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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
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.
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.
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
collaborative tagging, social networking, mash-ups, and wikis), lightweight representation of semantics and metadata is used in the form of folksonomies, user comments, and ratings. Collaborative tagging and folksonomies for multimedia learning objects. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.
I hope to explore some of the possibilities and potential of tools such as blogs, wikis, microblogs and aggregators, and will also explore mashups, social tagging, and concepts such as 'wisdom of crowds' and folksonomies. Tags: Manish Malik Folksonomy blog Web 2.0
tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging).
tools (I demonstrated the wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and social tagging through a number of 'get out of your seat' activities which seemed to go down well) and problem based learning. Tags: LSG Jay Cross Don Taylor Web 2.0 Stay tuned - or whatever they say, in this web enabled world. EDEN Conference.
Web-lish to replace English runs the title, and the author, Ben Camm-Jones writes: 'New words coined to describe things we encounter on the internet can be pretty awful, but 'folksonomy' has been voted the worst of the lot.' He also rules that 'Folksonomy' is a word that makes you want to 'howl in the night'. Well fancy that.
Social bookmarking improves upon this by letting you tag the things you find with multiple keywords or tags. Tagging can eliminate (or at least minimize) time-sucking searches for that elusive bookmark you know is in there somewhere. BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”).
Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning.
Books, blogs, bookmarks, tags, etc. Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. “Making explicit&# is tagging and pigeon-holing. Harold has tags for clients, for projects, and for subjects.
Of the two, Peter has no doubt which has primacy: Findability precedes usability In the alphabet and on the web You can't use what you can't find Historically, efforts at improving findability have been led by librarians, through elaborate systems of classification and meta tagging.
Remember when people thought that stuff like folksonomies and tagging and wikis and blogs and micro-blogging and activity streams and GAMES would NEVER get inside the corporate firewall? Will companies EVER EVER EVER EVER wise up and provide actual training for their people in how to produce quality visuals?
Folksonomy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess (podcast). Discussion of variouss topics important to folksonomies. Surprising aspects of the implementation of tagging in various environments and approaches to balancing the needs of the system to the desires of the user are discussed from various viewpoints.
Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. Tags: podcasting blog wiki mobile technology Web 2.0 What was good about these sessions was that they all dovetailed into each other.
Folksonomies? The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers. Screencasting Del.icio.us. Organic metatags? Del.ioci.us? Self-organizing ontologies? The Power of Design. The evidence of design's power is everywhere.
Karl mentions templates, simplified (read standardized) tagging, guidelines, etc. Tags: Brandon Hall informal learning nonformal learning Social Media twitter. These elements add structure to the contributions but still allow creativity. What’s your take? Ithink we need more Mark’s and OMSHR’s.
before rss, news aggregators, blogrolls, technorati tags and folksonomies, most "webbies" would wander around from site to site, following whatever link caught their imagination. (thus the power of bookmarking services like blinklist , de.licio.us , and the like.) back in the barbaric dark ages of web 1.0
I also love the idea of Folksonomies instead of taxonomies. I think the idea of user, or group generated tagging and organization is VERY closely related to taskonomy. It's a must read for all instructional designers, heck everyone should read it.but I digress. The concept of taskonomy REALLY rings true for me.
We want folksonomy not heirarchy. Tags: microblogging AJ Cann Qwitter Twitter Grader Twitter Groups Twitter. All you are doing by advocating that Twitter groups are not necessary is imposing a structure upon the social web that should not be imposed. You are right that Twitter is not Facebook. That's why they have different spellings.
Podcasting, videocasting, Corporate YouTube, Tagging, folksonomies vs. taxonomies, social networking, are a few of the elements that make up the new ecosystem we called Learning2.0. The debate will continue but I still wave the banner. (At At least until next year.but you'll have to read the next post to see what's coming in '07.)
Vander Wal, who coined the term “folksonomy,” focuses on the huge untapped potential for social tools with discussions about making it easier for enterprise social tool adoption, tagging, getting tools to mesh, modifying Web 2.0 Tags: Convergence. LearnTrends 09 starts this coming Tuesday. Our topic is convergence.
Previous posts in this series tracked the development of educational technology over 40 years. I first started working in the field of educational technology in January 1976, at a time when technology was used more for teaching than it was for learning.
Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies.
Tagging and other technologies free us from the necessity of deciding on a single system of classification, in which every object is assigned a single category. In iTunes, my music can be grouped by genre, by artist, by album or by star rating all at the same time.
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