Coming of Age - an introduction to the new world wide web

May 8th, 2006

From Josie Fraser’s Weblog:

“Terry Freedman has edited a book about the current state of play in education. Things have changed rapidly with the wild-fire spread of the current generation of social software, and the equally speedy ways in which web 2.0 has been seized upon within education to support engaging, exciting and inspiring learning.

After much hard work, Terry has now released the final, freely available version:

Download Coming_of_age_v1-2.pdf

(2MB PDF)

Please do feel free to pass it on to anyone who might be interested in an overview in recent web developments. There’s some great stuff in there - 20 (!!!) chapters on all kinds of web 2.0 goodness, with contributions from Miles Berry, John Bidder, Mechelle De Craene, John Evans, Peter Ford, Terry Freedman (Ed), Steve Lee, Ewan McIntosh, Alan November, Chris Smith, Dai Thomas, David Warlick, and Shawn Wheeler, And if that list of international edu-luminaries still isn’t enough to tempt you into a 2 meg download, why not take a peek at Peter Ford’s index & biog post.”

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