How Do You Use Delicious to Develop the Five Fluencies?

How Do You Use Delicious to

Develop the Five Fluencies?

Solution Fluency

The problem-solving process is made easier using efficient social

bookmarking. Delicious bookmarks are tools that provide excellent resources for research in efficient problem-solving. As sites are researched and the bookmark database expands, tags can be used to narrow searches and make the process easier.

Information Fluence

Just saving bookmarks is a lower-order thinking skill. But with

Delicious, the appropriate use of tags, notes and keywords when bookmarking web sites and URLs indicates a higher level of understanding of the researched and bookmarked materials. This will help the student generate a base of much more relevant and informative sites for whatever research is being undertaken.

Collaboration Fluency

Delicious bookmarking networks are all about collaboration.

Teachers and students can work together by all creating their own individual accounts, and a “class account” through which everything can easily be moderated. Everyone can then share their findings and research on group projects.

Creativity Fluency

The creativity enhanced from social bookmarking comes from the interesting ways in which information can be organized and represented. Students can make creative use of charting or mind mapping techniques when organizing their findings during the website researching and bookmarking process.

Media Fluence

Social bookmarking is a chance for students to enhance their basic

understanding of how a website delivers its message and represents its content as they conduct searches for the best websites to bookmark for their project information database. They choose the best of what they discover to share on the class network.

The Digital Citizen

The students learn to conduct themselves appropriately in the

online world by avoiding sites that are inappropriate or offensive. They gain an understanding of the importance of courtesy and civility in social networks. They learn to respect each others’ choices and contributions in the teamwork process.

Social Bookmarking and Delicious...

Social bookmarking ?

Social bookmarking is the practice of saving bookmarks to a

public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Bookmarking,

on the other hand, is the practice of saving the address of

a Web site you wish to visit in the future on your computer. To

create a collection of social bookmarks, you register with a social

bookmarking site, which lets you store bookmarks, add tags of

your choice, and designate individual bookmarks as public or

private. Some sites periodically verify that bookmarks still work,

notifying users when a URL no longer functions. Visitors to social

bookmarking sites can search for resources by keyword, person,

or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification

schemes that registered users have created and saved

Delicious ?

Delicious is an online Web 2.0 social bookmarking tool that enables you to save URL’s(Universal Resource Locator) or web addresses to a personal account. It is a free service,and requires a registration.Adding extensions to your browsers (Firefox and Internet Explorer) adds toolbar buttons that allow you to quickly bookmark web sites. Then, you organize them using tags to make it easy to sort or search, add notes, or share with others in your network. This tool allows teachers and students to save URL’s in a portable format that can be reached from any browser, and to collaborate by sharing these with their network.

Visit http://delicious.com or http://del.icio.usto get started with social bookmarking.

Benefits of Social Bookmarking

• Social bookmarking helps in quick indexing by the search engines. It acts as bait to these search engines. Within a day of your submitting your website to these bookmarking sites, you can expect to be visited by all the major search engines.
• It also guarantees a lot of traffic to flow from these sites to your site. The best part is that most of that traffic would be targeted traffic. That helps in getting return visits, especially if your website offers good, useful content.
• Generally these social bookmarking sites let you submit a very detailed profile where you can list all your web pages and also post links to your sites. Thus you end up branding yourself.
  
  
  

Delicious in the Classroom

Anytime/Anywhere—It’s That Easy

·         Social networking tools like Delicious are not only brilliant for both remembering URL’s and

·         web locations, but it’s also way more accessible. It’s better than adding to your “favorites” locally

·         on your computer because your Delicious account is able to be accessed from any computer

·         you happen to have handy, simply by logging in at the web site.

·         Students and staff alike should use the tag keywords and notes to make retrieval of

·         saved locations easier. The more detailed and accurate the keywords are, the easier it is to

·         organize and search for resources.

Cool Collaborations

·         Delicious is also great for collaboration. The students and teachers all create a Delicious

·         account for each person, and the teacher creates a “class account”. The students and

·         teacher share their Delicious account names and add each other to their networks. They

·         also add the class account to the network.

·         Now when the students (or teachers) are bookmarking sites, they add “network tags”.

·         These are tags for their peer and class accounts. When they tag a site to a member of

·         their network using these tags, the new bookmark appears in their inbox for them to

·         either save or delete. Students and teachers can now share and collaborate on their

·         research and learning for any given project.

Thinking It Through

·         As a stand-alone concept, the idea of simply bookmarking a website is a lower-order

·         thinking skill. What’s great about Delicious is the advantages of properly identifying the

·         bookmark, using the descriptive mindset needed for tagging. This way, teachers can

·         clearly see the level of understanding of a project’s purpose in the student’s selection of

·         bookmarks. They also see how well they understand the content and relevance of a

·         given site, from the notes and tags that the student writes for searching purposes.

·         The teacher can also moderate the URLs submitted by students by saving or deleting

·         them. This gives teachers a good amount of control over content that may be deemed

·         harmful, inappropriate, or just plain irrelevant to the underway project. As this happens,

·         the teacher can more easily guide students toward making the right choices in their

·         quest to amass bookmarks for project research.

Submission Report - Wiki

                 

In November 3 2003, the article ‘What is Wiki’ is written by Nathan Matias. In this article, we can see the purpose behind the emersion of Wiki. Wiki have better functions rather than E-mail. Wiki is also known as Hypertext and Relational Database.

Wikis can be used for a large variety of tasks from personal not-taking to collaborating online. personal wiki.

In this article, we can know how Wiki exactly works and ends our every false notion of Wiki. Notebook is the best give example of how wiki works and it is a personal wiki. . In Notebook, new wiki automatically contain help information and a great tutorial. Notebook works like a web browser. In this article Nathan shows us how Wiki and Notebook is utilized in the same manner. He has shown us that in creating links and pages both wikis and notebook have the same functions. Nathan has also shared his views about wiki as web community software.There are many different wiki software like Meatball wiki, Green cheese where people communicate online and share their links and information. According to me, wiki makes classroom interesting, students can do online project on wiki. Wikipedia is one of the largest knowledge based wikis. 

Wiki is also helpful in classroom. The students can also do online project on wiki. The students can post their home work on wiki page. Wiki makes the classroom more enjoyable.

I will use wiki for those students who actually not smarter, sharper .I will post an article related of syllabus and there is some questions of the article so they have to give answer on wiki page. 

A short report on ' Wiki plain in English'

This video is present by Common Crafts  in May 2007. This video is about  ‘ Wiki in plain English ’ is about the use of wiki. Wiki is a best for creating new pages and linking. In this video talking about how the wiki useful for co-ordination to us rather than e- mail. E-mail is not good co-ordination and organize groups input, so there is better way than e-mails. Wiki is a good website , it makes easy where everyone can write,edit,rewrite their own ideas. On wiki , Edit and Save buttons are very important. When the user clicks on edit button and it creates a new page on wiki and then writes the text and save it. Everybody can write and edit it. There is an another one button that is  ‘Link’ on wiki they can also link a website.
According to me, Wiki is more useful than E-mail for co-ordination with use of wiki everybody connecting with each other  All can Edit, Save and Link share their information. Wiki is very for doing group workshop, online submission.
In my classroom, if I use Wiki for students activity then I will send a link of YouTube video of only introduction of William Shakespeare and then student have to watch this video on YouTube  After watching a video, they have to collecting further information or more information of Shakespeare’s life and make a brief report and post it on wiki. And anybody can read, edit and save on wiki. Thus, with the help of this activity they can learn how to use web tools in the classroom.

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Introduction

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