Reflecting on Web-readings with Tag Clouds

Christian Glahn; Marcus Specht; Rob Koper

Reflecting on Web-readings with Tag Clouds

Christian Glahn, Marcus Specht, Rob Koper

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Abstract

Tagging has become one of the key activities of Web2.0 applications. This paper analyses the potential of using tag clouds for stimulating and supporting reflection of individual users in informal learning. We introduce the ReScope widget, a Javascript widget that generates a tag cloud, which represents tags on the levels of global and recent usage. The first prototype of ReScope has been used to identify actual use cases for reflection support. In this paper we analyse these use cases and the related design criteria.

Original language	English
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - 2008
Event	International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning 2008 - Villach, Austria Duration: 24 Sept 2008 → 26 Sept 2008

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Conference	International Conference on Interactive Collaborative Learning 2008
Abbreviated title	ICL 2008
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Villach
Period	24/09/08 → 26/09/08

Keywords

e-learning
web2.0
reflection
informal learning
tagging
visualisation

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