Invisible Cooperation. The MARIA Proyect (Methods of Support and Interactive Learning Resources)

Abstract

The social networks have turned into a major element of the net in the last years. Through them thousands of people share information with some common interest between them. The root cause of the problem is the difficulty of coordinating these presented resources, a labour that gets complicated when people try to recover all this submited information.From the “Laboratorio de Innovación en Tecnologías de la Información” a software has been developed, after 8 years of work, to classify, organize and put together the resources contributed by the members of a resource oriented network. Since development of this work there has born MARIA, a search engine of formative resources focused to children between 8 and 12 years, composed of the collaboration of adult persons that belong to this social network. Througout this article are detailed the characteristics and utilities of this new search engine, based on a social network where his members provide resources from a supportive and disinterested way, obtaining an easy and effective system to be used by all of them who need it.