Information Wants To Be Free A librarian, writer, educator and tech geek reflecting on the profession and the tools we use to serve our patrons Home About me Contact me CV Book Website Presentations SJSU Class Meredith Farkas Librarian, writer, teacher and tech geek. Anyone who knows me knows how excited I am by social software. MORE >>

has been fantastic and it's great to see such a wide variety of thoughts on the subject. But, let's try to muddle through this anyhow. Oh, and before I offend anyone, I've taken a few liberties by paraphrasing what people wrote into their posts and comments and instead have included in this post what they really meant to say. MORE >>

Approaches Course Description: The purpose of this course is to give you an opportunity to learn about collaborative learning by participating in collaborative learning. This course is designed to teach how to design and build collaborative learning experiences using Web 2.0 / eLearning 2.0 approaches. MORE >>

I should be working on content for my presentations at DevLearn in October that look at what's next in eLearning. As a side note: if you are going to DevLearn and are reading this, please drop me a note.) What often happens when systems become very complex is that they begin to get replaced by simpler systems. MORE >>

Tools to Make Reading & Research More Effective. That post focused primarily on how Social Bookmarking tools such as del.icio.us In this post, I want to focus on a specific scenario that involves Personal and Group Learning and how Web 2.0 tools apply to this need. Now let's focus on how several Web 2.0 MORE >>