Regarding Valerie's suggestion for a way to browse, and Maria's example of Flickr and tagging:
Valarie - I agree, it would be nice, especially for when introducing the wiki to people. Maria - Welcome (nice to have another experienced social media user with us) good suggestions - I think the category feature in the wiki can be used as a kind of tagging system. When you come across a page that you think should be added to the browse list, simply click edit and type [[category:browselist]] or some other tag word. If it is useful to you for something else, add perhaps add [[category:valerieslist]]. These category tags will be added as links to the bottom of the page. When you click those links, you'll be taken to an index page where all the tagged pages are listed in alphabetical order. Now, at the techtonic shift way back, I asked the tech madician behind Wikied if we could apply a tag cloud look to the category feature which would give us a clearer idea of what category tags where popular. An alternative way to achieve this is to use Del.icio.us. Use it to bookmark and tag a wikieducator page. Go to Del.icio.us to view your list. When viewing your list, look for the RSS feed for that list. Take the URL for that RSS feed, and create a page on Wikieducator called "Browse List". Add that RSS feed to that page. After that RSS feed URL has had a few bits of wiki syntax added to it by me or anyone who knows how, then the page will display the Del.icio.us list right there on the page. This method is a type of third party media embed and can be done for video and audio as well. Personally, I think both methods are good - but I have a preference for Del.icio.us because it decentralises content a little. I am quite nervous about putting everything into the wiki and prefer to distribute across services as a type of backup plan - as well as broader range of digital literacy development. On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 8:10 AM, Patricia Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Dear Valerie, > > Those are great thoughts, Valerie. Why don't you add them to the Community > Portal for WikiEducator under the appropriate to-do list. > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:Community_Portal > > Thank you. > Warm regards, > Patricia > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of valerie > Sent: Monday, October 13, 2008 8:14 AM > To: WikiEducator > Subject: [WikiEducator] Re: WIkiEducator 3.0 -- Asking the right questions > > > I don't know if this is something new that is needed or something that > already exists. > > What I would really like to do is "browse" or "graze" through > WikiEducator - like flipping through a magazine or a journal. I'm sure > there is lots of great stuff, but I have yet to find a good way to see > the broad spectrum and stumble upon stuff. > > Search isn't the answer, because I don't know what I'm looking for but > I'll know it when I see it. > > What would be even better would be some over layer / meta data layer - > sort of like social bookmarking but just for WE content (at least for > now). I would like to hop "sequentially" through all the WE content - > start anywhere - see the high level pages or a map that showed number > of links, child pages, last update, creation date, tags, categories. > > I want to just scroll or click through the list in some orderly but > quick way - browse! Like scanning the Sunday New York Times. If I see > something of interest, I'd like to note and tag it against my criteria > - my subject/ classification, remember to revisit, and some general > site wide criteria - completeness, readability. > > There are a couple of frustrations with WE now, as I see it. I'm not > aware of any good, quick way to see everything that is out there. > Finding the "good stuff" that is complete enough for consideration as > an OER or Learning object is way too hard. > > There are also some general WE housekeeping issues - I know, I'm part > of the problem. Personal notes, brain dumps, kernels of future > projects or topics of interest, or worse - tried it and abandoned > pages. This is all interspersed with fine materials that really should > be seen and promoted, both within WE and the WE community and to a > global audience. > > It would be nice if this were easy. I hope there are tools available > or forthcoming to address some of these needs. Some of us see > ourselves as noders and linkers - reviewing and classifying entries in > this great WE resource but lack the tools to be effective. > > Are there tools available now? I did review the WE 3.0 page, but I > didn't come away with too much on questions like this - too process > oriented? Too far down the hierarchy of issues? Are they part of the > plan? > > ..Valerie > > On Oct 11, 4:01 pm, Wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > In a socially connected world it is more beneficial to have the right > > questions than the right answers to the wrong questions. > > > > I've been working on a WikiEducator 3.0 draft node. Please read through > > the summary provided on this page to familiarise yourself with our > > current context: > > > > http://wikieducator.org/WikiEducator:WikiEducator_3.0 > > > > WE are inviting the community to help us in brainstorming a list of the > > "right" questions for the third phase of our strategic plan. Once we've > > generated a reasonable list of questions we will engage in discussion > > and reflection on whether we have listed the right questions -- before > > we attempt to answer them :-). These discussions will form the > > foundation of our operational plan for Phase 3 of our strategic plan. > > > > Cheers > > Wayne > > > > > -- -- Leigh Blackall +64(0)21736539 skype - leigh_blackall SL - Leroy Goalpost http://learnonline.wordpress.com http://www.wikieducator.org/User:Leighblackall --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "WikiEducator" group. To visit wikieducator: http://www.wikieducator.org To visit the discussion forum: http://groups.google.com/group/wikieducator To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
