Things I didn’t know…
Posted on: October 11, 2009
… About the web.
Netvibes. I hadn’t heard of this website until recently thanks to our e-learning English class. Netvibes is not just a website. It is a platform that does not generate its own content but agregates many contents from other websites, like blogs, social networks or even your email box.
As this technology is based on RSS-feeds , it allows every user to keep up with the last updates of the websites he usually visits. And as each netvibes page is personalized, through customized tabs, feeds and modules, it is representative of web 2.0.
E-learning
Have you heard of this new way of teaching and learning ? As the “E” stands for “electronic”, e-learning designates a web-based and distanced education, sometimes difficult to define as it refers to many different practices. As the technologies evolve, e-learning methods change.
We had a chance to interview a few e-learners on that matter, and they listed a few arguments for or against this practice :
Wikis. Wiki is the Hawaiien word for fast. Ward Cunningham, the developper of the first wiki software in 1995, was indeed a fast-thinker. He invented a software that allowed every internet user to contribute to the content of a same website.
Thus, he renewed the old Enlightenment‘s project to create a giant collaborative encyclopedia.
But this time, with a significant change : simple references would become hyperlinks.
What I didn’t know about wikis, was the many other ways in which they could be used, such as corporate intranets, personal note taking, and every type of knowledge management system. Here’s a good example on how wikis could be used to organise…. a camping trip !
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