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November 18, 2005
Tags!
Both reactions to Clay's lecture were great, as expected. The first group explored the physical tagging and redefining of meaning in the real world. There were four of them and they all started out with the same number of words as well as a few different words. They then went out into the world and taped their 'tagging' exploits with a homage to graffiti artists. It was interesting to see how they used the same words differently and how the redefined what 'is' is with a sticker. They took a broadcast announcement and changed it into a conversation.
The second group produced itp.licio.us, a play on del.icio.us which had us tagging our own classmates. My tags are on the left. The exercise was pretty neat, 70% interesting and 30% high school popularity contest with a bit of slander thrown in. At first people were asked to opt out of it but now people are asked to opt in to their names appearing on the list. It did highlight some of the problems of tagging that Clay brought up such as the thesaurus problem. The video was nicely done, interspersing students' tags with student interviews. The student interviews highlighted the chasm between what we think of ourselves and what others think of ours. As you can see, I didn't get any 'hot' tags :)
Posted by mb2811 at November 18, 2005 05:20 AM