This episode discusses the usefulness and application of Web2.0 tools, with a specific focus on Canva.com.

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This time, Lynn Clouder talked about what it’s been like to do research in a CETL. Lynn, the director of CIPeL, explains how she got involved, what this multi-million pound, sector-changing programme has felt like from the inside, and why it’s been more political than a regular research project. https://ltunplugged.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/03-cl…

Apologies for the long wait for this one; I’ll try and make things more regular in the future! So, for this episode I asked John Traxler to talk about a new special interest group that he’s setting up. The focus is on ethics and work with Web2.0, and particularly the way in which expectations about norms and protocol could get confused as people mo…

For the first of these podcasts, I persuaded Grainne Conole to explain a bit about Cloudworks – what it is, what it’s for, what she hopes it will achieve and so on. She also explains how to pronounce her name correctly. Take a listen, and let me know what you think – I’d appreciate comments on the format, content and also on other people it would b…

A Web feed is a method for subscribing to frequently updated content, which is published by a website. If a website has a “feed”, it means that you can subscribe to it and receive the updates, whenever that content is updated. The phrase “syndication” refers to the fact that users can subscribe to it. Web feeds give us a new method of publishing an…

Social Bookmarking is an an online application that is accessible from any computer. It allows you to save and organize Web resources by using "tags" which are searchable and shareable . In this class we will explore the many uses of Social Bookmaking, using the popular application "Delicious". We will look at the many facets of sharing using the U…

Folksonomies Folksonomies are used to categorize Web pages, photographs, links and other Web content by using labels, called "tags," which are chosen by the user. The information can be retrieved later on by using these tags. Tagging Tagging is giving a search term(s) or key word to a web page, photo, video, blog entry, or other Web content in orde…

The Beginning of Web 2.0 The History of the Web - part 1 (10 minute video) Although the Internet has its roots in 1969's ARPANET, it was not until 1990, that the World Wide Web was developed. The below videos show the history of the browsers, how the Web became a source for information, and ultimalely how we came to use it for Web 2.0 arrives - par…