Teaching and Learning with Social Bookmarking

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Teaching and Learning with Social Bookmarking

• David Vogt
• Lee Iverson

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Social Bookmarking

• Del.icio.us Granddad
• http//del.icio.us/
• Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 Search infrastructure
• http//myweb2.search.yahoo.com/
• Magnolia Communities
• http//ma.gnolia.com/
• Connotea CiteULike Reference management
• http//connotea.org/ and http//citeulike.org/
• LibraryThing Community of readers
• http//www.librarything.com/

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General Approach

• Personal space in public arena
• Memory (and evaluation) of resources
• Organization by folksonomy
• Keywords applied to resources
• Discovery based on
• Content Popularity
• Keywords Association

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Direct User Benefits

• Browser and client independent
• Can access bookmarks from anywhere
• Very easy to bookmark items
• Usually accompanied by bookmarklet or plugin
• Can associate note with object
• Keywords are by association and completely
  user-driven

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Social Benefits

• Wisdom of crowds
• A lot of people acting in their own self-interest
  can indicate globally valuable actions or
  solutions
• Recommendation by behaviour and association
• Discovery of similar others
• Interest in similar resources
• Use of similar keywords
• Everything is attributed

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Folksonomy

• No fixed categories
• Each user categorizes for own needs
• As many keywords as needed
• No it goes there and only there
• Easy to create (and understand) tools for
  association
• See all things tagged folksonomy
• folksonomy and research
• All things tagged wine by Steven Forth

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Other Systems

• Flickr photo sharing
• http//flickr.com/
• Tagging used to identify and group photographs
• MySpace social web
• http//myspace.com/
• User profiles, friends, blogging, multimedia

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GUSSE

• Social bookmarking
• Resources for and about sustainability
• Blogging and commenting
• Focus on interpretation of resources more than
  just saving them
• Conversation and storytelling
• Flexible communities and sharing
• Easily define groups and communities
• Converse within communities
• Share only with groups or communities

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Teaching and Learning

• Integration of dialogue, resource sharing, and
  information organization
• Interpretation
• Conversation and storytelling
• Information evaluation
• Information organization
• Information association
• An authentic tool for conversation and
  information management

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Future Work

• User experience research
• Long term usage
• Aging
• Scaling
• Information evolution
• Contextual sharing
• Better definition of sharing contexts
• Engaged collaboration
• Synchronous and asynchronous
• Collaborative organization

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Application Contexts

• Research environment inside research library
• Think Connotea plus! ? Institutional repos.
• Who else has read X?
• What else did they read on the same subject?
• Can I see their notes?
• What did they produce from these resources?
• Possible TLEF

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Application Contexts

• Research environment inside museum (MOA)
• Integration of organization and interpretation
  with discovery
• Built on top of existing curatorial mgmt. sys.
• Possible component of RRN

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• Lee Iverson
• UBC Dept. of ECE
• [phone]
• Leei_at_ece.ubc.ca