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Tagging

Definition:
learn_defin		 A tag is a keyword used to describe a website, image, video. An item may have several tags.
Tools:
Tools:
learn_usethis		 Many "social" sites use tags to help you find items. For example, when posting an image in Flickr (a photo sharing site), people can add tags so that the photograph can be easily found later by searching for a specific tag. Social bookmarking sites also work this way.
How to:
learn_skill		 Libraries use common vocabulary to help you search through their collections. When tagging for yourself or your class you can create unique tags which help you share for specific purposes in a social bookmarking site such as Delicious.  For example, teacher A doing an LES with her class on racism may chose to use the tag: teacherAracism  When she and her students use the same tag they can easily search delicious to find the shared sites.

Hash tags # are also used on microblogging sites such as twitter. You can then search twitter for a particular hash tag and find all the tweets on that subject. e.g. A tweet about project based learning may contain the tag #pbl  - you can then search twitter for #pbl and find what everyone is sharing.
Pedagogical uses:
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Tags help you find your own saved items, but they also help you find items tagged by others.
Explore social bookmarking
Explore creative commons images
Create an rss feed to add to a web site so that you automatically pull in the sites that have been tagged.
Collaboration in the community:
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  • Are you working with another class? Share your tags so you can share the relevant sites and media you find.
  • When you upload images, give them a creative commons license so others can use them in their projects (with attribution, of course). Tag them and then when people search, they will find the

Learn More:

 Watch the video below, created by Chris Betcher for the K12 Online Conference 2008
Explore the sites, bookmarked on Delicious.

  




















            


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