Sharing Online Resources

Social Bookmarking

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Facilitators

Stephan Ridgway, Workforce DevelopmentStephan Ridgway, Workforce Development

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Session Overview/ The personal (browser bookmarks) VS the Social (public tagging)/ How tagging can be used to manage, categorise and share online

resources within social networks/ Understand the difference between taxonomic and folksonomic

classification/ The role of RSS in syndicating, mashingup and embedding tag feeds/ Overview of 2 social bookmarking tools http://del.icio.us/ &

http://www.diigo.com/   Using Social Bookmarking in Education

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Social Bookmarking - Short Version by Common Craft

Tagging in Social Networks

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Summary: social bookmarking/ A means for storing, organising, searching and managing favourite sites

on the web / Organisation is based on ‘tags’ or key words (individual or group) / Bookmarks are listed chronologically, by category or tags, or via a

search engine. / RSS enabled – subscribers can become aware of new bookmarks as

they are saved, shared and tagged by other users. / Newer tools have a range of other features such as ratings and

comments on bookmarks, the ability to import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web annotation, and groups or social networking features

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Tagging in Social NetworksHow tagging can be used to manage, categorise and share online resources within social networks

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User-Based Tagging and Folksonomies

Multiple concepts activated

Choose ONE of the activated concepts.

Categorize it!

Object worth remembering (article, image…)

Analysis-Paralysis!

Image by Rashmi Sinha

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Taxonomic vs FolksonomicTaxonomy - The science of classification (The experts do it)

From the greek verb: Taxis = "to classify“ Nomos = "law, science, economy“

Hierarchical-enumerative top down tree like structure

Hierarchies designed and maintained by experts

Repositories cataloged by experts eg. libraries

Structure imposed on the world of objects Centralised classification

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Taxonomic vs FolksonomicFolksonomy - Social classification (The Folks do it)

Folk + Taxonomy meaning that it emerges from the people

Open democatic system

Constantly evolving based on user interactions and consensus

tags capture the social fabic at that moment in time

Structure is an emergent property

Well suited to rapidly changing heterogeneous information sources such as the internet and social networks

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RSS (real simple syndication)

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Tagging & the wisdom of the crowds

Collective Intelligence

The Knowledge of Networks

Connectivism

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Social Bookmarking Services

http://www.diigo.com

http://del.icio.us

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Social Bookmarking in Education

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del.icio.us

/ Initially developed by Joshua Schachter as a simple web page listing bookmarks with annotations, Schachter then decided to make these available on a web server so that friends and others could also view them. From there, it was but a small step to hosting others' lists, and so the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us was born.

/ Now owned by Yahoo it probably the most well know and utilised social bookmarking tool.

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Diigo

/ Like del.icio.us Diigo is a free social bookmarking service. Pronounced as Dee'go the name "Diigo" is an abbreviation for "Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff."

/ Diigo combines social bookmarking and social networking to form what they refer to as a Social Information Network (SIN) where information consumption, research, and sharing is central, and where the connection between people and people, between people and information, and between information and information, are exploited and harnessed to improve knowledge sharing and content discovery, and to enable more meaningful social connections and intellectual exchanges.

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In Education/ Create social bookmark repositories on relevant areas so you, your colleagues

and students can contribute to a growing database of web resources.

/ Network with other educators globally who share your interests

/ Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks

/ Subscribe to someone's bookmarks via RSS and receive updates whenever they add new websites

/ Collaborate on projects with other teaching sections, industry partners, libraries by sharing bookmarks between all participating communities

/ Social bookmarking can be used as a very effective research tool

/ Sharing online resources with other networked communities ie twitter, facebook

/ If you want a social bookmarking services only visible within the DET firewall then CURLS is for you !!

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Centre for Learning Innovation

Using delicious to supportTALE Resources

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myLearning Diigo Group

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