Sharing+Knowledge

=Web 2.0 Hot Spot =

Developed by Mr. Scott Staub
=Sharing Knowledge and Social Bookmarking =

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 * What is Social Bookmarking anyway?**

[|www.delicious.com]
 * Delicious **

Delicious allows you to save bookmarks online. This gives you access to your favorite bookmarks on any computer that has Internet access. All you need to do is create an account (which is free) and Delicious gives you the option to install a plug-in to your browser. It can load your bookmarks from your browser right into your Delicious account. If you have added the Delicious plug-in to your browser's Toolbar, you can easily add bookmarks by clicking the tag button. The tags or bookmarks can be made private or public for others to view.

Delicious is much more than just an online location for you to store your favorite sites. You can share your bookmarks with your friends or just about anyone--including your students! This is a great tool for teachers and others to share bookmarks with each other to learn about other sites that may interest you or your class. It can easily be used as a resource for your students in completing your assignments or seeking help.

Delicious doesn't use traditional folders to organize your bookmarks. The site uses tags which are a cross between key words and folders.

I started using Delicious at the beginning of this course. Now, I cannot see how I would live online without this tool. It is always one of my sites that I have open constantly in my browser. By taking this course and training as a CFF coach, I have discovered hundreds of new sites and tools. No matter where I'm at or who's computer I'm using, I have instant access to all my websites.

**Diigo** [|www.diigo.com] Diigo is very similar to Delicious. Diigo is an online community especially developed for learning people, where information, knowledge and community come together. Diigo creates global communities around information, topics, and knowledge. These communities connect people through the content they collect, while also enabling people to discover and share information that matters to them with others in the network.

 **Digg**  [|www.digg.com]

Digg is a place for people to discover and share content from the web. Digg brings the best sites and information as voted on by users. Digg users collectively determine the value of content--definitely a Web 2.0 application. Once you find something that you like on the site, you can add it to your page. There is also an area for comments that you and others can add your opinion or questions about the topic. Digg is an online community where you can add friends and see what they are adding or looking at. You have the ability to add a site, video, or image to your favorites to be displayed on your Digg page for others to see.

**Flickr**  [|www.flickr.com]

Flickr is a photo and video sharing site owned by Yahoo. The site allows you to upload, edit, organize, and share photos and videos with anyone. The basic account is free and a great way to share photos of your students' projects and videos. There are several methods to uploading your content to Flickr which allows you the ability to choose the method that fits your needs. Flickr uses Picnic which is a pretty decent online photo editor. The site uses an area called The organizr to manage your photos and videos into collections and sets. Groups can be created to manage how you share your content. Groups can either be public, public (invite only), or completely private. Every group has a pool for sharing photos and videos and a discussion board for talking. Flickr allows you to create tags, time stamps, and maps to show where your pictures were taken. This is done through The Organizr. Flickr allows you to have prints or cards made, DVD slideshows or photo books created along with a few other creative things. As with the other items on this page, Flickr easily lets you create contacts of family and friends to share your content with. The real educational value is to search flickr and pull up only creative common rights that allow you and your students to use pictures found on Flickr. People who upload their pictures can set the permission levels of their pictures. This allows students and parents to create PowerPoint presentations, newsletters, and other documents using these photos without worrying about copyrights and permission. Flickr seems to have more artistic photos vs. a Google image search which makes it more practical to use in the classroom. You can go to [|Creative Commons] website and search for images and videos from various sources.

**Photosynth** <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(175, 8, 8);"> <span style="color: rgb(140, 13, 13);">[|www.photosynth.net]

This site allows you to manage photos but can also stitch a series of photos together for a panoramic view. All for free. There is a lot of "synthing" going on with this site. The site/application is being developed by Microsoft Live Labs. From the site..."Imagine being able to share the places and things you love using the cinematic quality of a movie, the control of a video game, and the mind-blowing detail of the real world. With nothing more than a bunch of photos, Photosynth creates an amazing new experience." Visit [|How to Synth] to learn more about the features. Photosynth installs two programs on your computer: a Web browser plug-in for viewing synths, and an application (called "Photosynth") for creating them. Photosynth makes heavy use of your graphics hardware. If you have an older graphics system, Photosynth may not run. Also, Photosynth requires that your graphics acceleration be set to full. **Web Browser:** Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2, and Firefox 3 **Memory:** 256 MB of memory is a bare minimum; 1GB is recommended. **Graphics:** Minimum 32MB of graphics memory required, 64MB or more is recommended. Photosynth runs on some DirectX6 capable cards and all DirectX7 cards.

<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(140, 8, 8);"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(175, 13, 13);">**PortaPortal** <span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(138, 5, 5);"> [|www.portaportal.com] This is another website to store favorite links. It accomplishes the same tasks as Delicious, but in a more simplistic look. It allows you to create categories and subfolders to visually organize your links. This would be a good site for younger students or students who usually get confused or lost from cluttered websites.

<span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(140, 8, 8);"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(175, 13, 13);">**Splash Media** <span style="font-size: 80%; color: rgb(16, 14, 14);"> http://www.splashmedia.com <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(140, 8, 8);"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(175, 13, 13);"> <span style="font-size: 130%; color: rgb(140, 8, 8);"><span style="font-size: 120%; color: rgb(175, 13, 13);">  Splash Media is an eTraining company that specializes in the creation of dynamic online training content and the development of the next generation of eTraining platforms. The company utilizes state-of-the-art broadcast television studios to quickly create and deliver engaging and effective content. This may be the wave of the future for companies and education to entice viewers.