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Tag, That’S It!: Using Blogs For Creative Research, Applied Critical Thinking And Better Student Writing, Stephen M. Buttes

Stephen M Buttes

In this presentation and discussion, I presented the way I use in my teaching what has come to be called "folksonomy." That is, I explain how my students categorize short pieces of writing with "tags" or labels that they assign when they post their writing assignments to a class blog. Students then re-use their tags and their classmates' tags to find new topics to develop for the next assignment. The motivation behind this technique is three-fold: 1. Getting students excited about the process of researching, writing and re-writing (increasing student "buy-in" on the assignments) 2. Expanding the frame of the …