H. bloGGus

The Edublogger — Edublogs blog on all things WordPress is a good resource for discovering new ways to use and design your blog.  (I used my old PressIt button to post this). For example:

Tips For Doing A Blog Makeover | The Edublogger

PLE 6

Originally uploaded by aoc_nilta.

Found this good natural example of PLE by searching FlickrCC.
http://www.bathurst-tafe.nsw.edu.au/%7Epeter/flickrcc/index.php

http://rreo.edublogs.org/2007/07/15/test-post-from-flock/trackback/

Howdy World

Blogged with Flock

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.