Web 2.0 Tools WID Style
The George Washington University WID Studio blog has a great introduction/round-up post of Web 2.0 tools for teaching and research. Well worth taking a look at or bookmarking to pass on to others. From the post’s introduction:
The resources presented below take the perspective that the merging of technology, writing, and research has brought new opportunities for involvement, collaboration, and distribution as well as new challenges for conducting responsible research. These challenges require one to understand what is happening online where vast amounts of information are not only accessible, but the space between users, audience, and authors has merged and blurred and content is shared and mashed-up. Consequently, this wiki embraces the ideas and technologies of Web 2.0 as we present responsible research resources for the GW community. To get a better understanding of what Web 2.0 means, watch this informative video titled “Web 2.0, The Machine is Us/ing Us
,” by Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University.
The tools presented below assist the researcher in taking advantage of the collaborative and socially connected nature of online information gathering and sharing in a Web 2.0 environment. [Read more.]
Via a TechRhet post by Robbin Zeff.
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