Jim Groom

The Association of Collegiate Computing Services (ACCS) of Virginia is a state-level organization that sponsors this conference annually in Charlottesville, Virginia to foster the sharing of information among technology professionals in Virginia’s colleges and universities.

This presentation examined the ways in which folksonomic tagging and the semantic web can work together to make a more intelligent, searchable environment for web-based teaching and learning tool at the University of Mary Washington.

• “Needles, Haystacks and Omnivores: Finding and Consuming Information through Social Tagging and the Semantic Web” Co-presented with Patrick Gosetti Murray-John

The Association of Collegiate Computing Services (ACCS) of Virginia is a state-level organization that supports the sharing of information among technology professionals in Virginia’s colleges and universities.

This presentation focuses upon the grand experiment at UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies which has efficiently introduced open source tools into the campus environment by means of affordable, off-site web hosting.

• “Bluehost: A Fantastico Expedition” Co-presented with Martha Burtis, Jerry Slezak, Andy Rush, and Patrick Gosetti Murray-John