Dave Warlick is here now. We're doing our note taking in a wiki space he set up prior to the conference. Dave recommends pmwiki.com (does lots and the programming is simple and saves everything on the file) and mediawiki.org (tougher programming and saves on database) for uploading handouts, both allow you to password protect pages, but aren't quite as user friendly as WikiSpaces, (my favorite).
What's the difference between Web 1.0 (e.g, New York Times online) Web 2.0 (e.g., Digg - articles that people have submitted). Audience decides what's important, not some editors - http://labs.digg.com/bigspy or http://labs.digg.com/swarm has visualization of how Digg works.
Web 1.0 is about information that is networked, digital, and overwhelming = Respects authority. A wall remains between people and what is published. Web 2.0 is increasingly participatory; reader directed; and people connecting = No containers = Respects the readers. There's no stopping the community. Information gatekeeping has become a personal skill - and an ethical skill. Therefore we have to rethink what it involves to be literate. Literacy involves reading and exposing; employing the ideas and information, and expressing (writing skills are critical!). It's not just if can you write a coherent paragraph, but can you use the information, images, multimedia to produce a message. Ethics! Ethics! Ethics!
Dave also likes Edublogs :-), but uses WordPress to avoid some of the "flakiness" that can happen when James Farmer is upgrading things. All blogs have setup for "tagging" posts. He's setup a technorati tag generator at http://landmark-project.com/blogtags.php. Faster and more manageable than "categories" option, since "categories" are not read by all search engines. "Technorati is to the blogosphere what Google is to the Internet. Technorati indexes over 70 million blogs! Take advantage of Dave's Ping option to help Technorati find your blog post fast.
Issues with images: go to http://flickr.com/creativecommons - copyright-free photos for teachers. Most people have name listed, or login listed. For citing photos, use Citation Machine, via Landmark. You'll be citing the page, not the image per say, but should cover you legally.
An interesting site for checking blogosphere statistics is http://www.sifry.com/alerts/archives/000493.html. Stats show blogosphere is doubling every 6 months, with Japanese being the top blogging language and English second. Sifry pulls from Technorati for his stats.
Dave raises an interesting question: Are students more likely to work for attention than for grades? Because attention is what Web 2.0 is all about. He recommends "The Search" by John Patel to learn more about the power (and possible financial gain) of search engines. "Google, in a very real way, has become the sidewalk we walk down to do business."
Image Citation:
"Moodle Class." Dinghyman's Photostream. 5 Jul 2006. 4 May 2007 <http://flickr.com/photos/pnelson/183006968/>
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