Know about Social Bookmarking Sites

Know about Social Bookmarking Sites

“A method of sharing and storing web pages in a single online location for future use or sharing with other Internet users.”

Social Bookmarking sites are very wonderful sites in terms of their functions or facilities. These sites allow us to store tags and links. We can share these links with friends and colleagues. We can also access links from anywhere in the world with the help of Internet connection. So, if there is any page we find that is interesting and important, we can easily save it for future reference and also can share it with other people. In this way, clicking on social bookmarking link we can add particular link to the list.

Most interesting thing is that all the social bookmarking sites are free to use but essential part is that it requires registration with particular sites then after you can work with this sites.

How Can We Benefit From Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking sites allow you to specifically target what you want to see. Instead of going into a search engine, typing something in, and then searching for that needle in a haystack, you can quickly narrow down the items to what you are looking for. Because many social bookmarking sites display recently added lists and popular links, you can both stay current and see relevant information. For example, let's say you are interested in learning more about English Language Teaching Methods, you might search for that on one of these sites and come up with two articles: one with a hundred votes and one with two votes. It's pretty easy to tell that the article with a hundred votes might be your best choice. And this is a lot easier than putting “English Language Teaching Methods” into a search engine and seeing page after page of links that may or may not be useful.

So, this started out as a way to send bookmarks to friends has really grown into social search engines and you no longer need to go through thousands of results to find a needle in a haystack. Now, you can simply go to a social bookmarking site, choose the category or tag that matches your interest, and find the most popular websites.

Delicious: King of all Social Bookmarking Sites

Now a day the social bookmarking site called Delicious is referred as the King of all other social bookmarking sites because it carries so many important functions like Add Link, Tag, Tag Bundle and Discover which are useful even in our professional as well as social life.

It is an online bookmark site so teacher can save or add important links related to the study material of particular field (e.g. English Language Teaching) and can assign homework based on these sites or can ask to refer important sites related to study course. Thus this is an important bookmarking site for all types of people.

How Do We StartWork on Delicious

Please, refer the sites given under which will provide all the necessary instruction about the Delicious Social Bookmarking site.

Know Steps of Sign in to Delicious

Introduction of Delicious

A Report on Video about Wiki

A Report on Video about Wiki

This short video, presented by Commoncraft called ‘Wikis in Plain English’ shows us how wiki can be useful in developing collaborative work. It explains entire process of editing, saving and linking for a new page through the demonstration of the plan of four friends for camp. Initially they use E-mail to send information about the preparation but it is found uncomfortable in terms of time so they choose Wiki to do the same and it remained better. In this way, this video introduces all the advantages and accessibility of this wiki source. It also explains how it works, e.g. showing the demo of editing, saving and linking for new page of two lists under the titles ‘we have’ and ‘we need’. Thus, this video introduces all the components of the wiki and also teaches us how we can use this tool for our students to learn in the interesting way. It ends with the introduction of various sites like Pbwiki, Wetpaint, Wikispace and Commoncraft.

Activity

With the help of Wiki we can do any collaborative work under the particular aim. It can also be used in classroom to create a virtual classroom. I will assign various tasks to students which tasks are supposed to be done on the wiki page, e.g. I will ask them to prepare an answer related to particular study topic and edit it on the wiki page to share with others and ask group members or classmates for the correction or improvement in the answer. In this way all students will prepare different answers on different topics and they share all answers with the classmates and ultimately teacher will make corrections in all the answers. Thus material will be available for all the classmates and it will remain interesting.

    

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I am Keyur Sardhara. I belong to Kalsari far away from Junagadh. I have completed B A with English Literature from Saurashtra University, Rajkot and am pursuing M A with ELT in H M Patel Institute of English Training and Research. My hobbies are reading novels, listening music and watching movies. My goal    is to be a good lecturer.