The New Worldwide Web

A while ago I was delighted to make a very modest contribution (about the 2005 edublog awards) in response to a call from Terry Freedman for a book about the current state of play in education. Things have changed rapidly with the wild-fire spread of the current generation of social software, and the equally speedy ways in which web 2.0 has been seized upon within education to support engaging, exciting and inspiring learning.

After much hard work, Terry has now released the final, freely available version:

Download Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf

(2MB PDF)

Please do feel free to pass it on to anyone who might be interested in an overview in recent web developments. There's some great stuff in there - 20 (!!!) chapters on all kinds of web 2.0 goodness, with contributions from Miles Berry, John Bidder, Mechelle De Craene, John Evans, Peter Ford, Terry Freedman (Ed), Steve Lee, Ewan McIntosh, Alan November, Chris Smith, Dai Thomas, David Warlick, and Shawn Wheeler, And if that list of international edu-luminaries still isn't enough to tempt you into a 2 meg download, why not take a peek at Peter Ford's index & biog post.

Comments

[Mark Berthelemy]

Hi Josie,

This book is a really useful addition to what's already out there about the new uses of the web. It ought to be required reading for anyone designing learning programmes that make use of the internet.

Thanks for the mention in your section. I was really surprised to find myself in the list :-)

All the best,

Mark

[Matt Whyndham]

This is a fantastic resource to give people when they give you that WTF are you on about gaze. Downloaded and saved! Cheers.

[Richard Sanders]

Hi Josie

Hope everything is well in the new job! Just got sight of the doc you have been working on with everyone (a colleague passed it to me)...

All I can say is nice1!! Useful bit of paper to wave in front of a few individuals over here.

[Josie Fraser]

Hey Richard - great to hear from you. Glad you found it handy - there's been a few thousand downloads so I guess its a timely document!