Overview of Web 2.0 Web 2.0 is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity. It consits of 1. A Platform
- This is browser based – e.g. Internet Explorer or Firefox. (Firefox is preferred because it is free and open software in a constant state of development (Web 2.0), whereas Explorer is owned and comes out in a fixed form and then has updates and upgrades on an irregular basis (Web 1.0))
- It operates on open and collaborative principles
- Communications are the key applications
2. Social Networking
- Personalised and open collaborative knowledge spaces
- Access people as well as knowledge
- Copyright issues exist and have to be dealt with and replaced with a Creative Commons culture
- This is beyond the normal formalities of the classroom and can take place anywhere at any time
3. Read/Write Web
- People are consurmers of content and services
- People and publishers of content and services
- Such people are called Produsers
4. What makes Web 2.0
- Blogs
- Wikis
- Social Tagging – bookmarking, Tag Clouds
- Sharing sites
- Podcasts
- Mashups
- Aggregators
- Ubiquitous connectivity
