The CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, recently defined Web 3.0 when probed by a journalist at the Seoul Digital Forum. Here is his reply. Channy Yun of Korean Crunch posted the initial movie via YouTube.

Dion Hinchcliffe provides a series of definitions or explanations of the Web 2.0 phenomenom in his blog. His entry, Review of the Year’s Best Web 2.0 Explanations includes definitions from Richard McManus and Tim O’Reilly. It is an old post but useful nevertheless.

This is an interesting tool that teachers and students may find useful when commencing some research…Similpedia – Finding Similar Content. I do not advocate the use of wikipedia as a primary vehicle for research due to its inherent problems rleating to the veracity of the content however it does come in handy when obtaining an initial grasp of a subject and the links at the foot of an article can often prove to be a valuable launch pad for more concrete source material.

Similpedia also has a few tools and plug-ins that developers may find useful for embedding in thier blog or web site.

Fred Oliveira, founder of the Web 2.0 Workgroup, recently wrote a nice piece on ethnography and designing for the web. He has followed up that article with a posting yesterday regarding how several high profile companies implement these ideas in their own organisations.

These principles can be applied to the design of web based apps or implementations for teaching & learning. Teachers and students can collaborate on the design. Observe how the students achieve their goals and figure out how they make a difference. What is the nature of the transformative process. Take note of what the students are actually doing. How do they make that journey from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’ in terms of the transformative process. It is not always easy to distill that process and impossible to bottle yet if the essential ingredients can be identified perhaps a web based translation of these moments could be chartered and developed to act as a scaffold for those students who experience difficulties in successfully completing that journey from point ‘a’ to point ‘b’.

Thoughtful article from Information Architects Japan about inefficient aspects of Web 2.0. I tend to agree with the author. One can Twitter, Blog and Jaiku their contacts to distraction. I personally think Jaiku is neat as it broadcasts updates made to my blogs and Flickr pages. I have the Jaiku badge on my home page and acts like a “What’s new” column for visitors to my web site. Twitter is neat however I tend to think that Jaiku may render Twitter redundant. Jaiku, however, can be slow to update. Twitter is immediate. Explore each of the aforementioned platforms here.

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