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RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online

RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online. Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 4th Inter-college Conference on Technology and Multiculturalism Presented Online February 13, 2008. RSS and Tagging - Key to p2p collaboration over Internet. Tags allow us to

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RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online

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  1. RSS, Tagging, and Collaboration Online Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 4th Inter-college Conference on Technology and Multiculturalism Presented Online February 13, 2008

  2. RSS and Tagging - Key to p2p collaboration over Internet • Tags allow us to • Categorize information available through distributed networks • Organize in personally meaningful ways • RSS used to • Monitor where web artifacts using productive tags are accumulating, or being aggregated • Track when content is added at any number of web sites and services Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  3. RSS • Classic resources: • Will Richardson’s RSS Quick Start Guide for Educatorshttp://weblogg-ed.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/RSSFAQ4.pdf • "RSS in very simple terms" by Lee and Sachi LeFever at http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english • Subscribing to feeds • Locate feed URL (small orange graphic shown here) • Paste URL into an aggregator, such as http://www.bloglines.com or http://reader.google.com Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  4. Example of Google Reader http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlereader/tour.html Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  5. Google Reader Bloglines Pageflakes Technorati Aggregation • In this example: • Use Technorati to locate all blog posts tagged ‘writingmatrix • Create an RSS feed that will update your feedreader with new addtions to that search Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  6. Example of Technorati search on writingmatrix http://technorati.com/search/writingmatrix?authority=n&language=en Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  7. Example of Pageflakes Blogging4educators: http://www.pageflakes.com/Blogging4Educators Writingmatrix: http://www.pageflakes.com/vancestevens/13487192/ Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  8. Technorati vs. Del.ici.ous • Technorati http://technorati.com • Del.icio.us http://del.icio.us • Both work on tagging, but • Technorati scans the blogosphere for tags that appear in blog postings, which were put there by the person who created the post. • Del.icio.us allows users/viewers of blog posts and all other web artifacts to classify them according to ad hoc folksonomy Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  9. Tags and Folksonomies (vs. Taxonomies) Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  10. Enables nodes in distibuted learning networks to interact according to how tags and other folksonomic data overlap Social Networking Source: Bronwyn Stuckeyhttp://www.cpsquare.org/stuckey-etal-AERA-SNA.pdf Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  11. Example of Social Bookmarking with del.ciou.us http://del.icio.us/vancestevens/multiliteracies Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  12. Blogs Wikis Pageflakes Moodle, Drupal Worldbridges webcasts Others? Facebook Twitter Ning Elgg Communities of practice e.g. Webheads.info Learning environments for Social Networking • Promote effective, powerful, peer to peer social learning • Reduce affective filters • Some examples Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  13. Multiculturalism • This presentation suggests how tagging can be • used productively by people wishing to locate one another in order to • Develop friendships • And make discoveries about each other's • cultural and linguistic backgrounds • and socio-economic concerns • commonalities Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  14. Introducing: Writingmatrix • http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  15. What is Writingmatrix? • Example of how basing interaction on tagging has enabled students in various parts of the world to interact • a group of 4 teachers, but could be 400 • engaged their students in writing using blogs, • had students tag using the term writingmatrix Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  16. Writingmatrix: How it works students used • Technorati tag search to find each other's posts • RSS to aggregate them • Comments to make contact • URL trackback and Del.icio.us to foster sense of audience Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  17. Latest information with links to numerous presentations and publications here:http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=dr22kn2_24dpqdgg&hl=en View our ‘teaser’ for K-12 Online Conference 2007 “Wanna make new friends? Tagging, man!” Writingmatrix: Find out more http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjlCY0BCNo Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008

  18. Last word (literally, posted just as the presentation was starting) • Comment from Ronaldo in Brazil on this blog post:http://advanceducation.blogspot.com/2008/02/all-i-know-about-blogging-and.html

  19. Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE http:adVancEducation.blogspot.com February 13, 2008 Find any updates to this presentation online here: http://tinyurl.com/2bwfuy

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