Group 14: "Folksonomy"

 

 

    1. Working together using this wiki
    2. Group members
    3. Online Resources
    4. Acrostic
    5. The Big Question
    6. Enter Your Findings

 

Working together using this wiki

 

Think of this wiki as a shared online whiteboard. Your entire group can share information using this wiki, making your research accessible to everyone. Play around with this wiki: Notice how you can add comments to a page, see what people have changed, and edit all the text.

 

Group members

  • Michelle
  • Mary
  • Anne 

 

Online Resources

 

  1. Here's an Article on Folksonomy written by the term's creator, Thomas Vander Wal
  2. 43 Things is a website based entirely on folksonomy.

 

 

Make it work for YOU: Think of an adjective or emotion (i.e. anger) and enter this same tag as you search for blogs in Bloglines, photos in Flickr,  and links in del.icio.us, and see what comes up. You can also use Technorati and get these results in one place.

 

 

 

 

Acrostic

 

Flickr (photo sharing)

Opportunity to add relevant terms from a controlled vocabulary

Labels - user defined

Keywords

Social Bookmarking

Organize & share information

Not formal social classification

Open ended labels

Makes sense

Yields social connectoins

 

The Big Question

 

1. Why would a teacher want to introduce the concept of "Folksonomy" to students?

 

Due to the enormous amount of information that students have to process, folksonomy is a method of organizing information and categoring resources that allows students to make social connections with others who are interested in the same topics. ).

(paraphrased from www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ELI7001.pdf)

 

Enter Your Findings

 

 


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