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filed under: Second Life
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Perhaps this ELI 2007 Spring Focus Session podcast with Sarah Robbins starts to answer the 'Why Second Life?' question we are kicking around here?
This is from Sarah Robbins on Teaching in Second Life | EDUCAUSE CONNECT
filed under: Web 2.0
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I reading this post ETC @ BMC: Another look at Zotero I wonder if with the growth of web based publish tools like google docs, blogs and wikis if desktop publishing will take back seat in regards to the tools that people use to develop content.
If this is the case should we start looking at ways to incorporate things like zotero or google notebook into future builds for computers deployed across campus?
(Obviously not a finished thought but I think it close enough to spur debate and opinions.)
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I wasn't sure whether or not to categorize Apollo as software or as Web 2.0...
I think the web evolution is kind of where PC's were about 20 years ago. (Has it been that long?) We're commoditizing, standardizing, and relying on the web so much, that we've turned a hobby into an industry. I've often felt myself to be a casual web programmer, but really that's a hobbyist. I'm in the same place in my web skills that a BASIC programmer with a C-64 was in 1987, in relation to PC's. In other words, nowhere. Web development is quickly becoming application development, and the plethora of available applications one can use/buy on the web is just going to keep exploding. Apollo makes a breakthrough in this regard, in its claim to seamlessly go from off-line to online. I think this starts to bridge that gap of confidence businesses and institutions have in using online tools in their everyday environment. My brain is racing. What about yours?