Week 14 - Teachthought on Tagging
Terry Heick's this topic is what he calls "tagging" his curriculum. This is related to his own practice of tagging content on his website to make it more searchable, and he offers examples from a video game website that creates a range of particular topic - not just broad categories like "action" or "simulation," but more specific ones like "Visual Novel" or "Controller Friendly." He then enumerates several benefits - organization, filtering, visibility, collaboration, and crowdsourcing. Most interestingly, collaboration and crowdsourcing involve student's feedback on which tags are most helpful, most useful, or they allow students to develop their own categories and refine assigned tags as they work through content artifacts provided by the teacher. This simple process, of labelling files in a way and on a platform that is searchable, will be especially useful for courses that allow students to seek their own path throug...