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Web Applications and Web 2.0 links
Personalised homepages PageFlakeshttp://www.pageflakes.com/ Netvibeshttp://www.netvibes.com/ iGooglehttp://www.igoogle.com Office/Organisation 30 boxes web calendar http://30boxes.com/welcome.php Amazon S3 (NOTE – not free)Simple Storage Servicecan be used to store and retrieve any amount of data, at any time, from anywhere on the web Yahoo pipesfeed aggregatorhttp://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/ ThinkfreeThinkFree Office is a Microsoft® Office compatible application suite comprised
Jakob Nielsen on Web 2.0
Jakob Nielsen, usability guru, on Web 2.0 – I don’t think he’s impressed!http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6653119.stm
How Second Life could be a haven for terrorists…
From the Sunday Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/13/nternet13.xml
I’m pretty sure Linden Labs can find out where people are logging in from. But would they cooperate with US police let alone British police? So the watchdogs think it’s dangerous.
The 1% rule
What is the 1% rule?http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1823959,00.html “It’s an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will “interact” with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.” Actually, I’m not so sure
Second Life in the Education Arena
with thanks mostly to Martin Mackain-Bremner via the recent JISC Web 2.0 Webinar Second Life official homepage: http://www.secondlife.com/ and http://secondlife.com/education/Media coverage: Second Life has received a LOT of media coverage in the past year or so. A press archive is maintained here: http://secondlife.com/news/ Some academic projects:Schome: http://www.schome.ac.uk/TPLD: http://tpld.net/main.php?page=102 Game-based learning
MirandaNet and the five-stage model
I was at a seminar yesterday by Christina Preston of MirandaNet, an interesting community of practice for teachers and associated professionals, that has been in existence since 1992 and online since around 1994 but not really effective online until recently. She reminded us how important it is to do learning
BBC Online courses
The BBC still have available various short self-study online courses. They include several in creative writing. Of course, a “real” course like Season of Inspiration, with tutors and fellow students to feedback on the exercises and writing, is much more useful than self-study, but until we announce the next Season
Comment is free?
Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian argues that The blogosphere risks putting off everyone but point-scoring males While “censorship” is never going to work, the idea of an online reputation is already important. I am very aware that anything I write – whether here in this blog, or on my work