IT Works!: May 2006

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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Google Notebook

http://www.google.com/googlenotebook/overview.html

This link will take you to a page about Google Notebook. Launched a few days ago this is the latest offering from Google to make our web-lives easier!

It is a useful way of creating your own web-based notebook to keep clippings, website addresses, images etc in one, easily accessible place.
You can add notebooks, edit them, delete them and if you like share them.

There are other tools available but this looks very easy to use.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Web 2.0 or 'the web grows up'

I have made reference to Web 2.0 before but really it is such a HUGE topic every time I go to post more about it I get cold feet!

But sometimes it pays to procrastinate - someone else might do the job for you..
Terry Freedman is an educational consultant based in the UK. He has got together fourteen of the brightest and best international writers on educational technology to contribute to a book on all this. They each have submitted chapters to

Coming of Age: An introduction to the new worldwide web

The web is changing - remember this earlier post from the Guardian.

The educational potential of these changes is huge as you will see from the contents of this book. I bet you can't read some of this without being tempted to have a go!

Now the really good news ..you can read all about it for free...

This link will download the freely available Coming of Age as a a 2mb pdf file