Blogs, Wiki's, Podcasts... Chapter One:
Richardson starts the book by highlighting how the web is a participatory medium, although the participation didn't largely come about until a proliferation of easy publishing tools and communities came about. He talks about how disruptive this publishing potential has been, in the arenas of education, politics, journalism, and more. He points out we are now part of a society of authorship, where we all contribute to a larger body of information via the internet.
I like how he points out that educators' slow adoption of these learning tools has been to our detriment. He points to educators and school policy as the issue, not students who wish to employ new, effective and efficient means of information transference. This I agree with wholeheartedly.
His toolbox includes: Weblogs, Wikis, RSS feeds, Aggregators, Social Bookmarking, Photo Galleries, Audio Video Casting, Twitter, and Social Networking Sites.
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