Category: web 2.0
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Confluence and Glypho
Confluence is an application wiki similar to Jot.com. It is free for individual use (up to 2 users) but relatively pricey for academic use (25 users, $600 per year). I have used Jot.com before, it’s arrangement of 20 free wiki pages for up to 5 users seems better suited for academic term projects, since you…
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Web 2.0 Digital Storyelling
The Primary Access project and website from the University of Virginia is a great example of many things, including: The power of the web to serve as a platform for digital storytelling, both in authoring original and communicating finished digital stories. A creative way to empower digital storytellers but also conform to existing copyright restrictions.…
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Wikipedia Seigenthaler controversy
Katharine Seelye’s article in the New York Times this past Monday titled “Wikipedia: Open-source, and open to abuse,” portrays a typical media view of web 2.0 technologies like Wikipedia: They are lamentable and problematic. Seelye fails to note that instead of trying to track down and “get” the person who posted information allegedly inaccurate about…
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Welcome to Web 2.0 at SITE 2006
I am excited to have received notification today that my proposal to present “Welcome to Web 2.0” has been accepted by the Society for Information Technology and Teacher Education at their 2006 annual conference in Orlando as a half-day hands-on workshop. I will be presenting this the last day of the SITE conference on Friday,…
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Unlimited free online surveys
The ability to create dynamic, online surveys and use them in a variety of contexts is a phenomenally powerful skill in our modern information environnment. We live in an age where many clamor for “data backed decision making,” and if your constituents have access to the web– then a web-based survey can be one of…
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World66 and 43Places
I have known about and used the 43places website for a few months: it is a fun example of socially designed web 2.0 technology. Tonight I found World66, which is similar to 43places in having users create a dynamic world map of places they have been– but it does it in a Wiki style, and…
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Storytelling with YackPack, Persuasive Technologies
I just learned about YackPack thanks to an email from BJ Fogg at Stanford, who found my eLearn2005 presentation about podcasting online. Yakpack is a really innovative web 2.0 free service that lets people stay in touch with their own “circles” of friends via recorded audio messages. Like podcasting, yakpack lets people use the power…
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Amazing Web 2.0 tools
Many thanks to Charlene Chausis of Lincolnshire, Illinois, for bringing the following web 2.0 tools to my attention today. Wow! Woophy is a photo website that conceptually combines to Flickr and 43places. Click on a map location and photos from that place are displayed in a right sidebar. Some really fantastic photos here. And they…
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Vlogging and free journalism
“Report It Now” is a grassroots video blogging (vblogging) initiative that again, offers a glimmer of how disruptive and exciting social technologies like RSS are and can be. Just think where we will be when thousands of students across the globe are armed with laptops and PC cameras, and are invited to be local news…
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This revolution is personalized
We are in the midst of a Web 2.0 revolution. It was great fun to welcome 24 teachers in Miami, Texas (town population about 600, student school population about 118) today to the revolution. Many jumped in with both feet, with several even adding to the WikiPedia entry for Miami, Texas during the workshop. And…