Jim Groom

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In 2004 three of us presented a concept of decentralized connecting web content with RSS — “Small Technologies Loosely Joined” (http://careo.elearning.ubc.ca/smallpieces), playing off of the book title by David Weinberger. Looking back at what we might call “Web 1.5″, using RSS to interconnect blogs, wikis, and chat seem rather simple. At that time, flickr and del.icio.us were still truly unknown betas, Google was just a search engine, folksonomy might not even had been coined as a term, podcasting did not exist, online videos were relegated to basic downloading to view– what a long way the web has come since then. However, underneath the shiny hood of the new tools, RSS remains a key integration factor Now we sit in 2007 with an explosion and continued expansion, of “small tools” leaving many educators overwhelmed and excited at the same time.

In this session, like a loose jazz quartet, four presenters will “jam” on the potential for teaching and learning as well as the state of web technology in four general areas

* bliki : can we genetically recombine blogs and wikis?
* mashups – bending the internet to do your bidding
* connecting people and information – RSS, Pipes, aggregators…
* insanely social software – putting the “we” in “web 2.0″

And more broadly look at the influence of open-content, connectedness, and social networking aspects.

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The Association of Collegiate Computing Services (ACCS) of Virginia is a state-level organization that sponsors this conference annually in Charlottesville, Virginia to foster the sharing of information among technology professionals in Virginia’s colleges and universities.

This presentation examined the ways in which folksonomic tagging and the semantic web can work together to make a more intelligent, searchable environment for web-based teaching and learning tool at the University of Mary Washington.

• “Needles, Haystacks and Omnivores: Finding and Consuming Information through Social Tagging and the Semantic Web” Co-presented with Patrick Gosetti Murray-John