Web 2.0

Educational technology staff are probably the greatest single enemy of Web 2.0 connectivity and collaborative tools in schools." So says The Education Bazaar, looking at the "misinformation" being spread about these technologies in publications such as Computerworld. Why such misin...

So how does the current vendor - media - district relationship work? Here is one quick example: Microsoft issues a press release touting their Project Management Office (PMO), and quotes Broward's Sonty extensively. This inspires the following Microsoft-centric 'news' article in eS...

Video (on Google Video) of my talk in Taiwan. Remember that you can follow along with the slides if you want. The talk begins with a summary of my own work in e-learning (I was inspired by the timelines of the institutional projects shown in preceding presentations). I then discuss the future o...

One of the themes that crops up on this blog is the accessibility issues presented by Web 2.0 technologies such as Ajax. Becky Gibson's article Ajax Accessibility Review provides a good introduction to the issues ,as well as presenting guidelines for ensuring accessibility, including t...

Jeremy snapped this cunning illustration at my JavaScript Libraries panel at the Web 2.0 Expo. --> [From: Simon Willison's Weblog, April 19, 2007] [Tags: Web 2.0]

Just as the general public is learning about Web 2.0, and gaining a basic understanding of how it's different from what came before, along comes Web 3.0 . From the billions of documents that form the World Wide Web and the links that weave them together, computer scientists and a growing colle...

I was at a professional gathering this morning where the topic of discussion was using blogs, podcasts, and wikis in adult/corporate learning environments. However, the meeting ended up being more for introducing these Web 2.0 concepts than discussing, in detail, their uses. I could wax...

I just read about this via Dean: K12 Online 2006 Conference… Announcing the first annual “K12 Online 2006″ convention for teachers, administrators and educators around the world interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice. This year’s conference is sc...