Relevant in light of the ongoing Microsoft controversy.

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2007/07/18/Wikipedia_Founder_Jimbo_Wales

Wikimedia founder Jimmy Wales discusses Wikia, his for-profit web-hosting service for wikis.

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Wikipedia founder Jimbo Wales in conversation with Chris Shipley.

Best known for his major role in the founding of Wikipedia, Wales has changed the way we access information. Wales opened collaborative authorship software, called wiki, to the world's Internet users to create a web site with boundless encyclopedic information

Get the most thorough dissection of Web 2.0 that 30 minutes can offer: the basics of what the Internet offers and where it's going in the future.

Communities of Practice Using Wiki by Dr. Brand Niemann
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7 min - Dec 12, 2006

Collabor

Andrew gives some thoughts on the concept of the WIKI and how its principle can be applied to the music room

Step into the 21st century and communicate using modern tools like wikis and blogs, not whatever Senator Ted Stevens has been ranting about

This video is about Web 2.0 and what makes up Web 2.0. In this video there are interviews about what are wikis, blogs, and Web 2.0. This video also shows what things tie together to make up Web 2.0. Made by students.

Drama about wikis.

This interview with a grade one teacher illustrates how even the youngest student to take advantage of social software such as blogs, wikis and podcast to share learning and exchange ideas with the world. Kathy Cassidy of Moose Jaw, SK provides insights into her classroom. Students and parents also share their experiences.

Award winning teacher, Vicki Davis, demonstrates how she uses wikis to teach. This 28 minute video was part of the k12 online conference and has been viewed by many teachers. It outlines the 7 pedagogical uses of wikis and also gives information on what a wiki is and how to use it.

Tired of lecturing? Use Wikis instead to turn your students into collaborators with each other
Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike Non-Commercial license. Nice example.

This course analyzes the "new rules" of public relations in the United States, examining the reality of Internet-based tools used by stakeholder to influence public opinion: online news sites, "issues-focused" coalition and association Web sites, blogs, "attack" Web sites, as well new social networking tools like wikis, Second Life, FaceBook and MySpace. Students will learn how these new tools intersect with traditional public relations and will learn the theory and practice of public relations in a network

Differences among blogs, wikis, and webquests and when you might want to consider using each for teaching/learning

An interview with Peter Thoeny, the founder of TWiki.org and TWiki.Net, about wikis and TWikis, including a demonstration of how he updated a Twiki page from his Apple iPhone. The interview took place at the TWIKI.NET booth at LinuxWorld in San Francisco.

A look at what blogs and wikis are and how you can utilise them for education. This video also looks at a few free tools that you can use with your wikis and blogs.

Does Web 2.0 represent a triumph of the wisdom of crowds, or the tyranny of mediocrity? The truth--as truths often do--may fall somewhere in the middle. New tools have indeed allowed access to new ideas, voices, and expertise. But at the same time, it has become increasingly difficult to sort the wheat from the chaff. In education, the shift from "the sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side" has been underway for quite some time. The same shift is happening on the web. Experts aren't disappearing, but

Wikis risks and acceptable use policies. Student project.