Comments on: teaching students how to create meaningful tags

By: Ryan Trauman

Ryan Trauman — Mon, 16 May 2011 03:05:12 +0000

I have to agree with Rachel. This is a great way to get people/users/students tag-thinking when they are preparing their posts for posting. I’m going to try it this fall. Thanks so much for the idea!

Trauman

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professional dissertation writers — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:40:57 +0000

The process you described is really a great way to introduce students to the concept of tagging and to teach them choose the most important tags out of a tag cloud. Thanks for the great post

By: Teaching Students to Create Meaningful Tags « Prospeculating

Teaching Students to Create Meaningful Tags « Prospeculating — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:12:04 +0000

[...] via teaching students how to create meaningful tags | Bill Wolff’s Composing Spaces. [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 04:35:23 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Rachael, and I’m so glad that you were able to use Wordle to get it to work. The Facebook use has really made the big difference—for exactly the reason you suggest. It lets the students know that they are already tagging on their own. Now they just have to think about tagging in a new space.

I really like your hashtag examples. I’m going to borrow that in the future—and we definitely should do that in our workshop.

By: Rachael Sullivan

Rachael Sullivan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 02:57:22 +0000

Great post, Bill! The idea of using Wordle to teach tagging is ingenious. I also love your example of Facebook photos. It helps to show students, “hey, you have probably already practiced tagging in Facebook, here is how you can refine the skill for blogging.” In addition to the Facebook example, I tried using the example of individual tweets with effective and meaningful hashtags. I did a screen capture of two tweets (not mine) with three or four hashtags each. It was clear that the hashtags alone would not make any sense outside the context of the tweet, but taken together, the tags added meaning and linked users to additional content. Also, most students had already started using hashtags and knew about the trending topics list on Twitter, so all they had to do was see that Twitter hashtags, social bookmarking, and blog tags all follow the same folksonomy logic. When students pause to think about what makes a hashtag useful or useless on Twitter, that means (hopefully) they will think more carefully about the tags they use for blogging and social bookmarking.

By: Techne » Bringing Web 2.0 to the Classroom

Techne » Bringing Web 2.0 to the Classroom — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:52:20 +0000

[...] to using Library of Congress subject headings. (For another take on how to teach tagging, see Bill Wolff’s Composing Spaces blog.) This hands-on experience with applying metadata let students figure out for themselves the value [...]

By: Help Wanted: From My Students | Flying off the Shelf

Help Wanted: From My Students | Flying off the Shelf — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:03:29 +0000

[...] you are struggling to think of a tag, try to wordle a blog post (thanks to Bill Wolff for the idea!). Practice wordle and add tags to a blog [...]

By: teaching carnival « Bethany Nowviskie

teaching carnival « Bethany Nowviskie — Mon, 18 May 2009 03:08:04 +0000

[...] greater ambitions for tag clouds) as small pieces too loosely joined. Bill Wolff focuses on teaching students to create meaningful tags. David Bill looks at what’s happening in higher ed and begins to think through learning, [...]