Laurie Hnatiuk's List: EDES501 DQs

• all it takes for a library to get started with a blog or wiki or with  photo-sharing or other social  bookmarking software is a quick-and-easy registration.
• it's important to consider where the host would be putting your content before  entrusting it to another entity. Many hosted sites make money by putting ads up  on their users' pages. Some do make exceptions for libraries and educational  institutions, but others do not.

  • back to looking at permissions and terms of service
• Most important, consider what will happen to your data should the site disappear
• the ability to back up your data yourself should be very important to you.
• look at the features and policies it offers (and compare them to competitors) to  ensure that the firm you select offers what you need now and may need in the  future

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• where members are voluntarily classifying and categorizing thousands of pieces  of content each day.
• Delicious alone had 90,000 total users by April 2005, up from 30,000 the  previous December.
• tags to the pages they bookmark--descriptive terms of their own choosing that  make it easier to find favorite sites in a big stack of bookmarks
• "It represents a break in the traditional assumptions about how we know things,
• Tagging is "not a structure that's given to us. It's one that is created by the  user."
• no uniformity to the way people tag Web pages, so the same tag might wind up  being applied to very different kinds of content
• a bunch of people doing 'okay' tagging may actually have a higher net value than  an authoritative organization telling you how information should be organized."

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• the social bookmarking software will organize all the tags so you  can search and browse the tags to find not onlyWeb pages, pictures/photos,  documents, news stories, audio and video files, but also communities of people  who share your interests--thus the development of folksonomies
• social bookmarking  software will organize all the tags so you  can
• both easier to discover new information and more difficult to manage older  collections of resources, links, documents, podcasts, video files, and graphics
• Folksonomy, a term coined by information architect Thomas Vander Wal, combines  the people or "folks-y" approach to building a taxonomy
• a type of distributed classification system. It is usually created by a group of  individuals, typically the resource users. Users add tags to online items, such  as images, videos, bookmarks, and text. These tags are then shared and sometimes  refined."
• CiteULike is a free service designed for academics to "share, store, and  organise the academic papers they are reading" [http://www.  citeulike.org/faq/all.adp]. The software "automatically extracts the citation  details"--a very nice feature, indeed
• Connotea is designed for the scientific community; it too pulls in bibliographic  information from scientific articles and journals
• at least initially, it really has to do with retaining information that you, I,  or anyone else has found and organizing it in a way so that people can re-find  that information at some later date.
• "Bookmark lists have become 'information closets' that hold a jumble of sites  people never return to.

  • This is so me on delicious right now. It is a messy closet and I haven't used it becasue of that. Great anaolgy.
• the launch of del.icio.us in late 2003
• New tools or mashups (a Web site or Web application that combines content from  more than one source) facilitate mobility by allowing access to bookmarks  through cell phones, BlackBerries, and PDAs. (6

  • Need to understand thia more
• Searching or browsing specific tags enables you to retrieve all the items tagged  with a specific term or keyword

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• Flickr receives a few thousand photographs every minute. Tagging makes  possible the organization of all those pictures
• folksonomies, you tag things the way you want, and I tag them the way  I want. If enough people participate, we might collectively describe
• folksonomies, you tag things the way you want, and I tag them the way  I want. If enough people participate, we might collectively describe   any  content with greater depth, color, and nuance than formal subject  headings .
• folksonomies, you tag things the way you want, and I tag them the way  I want. If enough people participate, we might collectively describe  any content with greater depth, color, and nuance than formal subject headings
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  m any  ways of classifying things
• many ways of classifying things
• Unless we think like the expert who cataloged the item, however, we still might  not find what we’re looking for.
• folksonomies often present information that the average person finds most  relevant
• Visual representations of tags
• are called tag clouds and may give us even more information because they display  frequently-tagged words in larger fonts. More people thought those words were  important
• Libraries cannot possibly classify everything
• Tagging makes  possible the organization of all those  pictures .
• Tagging is everywhere on the social web.
• that tags accumulate quickly and offer a wide range of keywords. They should be  aware of the weaknesses, too: tags can be ineffective when very few people are  involved and offer inconsistent word choices

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• library media specialists to create and keep an updated Web pathfinder, without  any knowledge of HTML or Web programming needed.
• library media specialists to create and keep an updated Web pathfinder, without  any knowledge of HTML or Web programming needed.
• users can assign keywords or tags (e.g., civilwar or crispusattucks), sort the  saved site into a larger topic area (e.g., socialstudies, English, or science),  rate the quality of the site (e.g., FurFs five-star scale), add a descriptive  phrase (e.g., "Shows how the new Food Pyramid is different from the previous  one"), or save a quote from the site (e.g., perfect for student researchers).
• users can assign keywords or tags (e.g., civilwar or crispusattucks), sort the  saved site into a larger topic area (e.g., socialstudies, English, or science),  rate the quality of the site (e.g., FurFs five-star scale), add a descriptive  phrase (e.g., "Shows how the new Food Pyramid is different from the previous  one"), or save a quote from the site (e.g., perfect for student researchers).
• users can assign keywords or tags (e.g., civilwar or crispusattucks), sort the  saved site into a larger topic area (e.g., socialstudies, English, or science),  rate the quality of the site (e.g., FurFs five-star scale), add a descriptive  phrase (e.g., "Shows how the new Food Pyramid is different from the previous  one"), or save a quote from the site (e.g., perfect for student researchers
• users can assign keywords or tags (e.g., civilwar or crispusattucks), sort the  saved site into a larger topic area (e.g., socialstudies, English, or science),  rate the quality of the site (e.g., FurFs five-star scale), add a descriptive  phrase (e.g., "Shows how the new Food Pyramid is different from the previous  one"), or save a quote from the site (e.g., perfect for student researchers

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  screen  and, by default, lists the newest saved posts   first.  Looking for all of the Web addresses you've saved about blogging? Just    click the "blogging"   

   

  keyword,  and all posts tagged with that word   will  be     displayed.  

   

   Drawing on the Collective Knowledge of  Other   Users 
• users can assign keywords or tags (e.g., civilwar or crispusattucks), sort the  saved site into a larger topic area (e.g., socialstudies, English, or science),  rate the quality of the site (e.g., FurFs five-star scale), add a descriptive  phrase (e.g., "Shows how the new Food Pyramid is different from the previous  one"), or save a quote from the site (e.g., perfect for student researchers).
• Social bookmarking is the process of saving and sharing favorite URLs using  online storage tools
• Webbased bookmarking also protects your favorite sites if your hard drive fails,  your computer is re-imaged, or your district is upgrading its computer  equipment.
• media specialists to create and keep an updated Web pathfinder, without any  knowledge of HTML or Web programming needed

• screen and, by default, lists the newest saved posts  first. Looking for all of the Web addresses you've saved about blogging? Just  click the "blogging" keyword, and all posts tagged with that word will be  displayed.

   

  Drawing on the Collective Knowledge of Other  Users
• keyword, and all posts tagged with that word  will be   displayed.

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• . A "podcast" (an amalgam of the word broadcast and the iPod digital audio  player) is essentially a broadcast of digital audio files on the web that users  can listen to on their computer or digital audio player (e.g., iPod).
• many applications for social studies, we suspect that podcasting is not a  passing fad but a substantive and practical reinvention of existing teaching  strategies--the guest speaker, the field trip and the primary source
• provide a rating scale that includes five key dimensions
• Five Core Concepts and Five Key Questions for Media Literacy.

• * Credibility of Source (e.g., creator is clearly identified, biographical or  organizational information and relevant credentials included, time and date  stamped)

   

  * Engagement (e.g., music, humor, images, video)

   

  * Applicability to Classroom for use with students or as a teacher resource  (e.g., appropriate duration, connection to K-12 curriculum, age-appropriate  language)

   

  * Content of Podcast for use with students or as a teacher resource (e.g.,  accuracy, balanced viewpoint, evidence-based, detailed description of  strategies/resources)

   

  * Functionality of Site (e.g., navigability, transcripts provided,  age-appropriate reading level, additional materials)
• With these criteria in mind, we wanted to systematically select the most popular  history-related podcasts and evaluate how well they connect to teaching history  in K-12 classrooms

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