25 Oct, 2007
From Information Literacy to Scholarly Identity: Effective Pedagogical Strategies for Social Bookmarking at EDUCAUSE2007
Posted by: Jeff VanDrimmelen In: Digital Learners| EDUCAUSE2007| Social Web| Web 2.0
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?
