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.