Social bookmarking tools allow users to bookmark and share web pages with others. Some popular social bookmarking sites include Delicious and Diigo. These tools support collaborative research and communities of practice by enabling information management, research-based categorization of bookmarks, and collaborative project support. When used for learning and teaching, social bookmarking can enhance assessment, student engagement and autonomy, collaborative projects, and development of research skills and communities of practice.

1. Social Bookmarking:
Supporting collaborative research and
communities of practice
Keith Kirkwood

2. The Terrible Twos
Why are they terrible?
Because they want to walk,
They’re starting to talk,
to demand some sort of autonomy.
Do
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let them?
Do we give them the tools
To become self-empowered
motivated, inquisitive, confident
human beings?
Or do we keep them
them… dependent,
dependent disengaged students?

3. Web 2.0 * E-Learning 2.0
The tendency towards:
user-created
user created content
decentralised sharing
self-regulated communities

4. Social bookmarking
Online bookmarking of web pages
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i order t share th
them with others
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5. Social bookmarking tools
Del.icio.us - http://del.icio.us
Diigo - http://www.diigo.com

8. Social bookmarking
for learning
• Information management made easy
• Research-based folksonomies
Research based
• Collaborative project support
• Academic social networking

9. Social bookmarking
for teaching
• Assessment component through:
• Student contributions
• Transparency of engagement
• Collaborative projects
• Peer teaching/study groups
• Active learning and autonomy

10. Broader Implications
for LMS 2.0
Helps develop:
H l d l
• eLearning communities of practice
• independent inquiry
• research skills
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It’s social and…fun