Tagging To Teaching
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The document discusses Grand Rapids Community College's use of the social bookmarking tool Blackboard Scholar. It provides an overview of Scholar and how GRCC implemented it. Examples are given of how Scholar has been used for course content, student assignments, library resources, professional development, and networking. Future plans include leveraging Scholar more for resource sharing between institutions and enhancing faculty and student skills.
![From Tagging to Teaching Practical Examples of using Blackboard Scholar for Social Bookmarking Eric Kunnen [email_address] Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Grand Rapids Community College Garry Brand [email_address] Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator Grand Rapids Community College John Morrison [email_address] Director of Bb Beyond Communities Blackboard Inc.](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tagging-to-teaching-1194738204856589-1/85/Tagging-To-Teaching-1-320.jpg)
![Eric Kunnen [email_address] http://www.grcc.edu/ekunnen Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Grand Rapids Community College Garry Brand [email_address] http://www.grcc.edu/gbrand Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator Grand Rapids Community College Thank You, Discussion, and Questions John Morrison [email_address] Director of Bb Beyond Communities Blackboard Inc. Scholar Information Visit www.scholar.com or wiki.scholar.com Building Block / Power Link available in the Download Center at behind.blackboard.com Email us at: beyond@blackboard.com Go Forth and Scholar!](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/tagging-to-teaching-1194738204856589-1/85/Tagging-To-Teaching-27-320.jpg)
Tagging To Teaching
- 1. From Tagging to Teaching Practical Examples of using Blackboard Scholar for Social Bookmarking Eric Kunnen [email_address] Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Grand Rapids Community College Garry Brand [email_address] Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator Grand Rapids Community College John Morrison [email_address] Director of Bb Beyond Communities Blackboard Inc.
- 2. Agenda Define Social Bookmarking Provide an overview of Scholar How GRCC got started with Scholar GRCC Deployment and Adoption Experiences Examples in Teaching and Learning Scholar… In the Future
- 3. What is social bookmarking? The practice of saving bookmarks (resources) to a public Web site and “tagging” them with keywords. EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative, 2005 You can save your bookmarks online, share resources, discover new links, and tag your bookmarks for sorting and easy retrieval from any computer.
- 4. Question: What’s a “resource”? Answer: Anything with a URL! Includes: Web sites/pages Articles in a Library Database Files in the Blackboard Content System Videos on YouTube Anything else you can think of that has it’s own unique URL . . .
- 5. Bb Scholar – An Overview Part of the Blackboard Beyond Initiative Centrally Hosted Web Service (www.scholar.com) Integrated with Blackboard (course streams) Customized for Education (course and discipline tags)
- 6. Scholar is. . . Academic Resource Sharing Across Courses & Institutions Throughout Your Academic Career … and Beyond
- 7. Here’s how it works…
- 10. My Scholar Home
- 11. My Bookmarks
- 12. My Tag Cloud
- 13. My Bookmarks tagged “ocean”
- 14. All Bookmarks tagged “ocean”
- 16. GRCC & Scholar PDPs & Focus Groups WebCT Impact! Conference Focus Group Project Cornerstone – Scholar “1.0” Project Duckpond – Scholar “2.0” Blackboard Beyond Initiative Blackboard Idea Exchange Faculty Innovators Web 2.0 del.icio.us users Student Demand
- 17. GRCC – Survey on Social Bookmarking … I think we are going to need some help marketing the idea of social bookmarking for sure. - Eric Kunnen
- 18. GRCC – Scholar Rollout Deployment, Rollout, and Adoption Building Block installed on Test Server in early December 2006. Live on Production in late December 2006. Current User Count: 640+ Visibility & Communication Tab - Scholar Module – What’s NEW & COOL! GRCC Today Campus Newsletter Faculty Email Distance Learning Email F2F Orientation Campus Meetings Training Sessions Bb Advisory Team Course Links
- 19. Educational uses of Social Bookmarking Enhance Computer Literacy Skills Allow Students to Contribute to Course Resources Provide Student-Centered Learning Social Networking with an Academic Focus Build Life Long Skills Create Content Collections Discover and Share Resources And more!
- 20. GRCC – Practical Examples & Ideas Personal Productivity Track, Watch, Discover, Store, Classify, and Share Course Content Student Assignments, Contributions, and Sharing Course Tags Dynamic Course Streams Direct Library Resources Teamwork and Projects AQIP, Quality, and NCA Professional Development Online and Hybrid Certification Course Learning Objects Discovery, Tracking and Networking Academic Social Networking Profiles, Friends, Favorites, and Fans Discipline Tags Cross Institutional Sharing
- 21. GRCC – Practical Examples Personal Productivity Track, Watch, Discover, Store, Classify, and Share
- 22. GRCC – Practical Examples Course Content Student Assignments and Sharing Bookmark Streams & RSS Library Resources Course Tags
- 23. GRCC – Practical Examples Teamwork and Projects AQIP, Quality, and NCA
- 24. GRCC – Practical Examples Professional Development Online and Hybrid Certification Course & Learning Objects
- 25. GRCC – Practical Examples Discovery, Sharing, and Networking Profiles, Friends, Favorites, and Fans Discipline Tags & Cross Institutional Sharing Academic Social Networking
- 26. GRCC – Plans for the future… Leverage the power of Scholar to: 1) Provide our Librarians with an easy way to bring in some valuable resources directly into courses to share with students and faculty . 2) Encourage students to "add to" the body of knowledge in a course and share with each other. 3) Share resources with other universities and colleges on Scholar. 4) Provide students, faculty, and staff with the skills of social networking, bookmarking, and online tool usage with a key quality of the discernment of online resources. 5) Enhance faculty productivity , discipline searching/sharing , and course resource integration . 6) Improve collaboration for groups, teams, research groups, committees to share and categorize resources. 7) Increase awareness for individuals in using Scholar to easily store, access, collect, share, discover, tag, classify, and sort resources …
- 27. Eric Kunnen [email_address] http://www.grcc.edu/ekunnen Coordinator of Instructional Technologies Grand Rapids Community College Garry Brand [email_address] http://www.grcc.edu/gbrand Professor, Faculty Development Coordinator Grand Rapids Community College Thank You, Discussion, and Questions John Morrison [email_address] Director of Bb Beyond Communities Blackboard Inc. Scholar Information Visit www.scholar.com or wiki.scholar.com Building Block / Power Link available in the Download Center at behind.blackboard.com Email us at: beyond@blackboard.com Go Forth and Scholar!