Project Play Week 8

I'm caught up - at least for now anyway. :) I've even added tags to my old posts and I added some while I was playing around with Flickr and LibraryThing. I think it does make things easier to locate.

I like the idea of tagging, it isn't too unsettling to me. Working with children, I found it difficult to assign Sears subject heading to materials. It used formal language - which was fine if I was searching for something, but was more difficult for kids to come up with the right key term to enter in. I like being able to include the language that the children are using. It makes it easier for them to find what they are looking for.

I will most definitely use it for craft websites. It would be so nice to just have a list of the sites I use all of the time to find craft ideas that aren't buried somewhere in my favorites. Or to keep track of craft ideas that I want to use in the future. I found a really cute bug craft on accident yesterday that I want to use for this summer.

I think the “massive amounts of participation” help people to find things they are looking for easier. Most people don't think of more "formal terms" when searching for something (like subject headings are). It would be nice to see what terms that children choose to use when describing a good book.