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The changing Web

Learning with e's

The web is constantly changing. Social media - often referred to as Web 2.0 , or the participatory Web - is shaping up to be one of the most important tool sets available to support the promotion of change in education. Essentially, Web 2.0 The Web is constantly changing, but it is also a change agent.

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The survival of higher education (2): Changing times

Learning with e's

My two keynotes were conceived, written and presented over a decade ago in 2000, at a time when the Web was still in its infancy. I was certainly speaking for a time before the advent of what is now referred to as Web 2.0 or the ‘social web’. As my starting point I want to examine the phenomenon that is Web 2.0

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Tags, Search Effectiveness, Personal Benefits

Tony Karrer

If I have the time to go exploring through multiple links and see the interrelations between key words, I might go to del.icio.us. However, if I want to set up a way to store and share links on a particular topic, I will use del.icio.us Interesting, Bill points to a search on Google for "Web 2.0"

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Social Bookmarking: Your Favorites Really Want to be Free

Mike Taylor

Raise your hand if you’ve ever experienced any of these things: A computer crash wiped out all of the favorites from your web browser. You wanted to access a bookmark on your work computer from home (Or vice versa). Your first question may be, “What the heck is social bookmarking?”. What is Social Bookmarking?

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EDEN saw play.

Learning with e's

I'm thinking about the Web 2.0 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. Other sessions dealing with Web 2.0 Tags: podcasting blog wiki mobile technology Web 2.0

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Even learning is miscellaneous

Clive on Learning

The problem was that our courses were neither pure soft skills (where technology rarely rears its ugly head) nor IT training (where good design in presentations, printed documents or web content never gets a mention). At least, that's our excuse. If ever there was a case of preaching to the converted this was it.