In week 9, we also learned about another example of cloud computing, which is social bookmarking. Social bookmarking is an easy way for users to save links to web pages that they want to remember or share with others. Descriptions can accompany these bookmarks, which allows users to see what the site offers, without having to download it. The descriptions include text, votes favoring or against its quality, and tags. Social bookmarking allows one to stay organized, for one can organize their bookmarks in a way that best suits their purposes. These ways include organizing the bookmarks chronologically, by tags, or by search engines. One of our major projects for this class was to create our own Delicious account. This project was the first time I was exposed to social bookmarking. I think I will definitely be using it when working on projects in college and I need to remember a bunch of different websites.
In the field of education, social bookmarking is extremely useful. It allows teachers to share resources with teachers all over the world. Also, it helps teachers to stay organized and remember all the different sites they would like to share with their students. In addition, if each school or each department within a school has its own account, it will allow teachers to provide websites they think the other teachers could also use in their classrooms. It will be very helpful when working with students because it allows teachers to share bookmarks with the children when working on research topics. I will definitely be using social bookmarking very often when I become a teacher!
Below is a video that explains how to use the social bookmarking site Delicious.
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