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Stop being distracted by the web - do something else!

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

A new set of guides on using web2 tech in HE

Good post on the meaning of web2.0 at a personal level.

" 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"

"Today's XKCD comic inspired this article. It details the rise of Tumblr and the subsequent fall of blogs. That's in terms of simply the popularity of the term as it's used across the web. While not an exact measure of blogging or Tumblr, it's an important turning point in the age of the web."

Remix, Make and Share. Hackasaurus makes it easy to mash up and change any web page like magic. You can also create your own webpages to share with your friends, all within your browser.

Developing a real web presence rather than an idealised one. UMW web site and UMW blogs. Not online learning but learning online.

web-based app which provides for student feedback, anonymous questions and 'confused' status updates visible to the teacher - but everyone has to have a web-enabled device to use it...

Working on the open web has benefits for students and faculty alike.

Create your own books free online. Allows collaboration on the web too.  Web software is open source and could be installed on our servers.

"The WAVE Firefox toolbar provides a mechanism for running WAVE reports directly within Firefox. Because the toolbar reports runs entirely within your web browser, no information is sent to the WAVE server. This ensures 100% private and secure accessibility reporting. The toolbar can check intranet, password-protected, dynamically generated, or sensitive web pages. Also, because the WAVE toolbar evaluates the rendered version of your page, locally displayed styles and dynamically-generated content from scripts or AJAX can be evaluated."  Accessibility checking.

Short (external) description of Mozilla's web literacy standard.

An online book by the Google Chrome team about things that you should probably know or be aware of when using the web.

opinion blog about technology, web 2.0, connectivism, future etc. About Mark Pesce Mark Pesce is an inventor, writer, educator and broadcaster. In 1994 Pesce co-invented VRML, a 3D interface to the World Wide Web. Pesce has written five books, including The Playful World: How Technology is Transforming Our Imagination, which used toys such as Furby and PlayStation to explain our interactive future.

integrated content environment - Tool bar for word and open office that supports direct publishing to web and print - supports templates

integrated content environment - Tool bar for word and open office that supports direct publishing to web and print - supports templates - can be used in conjunction with DSpace for example.

One-click access to Moodle files from within MS Office apps. Is this necessarily a good thing? Is it encouraging us to use Moodle as a filing cabinet?

Office add-in for Moodle allows individuals to upload (and download and edit) files directly to moodle from office. "You no longer need to use your web browser when working with Office documents stored in Moodle" is their statement, which is interesting in thaqt everyone else is moving to the web as the platform!

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.