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Presentation given at the K12online 2007 Conference

Keynote Link: http://k12onlineconference.org/?p=149

Duration: 53 minute

Authors: Brian Lamb, Alan Levine, D’arcy Norman

Review: Nicely done! Just when I was beginning to think I had a good grasp of all the good current free tools online they gave me a list to check out. They also did an elegant job of describing some of the the classics like flickr, digg, and delicious. I especially liked how they used the verbs: embed, connect, socialize, share, collaborate, remix, liberate, filter, and disrupt to define and describe the web2.0 phenomenon. An excellent introduction for educators to the new read write web.

Download the video:
iPod ready
http://k12online.wm.edu/K12Online_MoreThanCoolTools_ipod.mp4
Original
http://k12online.wm.edu/K12Online_MoreThanCoolTools_full.mov
Audio only
http://k12online.wm.edu/K12Online_MoreThanCoolTools_full.mp3

Technorati Tags:

k12online07, k12online07pc

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Will raises the questions:

How are our schools responding to the new informational and global landscape?

What does it mean to be in the interconnected, transparent, and collobartive world?

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DESCRIPTION:
This site is a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us with voting features like digg for educators - K-12 Teachers, Administrators, Professors, Grad Students, and Librarians - sponsored by a Harvard grant and using the open-source project Scuttle,

WEBSITE:
http://edtags.org

TAGS & CATEGORIES:
bookmarking, tagging, folksonomy, social media, education, networking

SCREENSHOTS:

PROS:
*It’s a social bookmarking specifically for educators to network and colloborate
*Has all major del.icio.us features plus digg voting!
*You can import/export bookmarks from your favorites or del.icio.us
*Has RSS subscriptions, so others can subscribe to your links and research.
*Can upload documents and videos

CONS:
*Still very new, not a lot of users yet.

COST/SET UP:
*free, just need to sign up for an account
*web-based no downloads required
*Has a bookmarklet you can drag to your browser toolbar for a button to add links to your account quickly and easily

EDUCATIONAL USEFULNESS:

“READ/WRITE SOCIAL WEB2.0″-NESS

OVERALL GRADE:
B+
Still to early

Mission: Using the new web to form a community that will reform education.
Service: Building a network of empowered individuals, students, teachers, and parents to learn, teach and share.
Values: Web 2.0, Collaboration, Community, Opensource, Globalization, and The Flat World Platform.