1. Social tagging for teachers in
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Melt
Riina Vuorikari
European Schoolnet

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Social tagging for teachers in
Melt
WHAT? Give me an example!
- Let's look into bookmarks

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Social tagging for teachers in
Melt
And what is there for teachers?
- Can it really help them to find
digital resources?

4. example: What are social bookmarks?
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5. Bookmarks
 Readily available at
your browser
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 A good way to get
back to what you
once found
 and organise your life
according to folders..

6. .. if you remember in which folder it
was stored in?
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7. But how to share interesting items
with...
.. colleagues
.. learners
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.. SIG
.. friends
.. family?

8. How to share it with...
.. colleagues
.. learners
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.. SIG
.. friends
.. family?
We used to send interesting
things to friends by email..

9. ...but times are changing
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10. Proliferation of web-based services
for sharing digital items
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11. Proliferation of web-based services
for sharing digital items
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So, what makes them so special,
social and
... what about tags?

13. Web-based bookmarking
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14. Social bookmarking
 To store, organise, share and search
bookmarks of web pages. Keep found things
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found!
 Bookmarks are usually public and shared
 Users organise bookmarks with informal tags
(instead of the traditional folders)
 Find like-minded users with similar interest.

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My personal keywords
are TAGS. They help me
organise my bookmarks!

16. What is a tag?
 Metadata externally applied to an item
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 Can be used for sorting or managing
 A hook for aggregating
 Provides identifier and/or description
 Personal marker
by Thomas Vander Wal

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Share

18. Sharing digital items
through tags and a tag cloud
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19. Cues and trails from other users
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20. “Social”
makes
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trails
visible
by Stiphy

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by nico h

22. Summarise: (user, resources, {tags})
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23. Summarise: navigational aid to
discover resources
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What about those teachers?

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27. Collaborative content enrichment
in multilingual Europe
 Addition to the traditional LOM
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 By users interacting with the portal, resources
and other users
 Four main tools:
– social bookmarking and tags in multiple languages
– ratings of usefulness
– pedagogical annotations (used in learning events)
– levels of user engagement when interacting with
the system (what is viewed, how many times,..)

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Follow those digital
traces!

29. More ways for social navigation
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Discover resources
through tags in
multiple languages

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33. User engaging with resources
 views the page
 views
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metadata
 bookmarks
and tags
 rates
 what about the
actual use?

34. Social bookmarks on learning resources
make clusters of users visible to others..
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35. .. to allow new ways to discover both
resources and people!
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36. Benefits of social tagging and content
enrichment for you
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 Will offer you a richer view on how resources
are used (viewed, tagged, shared, used)
 Who interacts with your resources cross
(inter)national and linguistic borders
 How your resources are taken up and how do
users enrich your content

37. Metadata LOM tags
social bookmarks
folksonomy social tagging
multi-linguality social classification
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thanks! for your attention
learning resources user communities
discover resources and items
questions?
teachers social navigation
social traces
paths, trails
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