Social Bookmarking

Martin.Sillaots@tlu.eedel.icio.us/martinsillaots

Menu

• Social bookmarking, tagging, del.icio.us

• Bookmarking and tagging as method for knowledge creation

• Bookmarks and tags for Vetamix

Social bookmarking

• Share the bookmarks

• deliver the content

• URL easy to remember

Share bookmark

Personal environment

Taging

• Knowledge creation

• Personal tagcloud

• Bookmark tagcloud

• Folksonomy

• Long tail phenomena

Bookmark tagcloud - Folksonomy

Long tail

Networking

• Build the network

• Alternative way for content delivery

• See friends bookmarks

Network

Network visualization

http://www.twoantennas.com/projects/delicious-network-explorer/

del.icio.us as LMS

Using social bookmarks and tagging in learning

del.icio.us as LMS

• content published in web

• teacher created the bookmarks

• students copied the bookmarks

• students added the tags

• students tagcloud – personal learning environment

Content published in web

http://lemill.net/community/martinsillaots/collections/projektijuhtimine/view

Teachers bookmarks

http://del.icio.us/martinzillaotz

Students copied the bookmarks trough the network

Students tagcloud

Shortcomings

• The list of bookmarks is chronological

• Too simple to copy the tags

• 33% of users do not like tagging

• Not visible relations among bookmarks and tags

DeliVis - del.icio.us visualization

http://www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/~hmdb/infovis/delicious/del.icou.us%20visualization.html

Absolutely Delicious Tools Collection

http://www.quickonlinetips.com/archives/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tools-collection

Conclusion – benefit for Vetamix

• Teachers can bookmark content in Veramix

• Teachers can describe the content with tags

• Tags are used for searching by other users

• The number of bookmarks describe the popularity of the content