Choosing Web 2.0 Tools for Learning and Teaching in a Digital World provides practical strategies and examples to effectively integrate Web 2.0 tools to support the inquiry process in the school library program and the classroom curriculum. Targeted for school librarians, this book addresses the questions: What is digital literacy? How is learning different in a digital world? And the most important questions, what are the best strategies, resources and tools to support effective teaching and learning in a digital environment? The first two chapters of the book provides the important context for school librarians: research on student learning behaviors in a digital environment, Web 2...

Web 2.0 may be an elusive concept, but one thing is certain: using the Web as merely a means of retrieving and displaying information is history. Today?s Web is immediate, interactive, innovative. It is user-controlled and community-driven. Organizations, marketers, application developers, and communicators must be ready to respond and to innovate or be left behind, and the experts featured on these pages are leading the charge...

The popularity of blogs, wikis, and social networking demands a strong understanding of the hot Web 2.0 applications that are relevant today and this book provides the underlying concepts and business applications of these new tools Includes engaging and challenging projects so readers can learn to put concepts to action Features case studies throughout the chapters to provide a real-world perspective on the material and special sections focus on how an application can be effectively utilized on the job

Web 2.0 entrepreneur and Microsoft MVP Omar Zabir shows ASP.NET 2.0 developers how to build a cutting edge web portal using ASP.NET, the Microsoft AJAX Framework, Silverlight, and .NET 3.5. First title to show ASP.NET developers how to implement Web 2.0 principles and practices, using post-ASP.NET 2...