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Social Bookmarking and Tagging
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Outline Tagging Social Bookmarking Photosharing
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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/
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Sites using Tags FlickrBlogsTwitter You Tube Steve Museum Project
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Wisdom of Crowds InclusiveCurrent
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What term would you use to describe these books?
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Wisdom of Crowds InclusiveCurrentCommunityUsability
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Cult of the Amateur No synonym control Lack of hierarchy Lack of recall Susceptible to “gaming”
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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
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Hands on Exercise Google Images http://images.google.com/imagelabeler
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Tag Clouds Way of visualizing what something is about Example – http://www.librarything.com http://www.librarything.com
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Tag Cloud Creators
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Hands On http://www.wordle.net/create
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Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track of web sites in their browser?
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Bookmarking Survey Who uses bookmarks or favourites to keep track of web sites in their browser? Do you have identical bookmarks at home/work?
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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?
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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?
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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?
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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
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Social Bookmarking Sites
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Delicious Founded 2003 Purchased by Yahoo 2005 http://www.delicious.com http://www.delicious.com
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Log in to Delicious ryersonweb20
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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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Any Questions? swilson@ryerson.ca
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