Tagging To Teaching

Slide 1: From Tagging to Teaching Practical Examples of using Blackboard Scholar for Social Bookmarking • • Eric Kunnen John Morrison – – ekunnen@grcc.edu john.morrison@blackboard.com – – Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Director of Bb Beyond Communities – – Grand Rapids Community College Blackboard Inc. • Garry Brand – gbrand@grcc.edu – Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator – Grand Rapids Community College 1

Slide 2: 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 2

Slide 3: 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. 3

Slide 4: 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 . . . 4

Slide 5: 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) 5

Slide 6: Scholar is. . . Academic Resource Sharing Across Courses & Institutions Throughout Your Academic Career …and Beyond 6

Slide 7: Here’s how it works… 7

Slide 8: The Scholar “Bookmarklet” 8

Slide 9: Tagging a resource 9

Slide 10: My Scholar Home 10

Slide 11: My Bookmarks 11

Slide 12: My Tag Cloud 12

Slide 13: My Bookmarks tagged “ocean” 13

Slide 14: All Bookmarks tagged “ocean” 14

Slide 15: Scholar Course Home 15

Slide 16: 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 16

Slide 17: GRCC – Survey on Social Bookmarking … I think we are going to need some help marketing the idea of social bookmarking for sure. - Eric Kunnen 17

Slide 18: 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 18

Slide 19: 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! 19

Slide 20: 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 20

Slide 21: GRCC – Practical Examples • Personal Productivity – Track, Watch, Discover, Store, Classify, and Share 21

Slide 22: GRCC – Practical Examples • Course Content – Student Assignments and Sharing – Bookmark Streams & RSS – Library Resources – Course Tags 22

Slide 23: GRCC – Practical Examples • Teamwork and Projects – AQIP, Quality, and NCA 23

Slide 24: GRCC – Practical Examples • Professional Development – Online and Hybrid Certification Course & Learning Objects 24

Slide 25: GRCC – Practical Examples • Discovery, Sharing, and Networking – Profiles, Friends, Favorites, and Fans – Discipline Tags & Cross Institutional Sharing – Academic Social Networking 25

Slide 26: 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… 26

Slide 27: Thank You, Discussion, and Questions Go Forth and Scholar! • • Eric Kunnen John Morrison – – ekunnen@grcc.edu john.morrison@blackboard.com – – http://www.grcc.edu/ekunnen Director of Bb Beyond Communities – – Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Blackboard Inc. – Grand Rapids Community College • Scholar Information • Garry Brand – Visit www.scholar.com or wiki.scholar.com – – gbrand@grcc.edu Building Block / Power Link available in the Download Center at behind.blackboard.com – http://www.grcc.edu/gbrand – Email us at: beyond@blackboard.com – Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator – Grand Rapids Community College 27