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?
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Hi Beth,
ReplyDeleteOk, well, Flickr and Delicious are considered social tagging sites because you can label photos (in flickr) and websites (in delicious). Giving these photos and websites labels aka tags means that the photo or website you labeled is now accessible by anyone searching that tag. For example: If someone was doing a project on "Public Art" they could logon to flickr and find other people's photos on public art and logon to delicious to find other people's websites about "public art". All by searching that subject line.
The same goes for wordle, because wordle has a public gallery. I could search "public art" in on wordle to see if any word clouds pertaining to that subject appear.
So I just found photos, websites, word clouds on these sites by their tag.
Here is an excerpt from Flickr
Flickr's great for exploring photos and videos by photographer, tag, time, text, and group, and now it's also great for exploring photos and videos by place.
http://www.flickr.com/tour/maps/
Also did you see this youtube I posted on our class sakai site. It helped me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU
I 100% agree with Melissa on her response to your question. How it works is quite amazing and interconnected with so many other websites that will all lead to a result of your search of the tagged word. Flickr is a wonderful site and I love searching for a tag word like, "Art Noveau" or and artist and seeing what images pop up.
ReplyDeleteI loved your Assignment 5 posting on the Horizon Report and think that you could use easily it to inform your research on this topic.
ReplyDeleteI think the most important thing to keep in mind concerning the use of tagging in the classroom is the simple fact of working in a paradigm the students already be very comfortable with, namely the internet. Although the internet plays a role in the lives of people in a wide range of age groups it plays a very specific role in the lives of children and teenagers, as a few of the articles for our Ed Media class of discussed. I think A good place to start research wise might be in first looking into how tagging for museum sites work along with already popular social networking sites. Could sites such a face book and MySpace be used to sort of hook students and drag them into something like a museum site to do social tagging?
ReplyDeleteSocial tagging can be used as a catalyst for research in the classroom. Websites like these can link students to research that has already been done by scholarly resources. They can also connect students to a valuable list of people with the same interests. They can not only use their resources, but can contribute their own new findings.
ReplyDeleteHere is a website that can help with some information:
http://www.education-world.com/a_tech/sites/sites080.shtml
I think social tagging can also be useful in the sense that by giving each site its own unique public-generated tags, connections between topics and sites that you might have never thought of can be discovered. I think in the classroom this may be useful in a high school research paper - for example you may have a student challenge a tag to a website and back up their reasoning as to why they think that tag may not fit, or vice versa.
ReplyDeleteSocial tagging is unique because it is created by everyday people. Information is not contributed solely by experts. One example of how I have used it is www.webmd. You can read about something that has been written by an expert or a doctor, but anyone can add to the blog about their own experiences. I feel like I learn more from reading about people's real life experiences.
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