Resources and links

Below you can find some background material on the topics discussed during the VENUS Summer School. During the Summer School we will aim to extend this list.

General

Web2.0
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0

Enterprise 2.0

Andrew McAfee's blog on Enterprise 2.0
http://blog.hbs.edu/faculty/amcafee/

Enterprise 2.0 Conference
http://www.enterprise2conf.com/

INSEAD Business School : Innovation, Knowledge Management and Social software

http://knowledge.insead.edu/home.cfm

The Virtual Handshake
http://thevirtualhandshake.com/blog/

IBM: Innovation in Virtual Worlds
http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/research_projects.nsf/pages/virtualworlds.index.html

The Freelancers Toolset: 100 Web Applications for everything you will possibly need
http://www.cogniview.com/convert-pdf-to-excel/post/the-freelancers-toolset-100-web-apps-for-everything-you-will-possibly-need/

Most interesting tool for Enterprises
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/instant_messaging_most_valuable_web_20_tool_for_enterprises.php

Powerpoint presentation on changing professional atmosphere through social software
http://www.slideshare.net/Marin/emakina-academy-gurus-20070614

Learning 2.0

The Future of Education Conference
http://ltc.umanitoba.ca/moodle/course/view.php?id=12

Jane Hard did a study on Learning Tools and has interviewed 100 experts. Interesting to see who the experts are.
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html

Weblog on new media in education
http://www.edublogs.edu

Community on social software in education
http://eduspaces.net/

http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/social-software/index_html

Interesting weblogs on social software and education

Stephan Downes - http://www.downes.ca/

Jay Cross - http://jaycross.com/

Peter Baumgartner - http://www.peter.baumgartner.name/ (in German)

Erik Duval - http://ariadne.cs.kuleuven.ac.be/wordpress/eduval/

George Siemens - http://www.elearnspace.org/blog/

http://www.connectivism.ca/blog/

Teemu Arina - http://eduspaces.net/inf/weblog/
http://www.slideshare.net/infe/serendipity-20-missing-third-places-of-learning/1