Mid Term

Of course for the mid term I was assigned to the social tagging group. While I find nothing wrong with the concept of social tagging, I'm confused to how I'd use it in my own classroom. Can anyone explain to me in basic language how sites like Delicious and Flickr work in regards to social tagging? Maybe I'd see the sites as more practical if I could understand how they worked.


I'm a member of this mid term group:

Group 1. Social Tagging e.g.,Delicious, Flickr, etc.
Melissa - What is it?
Beth - How Does it work?
Laura - Examples?
Christopher - How Can it be used in the Art Classroom?

Wordle

Before last week, I had never heard of Wordle before. I've been brainstorming for the past few days on how I could successfully use it as a classroom aid.

How can Wordle be used as a successful critique aid in promoting discussion between students? If a Wordle is passed out to each student containing valuable critique words, is it possible that students will be able to use the Wordle to help them communicate their ideas? Is trying to get students to use Wordle in the classroom pushing the technology on the students or would it be merely beneficial?

Bellow is a sample Wordle I created that I think could be an aid in a class-wide critique.

http://www.wordle.net