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 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

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

RSS Classic resources: Will Richardson’s RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators http://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

Classic resources:

Will Richardson’s RSS Quick Start Guide for Educators http://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

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

Aggregation Google Reader Bloglines Pageflakes Technorati Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 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

Google Reader

Bloglines

Pageflakes

Technorati

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

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

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

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

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

Tags and Folksonomies (vs. Taxonomies) Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 Dewey Decimal System Top-Down Client-Server structured information dissemination network Precise Predictable Inflexible Folksonomy Bottom Up Peer to Peer Ad hoc information dissemination network Sloppy Unpredictable Creative comprehensive adaptable

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

Enables nodes in distibuted learning networks to interact

according to how tags and other folksonomic data overlap

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

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

Blogs

Wikis

Pageflakes

Moodle, Drupal

Worldbridges webcasts

Others?

Facebook

Twitter

Ning

Elgg

Communities of practice e.g. Webheads.info

Promote effective, powerful, peer to peer social learning

Reduce affective filters

Some examples

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

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

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

http://writingmatrix.wikispaces.com

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

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

Writingmatrix: How it works 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 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

students used

Technorati tag search to find each other's posts

Writingmatrix: Find out more 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!” Vance Stevens - Abu Dhabi UAE - Feb 13, 2008 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHjlCY0BCNo

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!”

Vance Stevens Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE http:adVancEducation.blogspot.com February 13, 2008 Find any updates to this presentation online here: http://www.slideshare.net/vances/rss-tagging-collaboration-online/