Comments on: Wow! web 2.0 is really here

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 00:40:28 +0000

I’ve been experimenting with various collaboration & document sharing tools and have discovered an excellent site. It is a very user friendly, web-based application that is well worth taking the time to explore. Take a few minutes and look at Projjex.com. The tutorials are excellent & you don’t need to be a Rocket Scientist to figure out how to use it. It even offers a free version so you can try it on for size.

By: Ralph Lewis

Ralph Lewis — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:51:23 +0000

Having read the article and comments, it appears that Web 2.0 remains something to monitor and experience. One can never be sure what may develop from it. Perhaps nothing, perhaps something useful, perhaps something big.

By: Tony Wheeler

Tony Wheeler — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 08:55:34 +0000

Gosh an interesting flurry of responses, here are some further thoughts.

I don’t really care what you call it or which social networking tools you choose to use, the important thing is that a significant group of young people are familiar with this stuff, mirrored alarmingly by the significant group of teachers who are not. Tony P and Dan are right we do need to use the systems themselves to share our collective experiences, my worry is that the majority of teachers are not yet looking in this direction at all, and the (other) digital divide (between children and teachers) just keeps growing even wider and more difficult to join up.

I tried to profile Flickr and ArtPad on a Teachers TV resource review recently and despite 2 attempts I believe we fell foul of the lawyers who saw both products as too risky. I increrasingly think we need a Jamie Oliver type series on mainstream TV looking at the growing missed opportunities that we all know exist right now, but most teachers do not know about, and most kids do, but do not make the connection to education.

To Kelly I am flattered that you picked up this blog and am collating a wishlist of stuff I would want in my digital portfolio. It is not specific to dandelife and perhaps if we opened another posting here we could encourage others to contribute.

Here are 2 instant challenges. First my recent fiddling around in several different systems means I am replicating tags all over the place. I really want one site online to store and organise these, which like my photos and videos I can mash into all the other sites where I store and display stuff. At the moment this is a messy inspiration file on my hard disk. Second I want my tags to display like a contextual word cloud, or in some other way than loads of lists.

Answers on a postcard please…

By: Andyd

Andyd — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 02:59:18 +0000

Dandelife.com is a horrible website.

They moderate all the blogs and are a lot more restrictive than all other forums ive been to whilst sporting giant ads all over the page.

By: blah

blah — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:40:18 +0000

Web2.0 is just a buzzword with no meaning or relevance. Go ahead and shout it as much as you want, the hype is dying down. Lame useless sites pop up here and there but they will go away…Only people like you (who don’t see past the next week) care for all the teen/geek trends.

By: Keith

Keith — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:38:04 +0000

Is Web 2.0 really that important? I don’t really feel it is going to make a big deal of difference.

By: Sarah

Sarah — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 00:37:38 +0000

Thanks Tony! Very nice sites! Dandelife is pretty cool, I’ll have to spend some more time with it later. I read about another site you might like in PC Mag this month called http://www.Mediafire.com

It’s free and unlimited online storage, might help with those text docs :)

By: Kristian Still

Kristian Still — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:49:10 +0000

http://www.diino.com offer 2GB of storage I believe.

By: MikeD

MikeD — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 21:52:28 +0000

Flickr uses Yahoo Maps not Google.

By: Dan Sutch

Dan Sutch — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:02:54 +0000

This is something that we’re integrating into the Map of Innovation that we are developing at the moment (thanks for the prompt Tony P!!) So please do make suggestions for use and content. As Tony P said in his comment – this could be a really useful, educationalist driven resource.