Folks Using Folksonomy, Digital Galleries and More

ITC eLearning 2010, 1/22/10
Cheryl Chapman, Faculty and Instructional Designer, and
Dan Jones, Executive Dean of Innovation and Learning Technology, Coastline College
http://www.coastline.edu/

With all the choices we have for helping students reach their educational goals, it is increasingly important to sort through and choose from the many tools available to create high-quality, media-rich courses without being overwhelmed. The presenters will focus on how students can share knowledge, experiences, and comments through an online digital gallery/collaboration system (voice thread) while meeting learning outcomes. Learn how to use Folksonomies to organize conceptual structures and encourage community.

Notes:
Off campus, community and innovative technology based education since
- Locations throughout OC
- Distance & alternative learning for over 30 years
- 2-yr transfer, AA & Certificate programs

Organization:
Center for instructional Systems Development
- Uses a system developed by themselves
- Fully integrated with Banner

Learning Technology & Innovation - eLearning Research & Development
- Instructional Design & Faculty Support
- Electronic Media & Publishing
- Video & Telecourse Production
- Marketing (Coast Learning Systems)

Development Projects:
- Second Life/Virtual Worlds
- Rapid prototyping – Interactive learning applets/simulations
- VOD/POD Casting (ellumniate, Adobe Connect)
- Lecture Capture
- ePortfolios
- Social Networks
- Folksonomy

Folksonomy = Folk + Taxonomy
- Folks done by people (using tagging & user generated content)
- Taxonomy – classification of item into groups
- Collective tagging = social tagging = social indexing = collaborative tagging
- Not as accurate as Taxonomy due to user generated content and indexing
- Low cost

Why is this important? - amount of information generated by web community
- Scientific Publications becoming more complex & difficult to locate via regular searches
- Experts are not always available (or willing) for categorizing scientific data
- Human generated tags add reliability to databases/search engines
- Users categorize this inform anyway

Examples of tagging technologies:
- Flickr
- Delicious
- Go Pub Med
- ChemSPider
- Wikipedia

Libraries often have difficulty with the poor quality of users generated tagging/indexing of content. There is now a hybrid of taxonomy and folksonomy used leveraging the advantages of folksonomy and the more expertise o taxonomy.
Voicethread
- a tool used to help faculty accomplish these needs, upload photos or video, add narration as comments, add tags
- allows you to use your phone to record audio comments
- allows for threaded conversations (audio) surrounding a particular media object (?)
- allows educators to create groups and administrate users
- Offers the ability to share (embed)
- Offers slideshow feature with comments

Links:
http://voicethread.com
Group conversations around images, documents, and videos

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