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. YouTube multimedia Folksonomy e-learning Meta tagging user generated content semantic web mobile learning ontologies Web 2.0The January special issue of Interactive Learning Environments is out right now. Many domains require very advanced content, where different concepts and processes require the use of multimedia (e.g. MORE >>

Folksonomy folktales - KM World. Folksonomies are the exact opposite of the wisdom of crowds. Training to Climb an Everest of Digital Data - New York Times. Science these days has basically turned into a data-management problem. For the most part, university students have used rather modest computing systems to support their studies. They are learning to collect and manipulate information on personal computers or what are known as clusters, where computer servers are cabled together to form a larger computer. Learning new tricks improves wiring in the brain - Reuters. The U.S. MORE >>

Tags, Tagging and Folksonomies. If each person uses their own self-defined tag, then the aggregated results that emerge are called folksonomies. Delicious is one big folksonomy. There’s more information about taxonomies, ontologies, folksonomies and thesauri at SmartLogic. You may also want to check out this article, Tags and Folksonomies, Why Should You Care? I’m going to start with a broad definition of tools, in the spirit of  The Educated Mind: How cognitive tools shape our understanding , an excellent read and highly recommended. Blogs. link]. MORE >>

Tags and the resulting networks, folksonomies, are commonly modelled as tripartite hypergraphs. For years people are pushed to tag their learning resources, but I often wondered whether these tagged resources actually do get reused? Or whether tagging between peers that live in various parts of the world only works in theory, but does in fact not result in sharing resources in actual learning life. But here comes Riina with a clear answer to these questions. Another renowned one is of course the MIT opencourseware , but then the latter does not use tags much. learning resource). MORE >>

with four typically human dispositions: Socialising the playful: games and virtual worlds Socialising the expressive: media design, sharing, and publication Socialising the reflective: blogs, social networks, and wikis Socialising the exploratory: syndication, recommenders, folksonomies However, I wanted something simpler and came across the Make, Share, Find classification in The CU Online Handbook. Web 2.0 As a follow-up to Clarifying Informal Learning & Web 2.0 , I've been reflecting further on a Web 2.0 classification system and resolved to do my own one. training. Web 2.0 MORE >>