{"id":822,"date":"2006-03-17T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/teaching-and-learning-media-accumulation-and-review\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:05:04","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:05:04","slug":"teaching-and-learning-media-accumulation-and-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/teaching-and-learning-media-accumulation-and-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching and Learning: Media Accumulation and Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The linked article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/apps\/er\/erm06\/erm0621.asp\">Web 2.0:&nbsp; A new wave of innovation for teaching and learning<\/a>) by Bryan Alexander, Director of Research at the National Institute for Technology, was published in the March \/ April 2006 Educause Review.&nbsp; It is a comprehensive media accumulation and review of &quot;Web 2.0&quot; technologies for use in teaching and learning settings &#8212; see also my prior media accumulation post regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/feedback-and-collaboration-tools\/\" title=\"Feedback and Collaboration tools\">Feedback and Collaboration tools<\/a>.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>While there is no single agreement on a definition for &quot;Web 2.0&quot;, it is widely used as the term to describe emerging web based technologies.&nbsp; As outlined in this article, many of the Web 2.0 technologies fall into a category of &quot;social software&quot;, including podcasts, blogs, wikis and other social networking tools.&nbsp; These tools transform web content from static pages to dynamic content &quot;blocks&quot; or &quot;microcontent&quot; can be &quot;saved, summarized, addressed, copied, quoted and built into new projects.&quot;&nbsp; The collaboration aspect reflects the notion of &quot;wisdom of crowds&quot; where microcontent contributed by many ebbs and flows to form meaning in new and ever changing ways contributing to online <em><strong>communities of practice<\/strong><\/em>.&nbsp; The author notes that these applications satisfy the desires to &quot;discover, publish and share&quot;.&nbsp; While these applications are not exclusive to learning settings, these desires are central to learning in general.<\/p>\n<p>The media accumulation includes references to social bookmarking, social writing, social commentary and feedback, content aggregation and content search that can all assist in the teaching and learning process.&nbsp; The bookmarking and content aggregation \/ search applications support <em><strong>discovery<\/strong><\/em> learning.&nbsp; The writing applications allow for learner <em><strong>reflection<\/strong><\/em> and <em><strong>practice<\/strong><\/em>, as well as teacher \/ learner <em><strong>commentary <\/strong><\/em>and <em><strong>feedback<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p> ______________________________<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Additional Suggested Reading:<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp; An additional media accumulation resources from Educause:&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.educause.edu\/ir\/library\/pdf\/CSD4387.pdf\">The Horizon Report 2006 Edition<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The linked article (Web 2.0:&nbsp; 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