Social bookmarking is a way for people to accumulate, categorize, find and control information from web pages on the Internet. Users save links to their favorite and most useful web pages , in order to remember information. I think creating account in the websites as blogger, Wiki and delicious it will be as a resource for teachers who are interested in having a classroom in websites. There is no a doubt using websites for EFL learning can help learners to improve English language skills. This new methods in learning are effective and can make the EFL learner more interesting in learning.
Blogger:
What is a blogger?
Blogs are increasingly touted for their potential to foster online interaction and resource sharing in the field of education. They support a wide range of applications as a simple online publishing system, as personal and collaborative knowledge management tools, and to support instruction.
In EFL learning in Saudi context, the teacher can ask students to make task and publishing in blogger. In this way the teacher can notice the weakness students in the grammar and writing skills. In addition, Blogger can facilitate the teachers to communicate with their students.
Wiki:
What is wiki?
Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit Web page content using any Web browser. Wikis serve many different purposes, such as knowledge management and note taking .
Wiki can use in education EFL classroom. The wiki has proved to be a useful avenue for sharing information and learning from one another. The famous questions that people ask is how wikis can be used in classrooms? The simple answer is that we having many ways for examples:
1- Teachers and students can share the information , power points and presentation with each others.
2- Create in online text for the classroom.
3- Create digital portfolios for students and teachers.
4- Have your students use a wiki to publish information about a topic that they are investigating.Actually, There are many ways to use wiki in EFL classroom. And the most important that teachers should encourage the student and learn them to use it.
Delicious:
What is delicious?
Is an internet site designed to allow you access to any website that you bookmark, no matter what computer you are using. Delicious allows you to access you information and find your websites .Delicious is one of the most popular tools available, taking you through the basics of setting up and organizing your account and the various ways of using it within learning and teaching.
1-The EFL Saudi learners can use delicious in many ways:
2-The ability to add classmate in delicious and share many information with each others
3-The ability to add favorite links related to specific courses.
4-The choice to tag specific words to make your research within an article easier.
5-Teachers can add to the delicious account specific websites that they want the students to access as part of a homework of work-based assignment. The students can be encouraged to build a delicious-based group of links as part of their assignment submission.
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