Web 2.0 – A potential bridge for the theory-practice divide

Merrolee Penman, Otago Polytechnic

Jeannine Millstead, Edith Cowan University

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Understand how new social networking tools (web 2.0) may assist therapists, researchers, philosophers and academics to overcome the theory-practice divide to increasingly collaborate on local and global issues

Objective....

Why the divide?

Where do we come together?

What happens when academics and clinicians come together?

(Seely Brown & Adler, 2005)

What have we had – Web 1.0

What’s Web 2.0 and what does it offer?

Web 2.0 tools enable building of networks which provide a natural framework for participation, collaboration and sharing amongst a community of users

(O’Reilly, 2005)

Which tools are Web 2.0?

What is being used now?

• Social bookmarking

• Blogging

• Collaborative Writing – Wikis/Google

• Twitter

• Images

Blogging/Wikis…

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Some examples…

http://queenspreceptormeeting.wikispaces.com/

Why use?

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The challenge…

Challenges……

Directions…….

To conclude…

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