December 18th, 2005 10
Obviously, the blackboard takeover of Web CT
Well… who’s to say what happens over this. It may be that the whole market gets cornered by this new giant, as they stop wasting money trying to crush each other and now go to work on the world. Blackboard’s close relationship to microsoft notwithstanding the new monolith that is the mega-LMS industry is something we’ll be watching in 2006.
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Moodle at Athabasca and open university.
This year saw two massive online universities switch to an open source VLE. I is proof that the open source model can be attractive even to big companies, those of us that are fans of moodle and the open source industry are hoping that all goes well…
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Something about web 2.0 which bust out this year
2005 was, if anything, the year of the read/write web. Few websites now don’t at least give you the chance to play with their themes, if not create most of the content. This year user side apps were king, and the wisdom of the masses put to the test.
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Open Office 2.0 released
This application might be the biggest reason that microsoft loses its stranglehold on the desktop market. It allows for full compatability to everything that anyone uses. If the browser based app doesn’t kill all, then this will carve out a lot of market for mac and linux.
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rising censorship/targeting/moral panic surrounding
myspace, facebook, teen-blogging
One of the big debates this year is ‘what do we do about our students being on the internet’. While this is not new, nor is it the kind of conversation particularly restricted to the net, it just seemed everywhere we turned someone was talking about a new server blocking edublogs, or skype. Or someone talking about how a student who did something wrong ‘also had a blog’. This conversation has now become part of the common discourse.
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Podcasting!
Wow. Podcasting’s cool huh…
4.
The one hundred dollar laptop
While many of us are tired of hearing about this already “i want one damnit, stop talking to me about it†we are tired of it because some people were interested in talking about nothing else. How many times have each of you had someone come up to you and say “hey, there’s a hundred dollar laptopâ€. Well… hey, there’s hundred dollar laptop. ps. It doesn’t really exist.
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Wikipedia and news reporting.
While the ‘Indian Ocean Tsunami’ actually happened on boxing day of 2004, it was harbinger of the rise of wikipedia and ‘on-the-spot’ reporting. As the cable news reporters were becoming more imbeded and centralized it stepped up and filled the need for immediate personalized news. Other events this year, like the London bombing, have only served to reinforce this. Millions of people now turn to wikipedia to both produce and consume information about what’s happening right now.
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Firefox
On October 19, 2005, Firefox had its 100 millionth download, just 344 days after the release of version 1.0. Many of us forget that a year ago we were still telling people… hey, you gotta try this firefox thing. Another of the new solid competitors for Microsoft, firefox has now become a household name for people outside that long standing community of netscape/mozilla lovers.
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the browser based app.
The second, and perhaps more serious, competitor to the microsoft hegemony is the browser based application. With programs like ‘writely.com’ and ‘odeo’ the desktop based app. May soon become a thing of the specialist and the uncool. This year they hit the mainstreem, and they work. We may soon be looking back on 2005 and saying… ‘man, i was still using applications… what a pain in the ass.’
dave
I run this site... among other things.
[...] TAKE A LOOK AT THESE Explore These Tech Tools http://www.econsultant.com/web2/index.html Top 10 Innovative Web 2.0 Applications of 2005Recommended by Chris Potter PubSub Tagging with Technorati http://answers.yahoo.com/ Recommended by Chris Potter Folksonomies (list of articles compiled by Educause) http://www.educause.edu/Browse/645?PARENT_ID=794 Writely.com http://www.suprglu.com/ (for example: http://libraryblogs.suprglu.com) http://www.pandora.com/ Web 2.0 – Applications by Category Dion Hinchcliffe’s Web 2.0 Blog – More Great Web 2.0 Software http://www.netvibes.com/ http://homepage.mac.com/dowd/FileSharing5.html http://www.zoho.com/ http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm http://www.cocomment.com/ (Turn your comments into conversations,no blog needed, just participate!) http://infomancy.backpackit.com/pub/456189 http://www.listible.com/list/complete-list-of-web-2-0-products-and-services http://www.mayomi.com/ http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=64 Read These Articles The Hive Mind: Folksonomies & User-Based Tagging The Hype and the Hullabaloo of Web 2.0 From Gary Price: http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/050928-131049 Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and Librarian 2.0: Preparing for the 2.0 World by Stephen Abram, MLS, SirsiDynix vice president of Innovation Cites & Insightshttp://cites.boisestate.edu/v6i2a.htmLibrary 2.0 and “Library 2.0″ [Cites & Insights] Cites & Insightshttp://cites.boisestate.edu/civ6i2.pdf From Chris Potter: Here are some interesting sites for you:Gollum BrowserCreates a “browser” (I am not sure why it is called that) that will search “all” of wikipedia at once. Here is one to compare: Woodrow Wilson – Wikipedia Then try it through the gollum site. It might be a good reference for the kids to use. The Ultimate Guide to Google Services The first of a series about Library 2.0 from Christopher Harris: http://schoolof.info/infomancy/?p=127 What Is Web 2.0Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Softwareby Tim O’Reilly09/30/2005 From Alice Yucht Library 2.0 — beta mode From Joyce Valenza in an LM_NET post Hi Jacquie, and Gary, and all! I am so glad you brought up the subject of Web 2.0! I see great changes coming down the road this year and one of them is the read/write Web. I interviewed EdTechTalk’s (http://edtechtalk.com) Dave Cormier for an upcoming column and he offered what I found a particularly clear explanation: Web 2.0. The term refers to what many people see as a second phase in Web development, where the Web itself functions as a computing platform. Cormier claims that 2005 was, the year of the read/write web and further explains the evolution. “With Web 1.0, the creator of the website controls the content; with Web 2.0, the visitors control the content. Few websites now don’t at least give you the chance to play with their themes, if not create content.” Dave’s Top Ten News Events of the Edublog Year are listed here:http://davecormier.com/edblog/?p=38 . Several of these trends and extensions of them ought to be part of our own scouting and visioning efforts. We need to recognize the value of Open source software (some of my favorites are here–http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/opensource.html) as an equity solution for our schools and our individual students. We need to figure out how to integrate the new connectivist tools. High school Facebook activities worry me a bit, but the new Elgg Learning Landscape (http://elgg.net/) offers students a more protected, but cool, peer-inhabited blogging community. Similarly, it seems to me that while LiveJournal, Xanga, and Myspace are often a little less than school-appropriate, we can help kids learn to blog (and write) thoughtfully, for real audiences using tools like Learnerblogs.org and create virtual learning environments using Moodle(http://moodle.org ). I think we need to look down the road at wikis for school projects. And we need to think about how wikibooks and wikitextbooks http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page) will integrate into the classroom environment. They can help us supplement already adopted texts, allowing teachers and students to share, customize, enhance and increase the relevance of this often static content. (Of course, evaluation for both teachers and students will be part of this mix.) Cormier also pointed out that this was the year of the browser-basedapplication, pointing to programs like Writely http://www.writely.com/, the Web word processor and Odeo http://odeo.com/ for recording and sharing audio. He predicts, “the desktop-based application may soon become a thing of the specialist and the uncool. We may soon be looking back on 2005 and saying, ‘Man, I was still using applications… what a pain (in the *#*)’” From Shonda Brisco in an LM_NET post Now I’m investigating more on this subject and, to be honest, the comments DO step on the toes of traditional librarians and libraries. Here is one blog that really states what we should have been doing and where we might be headed: http://www.librarian.net/stax/1571 I think this will trickle down to school libraries much faster than other things recently ONLY because our tech-savy students will (and are) using information in a much different way that we have wanted / allowed them to in the past. While we fight and struggle with how information is being used (or abused) within research assignments at school, our students are manipulating information both on the web and within their own personal environments (iPods, computer programs, blogging, etc.) This will certainly impact us in the library and we should begin to prepare for ways to either integrate this idea, come to terms with how to make it work FOR us…or our dusty shelves will be the answers to our stubborn questions regarding why we have lost patrons during the height of the information age. Just a thought…. ~Shonda http://www.marumushi.com/apps/newsmap/newsmap.cfm http://www.techcrunch.com/2006/02/10/collectivex-is-better-than-linkedin/ CollectiveX is Linkedin the way it should have been done in the first place. The interface to create your bio is question and answer based with nice ajax features. The result is a professional looking and easy to peruse bio. CollectiveX also has advanced calendar, message board,file storage and other features. But the biggest difference between CollectiveX and Linkedin is that CollectiveX is completely group-focused. You must be associated with at least one group to join and all of the activity focuses on your groups. This makes a lot of sense – groups will form (each with its own subdomain) virally as members start new groups. Filed Under: Tech News, Personal Research [...]
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I would say that Firefox would be number 1! The add on features are awesome! I bet Bill Gates uses Firefox when he is alone at home?
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