Over the past year or two, I’ve been delighted to notice educators and librarians embracing Delicious both as a way to share bookmarks with each other and a way to help their students and patrons learn. This makes perfect sense to me as a college student because I bookmark and tag references for all my projects and I’d love to see similar collections from my professors and classmates.
Good resources for social tagging and social bookmarking
danah boyd's articles on social tagging, tagging, and social bookmarking.
This research presents a case study on the use of Social Tagging in an undergraduate classroom at the University of Michigan during the Fall 2005 semester. Students were between 20 and 22 years of age. Students tagged their individual blog posts to contribute to themes and conversations in an online learning environment. Using content analysis of the blog posts and tags as well as semi-structured interviews, the study examines the role of online social tagging for tracking and aiding group knowledge formation.
Recent historic data for the social tagging/bookmarking movement--timeline + visibility graph.
This short paper describes a novel technique for generating personalized tag recommendations for users of social book- marking sites such as del.icio.us. Existing techniques recommend tags on the basis of their popularity among the group of all users; on the basis of recent use; or on the basis of simple heuristics to extract keywords from the url being tagged. Our method is designed to...
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Virtual learning environments and social bookmarking
Folksonomy and tagged content by the masses
danah boyd's articles on social tagging, tagging, and social bookmarking.
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