Professor: Web 2.0 an awkward fit for the academic world - 0 views
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Martin Weller is Professor of Educational Technology at OU-UK, and was instrumental in developing its first e-learning initiatives. He blogs at The Ed Techie, but his essay was part of a special edition of the education journal On the Horizon. Authors contributing to the special edition (which isn't yet available) were asked to contribute a blog post describing their articles in a condensed form; Weller's post appeared at the editor's blog.
SocialLearn: Bridging the Gap Between Web 2.0 and Higher Education at e-Literate - 0 views
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Higher education faces a challenge. It may not now it yet, but it does. And the challenge is this - when learners have been accustomed to very facilitative, usable, personalisable and adaptive tools both for learning and socialising, why will they accept standardised, unintuitive, clumsy and out of date tools in formal education they are paying for? It won't be a dramatic revolution (students accept lower physical accommodation standards when they leave home for university after all), but instead there will be a quiet migration. The monolithic LMSs will be deserted, digital tumbleweed blowing down their forums. Students will abandon these in favour of their tools, the back channel will grow and it will be constituted from content and communication technologies that don't require a training course to understand and that come with a ready made community. This may seem like just a technological issue, but it runs deeper than this.
Museum 2.0: How Much Time Does Web 2.0 Take? - 0 views
the Web2.0 Rights project. - 0 views
Twiddla - web-based meeting playground - 0 views
Web20-Tools-for-Teachers.pdf (application/pdf Object) - 0 views
The Most Interesting New Tech Startup of 2009 - Anil Dash - 0 views
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take a look at some of the most compelling new sites that have launched in just the few short months since President Obama took office: * Data.gov, providing open access to feeds of valuable facts and figures generated by the executive branch. * USAspending.gov, allowing any of us to drill down into the details of spending from various federal agencies. * Recovery.gov, perhaps one of the best-known of the new sites, offering up details of how resources from the Recovery Act are being allocated. * And of course, there's WhiteHouse.gov. You know about that one. What's remarkable about these sites is not merely that they exist; There had been some efforts to provide this kind of information in the past. Rather, what stands out is that they exhibit a lot of the traits of some of the best tech startups in Silicon Valley or New York City. Each site has remarkably consistent branding elements, leading to a predictable and trustworthy sense of place when you visit the sites. There is clear attention to design, both from the cosmetic elements of these pages, and from the thoughtfulness of the information architecture on each site. (The clear, focused promotional areas on each homepage feel just like the "Sign up now!" links on the site of most Web 2.0 companies.) And increasingly, these services are being accompanied by new APIs and data sources that can be used by others to build interesting applications.
Official Google Blog: Went Walkabout. Brought back Google Wave. - 0 views
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The protocol is designed for open federation, such that anyone's Wave services can interoperate with each other and with the Google Wave service. To encourage adoption of the protocol, we intend to open source the code behind Google Wave.
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For me this will be the key to Wave's success or failure. If other providers do start up it will avoid vendor lock-in and potentially lead to much higher adoption. Companies (and individuals) which wouldn't consider outsourcing their communication to Google for all sorts of reasons would be much more likely to get on board if they can have the same functionality and global interoperability while still retaining control of their data.
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HowStuffWorks "Beyond Web 3.0" - 0 views
Como promover a literacia digital? O "SPreaD" - 0 views
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há grandes camadas da população sem acesso às novas e múltiplas oportunidades, tais como as Web 2.0 ou a aprendizagem móvel. Mas mesmo os que usam os novos meios digitais de forma regular não estão forçosamente alfabetizados digitalmente falando. A literacia digital não quer apenas dizer que as pessoas dispõem da infra-estrutura técnica, quer também dizer que sabem tirar proveito das hipóteses que as novas tecnologias lhes oferecem. O que é que isto quer realmente dizer? E porque é que a literacia digital é tão importante? Damos respostas a estas perguntas neste artigo.
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Exemplo prático duma iniciativa europeia: há grandes camadas da população sem acesso às novas e múltiplas oportunidades, tais como as Web 2.0 ou a aprendizagem móvel. Mas mesmo os que usam os novos meios digitais de forma regular não estão forçosamente alfabetizados digitalmente falando. A literacia digital não quer apenas dizer que as pessoas dispõem da infra-estrutura técnica, quer também dizer que sabem tirar proveito das hipóteses que as novas tecnologias lhes oferecem. O que é que isto quer realmente dizer? E porque é que a literacia digital é tão importante? Damos respostas a estas perguntas neste artigo.
Steve Hargadon: Web 2.0 Is the Future of Education - 0 views
Videos - That's Not Cool - 0 views
Cuil - The World's Biggest Search Engine - 0 views
Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick - 14 views
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