Thing 1 and Thing 2 are done, I guess

In case you were wondering

Collaboration and copyright

The Web 2.0 concept is based on collaboration and exchange of ideas. Just like open software, where all developers participate and put out a free software product like Linux or OpenOffice, I feel the concept (and the idea) of copyright is about to take a significant turn. Or perhaps the developers will get married, have children and will decide to start charging for their products...and things will remain the same. What do you think?

Not new at this?

A couple of years ago, I asked my 8th grade students to research the Web 2.0 and prepare multimedia presentations as their final project for their Language Arts class. Back then I learned about the Web 2.0, Ajax, Php,blogs, social networking, wikis, instant messaging, and all those other terms in this Wikipedia tag cloud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Web_2.0_Map.svg
I had each student research a separate topic and, in this fashion, I was introduced to the Web 2.0 concepts - the naming of all those technologies I had been using and had heard of, but hadn't realized had been named.
So, I am not new to this, but hadn't really thought how to use it in my media center (high school now). I did put up some web pages for the center, linked to multiple online resources but have not promoted interactivity with my students in the Web 2.0 fashion - my pages are a rather static and old fashioned Web 1.0 style .
I am here then to get ideas for this purpose, while the other part of my brain is busy figuring out how to convince my principal to let me purchase a Wii for the media center so my students can prepare for the SAT or just go bowling at lunch time.