Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

14
Lecture 4 - Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks Frances Bell, [email protected] Image used under Creative Commons License from Edans 1 Slid e

description

Lecture 4 on Emerging Technologies Module

Transcript of Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Page 1: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Lecture 4 - Social Bookmarking and Personal

Learning NetworksFrances Bell, [email protected]

Image used under Creative Commons License from Edans 1Slide

Page 2: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

AgendaSocial Bookmarking

Getting Started in Delicious

Comparison with Categories and Search

Tagging and Folksonomy

Practical Networking for Finding and Sharing Resources

Summary of Block 1

Assessed Task 1

Page 3: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Social BookmarkingStarted in mid 1990s e.g. Backflip , barely surviving http://twitter.com/backflip_status

Commercial ventures failed when dotcom bubble burst

Reinvented as ‘Social’ Bookmarking in Web 2.0 era when Del.icio.us introduced tagging

Many players in ‘free’ Web 2.0 arena Furl, Digg, Stumbleupon

Also offered as ‘enterprise’ service to businesses e.g. http://connectbeam.com/

Page 4: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Getting started in Delicious

Explore, join, bookmark and tag

http://delicious.com/francesbell

Page 5: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Compared with Categories

‘Old’ Yahoo home page

Most pages use some categories

Page 6: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Delicious compared with Search

What’s new? http://delicious.com/

How does delicious compare with Google search?

Let’s try a search for micro-blogging definition

http://delicious.com/search?p=micro-blogging+definition&chk=&fr=del_icio_us&lc=0&atags=&rtags=&context=userposts|francesbell|&context=all||

http://www.google.co.uk/search?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=1G1GGLQ_ENZZ339&=&q=micro-blogging+definition&btnG=Google+Search&meta=lr%3D

How are they different? And Why?

Can search within your own bookmarks, or your network’s

Page 7: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Tagging

Uploaded on February 22, 2008by [177]

• creators and consumers can add tags that have meaning for them

• may be very general e.g. http://delicious.com/popular/tennis

•Personal•What Frances thinks is funny http://delicious.com/francesbell/funny

•Specific SBSemtech•http://delicious.com/francesbell/sbsemtech

Page 8: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Folksonomy“Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of

information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrieval. The tagging is done in a social environment (usually shared and open to others). Folksonomy is created from the act of tagging by the person consuming the information. The value in this external tagging is derived from people using their own vocabulary and adding explicit meaning, which may come from inferred understanding of the information/object. People are not so much categorizing, as providing a means to connect items (placing hooks) to provide their

meaning in their own understanding.” Thomas Van der Wal http://vanderwal.net/folksonomy.html

More information at www.njla.org/njacrl/Understanding_Folksonomy.pdf

Page 9: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Networking in Social Bookmarking

Asymmetry, eavesdropping/overlooking, group work, shared vocabulary http://delicious.com/network/francesbell

Page 10: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Getting Started in Delicious and Twitter

See Online Activity Block 1 Weeks 4-5

Sign up for accounts

Work with some people from your tutorial

Share with whole group results of your good site, bad site, ugly site (Internet Detective Weeks 2-3 Online Activity).

Page 11: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

How does your personal network influence finding and sharing

behaviours?

Findinglinks

Saving/ sharinglinks

Network influences volume

Network influences impact

2 virtuous circles if finding/sharingStrength is in overlap

Delicious

Twitter

Page 12: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Summary of Block 1 Lectures 1-4, and Online and Tutorial Activities Weeks 2-5, should have helped you to achieveUnderstanding how materials and activities are organised in classes, online (Blackboard and SiSpace) and in your own time and place..

Understanding Assessment for Semester 1Overview of Social Media LandscapeUnderstanding of how and why we can benefit from personal learning networks

Understanding of practical and personal applications of social networks and Web 2.0 services for learning

Page 13: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Assessed Task 1See Blackboard space for details of

what to do – blog post on MicrobloggingHow we assess – criteriaHow you submit url of post (not just your blog) through Blackboard

Page 14: Social Bookmarking and Personal Learning Networks

Resourceshttp://delicious.com/francesbell/socialbookmarking

http://delicious.com/tag/socialbookmarking

http://delicious.com/tag/social+bookmarking