social bookmarking and personal learning networks
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Lecture 4 on Emerging Technologies ModuleTRANSCRIPT
Lecture 4 - Social Bookmarking and Personal
Learning NetworksFrances Bell, [email protected]
Image used under Creative Commons License from Edans 1Slide
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
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/
Getting started in Delicious
Explore, join, bookmark and tag
http://delicious.com/francesbell
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
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
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
Networking in Social Bookmarking
Asymmetry, eavesdropping/overlooking, group work, shared vocabulary http://delicious.com/network/francesbell
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).
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
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
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
Resourceshttp://delicious.com/francesbell/socialbookmarking
http://delicious.com/tag/socialbookmarking
http://delicious.com/tag/social+bookmarking