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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

A couple of interesting recent posts and my experience in my Collaborative Learning Class has me thinking about the usefulness of Tags both personally and in workgroups. But look on the right side to find "related tags" that are how you can find things that are related. I completely agree with Bill's assessment, del.icio.us

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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

folksonomy rather than standardization. Tags: Informal Learning Workplace Learning Janet Clarey learntrends. No repository (unless you view the whole web as a repository). Not dependent on time or place. Doesn’t always help you meet a specific learning objective. no grades/ratings/certifications.

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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

I was thinking about individuals tagging and organising their own content using tools such as Delicious , and then making them available to others. When we tag an object says Mike Wesch, we 'teach the machine'. Taxonomies are imposed, but folksonomies are democratic. In a folksonomy the content defines the community.

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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. Tags: Customer Communities Social Networks Web 2.0 social networking.

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. A lot of fancy words for structured tags that declare what content is about. I watched his video just now and it is a must see for everybody who works in corporate e-Learning.

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

Social tagging for example, is becomes increasingly stronger as people populate it with content and links. The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. This facet was explained very clearly in Michael Wesch's excellent video Web 2.0.

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