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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. social networking.

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Data & Training, Learning, Folksonomy, Scenario Learning, Outsourcing, & Rapid eLearning

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomy folktales - KM World. Folksonomies are the exact opposite of the wisdom of crowds. "In fact we find the structure of the brain is ripe for change. We've shown that it is possible for the brain to condition its own wiring system to operate more efficiently.". The Dewey Decimal System is not a good example of a taxonomy.

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Learning theories for the digital age

Learning with e's

How might we begin to understand the issues surrounding folksonomies, peer learning, or collaborative informal learning that seem to occur spontaneously, outside the classroom, spanning the entire globe - using old theories that were written to describe what happens in a classroom?

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eLearning Topics

Tony Karrer

Folksonomy (11) Knowledge (233) Off-shore (7) Leadership (44) Creative Commons (16) Back when we still had hope that folksonomy (tagging) would make sense of the flood of content. Seems so long ago. :) How about 2005 ?

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Up Pompey

Learning with e's

I hope to explore some of the possibilities and potential of tools such as blogs, wikis, microblogs and aggregators, and will also explore mashups, social tagging, and concepts such as 'wisdom of crowds' and folksonomies. Tags: Manish Malik Folksonomy blog Web 2.0 It will be a tall order, I'm sure, but I'm confident it will be OK.

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Learning pathways

Learning with e's

There is also evidence that learning communities informally decide their own priorities, often observed in the emerging folksonomies that result when digital content is organised, shared and curated. Students can, and do, create their own personalised learning pathways.

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Google-de-Gook

Learning with e's

Web-lish to replace English runs the title, and the author, Ben Camm-Jones writes: 'New words coined to describe things we encounter on the internet can be pretty awful, but 'folksonomy' has been voted the worst of the lot.' He also rules that 'Folksonomy' is a word that makes you want to 'howl in the night'. Well fancy that.