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This morning I came across a great article on Tech Consumer entitled: “The Next Big Thing: Why Web 2.0 Isn’t Enough” by Marion Jensen. Marion says that the “next big thing is…location, location, location.” He goes on to explain:

I ran across Zoho Notebook a while ago, but it was only in private Beta… well today it went public. Here is a short video introducing some of the features!

Now just imagine what you could do with this in education! Students keeping track of not only notes but all of their online content… video’s, [...]

Almost all of the students in classrooms K-12, and a large percentage of students in colleges are ‘digital natives,’ or students who grew up with ubiquitous access to digital media. These are those who can’t remember a time without e-mail and the internet. Because these students are intimately familiar with computers, the web, [...]

Digital Ethnography, the people that brought us the edublogger smash-hit “The Machine is Using Us,” has put out a new video entitled “The Internet has a Face.” From their post introducing the video:
“Before, we were reliant upon what the user has expressed through words, however, when one can read beyond words through visuals, the [...]

Okay… I have been reading about twitter in all sorts of forums including Time Magazine the past month or so.  Just like everything I do, I signed up and tried it out… but didn’t see the point a couple of weeks ago.  Well, it just won’t go away, so I am going to try and [...]

I have been absolutely amazed at the way my research habits have changed since I became familiar with the web 2.0, RSS feeds, Google alerts, social bookmarking sites and so forth.  I am learning more, learning it faster, finding it easier, and in most cases, just waiting for it to come to me. 
I have [...]

I ran across an article today on kotte.org that made me think a bit.  The article itself is about Web 2.0 and how it became important, but one thing said really stuck out to me in regard to education and technology.
A slightly related way of thinking about how to choose web projects is to [...]

Today there was an article on TechCrunch entitled “Second Life Speaks.”  The article outlines a beta development for the world of Second Life in which residents will not only be able to talk with one another using VOIP protocol, but avatar’s voices will be adjusted “relative to you based on the distance and direction of [...]

Just found this great webpage that has 10 tools for college students.  I post a link to it here both for my friends still in school that may read this, but also for instructors who want to know what students are using and how they are using it.  Every teacher that I know is (or [...]

TechCrunch recently launched an online Web 2.0 dictionary site (go2web20.net).  It is fantastic.  I highly recommend checking it out.  For those in education you can click on the ‘Select Tag’ at the top and select collaboration below that (sorry no direct link).  It has some old time favorites, but there are a lot of new [...]