html, xhtml, and css…whats that?

HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the prodominate markup language for most webpages. HTML describes the stucture of text such as links, headings, paragraph, fonts, etc. HTML is written with tags (angle brackets). It’s a way of describing how a set of text and images should be displayed to the viewer.
For tutorials on HTML click (here).

XHTML (Extensible HyperText Markup Language),  a markup language has the same depth of expression as HTML,  but also conforms to XML syntax, which was designed to transport and store data . XML is an extensible markup language that was developed to retain the flexibility and power of HTML while reducing most of the complexity.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets), is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. CSS is also a W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Standard.
CSS can be used locally by the readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layouts, and other aspects of document presentation. It is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content. This separation can improve content accessibility and make the webpage more user friendly and avoid repetition within the webpage.

Information Trapping.

After reading an article on information trapping, I learned that “Information traps are a collection of technologies that helps automate many information gathering tasks”. Tara Calishain states in the interview that she belives that later in the future, a lot more will be done with video and multimedia. I agree with her. Who knows what the outcome will be, its limitless. The internet is growing more and more everyday and so far, its functions and capabilities amaze me.

Collective Intelligence.

http://www.community-intelligence.com/blogs/public/

This link discusses so many categories of collective intelligence. You should check it out, its filled with information.

Collective Intelligence is obviously a collaborative process. Lets use wordpress.com for an example. You find a topic of your choice, write about it, someone responds to your writing and writes a blog based on what they learned from you and mention your link. Friends of the “responder” check out the link and also respond. This is a community beginning to evolve. From there, there are more than three people who are all into the topic and from there they can share and contribute ideas. After they all write blogs, more people begin to follow the links that all go back to the first blogger. Everyone is now collecting the information they have retrieved and now sharing it amongst each other.

What is RSS (Rich Site Summary)?

RSS works as a content aggregator, piped into special programs and filters updated information such as blog entries, news, headlines, and pod casts. Along with the updated Web 2.0, content aggregators make the internet way less complicated when it comes to keeping up with the topics of your choice. In my case, I keep up with CNN and the news. By subscribing to Netvibes.com, I am able to keep up with my favorite topics and continue blogging all in the same site.

What is a Personal Learning Environment?

The first recorded use of the term Personal Learning Environments originated at the JISC/CETIS Conference 2004. Colloquia and the early version of the Interactive Logbook were two early projects that are most recognizable as PLEs that were available in 2006.

Personal Learning Environments(PLE) are systems that allow the learners to take control of and manage their own learning. Which includes providing support for learners to: set goals for themselves, manage learning; which includes managing both content and process in learning,  communicate with others in the process of learning. In the end, they acceive their goals.

Important concepts in PLEs include the mix and integration of formal and informal learning environments into a single experience.

 

 

 

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_personal_learning_environments – 40k –

http://www.thewebworks.bc.ca/netpedagogy/glossary.html

web 2.0

Web 2.0 is the more advanced form of the internet. As said by Tim O’Reilly, “If Netscape was the standard bearer for Web 1.0, Google is most certainly the standard bearer for Web 2.0.” Web 2.0 allows users to more than just retrieving information. The term describes a newer version of the World Wide Web, but is limited to updating technical specification. Instead, changes the way software developers and everyday people, use the web. Web 2.0 challenges Eric Schmidt’s slogan “Don’t fight the internet” and does exactly that. Web 2.0 also includes social enviornments used to generate, distribute, share and re-use contents. Making it that much easier for people to find exactly what they need, when they need. Aside from retrieving information, Web 2.0 can also use Web 1.0 as a platform which allowes users to run software entirely through a platform.