Social Bookmarking:
Supporting collaborative research and
communities of practice
Keith Kirkwood

The Terrible Twos
Why are they terrible?
Because they want to walk,
They’re starting to talk,
to demand some sort of autonomy.
Do
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let them?
Do we give them the tools
To become self-empowered
motivated, inquisitive, confident
human beings?
Or do we keep them
them… dependent,
dependent disengaged students?

Web 2.0 * E-Learning 2.0
The tendency towards:
user-created
user created content
decentralised sharing
self-regulated communities

Social bookmarking
Online bookmarking of web pages
in d to h
i order t share th
them with others
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Social bookmarking tools
Del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us
Diigo - http://www.diigo.com

Social bookmarking
for learning
• Information management made easy
• Research-based folksonomies
Research based
• Collaborative project support
• Academic social networking

Social bookmarking
for teaching
• Assessment component through:
• Student contributions
• Transparency of engagement
• Collaborative projects
• Peer teaching/study groups
• Active learning and autonomy

Broader Implications
for LMS 2.0
Helps develop:
H l d l
• eLearning communities of practice
• independent inquiry
• research skills
It s
It’s social and…fun