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Interesting video response made to the YouTube video "Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us" by Michael Wesch. Discussion centres around the internet in reality just being written text or video being transmitted. What participation there is, is created to simulate real life social interaction and heading for a virtual reality.

[This authors note: However, IMHO this misses the point that it is not the web adapting to us, but us adapting to the tools the internet can provide. The tools were not designed to mimick natural interaction. The web seems to be heading along two paths of interaction and collaboration. a) Those tools which build on current paterns of collaboration and interaction, eg email, wiki's, Google Docs, Vyew.com and are developing further to enahnce this collaboration, eg incorporation of calendars into email, calendar sharing, mash ups, etc, but in essence refining and building on the skills we acquired to use these forms of internet communication. The other direction the web appears to be taking is trying to imitate reality or augment reality such as Second Life. The issue here is that social interaction in reality occurs on so many different levels with different channels of communication, such as verbal and non verbal communications (verbal nuances, tone, body language, facial expression, physical limitations) which for true reality need to be replicated and for others to be able react to them. Of course mentioning physical limitations opens a whole new can of worms, but an exmple is how would we react if in real life we could always see somebody waving to us from over a mile away or more? Another example is how does a partially sighted or sight impaired individual respond to visual signals given on the web? Can it be done? yes, but should it?]

Positional paper by Alan Gilchrist (2007) considering whether Web 2.0 can be used within organisations and their intranets. Paper covers a number of interesting points about Web 2.0.

Potentially very useful tool for helping to organise your personal research bibliographic materials

Article about young peoples' use of the internet while studying and revising. Looks at differences as being Digital Natives and Digital Immigrants phrases coined by Marc Prensky. Cites Rose Luckin and Wilma Clarke from the London Knowledge Lab, Institute of Education. Work by Brian Kelly also mentioned

This is an interesting idea. This is more or less the way forty-somethings have decided to use Twitter: can the kids join in too?

[Reference also in the Web2.0 Wiki]
Well presented video by Professor Michael Wesch lookign at Web 2.0 from a point of view including how the web has changed from HTML to XML the differences, how this has helped mash-ups and changing the online community.

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Short explanation for teachers by McDaniel College, US about what social booking marking is and how it can be used for teaching purposes.

BBC News article regarding developments for social networking sites, including Bebo interface tools being possible to use in Facebook.

US site listing 102 colleges offering online courses.

David Noble in Scotland Booruch project. See Recap Wiki. Via Google "podcast & education".

Access podcasts via "Info". I listened to one on drugs for teenagers - not very audible. Couldn't see me using this as a teacher - need more of a summary of content for each one, otherwise too much time needed to select quality from rubbish. Writing summary / content pages / index obliges brevity, makes reviewable.

Wikipedia entry on file sharing giving background and history to the methods used.

Website dedicated to collating the different ways that people have come up with visualising complex network information (social networks, knowledge networks, biology, etc). Useful for the innovative examples given.

Description of Connotea a social bookmarking site for academics combining online storage of references and bookmarks, with tagging to allow for easy retrieval as well as other useful tools.

Short post about "Scuttle" a social bookmarking application you can host on your own server. Also comments about problems social bookmarking sites can have such as being used for spam.

Ideas of how to use Social Bookmarking in teaching plans

Key paper recommended by Neil Selwyn