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 …

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

1. Register with SB service

2. Find a web link you wish to bookmark

3. 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 tagPERSONAL

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 1WHICH 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.

Creating: Put elements together to form a coherent or functional whole.Construct a Webslide presentation of ordered/tagged/annotated resources.

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Issues ?

• Yet another tool!

• Interoperability – e.g. import / export

• Size / nature of community e.g. Connotea primarily for the scientific community

• Quality / Appropriateness of tags

• Relationship with formal classification systems?

• Reliability / stability (caching?)

Questions ?

Further eventshttp://tasterseries.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/

Text messaging (SMS) for collaborative learning: reaching out and tuning in Wednesday 4 June 2008

Using Skype and other web-conferencing tools to support off campus learnersWednesday 18 June 2008

Contact: e-learning@bath.ac.uk