30 March 2007 - Brisbane - Mike Smith
Welcome to the first session in the second series on Web 2.0 for ESL students at the Australian College of English. These session encourage you to explore the newer parts of the Internet, practising your English language skills while having fun, learning new things, and perhaps even meeting new friends.
[Whenever you click on a link in this blog, use a 'right click - open in new window' command so you don't lose this main lesson window. If you have any problems, ask your teacher to help. ]
Introduction
The first thing we'll do is read an introduction. Please download the document by clicking here
http://www.esnips.com/doc/8e9911f0-800f-4a59-ad72-675b002ec348/ACE-Web-2-Intro-to-Series-2
or here
http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ddhsxgkg_2d4zzvq
You can save this file if you wish. Your teacher will give you a printed copy.
Social Networks
One exciting and fast-growing aspect of Web 2.0 is 'social communities' or 'folksonomies'. Two of the most well-known are MySpace and YouTube but there are many, many others. In Web 2.0 Series 1 we looked at MySpace more closely.
Some of these social communities are very general - for anyone to join. Others are more specific. Look at the list on Wikipedia here (remember to 'right click - open in new window').
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_websites
You can see a long list, but even this list is not complete with more online communities starting all the time.
Task - 60 minutes
[You must do some writing for this task. Do this by adding comments to this blog. Ask your teacher to help you.]
What hobbies and interests do you have?
Write them down.
What about your partner?
Talk with your partner about your hobbies and interests. Write their interests down.
Find a social community which may be interesting for you. Show your partner what you have found.
Write a short essay (50-80 words) as a comment to this blog:
- introduce yourself
- describe your hobbies and interests
- describe the online community you have found for your hobby or interest
- give the URL (web address)
- say if you would recommend it and why
An example is given below by Jurgen.
11 comments:
Hi! My name is Jurgen and I'm from Finland.
I'm interested in business and I wish to expand my list of contacts. I want to move to the USA so I need to find contacts there before I leave my country.
I have found a good website for business contacts. It is called Ryze. The web address URL is http://www.ryze.com/index.php
This site has some good recomendations from other people. And it's free, which is good.
I haven't decided to join it yet because I am still looking at other possibilities.
Hello I'm Paola and I'm from Colombia.
I'm interested in travel and tennis as well. I found this class interesting and exciting! the reason why is there are many possibilites to find different types of subjects in Internet.
I'd like to learn and to use a lot of in this time!
Thanks
Hi everyone!I am Dennis,I am glad to say something about myself! I am 16,from china.And like playing busketball,I've been here for 3 weeks,and takeing most of time on sutdying,so I realy want to paly busketball with somedody,if you want,that'ok! Writting e-mail to me right now!
my e-mail:ty5085071@163.com
COME ON!
I AM WAITTING FOR YOU!!
Hi, my name is Thomas and i'm from Switzerland. My hobbies are mountain-biking and snowboarding. I live for 5 weeks in Brisbane to learn English.
Hi! My name is Luca and I'm from Switzerland.
My passion is cars and I'd like to share pictures and opinions about our own cars and "dream" cars.
I have found a very good web site that it can be a wide source of informations and passions.
The web address URL is http://www.cardomain.com/
Bye!
Hello, my name is Sabrina, i am from Brazil and i am interested in travell around of the wourld.
I would like to know about each country, culture, turistics points and more information also about price and accomodantion.
I will wait your answer.
Thanks very much, have a good week!
Sabrina
Hi! my name is Angel and I am from Taiwan.
Shopping is one of my most interesting things.I am shopping lots in my hometown.
Today I found a very interesting website about shopping.All I have to do is turn on my TV and I can shop.It is quite exciting to me.The web address is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNS
i think I will recomed this web site to my friends.
hi! My name is Sonia and I`m from Colombia.
I don`t know how to spend my Easter days with my friends. Do you have a great idea?.
If you know some recommendations about an interesting place to visit on the next weekend, please tell me, I`ll please you.
thank you!
Hi,My name is Santiago and I'm from Colombia. At the moment I'm really interested in learning english, and I think, Australia is the best place to do it,and I have been here for 3 months, and I'll be here for 3 months more. One of my hobbies is riding bicycle I do it in roads near of "Bogota" my city, I haven't found a special site which you can look about it, but I can recommend you, site where you could find something similar, it's :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/care2
People should read this.
You do not have to commit hours at the health club or exert
so significantly work and energy in carrying out perform out just to be able
to tone your muscle tissues.
my web site :: http://kannapolis.ning.com/profile/CharisNealy
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