We will have a guest: Andrea Rota Andrea is part of CELTA (The Centre for Excellence in Learning Technology at the Goldsmiths College). you can read about his interests here:
http://www.gold.ac.uk/learning/about/staff.html
Andrea will give you feedback on your research portfolios and for the second part, he will talk about the creative commons licensing schemes and free culture.

social software is a development of `’using networked computing to connect people in order to boost their knowledge and aility to learn” ( JCR LickLider, 1960s), as in listservs, usenet groups, discussion software, groupware and web-based communities. Recent web projects: blogs, wikis, trackback, podcasting, videoblogs. Its about user modification, timeliness( reverse-chronological structure). Not abreak from web 1.0 but the emergence of a new type of practice.

microcontent is a development of web 1.0 as well. It involves collaboration and sharing such as in: Email messages, discussion-board posts,, usenet-hosted images, text messages. But web 2.0 builds on this original microcontent drive, with users developing webcontent, often collaboratively and ofetn oopen to the world.” (bryan alexander). Web not as a book but as microcontent blocks. not webpages, but postblogs. These content blocks are shuttled between web sites thought RSS feeds, and diverse players and built into new projects.

openness is a distinctive factor of web 2.0 both ideologically and technologically, characterised by a two-way access. Its ideological difference from web 1.0 resides in the creative and active role given to web users, as creators of (micro) content. Technogically this is possible due to social software such as wikis and social bookmarking, as in flicker.com, with users tagging the information with personal keywords.

According to Bryan Alexander, ” taken together, this set of concepts informs a way of making, sharing, and consuming digital documents” that pinpoint to an emergent group of practices that are crucially more important than any label can account for.

1- Break It Up: “Give your words some breathing room by increasing your margins, and choose short, concise chunks of information over long, solid blocks of text. At a glance, short paragraphs seem more accessible than longer ones.”;

2- A Place For Everything: “Paragraph breaks are great, but organizing information into sections is even better. Assign headlines to each chunk of related copy. Headlines are the page scanner’s best friend; they make it easy to decide which sections to read and which can be skipped.”;

3-Worth a Thousand Words: “Break up your pages and give readers a visual cue as to what they can expect by using images and illustrations—but use them wisely.Make sure your graphics are proportionate to the rest of the body text. Huge images that take up most of the screen not only convey very little about the subject, they also keep readers from your content. Don’t assume that everyone will scroll below the fold.”;

4-It’s All About the Flow:”The way people view web pages has a definite pattern to it.That means that the top, left, and middle of your article gets the most play, and the rest of it needs to work if it’s going to be noticed.”;

5-Feel the Heat(maps):”Want to keep the eye moving in the right direction? Put your most important point at the beginning of your article. Follow it with bite-sized chunks of information that hold up to a quick scan. Keep the flow by using familiar visual cues (easy-to-recognize links and navigation elements) and use recognizable icons and styles to draw attention to easily overlooked areas.”;