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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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Museums and Folksonomies

Skilful Minds

A folksonomy results from distinct ways of organizing cultural categories developed from the tags, keywords, people use to describe specific content, or services, on the web. The emphasis in folksonomies is on organizing data, not making friends. social networking.

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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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Semantic technologies and learning

Learning with e's

This is nicely facilitated by Social Web technologies (e.g. blogs and wikis), which better enable learning environments to support principles of social constructivism. Traditionally, the Semantic Web is associated with semantic technologies (Gaevi, Jovanovi, & Devedi, 2007 ). Due to the intensive use of Web 2.0

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#40years of educational technology: Social media

Learning with e's

Around the turn of the century we all began to be aware of a surge in the use of the Web for creating content. 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.

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Twitter ye not

Learning with e's

That's the power of the social network. I have made more than 20 new friends on Twitter in the past 24 hours, and the group membership already stands at over 50 members, some of them well established and respected edubloggers. ;-) My response was as follows: The concept behond Web 2.0 We want folksonomy not heirarchy.

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Learning and KM: Separated at birth?

Jay Cross

An unexpected surprise has been the enthusiastic adoption of the wiki by even the least Web 2.0 What might a PKM program in your organization look like, and how can it leverage social networking tools? Search is certainly being affected by the increasingly social nature of online activities.

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