Social Tagging, Suprglu, Netvibes and Technorati

Slide 1: Social Tagging, Suprglu, Netvibes and Technorati TESOL Electronic Village Online 2006 workshop on collaborative blogging Salvor Gissurardottir 16-feb.-06

Slide 2: About this session This is online session in Elluminate  http://home.learningtimes.net/learningtimes?go=246217 This session is a match between the  Nordiske Stemme (Nordic Voice) online community project http:// www.nordiskestemme.dk and the TESOL Electronic Village Online 2006 workshop on collaborative blogging in language education, with co-moderators Anna Koorey, Jane Petring and Susanne Nyrop.

Slide 3: Presenter and participants

Slide 4: °About the presenter Salvor Gissurardottir Salvor is an assistant professor in Iceland University of Education -  Kennaraháskóla Íslands. She has been working professionally with blogs for many purposes, as an educator as well as an activist of feminism and free speech. In this session, Salvor is going to explain how to read blogs and make the blog  tools work together, illustrating this with the tools Suprglu and Netvibes. She will talk about social tagging, also called folksonomies, by demonstrating Flickr photo album sharing by tagging and tagging blogs (for Technorati) http://salvor.suprglu.com http://www.samkoma.net/salvor/ http://elgg.net/salvor/weblog Salvor was a keynote speaker in the Nordic Voice online 2005 conference in November, where she was talking about podcasting in education. The archived session still exists in Horizon Wimba where you have free access to listen and view: http://208.185.32.57/launcher.cgi?room=dns_2005_1110_0702_24

Slide 5: Introduction I am going to explain how to read blogs and  make the blog tools work together, illustrating this with the tools Suprglu and Netvibes. I will talk about social tagging, also called Folksonomies, by demonstrating Flickr photo album sharing by tagging I will also discuss how we can use Technorati  and how we can tag blogs

Slide 6: Flickr photosharing tags You can use other people photos  You can search photos by tags  You can blog photos  Example:  You have a blog, you need a picture to illustrate the story “Red shoes” by H.C. Andersen. You can search the tag redshoes (about 250 photos) and decide on a picture, click on “blog this”,write text and heading your blog entry.

Slide 7: Social Tagging - Flickr

Slide 8: Flickr photo on your blog

Slide 9: Feed Readers Bloglines vs. Netvibes

Slide 10: Netvibes – subscribe to feeds Add feeds one at a time  import list of feeds – called OPML files  http://www.bloglines.com/export?id=salvor  Save OPML file from Bloglines and import to  Netvibes

Slide 12: Superglue – tag cloud

Slide 13: Suprglu – glue it all together

Slide 14: Technorati – blog service

Slide 15: Links http://www.netvibes.com  http://www.suprglu.com  http://www.technorati.com  http://flickr.com  http://del.icio.us  http://fardagar.blogspot.com/2006/02/red-shoes.h 