Recommended reading (Folksonomies)

Recommended reading from the past month for anyone interested in this topic.
European Schoolnet - Insight (Observatory for new technologies and education) has released a special research report 'Folksonomies, social bookmarking and tagging: state-of-the-art' by Research Analyst, Riina Vuorikari, (May 10, 2007)

K12 Online Conference 2007

The call for proposals for this year's K12 Online Conference (following on from the highly successful, inaugural 2006 conference) is being publicised in the blogosphere. The conference will be held in October (15-19 and 22-26) 2007. (Deadline for proposals is June 18th, 2007)

Educators "interested in the use of Web 2.0 tools in classrooms and professional practice" should bookmark this site. Check the conference strands below.
All presentations will be available and archived under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported.

The conference theme is "Playing with Boundaries" and some suggested topics and opportunities to provide input can be found on the conference blog.

The Conference has been organised into 4 strands over the two weeks:
Strand A: 'Classroom 2.0' and Strand B: 'New Tools' during Week 1 and
Strand A: 'Professional Learning Networks' and Strand B: 'Obstacles to Opportunities' during Week 2.

The 2007 K12 Online Conference is not to be missed!