internet there is a kind of copyright. There are no specific rules about it but it is to say that some images and documents cannot be copied but just seen or </span><span lang="en-AU" style="font-size:130%;">analysed</span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">. </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">As far as the content is concerned we should ask ourselves: is the content reliable? Are there any external references or useful links?<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">What is the layout like? It is important to see if in the website there are pictures or emoticons or videos because we may discover more things about the author (for example his/her age).<br /></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">From my personal point of view when I search for information of the Internet I focus first on the information...and after a long while...I also try to understand who is the author, when he wrote that piece of information and so on... I'm not a good web explorer!!!</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">I know it's not a good thing to say but I would like to make a brief consideration, even if it would seem "silly"...</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">I never tried to ask myself "mmmh, let's see why the author wrote this text, when and where did he published it, is there any copyright..." Basically I think that the Internet is the fastest way in order to find information and it is also the easiest! If I am searching for information on the web I search the information and anything else....!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">What I always forget is the fact that there is no difference between an on-line research and a research made inside a library, the only thing that changes is the 'channel' we use. In an on-line research I find the text, copy it somewhere and then copy the URL of the web site.</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">In a research made in a library I am forced to pay attention to every single information. If I imagine to be in a library and make a research the first thing I do is to search few books which satisfy my criteria. Once I have found a nice number of books I start to read their index and catalogue the information that could be useful for my work. For every book I write in a sheet of paper: the title, the author, the date of publication, the pages that interest me and even other additional information. I would make this work for every book I use! Paradoxally it seems to me an obvious procedure for a textual research but a useless procedure for an on-line research!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">I always should keep in mind that an on-line research is perfectly like a textual research and all the information within the text are important just like the text itself!</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span></div><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"></span><div style="text-align: justify;font-family:times new roman;"><p style="font-family:times new roman;"><span lang="en-GB" style="font-size:130%;">Our teacher gave us interesting comments made by university students about the search for information on web-sites:</span></p> <span style="font-size:130%;">- <a href="http://www.essex.ac.uk/myskills/skills/research/criticalUseInternet.asp#09">Tips from the University of Essex</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- <a href="http://owl.english.purdue.edu/workshops/hypertext/EvalSrcW/index.html">Tips from Purdue's Online Writing Lab (OWL)</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- <a href="http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/evaluate/evaluate.shtml#questions">Tips from San Diego State University</a></span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">I absolutely agree with these comments. The web contains thousands of information and we sould be very careful in finding what really interests us. The process of searching information on the web is considered an art because everybody recognizes the difficulty of finding information among the huge quantity of texts in the web. </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">A nice help is given by the San Diego State University whose web site contains a list of things to do when we search in the web: </span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- first of all we should look at the author, the title, the publisher and the date of publication</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- then we focus on the content</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">Once we have read the text we should focus on the other information:</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- who is the author (individual/organization) and the publisher?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- what can be said about the content, the context, the style and the accuracy?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- when was the information published?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- where else can the information provided by the source be found?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /></span> <span style="font-size:130%;">- why was the information povided by the source published?</span><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >This is an example of analysis which contains all the normal passages that we do in a textual research in a library for example. </span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /><br /></span> <span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" >There are also useful tools that we may learn because they will help us for the preparation of our final thesis:</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Blogs</span>: it is similar to Technorati. Google will search for you tags inside the blogs on the Internet. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Books</span>: you cannot copy or print the material published but you can read some extracts from a number of on-line books! <span style="font-weight: bold;">Google Scholar</span>: Google will search documents and academic texts which could satisfy your criteria.</span><span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br /></span> <span style="font-family: times new roman;font-size:130%;" ><br />I really didn't know these tools and I'm having fun in searching information because I really understand that as the web is so full of information we should use the right method in order to find what we really want!<br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify; font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><br /><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://infodome.sdsu.edu/research/evaluate/evaluate.shtml#questions"><span lang="EN-GB"><st1:place st="on"><st1:placetype st="on"><br /></st1:placetype></st1:place></span></a></p></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-17214359547394542312009-04-15T18:14:00.003+02:002009-04-22T11:58:34.626+02:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-iYKoqLsN0mUZs4S68_przIaT5E5hNHwD2jul0k0Iqa67FwR65MqsEHITMyUhzysKlPxQh_0PMIGTSgzDPjnODPsVuINjs0VVM0ebN0OVqnmc8lc9EpB6u96to2ZNXgu0pSvw-xE9MHG/s1600-h/delicious.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhW-iYKoqLsN0mUZs4S68_przIaT5E5hNHwD2jul0k0Iqa67FwR65MqsEHITMyUhzysKlPxQh_0PMIGTSgzDPjnODPsVuINjs0VVM0ebN0OVqnmc8lc9EpB6u96to2ZNXgu0pSvw-xE9MHG/s400/delicious.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324954381603054658" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Where do you start for an on-line research? Wikipedia? Google? ...and...supposing that you are not working on your personal computer, where do you save your research results?? Do you paste them on a Word document and send them to your e-mail address?? Well...the internet created the right solution for you!! And if you were in the dark about it like me...read this post!!</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">There is a wonderful 'site' called www.delicious.com that works like Google...but it is smaller than Google and when you search for something it shows you only blogs related to your research options! Google is bigger and gives you also results not stricktly related with your interests...</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">You must register on delicious in order to have your own space in the site. When you find something interesting you can clock on the button 'save' beside the title. All your research will be saved in your personal sections on Delicious: bookmaarks, tags etc.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">If you are making a research which involves more than one person you can crete a network including all the people of your group: your saving will be shared with all the members of your group!</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">That's what we did! "three is a magic number" created a network on Delicious!</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I looked at my perrs blogs and tags and I think we did a great job! Serena and me posted blogs about English (pronunciation, job application letters, on-line learning) while Mario posted also blogs abouut low cost vacation, manga, music etc...good job Mario!! Fortunately we got you always getting us up!!!</span></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-9051822429956783472009-04-15T17:34:00.002+02:002009-04-22T11:58:47.729+02:00AGGREGATORS and FEEDS<p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">Last week we worked very hard!! We tried to understand what is an ‘aggregator’ or ‘feed aggregator’ and what kind of feeds we can add to our personal blogs…let’s start! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">“In general internet terms, a <b>news aggregation website</b> is a website where headlines are collected, usually manually, by the website owner. Examples of this sort of website are the Drudge Report and the Huffington Post.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">In order to add an aggregator to our personal blogs we went on Bloglines. It is a free aggregator, that is a web site in which we can add feeds (we will discovers what feeds are in the next paragraph!!).<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">I registered my username and password on Bloglines. In the left part of the site you can see different sections: feeds, blog, clipping and playlist. In the part of the feeds I add the Urls of some blogs of English and American newspapers; in other words I <b style="">subscribed</b> to those blogs.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">In each personal blog there is the possibility of adding a gadget: if you write in the search window of the gadget ‘bloglines’ it should appear the Bloglines’ function for blogs. By adding that function, in the main page of the Blog should appear a little window: <span style=""> </span>you will be notified about new posts or comments that are made daily in the blogs to which you subscribed. <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">In my blog you can see the window ‘Bloglines notifier’. –first step-<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">“In computing, a <b>feed aggregator</b>, also known as a <b>feed reader</b>, <b>news reader</b> or simply <b>aggregator</b>, is client software or a Web application which aggregates syndicated web content such as news headlines, blogs, podcasts, and vlogs in a single location for easy viewing.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">A <b>web feed</b> (or <b>news feed</b>) is a data format used for providing users with frequently updated content. Content distributors <i>syndicate</i> a web feed, thereby allowing users to <i>subscribe</i> to it. Making a collection of web feeds accessible in one spot is known as <i>aggregation</i>, which is performed by an Internet aggregator. A web feed is also sometimes referred to as a <i>syndicated feed</i>.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">I have the feeds of: BBC News, CNN, National Geographic and of course I subscribed to the blogs of my peers! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">On Bloglines we also created a Playlist. Our playlist is called “three is a magic number”!! That’s obviously because I am in a class-group formed by three people!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">I must admit that I had many problems trying to create the things I’ve just described! At first I didn’t realize what was the aim of Bloglines as an aggregator! After few days I realized that it is an useful thing! Every day the Blog notifier tells me “you have 315 unread items”…ehm..yes…the BBC news and the CNN are always full of comments and news!!!<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">As a conclusion (…I know it’s not a good thing to say!) I can declare to be quite proud of myself!! <o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">….I hope these information could be useful for my peers and for all those people who are still trying to understand what they are supposed to do with an aggregator!!!</span></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-14400965411091928512009-04-15T17:33:00.004+02:002009-04-22T11:59:00.976+02:00EXPLORING THE BLOGOSPHERE<o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="PlaceName"></o:smarttagtype><o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" name="place"></o:smarttagtype><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:worddocument> <w:view>Normal</w:View> <w:zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:hyphenationzone>14</w:HyphenationZone> <w:punctuationkerning/> <w:validateagainstschemas/> <w:saveifxmlinvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:ignoremixedcontent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:alwaysshowplaceholdertext>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:compatibility> <w:breakwrappedtables/> <w:snaptogridincell/> <w:wraptextwithpunct/> <w:useasianbreakrules/> <w:dontgrowautofit/> </w:Compatibility> <w:browserlevel>MicrosoftInternetExplorer4</w:BrowserLevel> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:latentstyles deflockedstate="false" latentstylecount="156"> </w:LatentStyles> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if !mso]><object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id="ieooui"></object> <style> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } </style> <![endif]--><div style="text-align: justify;" class="post-body entry-content"><style> <!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";} a:link, span.MsoHyperlink {color:blue; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:purple; text-decoration:underline; text-underline:single;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 2.0cm 2.0cm 2.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> </style><!--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabella normale"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} </style> <![endif]--> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">According to Wikipedia the blogoshpere is "...the collective term encompassing all weblogs or blogs as a community or social network. Many weblogs are densely interconnected; bloggers read others' blogs, link to them, reference them in their own writing, and post comments on each others' blogs. Because of this, the interconnected blogs have grown their own culture."<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">A <b>blog</b> (a contraction of the term <b><i>weblog</i></b>) is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning <i>to maintain or add content to a blog</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">(Supposing that bloggers “read other’s blogs, link to them…” I hope I will find links and comments from all of you smart people that are reading my blog!!!)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">I had never used a blog until March 2009. I was also pretty scared about personal blogs! I think that people should use their blogs in a very responsible and sensible way…because blogs and technologies resources as Facebook are used by authorities and statistics agencies in order to obtain information about the society, in particular about young people! All the information that we may insert in a weblog say something about ourselves, our hobbies, our personal activities, experiences etc…<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">I am very happy to have the possibility of making this blog and demonstrate to people (as for example our Minister Gelmini!) that <st1:placename st="on">Italian</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype> is able to realise also amazing things like the <st1:place st="on"><st1:placename st="on">Padua</st1:placename> <st1:placetype st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place> blogosphere! We can share information and experience with the whole World! (And let’s hope we will be able to demonstrate that we reached a very nice level in the English language too!!)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">As far as I know I have some friends who have fun reading our personal blogs because they are learning many things with and ‘through’ us!!<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">The first goal of our English course had been to search for a blog which interested us by going on Technorati. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">“<b>Technorati</b> is an Internet search engine for searching blogs, competing with Google and Yahoo. As of June 2008, Technorati indexes 112.8 million blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. The name Technorati is a portmanteau, pointing to the technological version of literati, or intellectuals.”<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">After my interesting and never-ending research I came up with this blog: <b><a href="http://new-art.blogspot.com/">http://new-art.blogspot.com/</a>. </b><span style="">It is very nice as it is about new-art. I am very interested in photography and I love taking photographs…in that blog-site there are many ‘experiments’ with photographs, paintings and also videos…take a look at it!<b> </b>Or you can go on Technorati and lose yourself in the infinite sphere of the blogosphere!! It will be an amazing trip!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style=";font-size:130%;" lang="EN-GB">As far as my personal blog is concerned, I will try to insert new information every week (I’m praying to find the time for doing it…!!!); this will be a very nice source of notes and attractive stuff…or at least I whish it would be!!!</span></p></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-32045414045751338532009-04-15T17:33:00.001+02:002009-04-15T17:33:31.111+02:00link for a good CV!<h2 class="date-header">Tuesday, 24 March 2009</h2> <a name="1929089469761108859"></a> Hello everybody!!<br />I was lurking on the Internet, and I found this very interesting web site whose aim it to explain how to realize a Good CV. It contains the main information that we need in order to make our analysis!!!!<br /><br />http://www.kent.ac.uk/careers/cv.htmfedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-12636737860665105542009-04-15T17:32:00.001+02:002009-04-22T11:59:21.334+02:00My first notes...<h3 class="post-title entry-title"> <a href="http://seekingfederica2.blogspot.com/2009/03/my-first-notes.html"><br /></a> </h3> <span style="font-size:130%;">Here are abbreviations and other notions I learnt during the last week.<br /><br /><br />AFAIK as far as I know<br />ASAP as soon as possible<br />CUL8R see you later<br />LOL laughing out loud<br />LURK when you watch something but you are not interested<br /><br />LITERACIES writing and reading are literacies<br />ONLINE LITERACY ability to find what you need in the web<br /><br />TAGSONOMY action of classifying into categories (ex: scientists classify felines)</span>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9039247546460214255.post-29645017721381365612009-04-15T17:31:00.002+02:002009-04-22T11:59:33.545+02:00<h2 class="date-header">Sunday, 15 March 2009</h2> <div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="674726262766722894"></a> <span style="font-size:130%;">I think I’m learning and improving my ability in using the web through this blog! I learnt new html commands which could be very useful! For example: (b)…(/b) is used to write in bold. (blink)…(/blink) (instead of () you have to put <>) is used to write a title or anything else which blinks! (you can find all the command (or tags) simply searching on Google…)</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">I’m having a lot of fun with this blog! I will write about myself: my interests and my hobbies. But I also will load links that can be useful for a learner as I am!</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The main aim of my blog is creating an online notebook about my English course at the University of Padua.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">Each week I will put in the blog my mistakes and all the new things I will learn.</span><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">As I think I need to enlarge my English vocabulary, I will try to create in the blog (as soon as I will be able to do it!!! :) a section which shall contain a little vocabulary of the words I will learn week by week!</span></div>fedybhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04990593724456650146noreply@blogger.com0