From Information Literacy to Scholarly Identity: Effective Pedagogical Strategies for Social Bookmarking at EDUCAUSE2007
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There are some handouts (PowerPoint, Teacher Handout, Student Handout) are available here. You should really check these out, especially if you are charged with teaching others about social bookmarking.
A very interesting title… think about it. How can social bookmarking help students screen and use resources online to helping scholars collaborate about things that they think are important? What are the pedagogical implications of social bookmarking?
The tools that they are using is Blackboard Scholar. It is available as part of Blackboard LMS, or by itself… and all for FREE (Don’t you just love that word?)
- Getting students involved allows students to collaborate and contribute to the content of the course.
- The information they gather can become part of a lifelong learning effort that they can access later on as well.
- Used as a way for students to find resources that can be shared with the entire class.
- Thought: we should create tags for each of our classes. We can then search that tag online and find resources for that course forever (in theory).
- Social networking is a great way for students to find information and share it with the professor and other students.
- You can create a course page by creating an unique tag for the class and tagging any information with that tag.
- If students are not doing it already, they adapt very quickly. (Digital Natives)
- The Blackboard Module allows much more customization as well. (See Powerpoint for great examples). Each class can have certain tags as well for group projects.
How can we use Social Bookmarking:
- Personal Productivity
- Course Content
- Teamwork and Projects
- Professional Development
- Discovery, Tracking and Networking
Thoughts:
- This really is a great way to get the students collaborating and working together.
- In a way, social bookmarking is our way of annotating the web… at least organizing it in a way that is useful for each of us.
- I logged into our blackboard system and tried to find a way to add a social bookmarking module to our class, but I couldn’t find it… hmmm… anyone else know how to enable that on blackboard? Do the admin’s have to do that?
Jeff VanDrimmelen
Update: I emailed our Blackboard folks here at UNC campus and they said: “The Scholar tool is not available in the UNC-CH Blackboard system. It is currently under evaluation and it might became available in the future depending on the resources available and priorities.”
Hopefully it won’t be long till we can get this going. If we don’t use Blackboard, we will turn to other sources. Might as well have something that integrates with a system we are already using.
Oct 25th, 2007 11:45 am
Charlie Morris
The words “free” and “Blackboard” are not thrown together in the same sentence too often.. so I’m a bit skeptical. I personally prefer del.icio.us.
Thanks for the posting, I’ll refer to it as a resource when trying to explain pedagogical value of social bookmarking.
Oct 25th, 2007 2:33 pm
Karen Gage
Just an additional bit of info from Blackboard on how you get access to Scholar.
Your system admin needs to install a Building Block or PowerLink on your server for you to get your Scholar account. There is no charge for Blackboard clients to get the Building Block or PowerLink.
If you just want to browse other folks’ collections or subscribe to RSS feeds, you can do that directly at http://www.scholar.com, whether you use Blackboard Learning System(s) or not.
Oct 25th, 2007 7:06 pm
Eric Kunnen
Hi Jeff,
Thanks for blogging our session. I also really appreciate your blog posts on other sessions that I unfortunately missed.
I posted some of my notes here: http://grcc.wordpress.com
Sincerely,
Eric
Nov 1st, 2007 8:32 pm
Frances Bell
Thanks for the links to resources.
I recently had a look at Scholar. I think I would have been impressed if I had never seen del.icio.us (or alternatives) but I fail to see what this product offers over bricolage-type uses of other social bookmarking see
http://francesbell.com/2008/01/12/9/. I share Charlie Morris’s scepticism of the use of the term free in this context. Social bookmarkers, in a small but significant way, add content to existing content by links and notes. Why should I add content to something that will be used by Blackboard to sell its product?
The significant question to ask with all ‘free’ services to which you contribute content is
How likely is it that this will be available and free in 5 years time?
Hence my choice of del.icio.us
Mar 9th, 2008 3:11 am