It’s Elementary

It was a great show with just the shows hosts Lisa Durff, Maria Knee, Alice Mercer, and Jose Rodriguez sharing what they’ve been doing this year in their classrooms, and the obstacles they faced. Points of interest:

• Technology is not a something separate, but an integral part of our teaching
• We use it to help kids make connections to the rest of the world
• Some issues were how to get kids used to writing, and not just playing on computers, how to plan and allocate time on the computers, and how much choice to give kids.
• How annoying, and brain-dead e-rate filtering programs are to deal with.

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With our Guest Steve Hargadon. Steve shares his insights about tagging with us.

Our discussion included use of tagging in blogs, pictures, in social bookmarking, at conferences, and with our students.

Steve talked about the purpose and structure of tagging.  We use tags on content we produce so that it is useful to others on the net.  The use of tags in social bookmarking such as del.icio.us and diggo are examples.   We are able to see how others tag content on the web.  We can tag our own content using similar taxonomy or create our own.  Steve reminded us that there is tension between using standardized tags versus a more independent free flowing tag system.  We can use technorati and or Blog search engines like google to make sense of all the content.

At NECC 2007 session specific tags were proposed and adopted by the community.  This standardized form of tagging allowed for aggregation session specific content. The same system is also used in classroom 2.0 to  standardize the way blog posts and other content is tagged.
You can download at It’s Elemenatary #11.mp3

Our next show will be on January 14th, 2008 at 4:00 p.m. Pacific / 7:00 p.m. Eastern. at Edtechtalk