It’s Elementary

It was a great show (chat room was rocking) as we shared what made Ed Tech Talk important to us, and where It’s Elementary fits into the Edtechtalk Community.

Here was what we covered:

• Questions to ask:
  • What is Ed Tech Talk? What can it do for you?
  • Why It’s Elementary? How does it help you?
• Reasons to use this place…
• Challenges — Is if really for me?
• Examples - ETT show favorites from the It’s Elementary Team

Download Podcast at It’s Elementary #16, What is EdtechTalk?
Text Chat from 4/7/2008 Show

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