Social Bookmarking and Tagging Slide 2 Outline Tagging Social
Bookmarking Photosharing Slide 3 What is a tag? Word used to
describe something Purpose is to try to organize digital content
and make it easier to find How much content is on the web?
http://contently.com/blog/how-much-content-is- on-the-web/
http://contently.com/blog/how-much-content-is- on-the-web/
http://contently.com/blog/how-much-content-is- on-the-web/ Slide 4
Sites using Tags FlickrBlogsTwitter You Tube Steve Museum Project
Slide 5 Wisdom of Crowds InclusiveCurrent Slide 6 What term would
you use to describe these books? Slide 7 Slide 8 Wisdom of Crowds
InclusiveCurrentCommunityUsability Slide 9 Cult of the Amateur No
synonym control Lack of hierarchy Lack of recall Susceptible to
gaming Slide 10 Geotagging Providing geographic co-ordinates for
web content (photos, videos, web sites) Capture GPS info or attach
to a map http://www.flickr.com/maps Slide 11 Hands on Exercise
Google Images http://images.google.com/imagelabeler Slide 12 Tag
Clouds Way of visualizing what something is about Example
http://www.librarything.com http://www.librarything.com Slide 13
Tag Cloud Creators Slide 14 Hands On http://www.wordle.net/create
Slide 15 Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to
keep track of web sites in their browser? Slide 16 Bookmarking
Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track of web sites
in their browser? Do you have identical bookmarks at home/work?
Slide 17 Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to
keep track of web sites in their browser? Do you have identical
bookmarks at home/work? Do you use folders to organize your
bookmarks? Slide 18 Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or
favourites to keep track of web sites in their browser? Do you have
identical bookmarks at home/work? Do you use folders to organize
your bookmarks? Can you easily re-find your bookmarks? Slide 19
Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track
of web sites in their browser? Do you have identical bookmarks at
home/work? Do you use folders to organize your bookmarks? Can you
easily re-find your bookmarks? How do you send a selection of
bookmarks to a colleague? Slide 20 Social Bookmarking Saving
bookmarks to a public web site Create an account at a social book
marking site Add bookmarks Add tags Configure privacy settings
Slide 21 Social Bookmarking Sites Slide 22 Delicious Founded 2003
Purchased by Yahoo 2005 http://www.delicious.com
http://www.delicious.com Slide 23 Log in to Delicious ryersonweb20
Slide 24 Social Bookmarking in Teaching and Learning In research
Mechanism for building learning communities Informal, formative
feedback Development of personal knowledge management abilities
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