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Collaborative Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools - A Summary

Tony Karrer

However, I found little value over using separate tools such as Yahoo Groups and a PBWiki. € "In order for the class to be effective I would be charging up front. € When I originally conceived the course, I assumed that most attendees would know about Blogs, Wikis, etc. approaches. This turned out not to be the case.

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New Literacies

Tony Karrer

What do these companies have in common: Google eBay Yahoo Amazon MapQuest Craigslist Wikipedia YouTube Built on top of Linux (open source). Network effects are key to their market dominance. with Wiki, Blog, Social Bookmarking, Social Networking, etc. instead it's really systems that harness network effects.

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Web 2.0 Tools, Networks and Community (Individuals vs. Collective)

Tony Karrer

Traditional online community mechanisms (email lists, groups) are joined by a wide variety of publishing mechanisms (blogs, social bookmarking, wikis, flickr, etc.) And, I don't believe that this connection effect will stop with blogging. Workgroup and Enterprise Irregulars or open lists kept on Wikis.

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Moving from One to Many - LMS Products are Two Generations Behind

Tony Karrer

The value of del.icio.us / Yahoo MyWeb is that it first helps the individual and by helping the individual it helps the collective. Making LMS products bigger, more complex is likely the exactly wrong way to go.

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Firewalls and Security in Software as a Service

Tony Karrer

Thus, while we are excited about wikis, blogs, discussion groups, etc., For example, in our course, we found that Yahoo Groups were restricted in some corporate environments. The Yahoo Toolbar (for MyWeb ) couldn't be installed on locked desktops. Elluminate did not work through several firewalls, so we had to switch to WebEx.

Firewalls 100
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Humannet at Cisco

Jay Cross

Yesterday I spent the day at Cisco talking with old friends and new about what Fast Company recently described as an “unprecedented forward-looking strategy to unleash what it’s calling a ‘ human network effect ’ both on and off the Cisco campus.” Last week, Google, Facebook, Nokia, Yahoo!,

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Personal and Group Learning Using Web 2.0 Tools

Tony Karrer

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. or Yahoo My Web can be used as part of Personal Learning. We will intentionally make our Blogger conversations and Yahoo My Web links public. This includes downloading and installing the Yahoo Toolbar which won't work in some corporate environments.

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