Jane’s Blog

I just read Bryan Alexander’s “Web2.0: A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning“.

He suggests the label “Web 2.0″ is unimportant as it suggests quantifiable progress from Web 1.0 but many of these tools have been around since the 1990s (eg. Wikis).

The major component of “Web 2.0″ is social software (eg. blogs, wikis, trackback, podcasts, videoblogs, MySpace & Facebook). In fact there are so many that there is an acronym “YASN” (Yet Another Social Network).

I thought it was interesting what he said about Web 2.0 – that it puts an extra perspective on the Web – it is no longer just a book (with web pages) but is all about “microcontent” and “openness” (more than just 2-way flow) and using the “wisdom of crowds”.

The article educated me in “social bookmarking” (eg. del.icio.us) and how “folksonomy” (metadata of user generated tags) can be useful in the classroom. Being able to personalise the way you categorise bookmarks supports collaborative information discovery and can help teachers assess their students understanding (by seeing what sorts of links, websites and blogs they have amassed as important.

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