As you are listening to and reflecting on David’s wonderful pre-conference keynote as well as the presentations coming up the next two weeks, please take time to “tag the conference.” By adding some short HTML code to the end of blog posts you write, you will be virtually “flagging” your ideas so that others can easily find and link to them. Technorati is one website which aggregates blog posts under these common tags. As an example, this is a link to all the posts currently aggregated by Technorati which have been tagged “k12online07.”
The Hitchhikr website is an aggregator of blog posts about a wide variety of educational conferences taking place around the world. By clicking on the Hitchhikr link in this post or elsewhere on the K-12 Online Conference blog, you can view blog posts of other teachers about the conference and its presentations. Hitchhikr uses Technorati to index photos posted to Flickr as well as blog posts. To tag the K-12 Online Conference, add the following HTML code to the end of your blog posts:
Technorati Tags:
k12online07
In addition this year, following the lead of the 2007 National Education Computing Conference (NECC), we have created unique session tags for each presentation of the conference. These are visible in the right column of the conference schedule, which is one of our navigational links located at the top of each page of the main conference website. Just substitute the appropriate session tag for the text “k12online07” in the example above. It is a good idea to tag your posts both for the conference and for the session you’re reflecting on. So, the Technorati code to use to tag BOTH the conference overall AND David’s pre-conference keynote specifically would be:
Technorati Tags:
k12online07, k12online07pc
Conversations in the blogosphere can seem messy and disorganized at times compared to a threaded discussion in a learning management system or other online conversation tool, but “tags” help the ideas and information take on an organic organizational structure. For more insight into how this works, check out Dr. Michael Wesch’s excellent video “The Web is Using/Us.”
Let’s tag the conference! 🙂
Technorati Tags:
k12online07, k12online07pc
Thanks for making this easy. Even some of us “somewhat” experience d folks need this. I’ll go back and put some tags on my previous posts that are not tagged. Agin thanks for enabling us to see hwat others are saying too. I am enjoying all the conversations and podcasts that are already out there. They must be tagged good, or I’ve subscribed to some really good rss anyway.