I don’t know whether I’ll keep this up, but I’ve decided to blog from the workshop and save making notes later. I doubt any of this’ll make sense, but I’ll maybe add detail (and links) later. I’ll publish in parts, as otherwise I’ll have one very long entry. So here goes…

Multitasking – chat, blogging and listening at the same time.

Intro
Social s/w tools – IRC, IM, discussions fora > social bookmarks (de.icio.us), social networks (friendster) > wikis, weblogs.

Who is blogging? communities, companies – but famous cases of people blogging about work getting the sack! universities (warwickBlogs), individuals – e.g. Stephen Downes

www.frappr.com/edubloggers – network of educational bloggers.

Um – and there’s a substantial chat session going on while the presenters speak. this is slightly bizarre.

Lots of description about what makes up a typical blog tool e.g. entries, categories, comments etc.

Trackbacks – way of saying ‘i’m using one of your posts in my blog’.

Why so popular?

Easy, democratic, allow [re]creation of self, playing with identity

Web 1.0 = Traditional static publishing via FTP etc.

New system – east, fast, scaleable > with RSS – syndicated, peer to peer, social > Web2.0

Update your blog, it’s not just words (KR ?)

RAMBLE

mo-blogging

video-blogging
photo-blogging
audio-blogging (podcasts)

Weblogs vs wiki

wiki – group
blog – personal

egs of wikis – usual suspects err – wikipedia

Information overload? how to manage gigantic flow of info (paraphrasing Robin Good quote)?

Answer: Use RSS

aggregators – some have embedded into web page – e.g. Stephen Downes

Bloglines – internet based tool but personalised

Web 2.0 – “an architecture of participation” Tim O’Reilly 2003

Just a slogan? web as platform (as opposed to web as medium)

web 2.0 and e-learning 2.0 what do they mean?

read/write web
consumer vs producer
online identity
community > network
point of presence
semantic web www.foaf-project.org
folksonomy
micro-content
e-learning framework (JISC)

so much jargon!!!!!

e.g. flickr

social tools and blogs – all good?

cons – just replacing old tech with new?

And time for some coffee!!