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Users no longer review content in a passive or isolated way. Instead, they can easily create, share, and publish content, and they can review and comment on other users' products. With the prevalence of social media technologies and services, content sharing and user interaction has become relatively easy and efficient.

Recent research has identified and confirmed benefits to using Web 2.0 technologies within the online classroom. These benefits can further be mapped to known best practices from distance education literature.

This article briefly discusses TVnima, a Web-based application that allows you to create a 3D avatar with human-like elements such as a headshot and voice, and how to use it effectively and efficiently.

This is the archived recording information and PowerPoint slides from the DE Oracle Live Webinar held November 13, 2008.

Embedding course-relevant Web 2.0 content within a WebTycho classroom is relatively straightforward, thanks to Web sites that provide automatically generated embed code. The code can easily be copied and pasted into a classroom's Course Content, Conferences, or Announcements area, without having to understand the code.

The following Web 2.0 service sites provide automatically generated embed code for users that has been tested and proven to work in WebTycho.

Easily add interactive, rich media content to your online classroom using automatically generated embed code.

This article explores the nature of open educational resources (OERs). How do you find, adapt, organize, and use them in a classroom and then share them with the wider educational community? The advantages and disadvantages of using OERs are also discussed.

Web 2.0 technologies offer many enticing uses for expanding the repertoire of anyone teaching online. With the excitement of new tools and opportunities, it could be easy to forget the usefulness of WebTycho. Remember to utilize WebTycho's record keeping ability when looking to implement Web 2.0 technologies into your classroom.

Over the last few months, numerous articles have appeared in the major American media on podcasting. Of particular interest are three recent newspaper articles, all of which report on the rapid growth of podcasting by well known American schools.