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Over four themed episodes that criss-cross the globe, journalist and academic Dr Aleks Krotoski explores the meaning of a phenomenon that is transforming everything from how we learn to how we shop, vote and make friends. The series reveals astonishing facts about how the web is rewiring our society, our economy and - drawing on a unique experiment conducted specifically for the series - maybe even our brains.The series brings together everyone who's anyone on the web - from its inventor Tim Berners-Lee to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg; from Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales to Amazon's Jeff Bezos; from web pioneers like Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak to digital media barons like Arianna Huffington and Twitter founders Biz Stone and Evan Williams.

Welcome to TikiToki, a web app that makes it dead easy to make stunning, animated timelines that work in your browser. Our basic account is completely free.How would you like to create beautiful, interactive timelines that include videos and image galleries? Well, now you can thanks to a great new web service brought to you by ChronoFlo and Webalon.TikiToki makes creating online timelines as easy as possible. Sign up for our free, basic account and within almost no time, you could be creating a timeline of your life, of a historical event that interests you or of the life of a great musician or artist... the possibilities are endless.

For Victorian Schools only. Are any of your students and teachers involved in using interesting and innovative online tools? Have you been working with students and teachers on copyright, creative commons and Intellectual property? Are you interested in helping your students to build online resources to share their discoveries with others? If you answer YES to any or all of the questions above then the SLAV Web Elements Engaged project might be for you. 

NSW DET web 2.0 tools in information skills process

After a long wait, Google Drive is now available for the iPad with the full functionality of the web-based version of Google Drive. To refresh, Google Drive is the new name for the Google Docs Suite. This suite includes Google Docs, Spreadsheets, Presentations, Forms, and Folders.

Designed to help support Our Lady of Mercy College Heidelberg teachers integrate web 2.0 technologies into teaching and learning.

Mount Eliza Secondary College Librarian Lynn Swannell has developed an excellent presentation for her staff on how using Web 2.0 with students can help 'protect, nurture and grow'.

Clever little web based whiteboard app. No login required, and collaborators can work on the same board and see updates in real time.

Here is a list of upcoming web conference sessions on the Educators' Guide to Innovation to be held over the next two weeks.

My Place in History, a new educational programme for Australian upper primary schools, is a web-based programme designed to teach students about the concepts of change and diversity - of backgrounds, in family structures, and the many economic, political and social circumstances in both our distant and more recent history that have contributed to who we are today and how we all came to be living in Australia.

Online pinboard that lists the latest and most innovative Web 2.0 tools for your classroom

An article looking at the capabilities of Web 2.0 to improve educational outcomes, which also explores the possible dangers associated with online learning environments. A projection relating to future possibilities.

Evernote is a clever online note taking service that keeps your note synchronised across all of your devices. You can include text, audio, pictures and much more. Notes are fully searchable and you can also save web pages and articles to your account. Explore how to get started with our guide.

You may have noticed by now that we love Evernote around here! Today we have two tutorials for you to supercharge Evernote. Learn how to use note linking to speed things up,and also see how to install the web clipper in Safari on the iPad. Novembe...

Via David Portelli from SLV, a great guide to installing an Evenote clipper on your Ipad.

This week the focus is iPad and Web 2.0 Tools Tutorials. These tutorials will support teachers to effectively embed technology into their Literacy and Numeracy programs.

I really love the way that Monarch Academy Elementary (Primary) Librarian Keisa Williams has incorporated Google forms into her already excellent library wiki. Students get involved in the library and get experience using web 2.0 tools such as Google Docs, while Keisa gets an organised documents with records of all student requests, along with names, date of request and so on.