Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2007

Jeremy Price offered a comment on my last blog post with a link to an excellent article by Lee Shulman on the uses and abuses of taxonomies in educational theory. As she puts it: Taxonomies exist to classify and to clarify, but they also serve to guide and to goad. … So here’s a reenvisioning of this hierarchy as a taxonomy.

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Taxonomy Museum Social Wikipedia 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2007

“Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. Instead of searching based only on the taxonomy assigned by the authority who runs the site (i.e. activities or to increase functionality, visibility, and accessibility of content (or both). With good reason.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Early in the life of this blog, I stumbled into a taxonomy of how social platforms work that I call the hierarchy of participation. The hierarchy comprises five levels, shown above, from passive consumption of content (level one) to collective social engagement (level five). with the issue. Why do you oppose flag-burning?

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