Tagging+for+teaching+and+learning

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==**Overview** ==

Social bookmarking is the habit or practice of saving bookmarks to a web site and “tagging” them with keywords. Social bookmarking sites are a popular way to store, classify, share and search links.

**Educational Uses for Bookmarking**

 * Network with other educators around the globe who share your interests.
 * Create social bookmark accounts for your school's academic departments. Teachers within the department all contribute to the growing database of web resources.
 * Contact other people for professional networking, based on their social bookmarks.
 * Allow yourself and your students to share bookmarks on research topics.
 * Subscribe to someone's bookmarks via RSS and receive updates whenever they add new websites.
 * Collaborate on projects with other schools, sharing bookmarks between all participating communities.

In this website it also states about sharing
 * resources
 * reference lists
 * bibliographies
 * papers and other resources for students.

**Why Teachers Would Use Bookmarking**
Collaboration saves time and eases work load. Using tagging and bookmarking is a collaborative 2.0 web tool, which allows teachers to share sites with their colleagues and tag in a manner which is unstructured allowing users to create connections between data ANYWAY THEY WANT. Tagging is just another word for organising your book marks. So if you have a large range on a multitude of topics, then tagging is a good idea. Probably a good idea any way, and a good habit to get into. Social bookmarking allows you that any-where, any-time access. So for example if you are at the University and you find a good site you can instantly book mark it, rather than writing it down and rewriting it later on your own computer. Urls with long strings are really easy to social bookmark to avoid dropping any of the letters. Social bookmarking is a way to create order in web resources that are used in curriculum departments, syndicates or among learning communities. The order allows the user/s to access information quickly by clicking onto the tags which are relevant to the search requirements without having to do the leg work.

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**Why Students Would Use Bookmarking**
Technology which is social and collaborative and allows our students to communicate and connect with one another is a sure way inwhich students will engage in its use. When surveying students about the use of tagging and why they'd use it they said ..."it's cool and you can tag in your own speak that your friends know and will pick up on quickly" ..."you might not necessarily use it all the time but as long as you know how to if need be, this is important" ..."tagging is such a hip and cool thing to be doing-when you have great info, or music or videos to watch you can just tag them and text a friend to let them know. But no doubt if they are looking or interested they'll find your tag on the social bookmarking anyway." With the students in teaching learning situations....... If you have a class log in eg Room 73 with the password room 73, then if the students or teacher find relevant sites at home or while searching at school they can book mark them to their class site. Sharing the learning, valuing the contributions the chn may bring to the experience. Really easy to share with other learners.

If as a teacher you have 3 good sites that you want the students to use on a pod of laptops, or on a number of laptops, social bookmarking saves the teacher loading the sites on all the computers.

**Relating it to the New Zealand Curriculum*
The New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) encourages teachers and students to be engaged in the learning and to heighten their learning experiences with technology tool which makes the learning significant and authentic. In the context of the NZC, a significant use of social bookmarking and tagging is to create the ability to engage learners in the key competencies.

//Using language, symbols, and texts is about working with and making meaning of the codes in which knowledge is expressed. Languages and symbols are systems for representing and communicating information, experiences, and ideas. People use languages and symbols to produce texts of all kinds: written, oral/aural, and visual; informative and imaginative; informal and formal; mathematical, scientific, and technological.
 * ===Using language, symbols, and texts===

Students who are competent users of language, symbols, and texts can interpret and use words, number, images, movement, metaphor, and technologies in a range of contexts. They recognise how choices of language, symbol, or text affect people’s understanding and the ways in which they respond to communications. They confidently use ICT (including, where appropriate, assistive technologies) to access and provide information and to communicate with others//

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Resources
This site has concise information in relation to the use in education. It goes on to say how it can be used with //students// as well. Great Wiki site for educators as well. [|tag - bookmarking] This site is to challenge your thinking about all web 2.0 tools and their use in teaching and learning: [|Why would you use it?].