Survey of Web 2.0 in Education

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.

Link to full text article (via Science Direct) by Cath Everett 2007 regarding identity and access management.

Comment in the New Scientist about potential knock-on effects of a patent awarded to Yahoo! that allows users to customise a webpage template to display data drawn from other sources.

Description of mash-ups and links to examples.

Ideas of how to use Social Bookmarking in teaching plans

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

Interesting article in the BBC Online about an aspect of social networking sites and young people leaving details they would not like employers or potential employers to view.

Links to actual interview in MP3 or OGG. Notes about the subjects are covered, eg new digital divide between those able to search and those who don't know how to. Belief in creating smaller class sizes rather than spending on educational technology. Possible interactions between Web 2.0, large companies and open source software.

Survey by Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies, 109 people in Sept. 07. Lists 100 most cited, then 50 with 2 citations.

US site listing 102 colleges offering online courses.

(From home page): "This is the first and best UK directory to locate quality podcasts from over 400 carefully selected podcast channels for educational use - ideal for teaching and learning activities with children, young people and educational professionals. In our podcast directory, you can access educational content from over 3000 podcasts from different podcast channels. We are accredited by BECTA as a registered content provider for Curriculum Online in the UK. All the educational podcasts in our specialist podcast directory are sourced world-wide and include the best examples of educational podcasting using audio, enhanced and video formats."

A good general review of the background history and some of the current social bookmarking tools available in 2005. Comments on  the influence of O'Reilly's "architecture of participation" and self-regulating collaborative networks built up from a simple user base.

From Guardian Link Tues Sept 18 2007, p17. JC

[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.

Executive summary of work by Caroline Sharp (2001) updating the research into homework and its effectiveness.

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.

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

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.

(From home page): Landmark project"The Education Podcast Network is an effort to bring together into one place, the wide range of podcast programming that may be helpful to teachers looking for content to teach with and about, and to explore issues of teaching and learning in the 21st century."