Thing #16

Ok maybe I am cynical but I am not seeing a lot of classroom applications. Personally I can see using it as a guide to selecting reading material on a given topic. 

I guess what this site reveled to me was one of the powers of Web 2.o. It allows thousands if not millions of people to "tag" or express opinions about many things whether it is websites, books or pictures. This metadata makes the web more search friendly. When I create a web page or post a picture I may include search terms that I think make sense but they might not make sense to you. When thousands of people tag the picture or web site odds are that some one will se it as you do and place a tag that will let you find it when you are searching. 

This site does it for Books.