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Folksonomies, memes and misunderstanding

Learning with e's

Taking issue with it in his blogpost he says: "A folksonomy loses its qualities as a folksonomy once you have someone 'organising' it, and will quickly become a taxonomy." There always has to be some organisation at an individual level, or there would be no folksonomy at the community level - all would remain chaotic.

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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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LearnTrends: Microlearning

Experiencing eLearning

folksonomy rather than standardization. No repository (unless you view the whole web as a repository). Not dependent on time or place. Doesn’t always help you meet a specific learning objective. no grades/ratings/certifications. Relies on peer-to-peer interaction. Relies on interaction with internet media.

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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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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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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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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.

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E-Learning Authoring Tools Characterized

The E-Learning Curve

Includes social-networking sites, video-sharing sites, wikis, blogs, mashups and folksonomies. Tags: folksonomy blog wiki content development authoring tools podcast read/write web mashup elearning development. It has led to the development and evolution of web-based communities, hosted services, and web applications.

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LearnTrends Live: Harold Jarche on PKM

Jay Cross

“Categories&# are your personal folksonomy. . “Sorting&# means filtering one’s sources. Weekly overview of interesting stuff found on Twitter: tagged as Friday Favorites and posted weekly. “Making explicit&# is tagging and pigeon-holing. “Retrieving&# is recall. “Connecting&# is following people.

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

BTW, the art of tagging by folks who are not librarians or catalogers is called “folksonomy.”). ., Library of Congress subject headings), tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing you to create connections between data any way you want. Tagging helps bring order to online content. You can think of a tag as a topic.

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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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knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/20/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A User-Driven Approach to Organizing Content - UI. Folksonomies, a new user-driven approach to organizing information, may help alleviate some of the challenges of taxonomies.

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The changing Web

Learning with e's

has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006). Delicious, Diigo), microblogs such as Twitter, mashups (e.g. geotagging).

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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

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. Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0 techniques (e.g.

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Learning Solutions day 3: Saved the best for the last #LS2011

Challenge to Learn

And if that is not enough they connected these two to Ontologies, Taxonomies, Folksonomies and controled vocabularies. I watched his video just now and it is a must see for everybody who works in corporate e-Learning. A lot of fancy words for structured tags that declare what content is about.

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The architecture of learning

Learning with e's

The emergent properties of content organisation are folksonomies, and are the product of loose organised that is bottom-up rather than top-down. This content is generated not only by the experts, but also increasingly by the learners themselves, and tends to be organised by the community rather than by the experts.

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Next generation learning

Learning with e's

has seen as shift toward user generated content, and the emergent property of folksonomies. Where Learning 1.0 was organised around taxonomies and content was largely expert generated, Learning 2.0 We have known for some time that people learn better when they are actively engaged in making things, solving problems and engaging with others.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/10/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess (podcast). Discussion of variouss topics important to folksonomies. The changing conception of knowledge, the idea of knowing (and learning) as a network phenomenon, and how that changes how we should approach metadata and in particular learning object metadata.

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Parabolic learning

Learning with e's

We have previously explored a number of learning theories, new learning technologies, concepts around crowdsourcing, wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and user generated content, Web 2.0, The group wiki is here if anyone wishes to view some of their content. mobile learning and a whole host of other themes during the course.

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Data, People, or Something In Between: Clearing Your Path to Career Mobility

Degreed

This approach leverages the data and actions of your employees, resulting in a dynamic folksonomy of sorts that can be used for social learning as well as organizational curation. People-Driven.

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Finders keepers, losers weepers

Clive on Learning

The alternative, of course, is a bottom-up effort whereby users apply their own tags to online content, evolving in the process what are now commonly known as folksonomies. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery. Intelligence is provided by real people from the bottom-up to aid social discovery.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 7/14/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Leslie Marmon Silko, Laguna Tribe Wikipedia's Word on Folksonomy. There's a debate at the online encyclopedia Wikipedia about a new listing for the word folksonomy, which it defines as "a neologism for a practice of collaborative categorization using freely chosen keywords." You don't have anything if you don't have the stories.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/15/2006

Big Dog, Little Dog

The Name Game - folksonomies - CIO. From a collaboration and knowledge-sharing perspective, that's what's neat about folksonomies. He talks about technologies, how they are now aimed inward and gives a number of s curve examples. You can see what your colleagues are interested in.

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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

So for me, it's not quite the folksonomy effect that most people talk about, but based on these articles, I'm starting to think that's what other people are finding as well. Sharing - I tag items that I plan to share with a specific tag so that others in my group can find it.

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Many encounters

Learning with e's

tools (I demonstrated the wisdom of crowds, folksonomies and social tagging through a number of 'get out of your seat' activities which seemed to go down well) and problem based learning.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 2/03/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

A very, very simple overview of Folksonomies. India should be a Knowledge Superpower! More and more people logging on in China.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

Finally, we cannot afford to ignore the growing influence of mobile phones and apps as a disruptive force and the capability they have of enabling any time, any place learning.

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Knowledge and Learning in the News - Jan 23

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies: A New Opportunity For Marketers. What's Wrong with a Dehumanized E-Learning Space, Anyway? Unwanted, disliked, dishonest: Performance appraisals must go. It's Not Your Father's e-Learning. Learning About Yourself. Creating Knowledge: Heavy Metal Umlaut For a short text article about it, see Jon Udell's Weblog.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/1/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomies? The Education Podcast Network is "an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers. Screencasting Del.icio.us. Organic metatags? Del.ioci.us? Self-organizing ontologies? The Power of Design. The evidence of design's power is everywhere.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/20/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Why RSS and Folksonomies Are Becoming So Big. An RSS feed is a blog distilled to its core essence. If you look at the output of an RSS feed in a reader, you'll see no comments, no trackbacks and (for the most part) no design. It's the better blog. It's pure data. Deep, Dark Secrets of His and Her Brains.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 10/16/2005

Big Dog, Little Dog

Folksonomy' Carries Classifieds Beyond SWF and 'For Sale' - New York Times. Hype Cycle - Gartner Group. Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, assessing the maturity, impact and adoption speed of 44 technologies and trends over the coming decade. What is a hype cycle?

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. What was good about these sessions was that they all dovetailed into each other.

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The social impact of disruptive technology

Learning with e's

It will lead to the classification of knowledge through folksonomies and to the extended web which combines social and information richness. Well, this is the subject of my LEARNTEC lecture. Let me just tell you that the transition into Web 3.0 will be very semantic, very meaning-based. The future is very exciting.

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Taskonomies: Why beer and diapers go well together

Corporate eLearning Strategies and Development

I also love the idea of Folksonomies instead of taxonomies. It's a must read for all instructional designers, heck everyone should read it.but I digress. The concept of taskonomy REALLY rings true for me. Especially in this new web2.0 I think the idea of user, or group generated tagging and organization is VERY closely related to taskonomy.

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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

We want folksonomy not heirarchy. All you are doing by advocating that Twitter groups are not necessary is imposing a structure upon the social web that should not be imposed. By making a rule (I know it is a proposal) that you 'shouldn't do something' you impose a hierarchical constraint. You are right that Twitter is not Facebook.

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kowabunga dude!

The Learning Circuits

before rss, news aggregators, blogrolls, technorati tags and folksonomies, most "webbies" would wander around from site to site, following whatever link caught their imagination. (thus the power of bookmarking services like blinklist , de.licio.us , and the like.) back in the barbaric dark ages of web 1.0

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More rogue.

Janet Clarey

As designers, we need to provide templates for meaningful contributions of one peer to another, perhaps a sample blog entry to use as a model, or a method of standardizing contributions, a list of key words so the folksonomy is limited, something that ties strategies to contributions to encourage learning and retention of the content contributed.

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

And, of course, this principle is massively extended online as users collaborate to create folksonomies to sort the millions of items to be found in flickr, del.icio.us, YouTube and endless other sites.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

Vander Wal, who coined the term “folksonomy,” focuses on the huge untapped potential for social tools with discussions about making it easier for enterprise social tool adoption, tagging, getting tools to mesh, modifying Web 2.0 approaches for the enterprise, interface/interaction design for ease-of-use, sociality and encouragement of use.

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