I just finished the last segment of an online Webinar for Extension on tagging for knowledge sharing and collaboration. The first part was a presentation, the second part an action learning exercise over two weeks, and the final part a discussion to reflect on what was learned and putting tagging into practice.
In terms of teaching practice, I made use of the online moderation techniques I learned from Nancy White's fantastic workshop about online facilitation, including the clock trick! My goal was to better weave together discussion/reflection about the process and inserting "how to" in del.icio.us (I saw this done very effectively on a demo of the nonprofit template from safesforce by Meghan Nesbit.
What I did was the discussion for the first 3/4 and saved the how-to QA for the end. If I had inserted the how-to demo in the moment when we discussed it, not sure if that would have been confusing or helpful.
I also experimented with pointing to other people's tutorials in the exercise instructions versus recreating my own which was probably less helpful to the beginner taggers.
I gained some valuable insights about participants approach and reflections about tagging. I realized that I have three distinct styles for tagging depending on whether I'm:
-actively researching a topic for workshop curriculum
-tagging links for my link blog
-general finding resources that I might want to refer to later
I'm ready to go back and read this articles and improve my own tagging habits:
The Several Habits of Wildly Successful Taggers
13 Tips for Effective Tagging
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