Welcome to Web 2.0 Tools.
The purpose of this website is to give an overview of Web 2.0 Tools, while providing the support materials required to set up and integrate into your teaching practices.
What is Web 2.0?
If
you'd like to see an example of the many emerging Web 2.0 tools, please
visit Go2Web2.0
and click on the various logos to visit the sites. It will quickly become
apparent that many of these sites are in their developmental stages and
that illustrates just how new many of these technologies are.
There is great debate over how to best define Web 2.0, but there are some characteristics of Web 2.0 that cannot be overlooked.
Web 2.0 Tools harness collective intelligence and rely on user input. People contribute to blogs, wikis, and various sites like youtube.com, amazon .ca (comment, review a book, etc) and it is that user content that drives people back to the site to gain information and to participate in the site community itself. What would ebay be like if no one had anything to put up for auction?
(To read about the struggle defininf Web 2.0 tools, please see What Is Web 2.0? Design Patterns and Business Models for the Next Generation of Software by Tim O'Reilly)
Additional Reading
- A Day In the Life: Take an exciting tour of a hypothetical middle school that’s harnessing the latest tools to transform and expand the learning experience. (PDF, 83 KB)