Will the economic downturn hurt Web 2.0?
How educators are working around overprotective content filters to use Web 2.0 tools in the classroom.
The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilitiesâ€. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view.
Brightstorm, a start-up introduced Tuesday, offers online courses to augment what teenagers learn in school and help with the ever-more-challenging process of honing their resumes for college.
The target audience is teenagers hoping to improve their grades and test scores to get into college, as well as their parents.
New York
Nick Belardes believes in brevity. He hews close to that hallowed maxim, beloved by middle school English teachers and old-fashioned newsmen alike: Keep it simple, stupid.
Alfresco recently announced the third iteration of its
Enterprise Content Management System, "Alfresco
Enterprise 3." Alfresco is a collaborative enterprise
content management system that incorporates a variety of
Web 2.0 tools and is positioning itself as an
alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint.
Google's JotSpot online collaboration tool has been
shown to expose user information (names and email
addresses) to anyone on the internet. Google has
suggested that this is just an issue of users setting
their wiki accounts to private rather than public.
A good overview of the phenomenon of Web 2.0 storytelling and the main tools used.
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Will the economic downturn hurt Web 2.0?
The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used to improve learning. This FREE conference is run by volunteers and open to everyone. The 2008 conference theme is “Amplifying Possibilitiesâ€. This year’s conference begins with a pre-conference keynote the week of October 13, 2008. The following two weeks, October 20-24 and October 27-31, forty presentations will be posted online to the conference blog (this website) for participants to download and view.
Brightstorm, a start-up introduced Tuesday, offers online courses to augment what teenagers learn in school and help with the ever-more-challenging process of honing their resumes for college. The target audience is teenagers hoping to improve their grades and test scores to get into college, as well as their parents.
New York Nick Belardes believes in brevity. He hews close to that hallowed maxim, beloved by middle school English teachers and old-fashioned newsmen alike: Keep it simple, stupid.
Alfresco recently announced the third iteration of its Enterprise Content Management System, "Alfresco Enterprise 3." Alfresco is a collaborative enterprise content management system that incorporates a variety of Web 2.0 tools and is positioning itself as an alternative to Microsoft's SharePoint.
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