1. Social Bookmarking and Tagging

2. Outline Tagging Social Bookmarking Photosharing

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/

4. Sites using Tags FlickrBlogsTwitter You Tube Steve Museum Project

5. Wisdom of Crowds InclusiveCurrent

6. What term would you use to describe these books?

8. Wisdom of Crowds InclusiveCurrentCommunityUsability

9. Cult of the Amateur No synonym control Lack of hierarchy Lack of recall Susceptible to “gaming”

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

11. Hands on Exercise Google Images http://images.google.com/imagelabeler

12. Tag Clouds Way of visualizing what something is about Example – http://www.librarything.com http://www.librarything.com

13. Tag Cloud Creators

14. Hands On http://www.wordle.net/create

15. Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track of web sites in their browser?

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?

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?

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?

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?

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

21. Social Bookmarking Sites

22. Delicious Founded 2003 Purchased by Yahoo 2005 http://www.delicious.com http://www.delicious.com

23. Log in to Delicious ryersonweb20

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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