With this backdrop, you can imagine how interested I was to read a report from McKinsey on a competition they held to identify how Web 2.0 Employees of the Dutch government are using web-based tools to share offices, conference spaces, and other resources. Essilor International , a global maker of ophthalmic lenses, created an internal training program that mixes in-person and Web 2.0 formats to transmit best practices among 102 sites in 40 countries. social-network feature enables coaching across multinational locations. The MORE >>

Things You Can Do to Begin Developing Your Personal Learning Network. Many educators in successful schools are involved in their schools professional learning community and perhaps they even collaborate with other schools in the district, city, state, country or beyond, but Innovative Educators also have personal learning networks (PLNs) enabling them to connect with other learners around the globe. Personal Learning Networks are a terrific way to extend your knowledge and learning outside your classroom. skills) and grow into PLN producers (2.0 skills). at 6:23 AM. MORE >>

think my frustration right now is that Ive realized how firmly entrenched people are in a sort of passive, one-way view of the web. There still doesnt seem to be a full recognition of the power of co-creation and the idea that Web 2.0 If you see social media as primarily a more simple and efficient way for the usual experts to be able to share their opinions and content, then youre missing the point of the revolution. Web 2.0 We have to get past this idea of the Web as simply a more efficient mechanism for dumping information. Web 2.0 MORE >>

blogs, wikis, podcasts, social bookmarking and others â?? Instead of centralized, instructor-controlled learning, PLEs are distributed, social and learner-centric. The differing viewpoints of PLEs are reflective of infancy of the concept, and the practical applications of the read/write web itself. few definitions: "A Personal Learning Environment (PLE) is a collection of free, distributed, web-based tools, usually centred around a blog, linked together and aggregating content using RSS feeds and simple HTML scripts." Learning is deeply personal, AND social.". MORE >>

ELSEWHERE ON THE WEB BOOKMARKS. Oleg Liber gave an introduction by describing the changing vista of education (more part time learning, greater emphasis on informal and lifelong learning, increased use of portfolios for assessment and recording achievement) and the role of emergent technologies (blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, and other tools and services which have been collectively labelled â??Web Web 2.0â??) There was an acknowledgement that the Web 2.0 Individual examples of PLE-like tools, and courses which utilise web 2.0 Search. MORE >>