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I think one of the conculsions to get from the discussion this week is that there are multiple drivers of Web 2.0. Which one of Anderson’s Big Ideas does this belong to?

Open Source Economics Driving Web 2.0 Innovation

This interesting analysis came from the  readwriteweb.com – a very good site for keeping up with Web 2.0 developments.  I highly recommend you subscribe to their feed or email. They do a great job of keeping up with Web dev trends and provide a good analysis.  Business oriented.

Evolution of Communication: From Email to Twitter and Beyond

The Taxonomy of Social Computing: ‘It’s Not Really About Technology’ (SocialComputingMagazine.com)

This article helps make the point that the term Web 2.0 tends to emphasize the technology aspect of this wave of socially-oriented software movement, and instructional technologists should be as  concerned with  new social behaviors that are played down or lost in the hype?

Interesting taxonomy of user’s participation behaviors!

Ready2Net – Home

Just a heads about this series of free webcasts on some topics related to the class.

Web 1.0 Logos

Originally uploaded by complexify (David Gilford).

Now how about the tool brands / company’s of Tim’s original web. Remember some of these? I’ll have to take the way back machine and visit the author’s site: http://www.complexify.com/buttons

Web 2.0 Digiquilt by Stabilo Boss

Originally uploaded by markbryson.

Gives a sense for the large number of Web 2.0 tools saturating the globe.

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Faculty Academy 2007
Great conference for faculty with an emphasis on web 2.0 developments….  I heard another voice that urging us as students and teachers to risk ourselves, trust, recognize are infallibility, and to get comfortable failing sometimes as we try new ways of teaching and learning.   And Levine say soemthing like in the current situation it’s hard to be experts and that it’s through our networksthat an expertise is possible.