The document discusses a study on the use of social bookmarking by health care students to create communities of practice. The study analyzed bookmarking and tagging activity of 160 students across 5 modules. It found that 59% created 5 or more bookmarks, with 58% of bookmarks containing notes. 81% used social bookmarking to bookmark resources and 49% to find relevant resources. The study provided insights into student behaviors and perceptions of social bookmarking.

1. The use of Social
Bookmarking by Health
Care Students to create
Communities of Practice
Ed de Quincey, Avril Hocking, Josephine O’Gorman,
Simon Walker and Liz Bacon
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2. Dr Ed de Quincey @eddequincey
Senior Lecturer, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences
Head of the Web 2.0/Social Web for Learning Research Group, eCentre
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http://www2.gre.ac.uk/research/centres/ecentre/research-groups/web-2.0

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7. Social Bookmarking Toolbox

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18. “Tags are one-word descriptors that you can
assign to your bookmarks on Delicious to help
you organize and remember them.”
http://www.delicious.com/help/faq#tags
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25. COURSECODE
e.g. NURS1297 COMP1444
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27. Research Questions
1. What patterns of user tagging activity emerge through analyses of
tagging frequency and co-word analysis? (based on the work of Kipp and
Campbell, 2006)
2. What patterns of user bookmarking activity emerge through analyses of
the resources bookmarked and the tags used to bookmark them?
3. What is the temporal distribution of bookmarking during an academic
semester?
4. What types of tags are being used i.e. do students/lecturers utilise task
and time related tags?
5. What are the levels of use of social bookmarking in relation to resource
discovery i.e. do students browse/follow fellow students bookmarks and
tags to discover resources?
6. What are students and lecturers perceptions of the advantages and
disadvantages of social bookmarking and tagging?
7. What are the motivations for using social bookmarking services?
8. What features are currently missing from social bookmarking websites?
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28. Explicit & Implicit Feedback
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29. Bookmark and Tag Analysis
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31. Social Bookmarking Questionnaires

32. Social Bookmarking Pilot: NURS1297

33. Social Bookmarking Resource Pack

34. Bookmarks vs Favorites
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35. 5 modules across the Schools of Computing and Mathematics, Engineering
and Health and Social Care, participated in this study. Courses ranged from
Masters (Level 7) to first year undergraduate (Level 4)
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38. Bookmark and Tag Analysis
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39. 160 users created 1,430 bookmarks
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40. 1,430 bookmarks with 882 distinct URL’s
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41. Number of bookmarks created by users
59% of users (94) created 5 or more tagged
resources during the duration of the project
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Normalised temporal distribution of bookmarking activity
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44. 5,032 tags (1,069 unique)
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Total number of Tags per Bookmark
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47. 58% of bookmarks (829) contained notes
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48. Social Bookmarking Questionnaires

49. 81% of respondents said that
they used delicious to
bookmark web pages as
good resources with 46%
saying they used delicious to
share resources
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50. 30% indicated that
they used delicious to
find relevant
resources
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51. 49% found resources via the
module code tag with 77%
finding resources via tags related
to the module i.e. subject
related tags. Around 70% of
students viewed other
students’ bookmarked resources.
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52. 84% of respondents stated
that they would use the
delicious website
again
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53. 49% of students felt
that using delicious had
improved their
ICT skills
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54. One of the interesting findings is that
although bookmarking activity
decreased during the duration of the
project, a key indicator of success is the
building of the repository itself, as
opposed to the number of
contributors.
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55. In applications such as Wikipedia,
there is a great level of inequality
“with less than 10% of the total
number of authors being
responsible for more than the 90%
of the total number of
contributions” (Ortega, 2008)
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56. From this study, supposing that
creating over 10 tagged bookmarks is a
reasonable level of contribution, then
33% of users achieved this level.
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Final thoughts