Wiggling your Way

Through The Web:2.0

Paula Walser, Director of E- Learning, CESA 6 , Oshkosh, Wisconsin

Reality Check!

Soho, New York

Web 2.0 – What is it?

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, secure information sharing, collaboration and functionality of the web.

Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and its hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Web 1.O

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What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 is a term describing changing trends in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies.

Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users utilize the Web.

What is Web 2.0?

Web 2.0 simply refers to the ability of anyone to publish, remix and participate fully in learning

Creating knowledge is now open to everyone

Simplified online content creation Users can focus on

Ideas Creativity Collaboration

The most sweeping change with the internet is NOT as much the ability to publish as it is the ability to share content and create with many, many others of like minds and interests.

Will Richardson, Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts and other Powerful Tools for the Classroom, 2006

Vocabulary Alert!

RSS – Really Simple Syndication Ability of content to be shared and

republished Web Feed –

A URL that allows users to “subscribe” to content

Tag Subject descriptors given to Web 2.0

based information

Web 1.0 was about reading, Web 2.0 is about writing

Web 1.0 was about companies, Web 2.0 is about communities

Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs

Web 1.0 was about portals, Web 2.0 is about RSS

Web 1.0 was about taxonomy, Web 2.0 is about tags

Web 1.0 was about wires, Web 2.0 is about wireless

Encarta vs. Wikipedia

Mapquests vs. Google Maps

Web 1.0 was IE, Web 2.0 is about FireFox

Web 1.0 was about dialup, Web 2.0 is about broadband

Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversations

Web 1.0 was about owning, Web 2.0 is about sharing

Web 1.0 was about Netscape, Web 2.0 is about Google

“The most important word on the internet is not ‘Search’. The most important word on the internet is ‘Share’. Sharing is the driver. Sharing is the DNA. We use Social Objects to share ourselves with other people. We’re primates. We like to groom each other. It’s in our nature.” -Hugh MacLeod

(http://www.gapingvoid.com)

We need to unlearn the idea that we are the sole content experts in the classroom, because we can now connect our kids to people who know far more than we do about the material we're teaching.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_q/98179665/

Will Richardson says:

Gary Olsen, Higher Education

Why Is It Important?