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Game Friday: Tagging For Fun

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It’s called Tag this Image! Tagging,” or assigning descriptors to pictures, websites, and other content on the internet, is a huge trend in 2.0. with web pages, or on blogs with posts, tagging makes organization of items and search of them easier. Tagging is useful. Separately at your own computers, you tag images.

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In Support of Idiosyncrasy

Museum 2.0

Funders and potential donors tend to look for particular benchmarks of professionalism (appropriately), and few are comfortable funding the most risky or content-specific institutions. The content is often seen as not being community-specific. Tags: children's museums design business models. But that's only part of the story.

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ExhibitFiles: Interviews with Initiators Jim Spadaccini and Wendy Pollock

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Wendy: Part of the thinking was that NSF supported the book Are We There Yet? , NSF requires grant applicants to build on prior knowledge--where do you get it? And with NSF's support, some of the very first things we did were around people developing traveling exhibits. NSF seems to be perfectly happy with that.

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Scratch: An Educational, Multi-Generational Online Community that Works

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Yes, it is possible for someone to reveal private information on a public comment board, but the number of community eyes on each board means that that kind of content can be seen publicly and addressed quickly. Inappropriate Content: Debatable. Let's look at #3--the promotion and featuring of content.