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What Is Web 2.0? Ideas, Technologies and Implications for Education

This is a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 and looking into some of the implications. If you are new to Web 2.0, this is an excellent introduction. The author depicts Web 2.0 not simply as a new set of technologies but also as the emergence of six major ideas: individual production and user generated content, harness the power of the crowd, data on an epic scale, architecture of participation, network effects, and openness. The author gets into the details quite well - there is, for example, a nice outline of AJAX, an informed discussion of SOAP vs REST, and a good sketch of the issues between Web 2.0 and the Semantic Web. At other times, though, the document reads as though written by an outsider - it depends too much on formal sources and people like Tim O'Reilly and Chris Anderson and John Seely Brown. And it addresses teaching and learning in just over a page, while devoting almost ten pages to the big problem of permanence of web resources (how did that become the major issue involving Web 2.0 in education?). The criticisms, though, are trivial - this really is an excellent report. PDF. Paul Anderson, Journal, March 5, 2007. [Link] [Tags: , , ] [Previous][Next]

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Re: What Is Web 2.0? Ideas

Paul Anderson, March 6, 2007

Many thanks for your positive review of the report. As the author, I thought you might be interested in some background information to the commissioning of the report which might help to explain why there is a relatively strong focus on libraries, preservation and Web permanence. In fact, the initial request for the report came from JISC people concerned with preserving the Web who felt that there was a need to understand Web 2.0 in a general way, but also to be able to apply this knowledge specifically to their area. Hope this helps! [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: What Is Web 2.0? Ideas

, March 7, 2007

Thank you for pointing this out and your review, Stephen. Nice to see this type of work from a more academic perspective (even given the limitations as you listed). [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: What Is Web 2.0? Ideas

Jeffrey Keefer, March 7, 2007

Great find, Stephen; thank you for it. I am always struggling to bring technology to education, and the gap is sometimes daunting with more current technologies. [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

Re: What Is Web 2.0? Ideas

, March 7, 2007

Reading the article and your review, I find that there is much to learn about Web 2.0, tools, its applicability and continuous viability in learning especially in my field - outsourced corporate training - where my focus is bringing in scholar-practise to the workplace classroom. Thanks.
Robin
http://blog.robinyap.com [Comment] [Permalink] [Previous][Next]

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