From Tagging to Teaching Practical Examples of using Blackboard Scholar for Social Bookmarking Eric Kunnen [email_address] Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Grand Rapids Community College Garry Brand [email_address] Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator Grand Rapids Community College John Morrison [email_address] Director of Bb Beyond Communities Blackboard Inc.

Eric Kunnen

[email_address]

Coordinator of Instructional Technologies

Grand Rapids Community College

Garry Brand

[email_address]

Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator

Grand Rapids Community College

John Morrison

[email_address]

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

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.

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 . . .

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)

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

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

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

… 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

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!

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

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

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

Course Content

Student Assignments and Sharing

Bookmark Streams & RSS

Library Resources

Course Tags

GRCC – Practical Examples Teamwork and Projects AQIP, Quality, and NCA

Teamwork and Projects

AQIP, Quality, and NCA

GRCC – Practical Examples Professional Development Online and Hybrid Certification Course & Learning Objects

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

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. 5) Enhance faculty productivity , discipline searching/sharing , and course resource integration . 6) Improve collaboration for groups, teams, research groups, committees to share and categorize resources. 7) Increase awareness for individuals in using Scholar to easily store, access, collect, share, discover, tag, classify, and sort resources …

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.

5) Enhance faculty productivity , discipline searching/sharing , and course resource integration .

6) Improve collaboration for groups, teams, research groups, committees to share and categorize resources.

7) Increase awareness for individuals in using Scholar to easily store, access, collect, share, discover, tag, classify, and sort resources …

Eric Kunnen [email_address] http://www.grcc.edu/ekunnen Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Grand Rapids Community College Garry Brand [email_address] http://www.grcc.edu/gbrand Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator Grand Rapids Community College Thank You, Discussion, and Questions John Morrison [email_address] Director of Bb Beyond Communities Blackboard Inc. Scholar Information Visit www.scholar.com or wiki.scholar.com Building Block / Power Link available in the Download Center at behind.blackboard.com Email us at: beyond@blackboard.com Go Forth and Scholar!

Eric Kunnen

[email_address]

http://www.grcc.edu/ekunnen

Coordinator of Instructional Technologies

Grand Rapids Community College

Garry Brand

[email_address]

http://www.grcc.edu/gbrand

Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator

Grand Rapids Community College

John Morrison

[email_address]

Director of Bb Beyond Communities

Blackboard Inc.

Scholar Information

Visit www.scholar.com or wiki.scholar.com

Building Block / Power Link available in the Download Center at behind.blackboard.com

Email us at: beyond@blackboard.com