Thing 13

Thing 13: Tagging
I see tagging on Shelfari and find some value to it, but would never want to get into that. I think it would really help students find the theme of books easier if we ask them to tag the book they just read. A thought to implement this year to see what they do, I know we’re tagging to categorize webs, pictures and things like that just a brain burp. I do not think tagging is for he library. It is so unstructured and random connections would drive me crazy, maybe I’ve been in libraryland to long and have too many categories already to remember. I do think our students would like to do this and I might challenge my 8th grade teachers to try it with books not connecting with I-Net tagging, just informal book tagging connection and see if it makes them think about what they read. I think I’ll show this website and have them think of how they would tag a book. Tagging is not for me it is completely unstructured it sounds like chaos.