social bookmarking, creating hot list

Merve ELDEM
Social Bookmarking-Creating Hot lists
Filamentailty is a website that allows the users to create webpages for educational purposes. There are five different activites for the users which are hotlist, multimedia scrapbook, treasure hunt, subject sampler and webquest. Hotlist is the combination of web-based resources. It saves you time. You just enter your url, title and description, the tool tool makes hotlist for you. Scrapbook lets the users to find more detailed resource about their topic. These can be videos, photographs, music files, etc. In treasure hunt you give the sites that are relavant to your topic and by each link you have a question, at the end, you are asked the final question. Sumject sampler is the emotional connection between student and topic. Students are expected to respond to questions from a personal perspec tive. Webquest challenges the students with an issue or topic which requests the students to divide into groups and discuss about topic. Then they combine their assumptions and present them.
In order to create your webpage, you click the start your new page button and then choose the formats explained above. You need to enter your topic name and necessary links, then you can start creating your own activities. Also you need to have a username.
Del.icio.us is a social bookmarking site. You can have an account freely and then have your favourite bookmarks on these site. So that you can acess to your bookmarks from any computer. Also you can share your list with other users and see their lists. Another feature is that you can tag your lists. In tags you can see the other related links and access to them, too.
WebQuest.org is a tool which helps us create lesson plans. To create WebQuests, first you should log in the site and then you can use QuestGarden. However, it is not free; it costs $20 per a 2-year-subscription or you can use free for 30 days. In this program, you can create your lesson plan step by step also you can reach the other lesson plans on a specific topic from different people. So it is a social environment. Also you can modify your webquest and you can publish it online.
Podcasting is a free program which enables us to share our videos, audio-files with people. You can create your audio-files or videos with microphone, headphones or webcam then upload it to the site. Also you can watch the videos of people by searching a specific topic. You can use this site for fun or about finding information about a topic.