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Exercise 1

Social Networking http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html

Online Community http://www.fullcirc.com/community/communitymanual.htm

A social network is a community of people communicating off or online. They usually have something in common with each other for example members of a social group, friends, hobbies, school or profession.

An online social network also called as an Online Community, allows users to contact people in cyber space all over the world using a variety of sites including MySpace, Cyworld, Bebo, FriendWise, FriendFinder and Facebook. Generally these sites have free membership and users can create their own social network within the sites.

By studying about Social Networks and online communities, I hope to gain skills in creating online communities for the subjects that I teach. Students in all schools in NSW will be receiving government issue laptops soon and I have been assigned the position of creating an online community using MOODLE. It is an Open Source Course Management System that is free online and provides platforms for online courses, student forums and access to assignments.

Exercise 2

http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&defl=en&q=define:folksonomy&ei=rMN0SvyIA9iGkAX-1rCoDA&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title

http://tomgruber.org/writing/ontology-of-folksonomy.htm

Folksonomy is the tagging of web information such as web sites and photos of interest so that they can be easily retrieved without having to do an internet search for them again. I have tagged photos on Facebook and bookmarked sites of interest with Del.icio.us.

FOAF

http://www.foaf-project.org/

http://www.ldodds.com/foaf/foaf-a-matic

FOAF (friend of a friend) is a program that tags information about yourself to allow automated searches to find you and the communities you’re linked to.

Exercise 3

Facebook

I used the Nielsen’s Heuristic evaluation form for Facebook. Facebook is easy to uses simple natural dialogue amongst its uses but also within the site itself. To start up your own website in Facebook is self explanatory. You need a Username and password to login and to log out you need to click on the logout button.