bridging the gap presentation
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A presentation delivered to at the University of Alberta Faculty of Rehabilitation(10 July, 2009)TRANSCRIPT
Web 2.0 – A potential bridge for the theory-practice divide
Merrolee Penman, Otago Polytechnic
Jeannine Millstead, Edith Cowan University
Greetings
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Understand how new social networking tools (web 2.0) may assist therapists, researchers, philosophers and academics to overcome the theory-practice divide to increasingly collaborate on local and global issues
Objective....
Why the divide?
Where do we come together?
What happens when academics and clinicians come together?
(Seely Brown & Adler, 2005)
What have we had – Web 1.0
What’s Web 2.0 and what does it offer?
Web 2.0 tools enable building of networks which provide a natural framework for participation, collaboration and sharing amongst a community of users
(O’Reilly, 2005)
Which tools are Web 2.0?
What is being used now?
• Social bookmarking
• Blogging
• Collaborative Writing – Wikis/Google
• Images
Blogging/Wikis…
Bu” Mum By: Marie-II
By: The big Jiggety
Some examples…
http://queenspreceptormeeting.wikispaces.com/
Why use?
By: EvidenceE
The challenge…
Challenges……
Directions…….
To conclude…
By: EvidenceE