Web 2.0 Technologies

One of the things that currently interest the e-learning service, as it should all educationalists using the internet and ICT in teaching, is the potential impact and influence of Web2.0 technologies - blogs, wiki's, myspace etc. We have started to experiment with blogs on a number of levels and within a range of contexts, including documenting conference proceedings - see www.cepsconference.blogspot.com and www.suffolkmug.blogspot.com. The influence of user generated web-sites is yet to fully unfold, but certainly the sophistication with which 14-20 year olds are using www.myspace.com to host text, images, audio and video suggests that they are unlikely to be impressed with virtual learning environments in schools and colleges that can't offer similar utility and accessibility - that is if we still have VLEs in their current form in a few years time...