Exploring Social Bookmarking

Exploring social bookmarking E-learning summer seminar series 2008 Roger Gardner

Session outline

What is social bookmarking?

How does it work?

Some available tools

Uses in learning and teaching

Issues

What is social bookmarking?

First came Favourites …

Then things got social …

We could say that … Favourites + = Social bookmarking +

What can you do? STORE TAG SHARE ACCESS FROM ANY PC LINKED TO THE WEB

What tools are available? General Academic

And of course

How does it work? – the basics

Register with SB service

Find a web link you wish to bookmark

Tag it with keywords

What are tags?

Tags Keywords “associated with or assigned to a piece of information” (Wikipedia)

Folksonomy “the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is generated not only by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content. Usually, freely chosen keywords are used instead of a controlled vocabulary” (Wikipedia).

Types of tag PERSONAL FOR ANOTHER PERSON PERSONAL OFFICIAL (CONTROLLED ) PERSONAL

Tag clouds

Example1 SEARCH

Example 1 SELECT

Example 1 – Bookmarking in Diigo BOOKMARK TAG DESCRIBE CATEGORISE SHARE OR NOT! RSS FEEDS

Example 1 HIGHLIGHT AND COMMENT

Example 1 CREATE PRESENTATION FROM YOUR BOOKMARKS

Example 1 WHICH IS ANNOTATED ORDERED

Example 2 – Searching in Diigo SEARCH IN DIIGO SEE WHAT OTHERS HAVE TAGGED – NEW LEADS SEE OTHERS’ ANNOTATIONS CONNECT TO OTHERS WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS

Example 3 – Google bookmarks & notebook

Discuss how you /your students might use social bookmarking? RESEARCH LEARNING ACTIVITIES COLLABORATION PERSONAL POSSIBLE AREAS MIGHT INCLUDE:

Uses in learning and teaching Bloom’s revised taxonomy Anderson, L. W., & Krathwohl, D. R. (Eds.). (2001). A taxonomy for learning, teaching and assessing: A revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of educational objectives: Complete edition, New York : Longman.

Bloom’s taxonomy http://www.odu.edu/educ/roverbau/bloom/blooms_taxonomy.htm

When Diigo met Bloom

Remembering : Recall information . Bookmark a resource for later retrieval.

Understanding : Construct meaning from or explain material . Tag a resource and/or add a summary in the description box .

Applying : Use learned material in new and concrete situations. Create a collection ( list ) of tagged and annotated resources on a theme.

Analysing : Identify how parts relate to one another or to a larger structure/purpose. Highlight elements of a resource or use sticky notes to deconstruct component parts.

Evaluating : Make judgments based on criteria and standards through checking and critiquing . Use of sticky notes for annotation or comments in discussion forums .