Social bookmarking is becoming an effective tool for sharing, discovery, and collaboration. Session participants receive an overview of social bookmarking, discuss how to use it effectively in ...
Social bookmarking is becoming an effective tool for sharing, discovery, and collaboration. Session participants receive an overview of social bookmarking, discuss how to use it effectively in teaching and learning, and discover how bookmarks can be used for productivity and teamwork. Several activities and uses of a social bookmarking tool integrated with an online course environment are presented. Also included is a demonstration of how tagging can dynamically include resources for students in online courses.
From Tagging to Teaching - Practical Examples of using Blackboard Scholar for Social BookmarkingPresentation Transcript
From Tagging to Teaching Practical Examples of using Blackboard Scholar for Social Bookmarking
Eric Kunnen
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Coordinator of Instructional Technologies
Grand Rapids Community College
Garry Brand
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Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator
Grand Rapids Community College
John Morrison
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Director of Bb Beyond Communities
Blackboard Inc.
Agenda
Define Social Bookmarking
Provide an overview of Scholar
How GRCC got started with Scholar
GRCC Deployment and Adoption Experiences
Examples in Teaching and Learning
Scholar… In the Future
Questions, Comments, and Discussion
What is social bookmarking?
The practice of saving bookmarks (resources) to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords.
EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2005
You can save your bookmarks online, share resources, discover new links, and tag your bookmarks for sorting and easy retrieval from any computer.
Question: What’s a “resource”?
Answer: Anything with a URL!
Includes:
Web sites/pages
Articles in a Library Database
Files in the Blackboard Content System
Videos on YouTube
Anything else you can think of that has it’s own unique URL . . .
Bb Scholar – An Overview
Part of the Blackboard Beyond Initiative
Centrally Hosted Web Service (www.scholar.com)
Integrated with Blackboard (course streams)
Customized for Education (course and discipline tags)
Scholar is. . .
Academic Resource Sharing
Across Courses & Institutions
Throughout Your Academic Career
… and Beyond
Here’s how it works…
The Scholar “Bookmarklet”
Tagging a resource
My Scholar Home
My Bookmarks
My Tag Cloud
My Bookmarks tagged “ocean”
All Bookmarks tagged “ocean”
Scholar Course Home
GRCC & Scholar
PDPs & Focus Groups
WebCT Impact! Conference Focus Group
Project Cornerstone – Scholar “1.0”
Project Duckpond – Scholar “2.0”
Blackboard Beyond Initiative
Blackboard Idea Exchange
Faculty Innovators
Web 2.0
del.icio.us users
Student Demand
GRCC – Survey on Social Bookmarking
… I think we are going to need some help marketing the idea of social bookmarking for sure. - Eric Kunnen
GRCC – Scholar Rollout
Deployment, Rollout, and Adoption
Building Block installed on Test Server in early December 2006.
Live on Production in late December 2006.
Current User Count: 640+
Visibility & Communication
Tab - Scholar
Module – What’s NEW & COOL!
GRCC Today Campus Newsletter
Faculty Email
Distance Learning Email
F2F Orientation
Campus Meetings
Training Sessions
Bb Advisory Team
Course Links
Educational uses of Social Bookmarking
Enhance Computer Literacy Skills
Allow Students to Contribute to Course Resources
Provide Student-Centered Learning
Social Networking with an Academic Focus
Build Life Long Skills
Create Content Collections
Discover and Share Resources
And more!
GRCC – Practical Examples & Ideas
Personal Productivity
Track, Watch, Discover, Store, Classify, and Share
Course Content
Student Assignments, Contributions, and Sharing
Course Tags
Dynamic Course Streams
Direct Library Resources
Teamwork and Projects
AQIP, Quality, and NCA
Professional Development
Online and Hybrid Certification Course
Learning Objects
Discovery, Tracking and Networking
Academic Social Networking
Profiles, Friends, Favorites, and Fans
Discipline Tags
Cross Institutional Sharing
GRCC – Practical Examples
Personal Productivity
Track, Watch, Discover, Store, Classify, and Share
GRCC – Practical Examples
Course Content
Student Assignments and Sharing
Bookmark Streams & RSS
Library Resources
Course Tags
GRCC – Practical Examples
Teamwork and Projects
AQIP, Quality, and NCA
GRCC – Practical Examples
Professional Development
Online and Hybrid Certification Course & Learning Objects
GRCC – Practical Examples
Discovery, Sharing, and Networking
Profiles, Friends, Favorites, and Fans
Discipline Tags & Cross Institutional Sharing
Academic Social Networking
GRCC – Plans for the future…
Leverage the power of Scholar to:
1) Provide our Librarians with an easy way to bring in some valuable resources directly into courses to share with students and faculty .
2) Encourage students to "add to" the body of knowledge in a course and share with each other.
3) Share resources with other universities and colleges on Scholar.
4) Provide students, faculty, and staff with the skills of social networking, bookmarking, and online tool usage with a key quality of the discernment of online resources.
