A really interesting trip to the University of Plymouth yesterday to talk with Steve Wheeler (Faculty of Education) and Maged Boulos (Faculty of Health & Social Work) about what they were up to in Second Life and elsewhere in the world of Web 2.0. I’ve come back with a big list of reading and links (a sample of which is below…)

Mashing, Burning, Mixing and the Destructive Creativity of Web 2.0: Applications for Medical Education

Wikis, blogs and podcasts: a new generation of Web-based tools for virtual collaborative clinical practice and education

Steve’s Blog : Learning With ‘e’s

Maged’s Blog : Web 2.0 and the 3D Web (Virtual Worlds and Second Life)

Some of the many useful links from the Ask the Experts Blogging Forum held on Moodle at Staffordshire University…….

A rationale for educational blogging

Why blog in education?

Horizon Report 2007 (User Created Content Section)

Blogs In education

Weblog Webliography

International Student & Culture Shock

JISC Review of e-learning theories, frameworks and models

Stephen Downes on E-Learning 2.0 (including blogging) – a useful primer for discussion

A new blog giving information on Mobile blogging news and information – if you are interested in getting involved with this blog then please get in touch…..

Moblog

A follow up from Roo Reynolds talk from yesterday – a group of techie/creative people working in and around IBM’s Hursley Park Lab in the UK in an unofficial blog….

Would you reveal your deepest, darkest secrets online?

Source : Wired

The Technology Guardian List of 100 useful sites – worth a look if you missed it (of special note are the sections for blogs, social software and virtual worlds)

The List

From last week’s Inside Digital Media section of the media guardian looking at the increasing commercial side of blogging…..

Monday November 28, 2005 – The Guardian

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Interesting Guardian article on Mp3 blogging – another use for blogs. A downside for the music industry – a quick glimpse around the web and you can obtain The Strokes new album (due for official release on January 3rd 2006) via a blog rather than through a P2P system.

Thursday April 14, 2005 – The Guardian

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Wikipedia entry for new album for the Strokes

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Peter Murray at Informaticopia mentioned our ALT-C 2006 presentation and being concerned “about the control factor they seemed to be imposing”.

Just to clarify this point, during our blogging@bu pilot although some of the pilots in IHCS and SM were/will be behind a firewall due to issues of content we did run blogs in the clear using a variety of products – blogger, bloglines, elgg and the ubiquitous edublogs. Sorry if this point didn’t come across in our presentation, but it is an interesting area open to debate. There are plenty of instances as to why it might be advisable to exercise control in some cases. One such case can be seen at Slashdot

The slides from the Blogging@BU presentation can be viewed here

From media guardian a new service selling bloggers’ posts to newspapers and magazines is being launched by citizen photoreporting agency Scoopt……

Friday June 2, 2006 – The Guardian

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