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!!