Tagging in education
Following up yesterday on a smaller talk I did a few weeks back on tagging for university web applications, I was fortunate to be able to give a full one hour seminar on tagging for educators in SCoPE. Quite a hot topic these days what with all the Web 2.0 apps flying around out there, this presentation was part of a larger 3 week seminar on Social media in education. How tags can be used in an educational context was the main focus of the session which you should be able to listen to the full recording of here, via the elluminate service we used to record it. There was some great discussion questions and a few new services emerged on the radar that deserve some linkage.
Blackboard Scholar is built right into the Blackboard Learning System, for easy integration of relevant, reliable resources and dynamic streams from Scholar, directly into the course.
Peerworks is an open source project that is building content classification tools to help online browsing, collaboration, and social discovery.
Both of these look to be useful applications for educators and both of them incorporate tagging into the user experience. It was also fun to share with educators from around the world, and meet some new people from my own back yard. One of the participants in fact resides a stones throw from my own office, the blog Data Designs from from Therese Weel’s was a welcome addition to my RSS reader. Always good to know there are fellow bloggers right here at SFU. (and yes, one post per month still allows me to call myself a blogger)