Rick Wells

Rick is a great guy.

WEB 2.0

What is it?

The Semantic Web

The Read/Write Web

Weblogs

Wikis

RSS

Social Web Bookmarking

Podcasting and Screencasting

Flickr

The New Web 2.0

Blogs in the Classroom

Nice article from C/Net.

Includes these links:

• 7th/8th graders in Manitoba
• 10th graders in Flemington, N.J
• 5th Graders in Atlanta
• AP Calculus in Winipeg
• Music Theory in Portland
• Mandarin in San Francisco
• 8th Graders in Mabry
• ePals
• Wiki

The Promise

2005 East Side Bloggers

2006 East Side Bloggers

2007 East Side Bloggers

2008 East Side Bloggers

2009 East Side Bloggers

2010 East Side Bloggers

2011 East Side Bloggers

East Side Wiki

The Cautions

Bloggings influence on Kids: My Space
My Space is visited by more than 20 million members and has a new member add rate of roughly 75,000 a day. My Space was purchased by Rupert Murdoch for $580 million.

Bloggings influence for Hate: StormFront
White Supremacy Online Community. Has 2,110,250 posts and 62,587 members. Their site includes Podcasts, Blogs and Martin Luther King Jr. proganda for children.

Bloggings influence for Evil: Al Qaeda
Alneda.com and Jehad.net were perhaps the most significant of al-Qaeda websites used for financing, recruitment, networking, mobilization, publicity, as well as information dissemination, gathering, and sharing.

Semantic Web

Knowledge is Conversational

Wiki - Colaborative workspace
wikipedia

Blog - Syndicated Journal with response
technorati
Bloglines

Podcast - Syndicated Audio Blog
iTunes

Moodle - Open Source Collaborative Classroom

Casey & Linda

This is an example of how easy a blog is to create.

Glenn Malone

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