Week 9 Social Tools and Cloud Computing

This week we learned and read about social tools such as bookmarking and GoogleDocs. GoogleDocs is a free web tool where you can create a document and then send out a link to your peers where they can view that document and edit it all in one place. Social Bookmarking is also an online tool in which you can share your favorite websites, pictures, or videos. With Delicious, one of the bookmarking sites, you have your own page where you can easily add different websites that you like and categorize them with tags. Tags are keywords or phrases that help describe the website you saved to your account. Some of the other social bookmarking websites are StumbleUpon, Digg, and iKeepBookmarks.

Both Bookmarking and GoogleDocs can be extremely beneficial to those in the education field. Bookmarking can be useful for both students and their teachers. For students starting out a research project, bookmarking different websites could be helpful in finding information and organizing it into one place. For teachers, they could collaboratively use socialbookmarking with other teachers to find helpful websites for classes they are teaching. GoogleDocs could be used to aid students in their writing of a paper in which there are several drafts due. Instead of having to continue printing out the drafts, students can jut submit them online to a teacher and the teacher can see all of the drafts on one webpage. Also, GoogleDocs could help simplify group projects so students could more easily exchange information for their project.

Here is a video about BookmarkingDemon which I found on YouTube. This video explains how there are numerous different bookmarking websites and it can become difficult and time consuming to try and put links to your websites on all of them. BookmarkingDemon helps to simplify this process with the use of their software.
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