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pdf document: + What is Web 2.0? + Why use Web 2.0? + Benefits of Web 2.0 + Implementing Web 2.0 Services + Staffing Implications of Web 2.0 + Legal Implications of Web 2.0 + Integrating Web 2.0 + Web 2.0 and Future-Proofing + Web 2.0 and Internal Systems

/ The Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com

The term 'Web 3.0' reflects a momentous change in the way we view the web. Some of the possible avenues for the future include the 3D web, the semantic web, and the real world web.

Description: Digital Preservation is a series of thought-provoking videos produced by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program at the Library of Congress, highlighting its efforts to develop a national strategy to collect, preserve and make available significant digital content for current and future generations. Learn more about digital preservation at the Library of Congress by visiting http://www.digitalpreservation.gov

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There is a place for eBooks in the classroom. Can they replace textbooks. Heck yeah! Why not! The eBook of the future could be a multimedia platform with video and audio and interactive teaching tools. But should eBooks replace entire libraries like the one in Massachusetts? I just don't think so, at least not right now.

"search the database for lesson plans by learning standards and indicators, content topic, grade-level, resources used, type of lesson or schedule, keyword and much more. In addition, registered users can bookmark lesson plans in a portfolio for future use, rate and comment on lesson plans in the community, print to PDF and socially share lesson plans on the web, and create and publish their own lesson plans in the database."

Contribute to crowd sourced ebook on the future of school libraries! _______________________________________________________________________ Timeline July 11, 2011 - Submissions open! September 15, 2011 - submissions due October 26 - November 16, 2011 - ebook available for free download after November 16, 2011 - price may increase to $.99; possible print-on-demand release

Public libraries have long lived by the "Blockbuster model": require people to drive to a physical location, pick up a physical book, then drive home, only to repeat the driving a few weeks later when the book is due. And how well did that approach work out for Blockbuster as iTunes and Netflix made digital delivery a reality? But books haven't gone digital as quickly as music and then movies did. Early attempts at e-book lending were execeptionally clunky affairs involving special OverDrive software, few choices, and a poor browsing interface. Getting books onto devices involved downloads and USB cables. Enter the Kindle. Amazon's hugely popular e-reader hardware and apps recently opened access to public libraries in the US, which can use the Amazon account and distribution infrastructure to control and distribute time-limited e-books to library patrons. Will we ever drive to physical libraries again? After testing the new system, it's safe to say: yes. Yes we will. But Kindle library lending provides a glimpse of the future rushing so quickly at us.

Lots of implications. The eBook industry hasn't always impacted things as expected.

"Algorithms choose which students sit together. Algorithms measure what the children know and how well they know it. They choose what problems the children should work on and provide teachers with the next lesson to teach. This combination of human capital and technology is called "blended learning."

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