Social bookmarking - Teaching and Learning Activities

[Steve Mackenzie]

Hello Colleagues,

If you have time to help me i would be most grateful.
I am presenting at e-learning symposium at my university (DMU) on Social Bookmarking

I think many of us recognize the usefulness of social bookmarking for our personal use, i would be interested to hear how you have incorporated social bookmarking into a teaching and learning activity for your students. Perhaps this may be tagging activities, searching activities and especially secondary activities after bookmarks have been tagged.

if you can give a brief overview - i''ll highlight how other teachers are making use of social boomarking to help inspire those teachers in our university who are unaware of the usefulness of this tool.

Many Thanks, Steve

[Stephanie Cheney]

Hi Steve,
My department (Academic Technology-Training and Development) created an account b/c we were always e-mailing each other good links and then never using them. We all use the same id/pw and are building a good resource library for ourselves and the faculty we work with. We try to add a brief description of the link and are careful about our tagging so we don't have multiple tags for the same thing.
http://del.icio.us/tdwit
Hope this helps, have fun with the presentation! ~Stephanie.

[Radhi]

HI,
Thanks for your guidance.I too had the same doubt as Steve now i got clarified about my topic.
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bhuvana

Social Bookmarking

[Steve Mackenzie]

thanks for the info Stephanie, this is a great start - i am now a tdwit fan
Steve

[Julia Ault]

Some excellent bookmarks there. I am also a fan!!
This could be very useful to me if I get a job in elearning at my local college.

http://del.icio.us/jewelwg is me if anyone can find anything useful there.

[Steve Mackenzie]

Hi Julia,

thanks for your delicious name also. :-) For the record, i have a lot of bookmarks related to elearning and web 2.0 at http://del.icio.us/web2learning

Steve

[Britt Watwood]

I published an article on this last December - http://www.ris.uvt.ro/Publications/Decembrie%202007/Watwood.pdf

I would also suggest checking out Gabriela Grosseck's article: http://www.scribd.com/doc/212002/Using-delicious-In-Education

[Steve Mackenzie]

thanks Britt,

This will be a great resource for my work colleagues and Gabriella's paper too.
Steve

[Ron Heasley]

I teach a course on integrating technology. When I find a website that has information I would like to use in the course I tag it with the course number. I share this with my students and encourage them to use the same tag when they find a site to share with the class. I also show them how to subscribe to posts with this tag.

[Steve Mackenzie]

Many thanks for your response Ron,

I am sure my colleagues will see the merit in using this strategy
Steve

[Julia Ault]

Many thanks for the links. I have added them to del.icio.us for future reference!

[Eduardo Peirano]

I have just added Stephanie and Ron to my del.icio.us, http://del.icio.us/emapey
Both were new to me.

[Britt Watwood]

Good advice, Eduardo. I have had Ron in my network for several months and he spots some interesting things. Just added Julia to my account - http://del.icio.us/bwatwood