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''Life of Pi'' won 11 nomination at oscar

Again an Indian story has once again claimed spotlight at the Oscars with Ang Lee directed 'Life of Pi' bagging 11 nominations in major categories.

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Report on Social Bookmarking

Report on Social Bookmarking

Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store, manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. This is an online service which enables users to add, annotate, edit, and share bookmark of web documents. Even through this system, users save links to web pages that they want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually publics as well as can be saved privately, it means, it can share only with specified people or another combination of public and private domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically, by category or tags, or via a search engine.

Here Not only you can save your favorite websites and send but you can also look at what other people have found interesting enough to tag. Most social bookmarking sites allow you to browse through the items based on most popular, recently added, or belonging to a certain category like shopping, technology, politics, blogging, news, sports, etc. You can even search through what people have bookmarked by typing in what you are looking for in the search tool. In fact, social bookmarking sites are being used as intelligent search engines.

How Can I Benefit From Social Bookmarking?

It allows 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.

                                           

So, what started out as a way to send bookmarks to friends has really grown into social search engines? You no longer need to page 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:

Delicious is a popular social bookmarking site which you can use for saving your favorite website links. The process is termed as bookmarking. This will enable you to share your bookmarks among others as well as allow you to browse bookmarks of other users’. Tagging and search tools help you in browsing as well as organizing topics of interest. It enables you to both create multiple tags and tag sites with manifold keywords.

Every tag produces a page with all website links associated to it. You can share each of these pages with others simply by providing them the URL. With bookmarks being hosted on Web instead of on your desktop, you can access these anywhere provided you have access to internet. There are a couple of reasons for using delicious. The reason it's called "social" bookmarking is that links can be discovered and shared by others, depending on the privacy settings of the user. Sites that are similar to Delicious include Digg, StumbleUpon, FriendFeed and Furl.

 HOW IS IT USEFUL TO THE TEACHERS & THE STUDENTS?

Every teacher needs to use as many Internet technologies as possible in their classroom every day. In fact, there are some tools, such as social networking sites like MySpace and Facebook, that some can make a good case for leaving out of the classroom entirely. Using Delicious, Online interactive whiteboards, Wikis, virtual worlds, work group tools, mind mapping, collaborative documents, and the list just go on and on, and the potential is endless. The teacher should owe it to oneself and their students to be informed, to participate, and to embrace the opportunities.

Collaboration. Project teams or work groups may find the site useful in storing and sharing links collectively.

Social networking. Delicious has some of the element found on a social network. For example, users can share links with friends and follow other people — similar to Twitter. Development is underway to allow for easy sharing via Facebook and Twitter.

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Summary of the article 'What is 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 is also known as Hypertext and Relational Database. Wiki was first designed by Ward Cunningham and Bo Leuf in 1995 and it is a website where “anyone can contribute”. Wiki is very useful in collaborative learning. Wikis is basically a website where anyone can submit, anyone can edit the web page .Each page on wiki has an Edit, Save and Link buttons. The other important function of wikis is it can save even the plenty of old copies of our pages. Creating links with wikis is also the simple one. It is also simple to use wikis in a classroom. Wikis keeps track of our all stuff.

Wikis are good for teamwork, sharing information, and collaborative discovery. Wikis are most effective in organizational environments because control can be entrusted to clients of the system. Individuals can contribute their expertise, link to outside sources, and summarize remarks. Wikis make a good online workspace for groups working on assignments. Committees use wikis to store notes, link to sites, or create online documentation. Wikis work best for documenting call support centres’ comments and assignments because they maintain revisions and allow you to browse revision history. People within the call centre can publish questions, issues, solutions, and how-to guides.

Notebook is a perfect example of how wiki technology can work well in other settings .Notebook is a serious tool as well. Notebook can be used to keep track of research and ideas. 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.

According to me, people collaborate with others no matter where in the world you or they are. It is easy enough even for non-tech-savvy people.

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Report on video

This video is taken from Wiki in Plain Englishs which tells a short explanation of wiki and how they can be used to coordinate a group.

Wiki is the way of opening up the classroom walls. It is very easy to use wiki in classroom because it does not need any type of installation programming. Through Wiki online classroom, classroom project can be done. Hence it allows collaborative learning. Through Wiki teacher can post what is happening in the classroom which provide audience. And it is very interesting tool which is used voice to connect people. It is very exciting tool for students to learn language. So here motivation and quality increases with a real reason to write.

By using wiki we can make different activities to teach English Language.

For example

As a teacher to use this technique first I will group students of five and show them video related to teach grammar then I will tell them to write a brief summary on that video. So each group will present their views one by one on wiki.They can also make correction on other's summary. The benefit of this is I have not to visit individual but I will get each of them summary from wiki. Even they all can give response on each other's summary.

Hence this is one of the best techniques which is very useful in the classroom.
  

Submission video

Hi, this is Komal Mahida from H M Patel Institute. I belong from Mogar, Gujarat. I like reading, watching movies, listening music and dancing.I like to access technology whenever it is possible.