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Web two Review:

Part theory part practice with Phil Bradley in the controls. Or rather, as we learned, not really at the controls as with Web Two no one is. In a nutshell he seemed to be suggesting that whatever name this latest evolution of the interweb goes under it is powerful and revolutionary and as likely to change the way we -as people, workers, consumers- behave as much as Internet itself has over the past decade. In other words this is a very big change and we can't swerve it.

On the patting selves on head front we, at Lambeth Learning Resources, aren't doing too badly in terms of embracing the technology but there will be trouble ahead for Mr Hill and others who cling to older more rigid network solutions. Mr Bradley sees this an good for librarians who more than ever will be needed to evaluate information in the electronic environment and should be leading the develpments of VLEs. Then again he would say that wouldn't he?

So the morning session was theoretical outlining the way in which web 2 will alter our way of working and those interersted in more information on Phil's theories of web development should go to his site (http://www.philb.com) and browse about. As with all these things there were some interesting new terms including "the cloud" to describe the Internet as a platform. Everything on the cloud, nothing outside the cloud and nothing against the cloud. The basic idea is that there is no need for downloaded software or storage facilities because everything can be held online and this obviously removes the need for software and, ahem, less for IT technicians to install it.

Over to you Bruce and Gloria