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I'll just answer the questions:

What do you think?

I think Web 2.0 is both exciting and overwhelming. Overwhelming - Just reading that Washington Post article online made my eyes go buggy! The text was first on the left, then in the middle, then on the right, with Ads and links in between. Yes, I probably do have undiagonosed ADD, but reading in that format made me nuts! How come publishers don't follow basic readability rules, ie. text shouldn't be in colums.

Exciting - especially after linking to Web Classroom 2.0 - as a social studies teacher, imagine the collaborative capabilities! There was an English teacher looking for cross time zones connections and they found someone in the U.K. I thought I was pretty cool when I student taught in New Zealand and brought letters from my 7th graders to exchange in NZ, but this you can do instantanously. So why don't we have world peace yet???

How do all of these things fit together (information literacy, web 2.0, classroom 2.0) -- or don't they?

Of course they fit together and have to be taught together. I think that video by that culutural anthorpologist said it best at the end of it.

How do you gather, interpret, organize, and store information? How do your students do it?

Personally, it depends on what I'm gathering information for, i.e. a class or my personal use. Internet searches, libraries, and a big file cabinet in the basement is how I do the above. My students - google, and they don't store it unless they learn it.

I accidently deleted this Q while I was trying to bold it (and don't see an UNDO highlighted under EDIT and don't know how to fit it - how is that for information literacy?), but here is the answer:
Yes - I think it a through definition, which is what it should be - info literacy requires so many skills

How has your understanding and/or attitude toward web 2.0 changed in these first steps of MILI?

It makes me both excited and scared to learn it. I'm not a person who is drawn to technology (I can't sit still, instead of sitting here inside on my day off while paying a babysitter, I should be outside w/my 3 kids). I wouldn't do this unless required - not intrinsically motivated to "do" or use technology. I'm learning it because I have to - I don't want to be left behind (but already feel like I am)!