Dear Future Seeing Sideways Students,
You are about to enter into a class like you've never taken before, in a good way. Seeing Sideways is about opening up your mind and creativity and looking a everything in a new way, not just they way you've been taught.
What I got from this class is that you should keep an open mind about most things and try and stay creative. In your future or current career you may not have complete creative controll over your work and this class teaches you to be creative for yourself and to stay creative.
This class will change my outlook on future classes by not being afraid to do something creative and different even it doesn't neccessarily fit what the project or assignemnt is for the instructor. They may love, they may not, and if they give you a bad grade for being creative then you can always fight for the grade you feel you deserve as long as you feel passionate that the work you did is worthy.
Sincerely,
Kyle D. Heacox
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
FINAL - Research Project
For my Final Research Project I decided to research Tagging or Metadata. For my project I researched what tagging was, how it was created, and how it is used. The following is the information that I found and ultimately used for the project:
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.
Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of some desktop software. Labeling and tagging are carried out to perform functions such as aiding in classification, marking ownership, noting boundaries, and indicating online identity. They may take the form of words, images, or other identifying marks. An analogous example of tags in the physical world is museum object tagging. In the organisation of information and objects, the use of textual keywords as part of identification and classification long predates computers. However, computer based searching made the use of keywords a rapid way of exploring records. Online and Internet databases and early websites deployed them as a way for publishers to help users find content. In 2001, John Harrower - a schoolboy from Scotland - created an online yearbook application that made use of photograph tagging allowing users to post comments regarding the person from the photo they clicked on. In 2003, the social bookmarking website Delicious provided a way for its users to add "tags" to their bookmarks (as a way to help find them later); Delicious also provided browseable aggregated views of the bookmarks of all users featuring a particular tag. Flickr allowed its users to add free-form tags to each of their pictures, constructing flexible and easy metadata that made the pictures highly searchable. The success of Flickr and the influence of Delicious popularized the concept, and other social software websites – such as YouTube, Technorati, and Last.fm – also implemented tagging. "Labels" in Gmail are similar to tags. Websites that include tags often display collections of tags as tag clouds. A user's tags are useful both to them and to the larger community of the website's users. Tags may be a "bottom-up" type of classification, compared to hierarchies, which are "top-down". In a traditional hierarchical system (taxonomy), the designer sets out a limited number of terms to use for classification, and there is one correct way to classify each item. In a tagging system, there are an unlimited number of ways to classify an item, and there is no "wrong" choice. Instead of belonging to one category, an item may have several different tags. Some researchers and applications have experimented with combining structured hierarchy and "flat" tagging to aid in information retrieval.
With the information I found and researched, I divided it up into five seperate paragraphs and put a different paragraph on the back of some indez cards. I think I ended up with 50-60 index cards. During class I would try and listen to everything everone was talking about; not just the people presenting their projects, but anyone that was talking. When I would hear a word that could be used as a Tag, I would write that word on the front of the index card and give it to them. With doing this, I was hoping that they would turn the card over and read it and realize what my project was all about. I ended up giving every student 2-3 cards. At the end of class, I was going to try and pull up an online Mad Libs site and have the tagged words used as our words for the Mad Lib, but I decided against it.
In online computer systems terminology, a tag is a non-hierarchical keyword or term assigned to a piece of information (such as an Internet bookmark, digital image, or computer file). This kind of metadata helps describe an item and allows it to be found again by browsing or searching. Tags are generally chosen informally and personally by the item's creator or by its viewer, depending on the system.
Tagging was popularized by websites associated with Web 2.0 and is an important feature of many Web 2.0 services. It is now also part of some desktop software. Labeling and tagging are carried out to perform functions such as aiding in classification, marking ownership, noting boundaries, and indicating online identity. They may take the form of words, images, or other identifying marks. An analogous example of tags in the physical world is museum object tagging. In the organisation of information and objects, the use of textual keywords as part of identification and classification long predates computers. However, computer based searching made the use of keywords a rapid way of exploring records. Online and Internet databases and early websites deployed them as a way for publishers to help users find content. In 2001, John Harrower - a schoolboy from Scotland - created an online yearbook application that made use of photograph tagging allowing users to post comments regarding the person from the photo they clicked on. In 2003, the social bookmarking website Delicious provided a way for its users to add "tags" to their bookmarks (as a way to help find them later); Delicious also provided browseable aggregated views of the bookmarks of all users featuring a particular tag. Flickr allowed its users to add free-form tags to each of their pictures, constructing flexible and easy metadata that made the pictures highly searchable. The success of Flickr and the influence of Delicious popularized the concept, and other social software websites – such as YouTube, Technorati, and Last.fm – also implemented tagging. "Labels" in Gmail are similar to tags. Websites that include tags often display collections of tags as tag clouds. A user's tags are useful both to them and to the larger community of the website's users. Tags may be a "bottom-up" type of classification, compared to hierarchies, which are "top-down". In a traditional hierarchical system (taxonomy), the designer sets out a limited number of terms to use for classification, and there is one correct way to classify each item. In a tagging system, there are an unlimited number of ways to classify an item, and there is no "wrong" choice. Instead of belonging to one category, an item may have several different tags. Some researchers and applications have experimented with combining structured hierarchy and "flat" tagging to aid in information retrieval.
With the information I found and researched, I divided it up into five seperate paragraphs and put a different paragraph on the back of some indez cards. I think I ended up with 50-60 index cards. During class I would try and listen to everything everone was talking about; not just the people presenting their projects, but anyone that was talking. When I would hear a word that could be used as a Tag, I would write that word on the front of the index card and give it to them. With doing this, I was hoping that they would turn the card over and read it and realize what my project was all about. I ended up giving every student 2-3 cards. At the end of class, I was going to try and pull up an online Mad Libs site and have the tagged words used as our words for the Mad Lib, but I decided against it.
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