ILikeDeliciousThings

=Welcome to the ** I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies **=


 * Category: Getting Started**
 * Presentation Title:** “I Like Delicious Things: An Introduction to Tagging and Folksonomies” (20:00) **__2 CATNIP HOURS__**
 * Webpage: http**://k12onlineconference.org/?p=273
 * Description:** Using simple examples from a number of tag-driven websites, this presentation looks at how tagging and the subsequent creation of folksonomies are changing the way we think about information. Starting with obvious tagging systems used on sites like Flickr and Delicious, it examines how tagging enables information to be classified, sorted and managed in ways that make it more accessible, easier to manage and more self-aware. It also explores how tags can be aggregated across large collections of information to provide a snapshot into the overall zeitgeist of collective thinking.
 * Presenter:** Chris Betcher, Sydney, Australia//

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1**Session Title:** **“I Like Delicious Things: Tagging.”**
 * Bari Candy**


 * Essential Question 1:** **What are the qualities of a good tag?**
 * The qualities of a good tag include important, relative words for recalling pictures and online materials. A good tag is generic and not related to a specific topic. The tag is accessible to anyone, anywhere and can be associated with specific words that help narrow down a search.**


 * Essential Question 2:** **What specific ways can you see that tagging would assist learners in managing info better?**
 * Specific ways that tagging can assist learners in managing information are personal and organizational. Assigning categories to help catalogue images can aide in the search for specifics. For example, a student has multiple images of art created during the Renaissance. Tagging these images with simple search words, such as “Renaissance” assist in searching particular subject matter without the “weeding” through needless information. Assigning specific tags, such as “Leonardo da Vinci”, narrows the search within the Renaissance search to specific works by da Vinci. This can all be applied to art in so many ways; from periods in art history, specific artists, and cultures, among various other elements in the arts.**


 * Essential Question 3:** **What is the most unusual innovative “out there’ use of tagging you can imagine?**
 * The most “out there” use of tagging that I can think of would be to tag kitchen appliances and utensils. (Steven thought this was useless; I find it useful for my personal kitchen needs**** J ****) Or what about shoes? I love shoes! Style, color, brand; so many shoes to find and wear! You could classify by designer; era; influences; materials. All of these are related to fashion, and hence art!**


 * Summary: How can I apply this in my teaching?**
 * Tagging images is so important in the art program. There are so many images connected to so many categories that organization is imperative! Categorizing and cataloguing images in art as well as artists narrows the broad search that can take hours to find a specific topic and image. Ideally, I would apply this in my classroom with all art images, new and old.**

2. Your name: Keri Hargrave Session Title:**“I Like Delicious Things: Tagging.”**

Response: This is a subjective question because tagging is personal. What one person thinks are good tagging qualities, another may not. For example, if I have pictures of waves and my husband surfing in San Diego, I can tag it “Patrick, surfing, Campgrounds, waves, California, or San Diego.” To me, looking up Patrick, I know I will find pictures of him surfing. However, to the public, they wouldn’t type if “Patrick” if they were wanting to look up waves. Also, the word “Campgrounds” to the general public probably serves the meaning of a place to go camping. They do not associate that the name “Campgrounds” is actually the surf spot Patrick was surfing. So, I believe a “good tag” is a personal question. The only thing that would make a “bad tag” would be, as the creator expressed, if the words are spelled incorrectly. Then it really doesn’t serve anyone’s needs.
 * Essential Question 1: ** **What are the qualities of a good tag? **

Response: The reason tagging helps learners manage information, is because they can take something and catalogue it in different ways. For example, if you have a picture of a rainbow, you may want to remember that that rainbow was from Maui. You can categorize your tags in general and specific terms (Maui and rainbow). Or if you tagged pictures from the 2nd grade field trip to the Natural History Museum, instead of putting “2nd grade, or Natural History Museum” which would bring up 100s of pictures, you could tag it “Mrs.Hargrave NHM FieldTrip.” This way, you will only have the pictures from your field trip there and it won’t bring up 100s of results.” Vice Versa – if you wanted to find lots of pictures from the NHM you can just type in NHM.
 * Essential Question 2: ** **What specific ways can you see that tagging would assist learners in managing info better? **

Response: An unusual way to tag would be to tag food/desserts. I just looked up peach cobbler, and I received a whole bunch of pictures. As far as innovative, you could tag DJs. The key words would be: DJ, the genre (hip hop, reggae, Latin, Calipso, jazz), music etc.
 * Essential Question 3: ** **What is the most unusual innovative “out there’ use of tagging you can imagine? **

Summary: How can I use this in my teaching? Response: I found tagging a great tool for the teacher. I will have more sources to find images that I can put into my lessons. Also, instead of spending hours on "yahoo images" one can go to some of these other pages and find different images. Also because of the way tagging works, you can create your own "database" of the tagged images so you don't have to store them and take up memory on your hard drive. You could also use this video and the whole idea of tagging a great intro to a lesson on catagorizing information. This would be a great way for students to see how it's done in the real world.

3. Your name:Alec Fick Session Title:**“I Like Delicious Things: Tagging.”** Essential Question 1:  **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-weight: normal;">What are the qualities of a good tag? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> Response: A good tag consists of key words that are relevant to how you see the information that you are tagging. If it is a photo, the tags need to be chosen so that they will stick in your mind as pertaining to that photo, whether it be the subject matter of the photo, or the style that it was taken in, or even the time of day. The more tags that are applied to the subject, the easier it will be to find that information when searching at a later date using the tags. Essential Question 2: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-weight: normal;">What specific ways can you see that tagging would assist learners in managing info better? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> Response: Tags would be a great way to find information on the internet when researching a subject, and is in fact how search engines find the information in the sea of information that is available on the web. One specific way to use tags would be to search a president's speeches for key words that relate to what you are researching. For example, if you wanted to find out what was said about weapons of mass destruction, just search the tags for that topic and use the information for developing your research paper. Essential Question 3: <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black; font-weight: normal;">What is the most unusual innovative “out there’ use of tagging you can imagine? **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: black;"> Response: It would be interesting to go on Flickr and search the tags for my name and see if anyone else out there in the web has posted a photo of myself on their Flickr page. Summary: Tagging is a great way to catagorize information in a way that is meaningful to the individual that is tagging the photos, or text, or websites. It certainly would make it much easier to find that information in the future.

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