Web 2.0

In June 2006, Michael Arrington interviewed thirteen CEOs to find out their take on Web 2.0. The companies included: Socialzr, Excite, Jotspot, Browster, Wink, Technorati, Rapleaf, Rojo, Bolt, Piczo, Video Egg, Simply Hired, adn Eurekester. (The conversation considered the economic...

Here is the shocking synopsis of this article: Security needs to be better in Web 2.0 apps. A perfectly valid thesis and one that I happen to agree with. I would also agree however, that people (both good and bad)... [From: e-Clippings (Learning As Art), July 20, 2007] [Tags: Web 2.0]

From: e-Clippings (Learning As Art), July 20, 2007] [Tags: Web 2.0]

In preparation for my joint presentation (with Nick Dennis) at the Schools History Project Conference next weekend, I’ve updated the Directory section of this site. In particular, Web 2.0 stuff I’ve used lists - with a description and links to posts on this site - the Web 2.0 tools I’ve used o...

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...

I've been looking over the D2L Conference schedule (checking out the competition) and have found some interesting options for the first morning. After the opening keynote by Dr. Ruth Clark, the first round of sessions (10:15-11:15) are all D2L-led sessions focusing on various aspects o...

Presenter: Brett Hinton an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) You can set Drupal to allow sign up without a e-mail….that’s a good thing for schools who do not have student e-mail accounts. Drupal allows you to have a wiki, blog, podcasts all in one CMS system. I really like drupal but...

Web 2.0 Backpack: Web Apps for Students. ‘When I was in college most of the tools in this round up didn’t exist. It was truly the dark ages of education! Well, okay, it was a just a few years ago, but just in this decade, and especially in the last few years, a handful of [...] [From: Learning Online Inf...

Host: David WarlickWhat have you seen in schools that is Web 2.0?Using wikis as a centralising and organising forcepooling resources and enhancing communicationusing tools to support fundamental literacies: communicatingBuilding momentum towards a different kind of learning en...

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...

Google Docs, Zoho, the promised online version of Photoshop, all the Web 2.0 applications that roll off the assembly line by the week: these and so many other online applications are the most visible evidence of the seemingly inexorable shift to the Web. As more and more applications move 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...