social+bookmarking+&+referencing

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Author(s):


 * Michelle Ainslie, Luvuyo Kakaza**

1. Definition
Social bookmarking is the process of saving links to various websites and pages on a public platform. As soon as you find an article, website, video or any other resource online that you wish to share, you can save the link and tag it with keywords. You can store and update a collection of bookmarks on a social bookmarking site (such as www.delicious.com) and can make these public or private. Visitors to these social bookmarking sites can then find relevant information by typing in keywords, a person's name or popularity. You can easily make social connections with other individuals interested in similar topics, and through searching for resources under the same tag, a unique structure of keywords related to your community's resources starts to form - this is known as[| folksonomy]. Many social bookmarking sites provide web feeds for their lists of bookmarks, including lists organised by tags. This allows subscribers to become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared and tagged by other users.

Referencing on the other hand is the act of acknolwedgind the sources that are used in ones writing (assignment). The day to day technology that we have currently allows one to manage the sources that are cited in an assignment. This includes storing, editing, sharing and automatic customisation depending on the referencoing style one is expected to use.

2. Examples of products (open source/free or commercial)

 * Social Bookmarking**
 * [|www.twitter.com]
 * [|www.digg.com]
 * [|www.stumbleupon.com]
 * [|www.delicious.com]
 * [|www.reddit.com]
 * [|www.friendfeed.com]
 * [|www.citeulike.org] - This is a social bookmarking site for academic papers
 * [|www.newsvine.com] - Stay ahead with social news

//Author input: I have personally only used Twitter, but I love the look of Friend Feed too. Twitter works well because you tend to follow (and get followed by) people who have similar interests. So you can post links that are relevant to them and vice versa. A nice, quick way to stay ahead with trends.//
 * Referencing**
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//Author input:// //MS Word 2007 does provide a function of this nature, however it is limited in terms of being accessible only from the computer the references were captures unlike Mendeley which allows one to access from any computer with an internet connection.//

3. Examples of applications for Teaching and Learning

 * Social Bookmarking**
 * **Resource collections:** Your students can have immediate access to relevant links that can be updated any time you come across something relevant or meaningful to your subject area online. You can include links to articles, websites, videos, etc.


 * **Finding information:** Through following other bookmarked links and searching under specific tags, you are able to find information relevant to your field and meet like-minded professionals with the same goal. You can find up-to-date information, research and trends, and can also connect with people in your field. This means you can always have the most recent subject-specific material to share with your students.


 * Referencing**
 * **Managing source information:** Students need not capture the same sources more then one on separate assignments. This is especial so when handling large amounts of sources for M or PHD studies, not saying that undergrad would not benefit from this at all. this is for everyone who conducts research and cites from other authors work.

4. Other resources (articles, guides, videos, examples...)
For an article directly related to education: [|http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf]
 * Social Bookmarking**

The top 15 most popular social bookmarking websites with statistics: []

Social bookmarking in plain English (including a 3-minute video): []

This is a tutorial on how to get started with the use of Mendeley (more tutorials can be found on this site) [] various tutorial videos are available and one interesting one is the video that shows you how to use mendeley in conjunction with MS Word (Plugin) []
 * Referencing**

CPUT hosts an example of a complete kit for when a student is writing an assignment. It starts with how to begin with the assignment right up to how the student can reference the assignment. []