Report on social bookmarking and delicious

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Social bookmarking  is the service to store and share the websites which are very important for the users.  In a social bookmarking system the users  first discover the important website and then save the links to web pages. It is useful web service  for storing the sites which they wants to remember and share.  The users can also tag each of their bookmarks. It is a powerful tool in promoting websites. Libraries have found social bookmarking to be useful as an easy way to provide lists of informative links to patrons. Social bookmarking sites are public and can be saved privately and can also shared with specified people of group.  The users can share their knowledge with this system.

Delicious

Delicious is the site where people can bookmark and store  their important sites. This site was founded by Joshua Schachter in 2003. Delicious is the world’s largest social bookmarking site. In a daily life people  come across many sites which are very useful in future. So  with the use of delicious the users can save and share the pages that they wants to remember. To use the delicious,  the user needs an account on this site and then they can share, save, edit and tag the important sites. There are various options on this site like hotlist, popular and recent on home page which help the user. Users can also keep their bookmarks  private and also can share it.

How it is useful in education

Delicious is one of the site which has become popular in the field of education for learning. This site offers the educators  knowledge sharing solutions and a social platform for interactions and discussions.

-Sharing

There are many popular and useful educational sites are available on a internet. Delicious help the learners to save and share the important sites which are very useful to them in their future use. The learners can share the site with another group of learners which can be helpful to them.

-Interaction and discussion

These tools enable users to collaboratively underline, highlight, and annotate an electronic text, in addition to providing a mechanism to write additional comments on the margins of the electronic document. Social bookmarking system used for supporting teaching and learning.

summary on wiki article

The November 3 2003 article “what is wiki” written by Nathan Matias shows the details of wikis and how it emerged. Wiki, also Known as Hypertext and Relational database, was first designed by Ward Cunningham and Bo Leuf in 1995. It is a website where any one can contribute. Wiki is useful in collaborative learning. It is a website which does not need any installation. Each page on wiki has an ‘edit’, ‘save’, and ‘link’ option with which any one can edit and link important things. Besides this, it can save the plenty of old copies of our pages. We can also store all our websites content in an internal hypertext database. The process of creating new page on wikis is a simple. In wikis, we can organize pages according to our needs. We can also create communities on wikis. It is the purest form of hypertext available on the web. It is also simple to use wikis in a classroom. Wikis keep track of our all stuff. Wikis also simplify the site organization. 

In this article, Nathan also talks about Notebook. Notebook is equally important tool for sharing and preserving ideas. Notebook can be used to keep track of idea, research, and To Do list. Notebook works much like a web browser with a few nice features.

At the end, according to me, Wiki is very important software and it allows everyone to edit and share the information. It allows users to link pages and document. 

A report on 'Wiki in Plain English'

This video is presented by Leele fever Commoncraft. The video'Wiki in Plain English' provides information about the use  of  wiki in our daily life.There are 4 friends in the video. They are planning for a  trip. In the video it  shows that mail is very outdated way for communication and coordination. They can coordinate trip better with the help of latest site wiki. In the mail, all information will be gathered in the inbox only and will not help in coordination. The video shows a short explanation of wikis and how it can be used to coordinate a group.It shows the function of wikis. There are three important buttons which are essential for wiki which are 'Edit' 'Save' and 'Link'.   The group of wiki can edit the information and share with their friends easily.
They can create the list of essential items and also find new and different location for their trip. A wiki can create the world's biggest encyclopedia. The video shows that we can start wiki from three sites: wwwpbwiki.com, www.wetpaint.com, www.wikispaces.com.

I think wiki is very useful site for editing and  saving the information. It allows its users to edit, delete and save the changes. It helps the students to learn faster and better that in the traditional classroom. It helps the teachers to design the collaborative  task for their students. Wiki offers an opportunity for educators to explore their ideas.

The teacher can give various types of activities on wiki. Here is an activity that can make the students  use the wiki. The teacher post a starting of a story on wiki. Then the students have to post the further story by their own. The students can make the story and can also edit the story of other students. They can comment on the other students' posts.
This kind of activity can develop the students' critical thinking and the students can get individual's opinion and different story. They can learn the language with commenting, editing and saving. The students' contributions to the wiki also led them to become much more reflective in their learning.
 

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