Web 2.0 tools for Teaching and Learning ….. The Folksemantic Tool Set Shelley Henson, Research Scientist Brandon Muramatsu, Project Manager Tom Caswell, Great Guy Center for Open and Sustainable Learning http://folksemantic.org Licensed Under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ ) Cite as: Henson, S., Muramatsu, B. and Caswel, T. (2007). Web 2.0 for Teaching and Learning…Folksemantic Tool Set. New Media Consortium Summer Conference, Indianapolis, IN.

Folksemantic Approach The Semantic Web the Web user’s way Human-centric No complicated ontologies Simple technologies…RSS, tagging, open APIs

The Semantic Web the Web user’s way

Human-centric

No complicated ontologies

Simple technologies…RSS, tagging, open APIs

Web2.0…more than blogs and wikis Simple, targeted, mashable tools Leverage social networks / information User-generated stuff Open and free, mostly Reputation and Identity

Simple, targeted, mashable tools

Leverage social networks / information

User-generated stuff

Open and free, mostly

Reputation and Identity

Web 2.0… what do you use? ….discuss

….discuss

http:// folksemantic.org annotate share folksonomies remix sequence tag find reuse translate mashup alter filter discuss aggregate relate rate identity community widgets

annotate share folksonomies

remix sequence tag find reuse

translate mashup alter filter

discuss aggregate relate rate

identity community widgets

Existing Folksemantic Tools Send2Wiki Annorate Makeapath…Trailfire Scrumdidilyumptio.us OCWFinder Ozmozr

Send2Wiki

Annorate

Makeapath…Trailfire

Scrumdidilyumptio.us

OCWFinder

Ozmozr

Upcoming Folksemantic Projects OpenID for all Widgetization of the tools… making them mashupable, pluggable, and generally free

OpenID for all

Widgetization of the tools… making them

mashupable, pluggable, and generally free

Upcoming Folksemantic Projects II Roaming Discussion… talk in context Flashmob… group stuff assemblage Ozmozr 2.0… sharing sharing sharing Aggregator… free form content aggregation Tatemai… online identity and content collection shareAPI… system to system sharing

Roaming Discussion… talk in context

Flashmob… group stuff assemblage

Ozmozr 2.0… sharing sharing sharing

Aggregator… free form content aggregation

Tatemai… online identity and content collection

shareAPI… system to system sharing

Using the Folksemantic Tool Set ….discuss

….discuss

What we’ve learned Granularity can break you More voices means more interaction User generated content is rich Collaborative filtering of content scales Communities can manage themselves with the right mechanisms in place

Granularity can break you

More voices means more interaction

User generated content is rich

Collaborative filtering of content scales

Communities can manage themselves with the right mechanisms in place

This space is messy Embrace the human

Embrace the human

Questions? http://folksemantic.org [email_address] If those don’t work for you, try yahoo answers in fact, try yahoo answers anyway because it’s cool

http://folksemantic.org

[email_address]

If those don’t work for you, try yahoo answers

in fact, try yahoo answers anyway because it’s cool

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