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Web 2.0 Applications in Learning

Tony Karrer

There were about 7 examples mentioned including Intuit using a Wiki-like system for customers to ask questions/get advice around taxes, using a group blog with students prior to a formal learning event, the US Army's use of collaboration tools to share best practices in Iraq, and several others. 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users.

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Keeping Up - April's Big Question

eLearning Cyclops

Tagged either under Development Tools or Cloud. So, I browsed "Tools" by keyword on eLearningLearning. I also like to make occasional visits to Google Labs and Adobe Labs to "keep up" with the tech tools they are working on and to test drive any beta versions available.

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e-Clippings (Learning As Art): Thousands of people at IBM are already doing it.

Mark Oehlert

o IBM has more than 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. o Any employee can have a blog, a wiki, or a podcast. o IBM employees use a social bookmarking program called DogEar. Employees rank headlines in the newsletter by tagging and highly-rankedstories appear first. This minimizes inappropriate behavior.

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