What is social bookmarking? The lingo (metadata, tags, bookmarklets) Three tools to explore Integration in Web 2.0 Uses in education & discussion #retawebinars Share Store Seek

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Personal Knowledge Management What is social bookmarking? http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/753581/Social_Bookmarking http://www.wordle.net/ Social Knowledge Management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking Browser based bookmarks/favorites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking Saved on your computer & organized by folder

Why social bookmarking? share store organize manage online accessible social more powerful organization more possibilities for research Image from http://jedchan.com/social-bookmarking-sites-helps-page-rank/

share

store

organize

manage

online

accessible

social

more powerful organization

more possibilities for research

Some of the tools http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/753639/hollyrae http://www.wordle.net/

Delicious.com a social bookmarking service Bookmarks Control Panels Tags Search

Created with http://www.wordle.net Keywords Metadata (tells the web what this is) Open ended Share What are tags? Creating your bookmarks

Keywords

Metadata (tells the web what this is)

Open ended

Tag Cloud Accessing your bookmarks Many ways to search Personal Social

Your network

http://intelligencetesting.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html Semantics The study of meaning

Metatags Metadata Descriptions of objects on the web

@novaspivack http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dwzv3r6_143qtq9cf9 The Semantic Web Web 3G (Giant Global Graph – GGG) Self-describing linked data Built both through people and bots

Web 3G (Giant Global Graph – GGG)

Self-describing linked data

Built both through people and bots

@novaspivack http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dwzv3r6_143qtq9cf9

Types of Social Knowledge Organization Features Examples Ontology Formal semantics Established categories formal representation of shared knowledge taxonomy (tagging by committee) Dewey Decimal System # 000 – Computer science, information, and general works # 100 – Philosophy and psychology # 200 – Religion # 300 – Social sciences Biological Classification Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species Folksonomy Informal semantics Open ended categories Categories created socially (free tagging by users) Delicious Flickr Folksology A hybrid semantic system A combination of free tags and structure Wikipedia DBpedia

Dewey Decimal System

# 000 – Computer science, information, and general works

# 100 – Philosophy and psychology

# 200 – Religion

# 300 – Social sciences

Biological Classification

Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species

Delicious

Flickr

Wikipedia

DBpedia

Something to consider ;-) http://www.flickr.com/photos/littlegreenfroggy/947117289/

Three examples Tool Features Common features of tools include RSS, widgets/badges, integration with other networks http://www.delicious.com Share your bookmarks, annotate Import/export to/from browser Create your own tags Create tag bundles http://www.faviki.com Share your bookmarks, annotate Tag with ‘meaningful’ tags from DBPedia http://www.twine.com Share bookmarks, annotate Comment on entries Connect with interest groups Email digests

Demo: Delicious in Action “ Bookmarklet”

Faviki DBPedia http://www.faviki.com Share your bookmarks, annotate Tag with ‘meaningful’ tags from DBPedia

Uses the most common things in wikipedia Items become Faviki tags

Faviki in Action

A Faviki Tag

Twine http://www.twine.com Share bookmarks, annotate Comment on entries Connect with interest groups Email digests

Integration in Web 2.0 Add a link roll or tag cloud to your blog, wiki or course Connect your social bookmarks to your Twitter, Friendfeed, Tumblr or other publishing site

Add a link roll or tag cloud to your blog, wiki or course

Connect your social bookmarks to your Twitter, Friendfeed, Tumblr or other publishing site

What does it all mean? “ The implications for education are profound. Let’s consider three areas of impact: knowledge construction, personal learning network maintenance, and personal educational administration.” http://www.educause.edu/EQ/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/TheSemanticWebinEducation/163437

“ The implications for education are profound. Let’s consider three areas of impact:

knowledge construction,

personal learning network maintenance, and

personal educational administration.”

Shared resources among classroom community Class agrees upon tags to use (ie: retawebinars) Members follow/friend/associate within the network Follow influential authors, scientists, etc. Teacher can use RSS feeds to track student and group work Spontaneous discovery of valuable resources Share links via a widget in your wiki, course, or blog Compare resources based on tags, popularity Social Bookmarking as 21 st Century Learning http://delicious.com/hollyrae/retawebinars

Shared resources among classroom community

Class agrees upon tags to use (ie: retawebinars)

Members follow/friend/associate within the network

Follow influential authors, scientists, etc.

Teacher can use RSS feeds to track student and group work

Spontaneous discovery of valuable resources

Share links via a widget in your wiki, course, or blog

Compare resources based on tags, popularity

Network with other educators Share academic resources in school teams, departments, and district Find other educators to follow and/or network with online based of their bookmarks Collaborate with other schools and classrooms by sharing bookmarks Give students an easy link to remember where all links can be located Let students choose from links you have previewed Social Bookmarking for 21 st Century Educators http://delicious.com/hollyrae/retawebinars

Network with other educators

Share academic resources in school teams, departments, and district

Find other educators to follow and/or network with online based of their bookmarks

Collaborate with other schools and classrooms by sharing bookmarks

Give students an easy link to remember where all links can be located

Let students choose from links you have previewed

Did I mention how many tools there are?

So now what? http://www.flickr.com/search/?l=cc&q=semantic%20web