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web tools for teaching, learning, organizing resources, writing, publishing and networking online; applications, tutorials
Updated on Feb 15, 15
Created on Jan 14, 10
Category: Computers & Internet
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Vanessa Vaile's List: Web Tools
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A folksonomy is 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. A general review of social bookmarking tools, one popular use area of folksonomies, was given in the April edition of D-Lib [1]. In the article the authors elaborate on the approach taken by social classification systems and the motivators behind tagging. They write, "...tags are just one kind of metadata and are not a replacement for formal classification systems such as Dublin Core, MODS, etc.... Rather, they are a supplemental means to organise information and order search results."
In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work. We agree with the premise that tags are no replacement for formal systems, but we see this as being the core quality that makes folksonomy tagging so useful. We begin by looking at the issue of "sloppy tags", a problem to which critics of folksonomies are keen to allude, and ask if there are ways the folksonomy community could offset such problems and create systems that are conducive to searching, sorting and classifying. We then go on to question this "tidying up" approach and its underlying assumptions, highlighting issues surrounding removal of low-quality, redundant or nonsense metadata, and the potential risks of tidying too neatly and thereby losing the very openness that has made folksonomies so popular.
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A folksonomy is a type of distributed classification system
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In this article we look at what makes folksonomies work.
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In addition to the classic “Web of documents” W3C is helping to build a technology stack to support a “Web of data,”
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The term “Semantic Web” refers to W3C’s vision of the Web of linked data
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Jan 16, 10
overview of CMI, including basic synchronous & asychronous tools $ apps w. note on what works & what does not work for each
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Jan 16, 10
"Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology" ~ SECTIONS on Learning and Cognitive Theories, Learner-Centered Theories, Inquiry Strategies: Tasks, Inquiry Strategies: Changing Learners' Minds, Tools for Teaching and Learning: Changing or Encouraging Human Behaviors, Tools for Teaching and Learning: Technology Tools, Socially Oriented Theories, Direct Instruction Strategies
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Tracking topics on the Web can be a painful process, due to the amount of noise and difficulty of filtering it. So to help you out, we've selected and categorized the leading topic-tracking tools. This is based on the discussion that arose from our earlier post about topic feeds, which are RSS feeds for keywords or phrases.
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Instant messaging (IM) services like AIM, Yahoo! Messenger, or Windows Live Messenger make it possible for you to chat in real-time with friends, colleagues, and students.
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But do you really want to have all of these different tools open at once? Probably not. In order to cut down on applications or screens that you have open on your desktop, you can use an IM aggregrator.
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leading topic-tracking tools on the Web.
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Feed and/or Email Services
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Google Reader
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Jan 28, 10
marketer's approach to using mindmapping to write, in this specific case, speeches and presentations + comments
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Mind maps are a great tool for getting your jumbly thoughts into a framework. From there, you can work backwards and forwards on ideas without the “weight” of lots of words to slow down your thinking. Then, by the way, you can use the words you’ve put down as the titles of slides, or as the headers to paragraphs or as the notes on your note cards for your speech.
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the “stuff” of the final product gets in the way of the frame of what we’re putting together.
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Jan 28, 10
paper on tagging, clouds, reflective learning
Abstract: Tags are popular for organising information in social software based on the personal views of the participants on the information. Tags provide valuable
attention meta-data on a person’s interests because the participants actively relate resources to concepts by using tags. This paper analyses three designs for tag-clouds that are integrated in the ReScope framework for reflection support. ReScope provides a widget for visualising personal tag-clouds of the tags that were
used with social bookmarking services. The presented designs focus on processing and representing attention meta-data on the levels of recency, of collaboration, and of social connectedness from the perspective of situated learning. The present paper analyses how the designs are related to the underlying presumptions for supporting reflection using the different representations of attention meta-data. -
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WordSift was created to help teachers manage the demands of vocabulary and academic language in their text materials. We especially hope that this tool is helpful in supporting English Language Learners.
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a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts
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This paper examines user-generated metadata as implemented and applied in two web services designed to share and organize digital media to better understand grassroots classification.
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metadata has generally been approached in two ways: professional creation and author creation
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Feb 02, 10
fully customized news tracker ~ could be used to track key phrases as well as stories as they appear in news
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Want to track a hot story being covered by multiple news outlets?
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story clusters
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experimented with a variety of methods to engage my students in their learning. My latest endeavor involves introducing different kinds of technology to enhance the teaching
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PikiFriends
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There are just way too many networks to keep up with and just not enough time to follow all those conversations that are going on all of them.
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Gizapage: Social Media Hub
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