The offered categories are not a taxonomy but rather a set of tags. Presumably activities would be tagged with multiple of these if appropriate. Have you ever looked at the amo site to see how the Firefox add-ons appear there? You can see add-ons under multiple of the descriptions they provide. Yes, you can also search the site.<br>
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Is art music? Is music art? </blockquote><div>Educators and school curricula usually use the term "art" to refer to the visual arts. The tags are a finding tool, not a definitive designation of every aspect that an activity may present.<br>
</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Where does synth lab fit it? Art, music,<br>
programming, science?</blockquote><div>It seems like you can attach four tags if you think these are all appropriate. Personally, I think "programming" is stretching the term to meaninglessness.<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Is a memorize a game when you are making math<br>
facts cards? Or is it geometry when you make a name that country game?</blockquote>Just because you can't perfectly describe every activity doesn't detract from the usefulness of general tags that conform to educators' and parents' notions of broad areas that a learning activity could contribute to.<br>
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Or is it English-language learning when you making pronunciation<br>
cards?Typing Tutor can be used for spelling, not just learning to<br>
type.</blockquote><div> Literacy covers all those areas.<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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Perhaps we can search on descriptions? And if reviewers could add a<br>
word or two description of what they used the activity for, and Gary<br>
generates an interactive SOM for the search...<br>
</blockquote><div>Nothing prevents someone from using local or google searching. <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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