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. tools include popular applications such as blogs, wikis and podcasting; social networking sites such as FaceBook and LinkedIn; photo and videosharing services such as Flickr and YouTube; familiar utilities such as RSS feeds, social tagging (e.g. wikis Folksonomy social networking podcasting education tagging RSS darwikianism learningtools. Web 2.0 MORE >>

Students now have the capability to create and share their own content through blogs, wikis, video- and photo-sharing services such as YouTube and Flickr. They can organise their own resources through free and easy to use tagging and social filtering tools. Royal Geographical Society education blogs wiki Flickr social media mobile learning iPOD FaceBook Web 2.0I remember a quote from Ed Horowitz that 'if you are not on the Internet, you are history'. had an answer: 'If you are on the Internet, you are geography.' The month of July saw more than 10,000 visits. MORE >>

When placed within a shared, collaborative environment, such as a wiki, some students may not wish to have their work subsumed into a larger corpus of work. The tweckling or harsh tagging of keynote speakers has been discussed previously by a number of commentators. Tags: research ethics wiki learning Web 2.0 I'm speaking at ALT-C this week in a symposium called ' New Bottles, Old Wine? which will take the form of a debate over the ethics of research and intervention in Web 2.0 environments. Let me explain. I'm going to argue that using, and researching the use of Web 2.0 MORE >>

Social                  Wikis. Social                  Social bookmarking, ranking/rating/tagging. Internet Time Alliance spent a couple of days last week putting the 2.0 into a tedious proposal for a large, forward-facing multinational corporation. Among our recommendations were: Informal         Live webcasts. Informal         Recorded webinars. Informal         Video conferencing. Informal         Workshops. Informal         Audio/ podcasts. Informal         Learnshop. Informal         Case Studies. Informal         Non-formal video. Informal         Discussion group/ forum. MORE >>

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. Question 1 - What are the most likely ways / places your organization might or does use Blogs, Wikis, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking or Collaboration Tools? 20,000 wikis with more than 100,000 users. How do you know what gets put onto a Wiki is okay to distribute? MORE >>