Social bookmarking


Small Group Discussions: Social Bookmarking

 

This wiki page is provided for recording small group discussions about issues relating to the assessment of student contributions to social bookmarking tools in higher education.

 

Participants

Robert Fitzgerald

Merrilyn Goos

Belinda Tynan

Arthur Winzenried

Scribe: Asma Md Ali

 

Discussion question:

When university students are asked to demonstrate their learning by sharing and tagging resources using social bookmarking tools, what academic standards, and assessment and reporting practices are essential or desirable?

 

 

 

social bookmarking = SB

 

butcher's paper

presenter

writer

 

example site:

delicious, digg, ISA knowledge

 

features:

bookmark favourite site, share with others, comments, group/manage things(bookmarks)

 

scientific/scholarly site (with social bookmarking):

upload and dl from endnote, capture journal publication

connotia, cite-u-like 

 

scenario:

teacher list bookmark,student find there

teacher want student to add and share for essay

giving marks: add 10 list=10 marks?

 

net gen project: 

 

using it for non-university work. how to do that academically?

created another bibliography,

tag reference,

can read and put stars

 

to assess?

 

what kind of learning to assess? why would u asess it?

 

may encourage the students to use it but not assess it (the process)

 

diigo

 

the questions:

 

strategies

 

academic work?

 

apply academic standard?

 

 

support for literature review

 

should be engaged or not? (library staff)

 

how do we organised an unorganised things?

therefore, web 2.0 = a door to learning

 

peer review each other literature to develop the skill specifically in the assignment.

 

 

marking references/annotation

same issues to assess group work but can include individual assessment.

 

opportunity vs challenges

optimism vs realism=assessment

 

Is SB ideal tool to practice their ontology developing skills?

 

what underlying learning so that changes of tools still enables the usage of the learning? what are we assessing? how to assess for individual work?

do we assess the impact factor?

how to go about it?

 

people use it and why?