1. Social tagging and learning resources in a multilingual context CELSTEC/NELL colloquium June 4 2009 Riina Vuorikari

10. Learning Resource Exchange for schools http://lreforschools.eun.org Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari 03/03/2009 Conventional search «From teachers to teachers» Tags in multiple languages Ratings and comments by the European Commission’s eContentplus Programme

11. Tagging as a conceptual tool for co-construction of knowledge Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari Add to Favourites Add a tag

12. Tagging for co-construction of knowledge Learning Resource Exchange - Riina Vuorikari Digital traces to follow!

13. by Stiphy “ Social” makes trails visible..

14. and guides the way

15. Activity system (Cole and Engeström, 1991)

18. Exploratory study into tagging: resources through tags Resources with user tag «interactive» Tag «interactive» Vuorikari, R., & Ochoa, X. (2009). Exploratory Analysis of the Main Characteristics of Tags and Tagging of Educational Resources in a Multi-lingual Context. Journal of Digital Information, 10(2). http://journals.tdl.org/jodi/article/view/447.

19. Resource provider Tag «optics» Exploratory study into tagging: content from providers connected through tags

20. Exploratory study into tagging: users from different countries connected through tags Austria Hungary Finland Resource that «Travels well»

22. Users interact differently with tags (*) - tag but don’t use for search - tag and search - only search - don’t tag nor search

26. Link-structures that did not exist before: descriptor - LOM

31. Conclusions

32. Epistemological level - how tagging can support discovery - creation of new ways to interact with the discovery process, i.e. SIR

33. Methodological level - new methods for structuring the communication in the context: tags

34. Social assistance level -new forms of assistance to correspond better to communities needs (e.g. own vocabularies, topical and lingual tag clouds)

35. social bookmarks Metadata LOM tags folksonomy ecology multi-linguality social classification thanks ! for your attention learning resources Tags user communities resource discovery questions ? teachers social navigation social traces paths , trails http://elgg.ou.nl/rvu