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The changing Web

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My own students create a lot of their own content during their study, usually in the form of podcasts, videos, wiki and blog content, and are encouraged to share these publicly online to gain additional feedback. has spawned concepts such as folksonomy, ‘Darwikianism’ and the ‘wisdom of the crowds’ (Kamel Boulos et al, 2006).

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

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Wikis, blogs and podcasts : a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education. Introducing Web 2.0: Social networking and social bookmarking for health librarians. Journal of the Canadian Health Libraries Association 27, 65-67. Kamel Boulos, M. Maramba, I. and Wheeler, S. O''Reilly, T.

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EDEN saw play.

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Tom Wambeke's (KATHO, Belgium) session entitled 'Educational Blogging: in search of a general taxonomy', concluded that folksonomies were less hierarchical and more appropriate measures of blogs. Papers on podcasting, mobile technologies and Multi-player Games along with a super paper entitled 'How to cope with the complexity of Web 2.0

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 8/10/2005

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Folksonomy: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Mess (podcast). Discussion of variouss topics important to folksonomies. The changing conception of knowledge, the idea of knowing (and learning) as a network phenomenon, and how that changes how we should approach metadata and in particular learning object metadata.

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 4/15/2006

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IT Conversations (podcast). The Name Game - folksonomies - CIO. From a collaboration and knowledge-sharing perspective, that's what's neat about folksonomies. Corporations should determine whether their commitment to multiculturalism is enhanced or hindered by these methods of profiling. What's driving this?

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Knowledge and Learning In The News - 6/1/2005

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The Education Podcast Network. 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. Folksonomies? But when the item appeared only 10 times in every 1,000 images, their error rate rocketed to 30 percent. Organic metatags?

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

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Other tools such as wikis, blogs and podcasts also began to be used in education, at first tentatively, and then as embedded features in various programmes of study. By 2006 several social networking sites were enjoying surges in popularity, including MySpace, Bebo and of course, Facebook. 2006 was also the year Twitter was launched.