Web 2.0 and Microsoft's response, and Educational Web 2.0 tools

Web 2.0 and Microsofts' response

This is an interesting article about how Microsoft might respond to the availability of web 2.0 software such as word processors and spreadsheets over the web.

How Will Microsoft Respond To Online Office Threat - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/microsoft_office_online_threat.php - West Suffolk College E-Learning News.

These are interesting links I've found from this course on the subject of e-learning using web 2.0 technologies.


Information from Netskills Course

Web 2.0 Information

DownloadSquad - http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software

Pipes and Filters for the Internet - http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/02/pipes_and_filte.html - Tim O'Reilly on February 07, 2007.

Web 2.0 Tutorials

This is a free internet and web course - TONIC - The Free to Use Internet Course - http://www.netskills.ac.uk/content/products/online/index.html

This is an interesting video presentation about web 2.0 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE&eurl= - Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us.

E-learning blogs

Bath E-learning team - http://www.bath.ac.uk/dacs/cdntl/pMachine/morriblog.php

EdTechUK - http://fraser.typepad.com/edtechuk/

Suffolk e-learning services - http://suffolkelearning.blogspot.com

West Suffolk College - http://wscelearning.blogspot.com/


Wiki Sites and tools

Netskills - http://netskills.wetpaint.com/
Infoteach - http://www.infoteach.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

Communities

Elgg - http://elgg.net/ - Who's interested in e-learning
Digg - http://digg.com/view/technology - Technology

JISC

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/- The mission of the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) is to provide world-class leadership in the innovative use of Information and Communications Technology to support education and research.