Web 2.0 a personal learning journey

Have been looking at the possibility of online feed aggregators (or more correctly web services with feed readers build in) as a delivery method. Netvibes is definitely my favourite. it was intuitive to use, personalisable, looks good and works quickly. MyYahoo and Google reader look clunky and Neanderthal by comparison.
One problem I have encountered though [...]

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I don’t think the smaller pilots are going to work. They are not web 2.0. They just don’t have a large enough group to get any momentum or else they are too restricted in nature and don’t fit into using such technologies.
We need to think bigger, ecoversity portal, whole education authority use of ILP’s. This [...]

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One of the key ingredients of O’Reilly’s definition of web 2.0 is ” Harnessing network effects to build applications that get better the more people use them“. Given small cohorts of learners how do we even begin to harness this effect.
One solution of course is to harness the wider web and knwoledge and links that exist [...]

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I am experiencing great frustration at the moment about thinking of really innovative and effective ways of using web 2.0 on projects. So far I don’t think what we are doing is really harnessing the potential of web 2.0. For example, using google groups is great but how is it any different to using a [...]

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Having signed up for various web based tools, wikispaces, google groups, blogging tools, social bookmarking and you get the idea, I am now in serious risk of suffering password and username meltdown.
How can we expect learners / students to cope especially if we want to introduce them to new tools. The obvious solution seems to [...]

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As the title suggests, this blog plans to set out my own personal learning journey and provide my own insights into using web 2.0 for learning and educational uses as part of a funded project in Higher Education.
This is more for musings and thoughts in a more informal setting than any specific work stuff.

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