Tag Archives: web2.0

Google I/0 2008 Keynote

I have just finished watching the keynote of the Google I/O 2008 conference that took place at 9.30 am Las Vegas time yesterday and was posted on YouTube almost straight away afterwards. The conference is aimed at developers, but there’s … Continue reading

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How to Write a Technical Report

In another experiment in Web 2.0 for learning technologies I recorded a soundtrack for a presentation that I make annually to my first, second and final year students, and put it up on Slideshare. This wonderful site is a social … Continue reading

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Google docs launches presentation tool

And Common Craft tells you why it matters!On on Tuesday 18th September, Google announced the arrival of a new collaborative presentation tool which they call simply presentation . Annew member of the Google Docs suite (which already includes a collaborative … Continue reading

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We ignore digital media at OUr peril: the movie

In a follow-up to his blog article on Digital Media (reported in my article about serendipity), OU Educational Technologist Tony Hirst has used the web 2.0 site SplashCast to mash up a presentation with the cited videos. Here’s Tony’s blog … Continue reading

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Social Networks in Plain English

Just published by Lee LeFever on the CommonCraft site is a new “paper works” video on Web 2.0. This time its social networking: which apparently is all about finding a life partner or finding a job. Since, in my case, … Continue reading

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Web 2.0 for Education

A couple of interesting articles were posted on Read/WriteWeb on Friday. In the first, Richard MacManus discusses the support platforms (including Elgg which we use at my institution). In the second Josh Catone discusses the range of Web2.0 tools that … Continue reading

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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 3)

In my previous article in this series, I described how I use the All Items mode in Google Reader to efficiently wade through a large number of articles from my subscribed-to RSS feeds. In this article I show you how … Continue reading

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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 2)

This is Part 2 in a planned series of essays on living life online. Part 1 is here. The whole series is tagged mylifeonline for ease of access. Reading the News I read the news today, oh boy – John … Continue reading

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A Day in the (2.0) life (Part 1)

Introduction Over the last year or so I have been dipping my toes more and more into the on-line world and experiencing first-hand the Web 2.0 phenomenon. I thought it was time I formally started to report my experiences and … Continue reading

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New web 2.0 "to do list" application

Came across a recommendation of another Web-based To Do List application while going through my RSS feeds this morning. This application was recommended by Lachlan Hardy on Read/Write Web blog and so I signed up. One feature that immediately sets … Continue reading

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