Yes, both corporate trainers and professors absolutely have to address the implications and opportunities of Web 2.0

But the contexts and cultures of corporate training and higher education are so vastly different.

Tom Werner posted some ways they differ.

Information overload? Not anymore. Single Page Aggregators are the new wave of web 2.0 portals and directories. Instead of aggregating web sites, the Single Page Aggregators track the feeds from those sites.

Until now Popurls and Original Signal only tracked a few popular topics. Recently Alltop covering a much broader range of topics, was launched by Guy Kawasaki, who wants to change the world by aggregating RSS For The Masses .

Alltop will certainly appeal to those who need an easy way to follow many topics or don’t use yet a feed reader.

I have my own Single Page Aggregator at emapey | FeedRaider where I can quickly scan the feeds from the Education sites I follow. You can create yours too. Now, by using Alltop, I can also follow feeds in many other topics.

emapey | FeedRaider and Alltop are both part of my PLE (Personal Learning Environment)

But for educators who are champions of new technologies, getting any kind of social media program going in schools is a serious challenge. A significant portion of districts ban even the tamest forms of social media. So just to get started, you’ll need to find ways to broach the subject without scaring off stakeholders. That means focusing on the form of social media right for your school; tying a social media program into learning objectives; and finding the right ways to break the ice with administrators, IT/technology directors, and other teachers.

Source: THE Journal

Notes from Eric Langhorst’s METC 2007 presentation, “Teaching History with 21st Century Technology.”

Source: Moving at the Speed of Creativity

Liz Davis, an Instructional Technology Specialist, created this excellent screencast to show how to use del.icio.us for networking. YES, del.icio.us is a great bookmarking and NETWORKING tool.

Understanding Immature Technologies

The report analyzed each technology (time-sharing, client/server computing, LANs, relational databases, VLSI design, etc.) from first inception to the point where it turned into a billion dollar industry. What was consistent among virtually all the results was how long each took to move from inception to ubiquity. Twenty years of jumping around from university labs to corporate labs to products was typical. And 30 years, as with the mouse and RISC processors, was not at all unusual (and remember, this is the “fast-paced world of computers,” where it is “almost impossible” to keep up).

Source: Business Week

Understanding Immature Teaching Technologies

I think this creates a bit of a practice dilemma for the instructional technologist working with faculty members interested in exploring technology to support learning. As we take the time to learn about the next emerging tool – Twitter, Ning, Facebook, blogs, podcasting wikis, etc. – we forget that the vast majority of faculty we encounter in our work will not likely adopt these tools for years, if at all! By the time the long nose of innovation runs its course, entire new chapters of internet history will have been written. From this perspective it seems that most technological innovations in education are limited to the early adopter, constraining potential change on a wider scale.

Source: Techne

Vignettes for Training provides a list of jobs, tasks, and roles in emerging Enterprise 2.0, Collaborative and Social Networking Systems (via The Bamboo Project Blog)

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