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As technology is supposed to be fun I thought it a nice way to end the week by linking to Running with Scissors so people who long for hi atari quality video games can feel young again.

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Jason's post on adopting Web 2.0 with in a Web 0.x crowd, seems like a good reference to inject a link to this post Learning Web 2.0 by Diving In from a RefIT project by the same name.

This project is open to anyone who would like to participate. If you are participating, we will ask (as one of the blogging tasks) that you email us the URL of your project blog so that we can include a link to each participant's blog on our home page.

The Allegheny College RefIT group, composed of Instructional Technologists from OET and the Learning Commons and Reference Librarians from Pelletier Library, has chosen to conduct the Learning Web 2.0 by Diving In project during the spring and summer of 2007. This project is based on the Learning 2.0 project of the Public Libary of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, which is licensed under the Creative Commons license. Our site includes links to several of the 23 things, or tasks, that they originally created.

We are not keeping track of participant's progress in any formal way. Any Allegheny College community member who has completed all the tasks by the end of the summer is welcome to attend a celebratory party in August. Details will be provided later in the summer.

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I thought this was an interesting article about how the awful events down in Blacksburg played out online. How students tracked the Virginia Tech shootings online. - By Michael Agger - Slate Magazine

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Datatel (our administrative database vendor) has always been a big fan of "user-generated content", although it's really user-generated programming on a system that is closed to the outside world, but very very open to savvy programmers with time to spend customizing things.

They've recently encouraged all of us to move from an old-style listserv in the development community to a forum. It's getting going in fits and starts - a lot of people were cranky about moving to the new forum, but it's getting some traction now. It's made me wonder about the adoption rate of Web 2.0 from people who are entrenched in Web 1.0, or even if you can call the pre-WWW/Mosaic/AOL world Web 0.x. (And forums are maybe even barely Web 2.0, more like Web 1.5!) Some folks jump right in, were early adopters in 1980 and are still today. Others adopted then, and are just as difficult to get to change, sometimes even more than folks that maybe never adopted a technology in the first place.

On another, only slightly related Datatel note - Pete has set up a blog about our successes and frustrations in setting up Datatel's new R18. In the interests of cross-pollination, I'm mentioning it here.

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I would like my Learning Management software to be able to also create five tasty dishes in under an hour. (Preferrably not with squid or octopus...)

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