Web2 and education: Where do I start?

My first port of call in getting to grips with the concept of what web2 is the O'Reilly publishing company. This really helped in getting a perspective on what this term meant then a few Googles later a brief comment on learning & web2 helped get a understanding of the range of new terms concept mapping, learning is an ecology and mash ups; don’t you just love jargon (nope)?

My final recent golden nugget regarding web2 and education (UK based) is A Critique on BECTA’s policy on learning platforms by Crispin Weston of Alpha Learning; This is a very read-able statement of where we are in the UK in regard to some of the hard ware and compliance necessary for Web2 to succeed.

If anyone has any additional references regarding standards compliance re. web2 or general web2 educational tools drop me a line.

My next blog will list a few of the usual suspects for use in web2 education i.e Wikis, del.icio.us, blogs, RSS, podcasting, folksonomies, Flickr etc..

If anyone is currently using these in educational projects (either in compulsory or post compulsory education) post your ideas.

Cheers