About this trail:
A trail created for presentation at DE Conference in Madison, Wisconsin.
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This site provides links and tours as an introduction to a variety of Web 2.0 applications
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The LTC wiki page on wikis!
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Knowing Knowledge is a book in wiki form. Also available as a pdf download or a print version of the book can be ordered on demand from lulu.com.
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This is an extensive site with tutiorials, examples, tools and for effectively using blogs in educational applications.
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The University of Manitoba's foray into student support resource delivery and social networking.
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VLC version 2.0 ;-)
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This is the home site of the elgg software. Elgg provides: blogging, portfolios, profiles and discussion threads. It allows individuals to set the access and privacy constraints on all their entries
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Social bookmarking sites let you keep your bookmarks online, accessible from any computer with a web browser and internet connection.
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Flickr is one of the world's largest photo-sharing web sites. Now owned by Yahoo, anyone can create an account for free. For a small annual fee, you get lots more functionality.
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This site allows you to answer and create your own multiple choice questions and analyze the results from respondents based on a variety of demographic criteria - a nice tool to query the Collective.
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This site allows you to join or create face to face 'meet-ups' in your community - demonstrating the capacity of social software to support local as well as online connections
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A Web 2.0 directory - check out the 'knowledge category" for applicatiosn suitable for educational use.
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This site has a useful and colorful interface to discover new Web 2.0 applications
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This site, operated by James Farmer, provides free Blog hosting to any educator in the world. (uses WordPress)
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This is a social tagging site allowing you to tag and annotate pages, share them with groups or networks and find sites others have tagged with related words.
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This site allows on to tag research journal articles for personal or collective bibliographies.
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A tagging and profile site from Harvard Univ.for educators
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This site supports distance education researchers and grad students- with a Canadian bias!
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This is an e-portfolio system, with a variety of social software enhancements - Open Source with Moodle integration from new Zealand
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This is an Indian audiographic system offering very low cost hosted conferencing services or install on your own system - Open Source.
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Allows you bookmark and to add sticky notes to web pages.
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Aggregators - pulling all your resources into a web site.
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Another aggregator that brings together reosurces into one page page.




