What is social bookmarking?

The lingo (metadata, tags, bookmarklets)

Three tools to explore

Integration in Web 2.0

Uses in education & discussion#retawebinars

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What is social bookmarking?

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Personal Knowledge Management

Social Knowledge Management

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Browser based bookmarks/favorites

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_bookmarking

Saved on your

computer & organized

by folder

•share•store•organize•manage

onlineaccessible

socialmore powerful organization

more possibilities for research

Why social bookmarking?

Image from http://jedchan.com/social-bookmarking-sites-helps-page-rank/

Some of the tools

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Delicious.coma social bookmarking service

Bookmarks

Control Panels

Tags

Search

Created with http://www.wordle.net

•Keywords•Metadata(tells the web what this is)•Open ended

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What are tags?

Creating your bookmarks

Tag Cloud

Accessing your bookmarks

Many ways to search

Personal Social

Your network

http://intelligencetesting.blogspot.com/2007_09_01_archive.html

SemanticsThe study of meaning

MetadataDescriptions of objects on the web

Metatags

@novaspivack

http://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dwzv3r6_143qtq9cf9

The Semantic Web

• Web 3G (Giant Global Graph – GGG)

• Self-describing linked data

• Built both through people and bots

@novaspivackhttp://docs.google.com/Present?docid=dwzv3r6_143qtq9cf9

Organization Features Examples

Ontology

Formal semanticsEstablished categories

formal representation of shared knowledge

taxonomy(tagging by committee)

•Dewey Decimal System# 000 – Computer science, information, and general

works# 100 – Philosophy and psychology

# 200 – Religion# 300 – Social sciences

•Biological Classification Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus,

Species

Folksonomy

Informal semanticsOpen ended categories

Categories created socially (free tagging by users)

•Delicious•Flickr

FolksologyA hybrid semantic systemA combination of free tags

and structure

•Wikipedia•DBpedia

Types of Social Knowledge

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Something to consider ;-)

Tool FeaturesCommon features of tools include

RSS, widgets/badges, integration with other networks

http://www.delicious.com

Share your bookmarks, annotateImport/export to/from browser

Create your own tagsCreate tag bundles

http://www.faviki.com

Share your bookmarks, annotateTag with ‘meaningful’ tags from

DBPedia

http://www.twine.com

Share bookmarks, annotate Comment on entries

Connect with interest groupsEmail digests

Three examples

Demo: Delicious in Action

“Bookmarklet”

Faviki

DBPedia

http://www.faviki.com Share your bookmarks, annotate

Tag with ‘meaningful’ tags from DBPedia

Uses the most common things in wikipedia

Itemsbecome

Faviki tags

Faviki in Action

A Faviki Tag

Twine

http://www.twine.com Share bookmarks, annotate Comment on entries

Connect with interest groupsEmail digests

Integration in Web 2.0

•Add a link roll or tag cloud to your blog, wiki or course•Connect your social bookmarks to your Twitter, Friendfeed, Tumblr or other publishing site

What does it all mean? “The implications for education are profound. Let’s consider three areas of impact:

•knowledge construction,

•personal learning network

maintenance, and•personal

educational administration.”

http://www.educause.edu/EQ/EDUCAUSEQuarterlyMagazineVolum/TheSemanticWebinEducation/163437

• Shared resources among classroom community– Class agrees upon tags to use (ie: retawebinars)– Members follow/friend/associate within the network

• Follow influential authors, scientists, etc.• Teacher can use RSS feeds to track student and

group work• Spontaneous discovery of valuable resources• Share links via a widget in your wiki, course, or blog• Compare resources based on tags, popularity

Social Bookmarking as 21st Century Learning

http://delicious.com/hollyrae/retawebinars

• Network with other educators• Share academic resources in school teams,

departments, and district• Find other educators to follow and/or network with

online based of their bookmarks• Collaborate with other schools and classrooms by

sharing bookmarks• Give students an easy link to remember where all

links can be located• Let students choose from links you have previewed

Social Bookmarking for 21st Century Educators

http://delicious.com/hollyrae/retawebinars

Did I mention

how many tools there

are?

So now what?

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