Web 2.0 Labs

Welcome!

The Web 2.0 Labs initiative is the "business" arm of a set of community-based educational technology (ed tech) projects that are aggregated under the Learning Revolution for users. They each have at their heart active learning, collaboration, openness, and conversation. They reflect a strong belief that participation and engagement in education and in professional development are not just important, but crucial. The virtual events are highly inclusive and shift the traditional conference model in many unique ways.

The mission of Web 2.0 Labs and the Learning Revolution are to continue to cultivate, incubate, and grow existing and future opportunities for peer learning in education. Educators, librarians, and students are given the opportunity to learn from and work with each other, and to promote the personal and collective value of that work through social media projects.

Starting with a core group of successful wiki, blog, and social-networking sites, we're looking for partner organizations as sponsors to help us share and expand the unique opportunities available for teaching and learning because of the Internet and Web 2.0.

Steve Hargadon (http://www.stevehargadon.com)

Steve Hargadon created the Classroom 2.0 social network, is host of the Future of Education interview series, and chairs or co-chairs several virtual conferences. His events annually reach over 100,000 participants. He pioneered the use of social networking in education, particularly for professional development. He blogs, speaks, and consults on educational technology, and is the organizer of the annual SocialEdCon and "unplugged" and "bloggers' cafe" areas at both ISTE and CUE. He is also the Emerging Technologies Chair for ISTE, the author of "Educational Networking: The Important Role Web 2.0 Will Play in Education," the recipient of the 2010 Technology in Learning Leadership Award (CUE), and a blogger at www.SteveHargadon.com. He has consulted for PBS, Intel, Ning, Mightybell, Microsoft, KnowledgeWorks Foundation, CoSN, MERLOT, the U.S. State Department, and others on educational technology and specifically on social networking. He and his wife have four children.

Support From

The following organizations are or have been supporters of Web 2.0 Labs projects. They deserve tremendous appreciation. Specific project supporters appear on the project pages.