Warlick's CoLearners

This workshop is being planned for NECC (if accepted)

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This presentation is delivered in a variety of styles, sometimes as a presentation of ideas and resources and sometimes as a BloggerCon/unconference style of interactive event. Here are a list of topics that are fequently included, but this is by no means a limiting list.

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What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 encompasses a family of web applications that make the web more participatory in nature.

EX: Blogs, wikis, RSS aggregators, social bookmarks, social media

Information Changes

Content increasingly comes from conversation
Content is organized & enhanced by its readers
People increasingly connect with each other through their content -- through their ideas

Tagging Blogs

Tagging content is a way of adding metadata (information about the information) to a piece of content. It is a way of informally categorizing information. It's chief advantage is that a single piece of information can be tagged into a number of categories.

Tagging blogs makes it easy for blogs on a certain topics to be groups with other similar blogs. For instance, if you go to Technorati, and add to the url ../tag/education, you will be able to see all recent blog entries that are tagged with education.

Tagging can be complicated, depending on the blogging tools you are using. Here is a web tool that can help you to tag your blogs -- Blog Tag Generator.

About Aggregators

An Aggregator is a software applications or web service that allows its owner to subscribe to RSS syndicated content, including blogs, wikis, social bookmarks, social media, Google News Search, and a variety of other regularly updated online information.

Aggregators

Macintosh

Windows

Web-Based

Bloglines
NetVibes
Google Reader
MyYahoo
NewsIsFree

Tying in your Wiki
Mashups

Mashups are web applications that access information from other online sources, remix the content and add value in some way to produce a new and valuable (or interesting) service.

My favorite mashup example is BuzzTracker
Another example, relevant to conference goers, is Hitchhikr
The best place to go for all things mashup is The Programmable Web.

Accessing Blogosphere

Session Blog Entries

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