1. What is Web 2.0 Emily Rosen erosen@cddrec.org

2. Web 2.0 Wikipedia defines Web 2.0 as 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. Etc/

3. Short definition Site's for which the material is supplied by its visitors! “Template” is offered and the use of it is up the user

4. Comparing Web 1.0 and 2.0 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 client-server, Web 2.0 is about peer to peer Web 1.0 was about HTML, Web 2.0 is about XML Web 1.0 was about home pages, Web 2.0 is about blogs Web 1.0 was about lectures, Web 2.0 is about conversation Web 1.0 was about advertising, Web 2.0 is about word of mouth Web 1.0 was about services sold over the web, Web 2.0 is about web services

5. Web 2.0 sites are… Collaborative by design Free and easily accessible Low learning curve Anywhere anytime availability Include a community component

6. Pioneers in Web 2.0 Social networking sites like Facebook and My Space Photo and video hosting sites such as You Tube and Flickr Google with dozens of free web services (google docs, google sites, etc)

7. Wikis Let you create simple web pages that groups, friends, and families can edit together. Wikispaces.com Pbwiki.com Wikidot.com Sites.google.com

8. Blogs A blog is a website where entries are made in journal style and usually displayed in a reverse chronological order Blogspot.com Bloglines.com Classblogmeister.com Edublogs.com

9. Podcasting A method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on a variety of mobile devices iTunes Gcast.com Voicethread.com Mypodcast.com

10. Web 2.0 in education Young learners are prolific users of these technologies (wikis, blogs and social networking) but the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom is still limited. Teachers believe that Web 2.0 resources should be used more often in the classroom. Main concern is lack of time to familiarize themselves with the technology and worries about managing the use of the internet in class.

11. Web 2.0 classroom projects… COLLECT: fact acquisition and research; focus on user’s activity (can be either guided or open research provide hotlist or let them search on their own) RELATE: team efforts that develop communication, management, social skills; clarify problems CREATE: individual and team projects; create to learn and learn to create DONATE: authentic, service-oriented projects, dissemination to “outside” client or public (web)

12. 21 st Century Skills Adaptability and inventive thinking (problem solving) Collaboration and communication (synchronous and synchronous ; cross cultural) Digital age literacy (collect, analyze, synthesize, distribute, present information) www.21stcenturyskills.org