The 100 top Web apps for 2008 These are the 100 best Web 2.0 applications, chosen by Webware readers and Internet users across the globe. Over 1.9 million votes were cast to select these Webware 100 winners:

A MacArthur funded study was just released regarding the activities kids are involved in online.  It’s an interesting read for all educators and parents.  They conclude that the “hanging out”, “messing around”, and “geeking out” that kids do online helps students gain media literacies and skills they will need to fully participate in the 21st Century society.

Unleashing the Power of Web 2.0

"Web 2.0 assumes a way of being that is social, that doesn't discriminate between formal and informal learning, and that has the future built into the model," Yancey observes. "Historically, most schools haven't shared these values, at least institutionally, though of course individual faculty and staff have.

The OpenLearn website gives free access to course materials from The Open University. The LearningSpace is open to learners anywhere in the world.

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Purdue's own Chuck Krousgrill, professor of mechanical engineering and instructor in distance courses through Engineering Professional Education, is working with Ed Berger, professor of mechanical engineering at University of Virginia, on a project called Higher Ed 2.0.

Mission. The mission of iMechanica is to use the Internet to enhance communication among mechanicians to pave a way to evolve online all knowledge of mechanics

Engineering Education in the Age of Web 2.0—Explorations Through iMechanica.org Teng Li, Department of Mechanical Engineering Web 2.0 refers to a collection of second generation Web services, such as blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, podcasts, and Really Simple Syndicates (RSS) feeds. While the first generation Web (Web 1.0) is about linking information available online, Web 2.0 emphasizes online collaboration and sharing among people. These new Web services bring up new opportunities to innovate how we conduct research and education. We report the preliminary explorations of engineering education exploiting Web 2.0 services, through iMechanica (http://imechnica.org).

What the engineering students in Berger's classes are doing goes well beyond that – so far beyond, in fact, that the National Science Foundation awarded Berger, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, a three-year, $500,000 grant to assess the effectiveness of what he's calling "Higher Ed 2.0."

video of the class lectures (though the camera is turned off for the last 20 minutes, lest slackers be tempted to skip class altogether).

"solution videos," in which he demonstrates how to solve the fiendishly difficult mathematical and geometric problems

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Starter Sheets by Andrew Churches This is a series of job aids to help teachers and students begin using Web 2.0 tools and to give teachers ideas about how they could be integrated with teaching and learning.

Beware: Some of the storage tools may have inappropriate things stored on them since they are free for public usage. If you use these, please put a link to go directly to your own personal area, instead of the main site. Some of these may also be blocked by your school filters. These tools are for teacher usage and classroom accounts so that it can be monitored, not for individual students.

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While it’s obvious that companies should source talent from outside their own walls, most are too conceited to bother - how could their customers know more about their product than they do?

What will happen when the revolution in media production - in the form of blogs, citizen journalism sites like OhMyNews, peer-produced knowledge factories like Wikipedia and collaborative news filters like Digg - makes its way into product design?