The Semantic Web

Semantics is the study of meaning in communication. Semanticists are at odd as to what meaning represents.

The Semantic Web is the the extension of the World Wide Web through the embedding of semantic metadata. It is about adding layers of machine readable data to web pages. Using XML or a related system, the  database  is added to the web page.

Thank God for Wikipedia!

About James Bond

Surprise:

• Ian Fleming was half Swiss
• Was a bird watcher
• James Bond was an ornithologist, the author of "Birds of the Caribbean"
  
• Wrote all his books in Jamaica
• Is the author of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'
• Borrowed the name Miss Moneypenny from his brother Peter's unpublished novel. 

Communities on Web 2.0

Communities of Interest:Communities based on shared interests.

Communities of Practice: Community that share/produce knowledge and information within a professional network. The social site Linkedin is an example.

Goal- Oriented Communities of Interest: When users share a tangible goal as well as an area of interest. The best example of this would be the Wikipedia.

Learner's Communities: Communities  who share a similar educational goal. They are usually private networks of students enrolled in particular classes.

Kids need the Net too!

These are a few sites checked out by my eleven year old daughter . She finds them cool  and i find them safe

KidZui 

NGKids 

OLogy

Lookybook

Learn a Language

Learn a Language:

• Live Mocha
  
• A great place to learn languages online
• Palabea
• Learn a foreign language and discover other cultures