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Updated on 2009-11-06
Created on 2009-03-11
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What Is Web 2.0 | O'Reilly Media
An interesting look at the model that has become web 2.0.
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The Web As Platform
Like many important concepts, Web 2.0 doesn't have a hard boundary, but rather, a gravitational core. You can visualize Web 2.0 as a set of principles and practices that tie together a veritable solar system of sites that demonstrate some or all of those principles, at a varying distance from that core.
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Google, by contrast, began its life as a native web application, never sold or packaged, but delivered as a service, with customers paying, directly or indirectly, for the use of that service. None of the trappings of the old software industry are present. No scheduled software releases, just continuous improvement. No licensing or sale, just usage. No porting to different platforms so that customers can run the software on their own equipment, just a massively scalable collection of commodity PCs running open source operating systems plus homegrown applications and utilities that no one outside the company ever gets to see.
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Digital Ethnography » Blog Archive » How to get students to find and read 94 articles before the next class
Michael Wesch "gets it" when it comes to School 2.0. Don't stop with this articles. All of his stuff is fascinating! I recommend viewing his YouTube videos created by his students.
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What a great way to build capacity for thoughtful conversations and expertise in a short amount of time.
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators - Teaching Tools - Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
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Web 2.0 Tools
Following is a list of no-cost Web 2.0 sites that are available for teachers to evaluate. Many of these tools are on the open Internet, so look at them carefully before using with your students! Be sure to check out myShedding Light on Web 2.0page listed below with links to over 50 tools for teachers and learners.
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What is Web 2.0? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary
A simplistic definition of Web 2.0.
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focused on the ability
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static HTML Web pages to a more
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Back to School with the Class of Web 2.0: Part 1
Great list of web 2.0 tools - any that I didn't know before reading this article.
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Education World ® Technology Center: Brenda's Blog: Using YouTube in the Classroom
Education World blog on Using YouTube in the Classroom. It's amazing how many teachers accept school policy to shut down these powerful tools! Revolution, I say!! Just teach kids HOW to use them for powerful learning and teaching, and WHEN and WHY.
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Welcome to the Digital Generation | Edutopia
Edutopia's video collection includes great stuff to use in a PD setting. This 4 minute video does a good job of letting educators know that if we want kids to learn the way they learn best, give them tech tools and let them build their own learning.
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The Digital Generation Project | Edutopia
Edutopia's portal to their special report on the Digital Generation includes video, blogs, reports.
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Voicethread 4 Education - Classroom Partners
Looking for educational partners for your voicethread? This wiki is entitled Classroom Partners and is loaded with folks looking for collaborative opportunities..
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VoiceThread - Help - Forum - VoiceThread U.
VoiceThread U. Forum to find help, suggestions, new features, collaborators , tutorials, and more.
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When YouTube is blocked (way more than eight ways around) - NeverEndingSearch - Blog on School Library Journal
Give your kids as much access as possible. If your district shuts you down, check out some of your options.
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Pecha Kucha: Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down
"to transform corporate cliché into surprisingly compelling beat-the-clock performance art. "
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Get to the PowerPoint in 20 Slides Then Sit the Hell Down
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exactly 20 slides displayed for 20 seconds each
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