Tagging Advantages: tagging vs. They were easy enough to do, why not do more? Tags vs. Hierarchy Results are much more contextual* Community tags

Accelerated Knowledge Acquisition: Through personally tagging, building a network of informed users, through subscribing to specific tags and from connecting with like minded taggers, you will acquire phenomenally fast access to resources of interest. Portability and Flexibility: Because social bookmarking websites can be accessed anytime from anywhere as long as you have an internet connection the opportunity to tag bookmarks, retrieve information from saved bookmarks and keep up to date with the tagging activities of your network is increased dramatically compared to the option of

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. Of course tagging in different languages for the same written document might be an answer, but Riina offers a far more interesting and workable solution, which relies on networks underlying the content based mainly on the three factors: user, item, tag. For years people are pushed to tag their learning resources, but I often wondered whether these tagged resources actually do get reused? But here comes Riina with

Whatever constraints we might have experienced in the past "the digital world allows us to transcend the most fundamental rule of the real world: instead of everything having its place, it's better if things can get assigned multiple places simultaneously." 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. Similarly, in my photo package, Adobe Photoshop Darkroom, I create order amongst the thousands of images by tagging the photos according to the people, places or events they

Tags: change competencies content education experts & expertise learning metadata "tagging" patterns Personal Development Snowflake Strategic Thinkin For a number of years, I’ve been pondering how the Snowflake Effect 1 could influence learning. For those who are new to this concept of the Snowflake Effect, in essence it’s about the transformation of society from a model of mass production to one of mass personalization.

Presentations Collaboration Mobile Learning PLE PLN Semantic Web Smart Data Social Media Social Network Tagging Technology University 2.0 This is a great presentation from Nova Spivack outlining the evolution of the web / Internet through the ‘connections’. As educators we can consider ourselves at the fore of the early adopters and those that start trying to put real-world scenarios on otherwise development or theoretical systems. Enjoy. Web

Tagging gives subjects to a bit of information rather than trying to pigeon-hole it into on label (which is what a hierarchy does).  Tags: personalization search tagging Selling Social Learning amazon Verbs of Social Learnin Image by Getty Images via Daylife WHY #10 : Finds Information

Photosynth can take a large collection of photos gathered through a browser search for example, analyze them for similarities, and display them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space with each of the individual photos properly registered to their respective location in the 3D model. For example, type in the word “Notre Dame, grab all the photos that come up, and run them through Photosynth, which will then display them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space. As is often the case, seeing is believing, so I strongly encourage you to first take a few minutes

Amazon recently sent me details of this book: People-powered meta data on the Social Web, by Gene Smith, publissed in January 2008. It might be useful for those who are looking for an in-depth study of tagging. Here's a description of the book: "Tagging is fast becoming one of the primary ways people organize and manage Tagging complements traditional organizational manage digital information. organizational tools like folders and search on users desktops as well as

I keep restructuring my folksonomy .... arg