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Many members of JISC Emerge community are active in exploiting the potential of various Web 2.0 technologies and approaches. But what if the Web 2.0 sceptics are right? What if Web 2.0 services aren't sustainable? What if the social aspect of social networking tools are too intrusive? How should we go about developing a sustainable approach to use of Web 2.0?

This resource aims to help those making decisions about their use of freely available 'Web 2.0' interactive and collaborate e-learning tools. Each product, site or service described in these pages can be searched or browsed by a specific Activity or the usability/accessibility checks that it passed. The applications have short descriptions and comments regarding their ease of use and functionality. If you are involved in teaching and learning and are wanting to make more use of Web 2.0 services in your e-learning activities, or if you are interested in how Web 2.0 can supplement your existing methods, this section may be useful to you.

" In this article we provide a compact summary of two courses with innovative curricula integrating (1) Web 2.0 as the course subject, and (2) Web 2.0 as tools to support teaching/learning. We particularly focus on pedagogical approaches, applied methodologies and evaluation outcomes, indicating achieved impacts and possible ways to transform practice in higher education"

How teachers are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.

Web 2.0 Tools for Researchers http://t.co/w1O7dAxM by @tbirdcymru (via @SlideShare) #yam <--useful for FASS grad workshop

The original 23 things site "Listed below are 23 Things (or small exercises) that you can do on the web to explore and expand your knowledge of the Internet and Web 2.0."

Review of the new iTunes 2.0 app for iOS. The title is more positive than the review but not sure if the reviewer realises that!

Screen casts of a variety of Moodle 2.0 features

Google Refine is a power tool for working with messy data sets, including cleaning up inconsistencies, transforming them from one format into another, and extending them with new data from external web services or other databases. Version 2.0 introduces a new extensions architecture, a reconciliation framework for linking records to other databases (like Freebase), and a ton of new transformation commands and expressions.

Professor Geoffrey Crisp (University of Adelaide, Australia) presents a webinar on the changes in the student learning environment afforded by Web 2.0 and leads a discussion on why assessment practices need to change in response to these new learning environments.

Professors, particularly those in the senior ranks, might have a reputation for being leery of social media. But they are no Luddites when it comes to Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and YouTube, according to a new survey scheduled to be released today.

Professors, particularly those in the senior ranks, might have a reputation for being leery of social media. But they are no Luddites when it comes to Web 2.0 tools such as Facebook and YouTube, according to a new survey scheduled to be released today.

Gardner Campbell on transforming assessment for a web 2.0 environment c.f. htttp://www.transformingassessment.com

Great post on why organisation websites are useless and what web2 tools could replace them.

A Practical Guide to Implementing Web 2.0 (aka Social Networking Tools) in Your Organization

Yay!!! ... a WorkShop rewrite for Moodle 2.0

Interesting new? journal on TEL - this issue seems to focus on widgets and PLEs / Web 2.0

"Blogs are one of the oldest components of the web 2.0 toolkit, but their strengths as an instructional tool are still being discovered."

Jackie Gierstein explains Education 1.0, Education 2.0 and Education 3.0 in terms of pedagogical frameworks and how the Internet is used for each framework.

"This e-Learning literature review examined texts across a range of countries, but within a relatively short time frame of the preceding five years. A range of criteria were used to select or eliminate studies for closer review (see Methodology and Methods section). Some key terms are defined for the purpose of this review: outcomes, e-Learning, tools, affordances, Web 2.0."