An assignment created as part of a course on emerging technologies

1. Social Bookmarking Margerit Roger

3. Presentation Basics about Social Bookmarking Features Various Types of Bookmarking Pros and Cons

4. Presentation My Social Bookmarking site (Diigo) Working Process and Lifelong Learning Applications Affordances Concerns

5. 1. Basics Wiki Definition http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking Video on social bookmarking (Using De.licio.us as an example) http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english

6. 2. Features of social bookmarking Shared references to websites Tags to organize/search Additional Features Lists to organize Bookmark bar

7. Example

8. Shared references Private Public Selectively public

9. Tags to organize/search Clusters Folksonomy Searchable Category Chronology Topic Search engine

11. Social networking

12. Add icons

13. Share research

15. 4. Pros and Cons Pros Organizes many bookmarks By humans not algorithms Ranked by frequency of use (not connections) Not based on web spiders finding it Share-able Research Networking

16. Cons Imprecise terms No standardized keywords Mis-tagging Misspelling Non-heirarchical tagging Spam and corruption

17. 5. My Social Bookmarking Site (Diigo.com)

18. 6. Working Process and Lifelong Learning Inspiration 9 IE for brainstorming Hyperlinks into mind map Inspiration presentation with screen captures and hyperlinks No way to upload!! Take 2 with PowerPoint

19. 7. Applications Organization Research Shared research Self-promotion Business promotion

20. Curriculum development Inquiry-based learning Emergent currciulum Online education BUT … It’s still linear!!

21. 8. Affordances Access (to resources) Research presence (loosely defined) Creation Interaction Aggregation Thinking (Re-assembling, connecting)

22. 9. Concerns: Privacy/Ownership

23. Concerns: Accessibility Forty-eight percent of Canadian adults, age 16 and over – about 12 million Canadians -- have low literacy (20 percent scoring Level 1, the lowest proficiency, in prose literacy, and 28 percent at Level 2). International Adult Literacy Skills Study 2005

25. People, Information, Insights, Connections