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Web 2.0 is a cool buzzword
floating around, but its meaning has become somewhat diluted and obscured like a spoken story handed down from generation to generation. So many people limit their thinking of Web 2.0 to blogs and wikis, but it's so much more. So here's my working definition of this thing we call Web 2.0:

- the next generation of the internet where the content of the web is created or edited by end-users (either individually or collaboratively) rather than those few geeky computer nerds. Further, these sites often allow collaboration, sharing, and assimilation to bring about exchanges of ideas from many different perspectives in the form of text, photos, videos, and/or other multimedia components.

See a slideshow here!




Web 2.0 Tools for Educators  Home - Web 2.0 Tools for Educators The foundation web tools are blogs, wikis, and virtual desktops. Using these as a foundation, you can do all things Web 2.0. Oh yeah- and they are all almost always free (if they aren't, keep looking for alternatives that are).




The blog (like mine shown here), wiki (like the one you are exploring right now) or virtual desktop (such as my iGoogle page) acts as the "host" where clips or "widgets" are embedded from other web resources. These widgets may include images, videos, news feeds, podcasts, interactive applications, etc. There's so much out there- and it's evolving almost daily!


A Simple Analogy: Think of the "old" web as a movie screen that you watched, gathered information from, etc. Think of Web 2.0 as a stage where you can either "act" yourself or invite others to "act" with you or for you. You determine what gets placed on the stage. You are now the director of the show, not merely an audience member!





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Adobe Portable Document Format Embedding Widgets into First Class Home Pages.pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 318k)
posted by jholland   Mar 4 2009, 2:05 PM EST
Follow these step-by-step instructions for embedding widgets into First Class home pages!
Adobe Portable Document Format Issues with Web 2-0 (revised).pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format - 83k)
posted by jholland   Mar 2 2009, 4:08 PM EST
This document explains the sensitive issues which must be addressed when using Web 2.0 tools!
Unknown File Multimedia.kmz (Unknown File - 8k)
posted by kaywoody   Oct 20 2008, 4:52 PM EDT
This is the KMZ file for the GE Multimedia Mashups
Word Document Web 20 Practice.doc (Word Document - 32k)
posted by jholland   Sep 18 2008, 9:40 AM EDT
For those of you who have seen the survey of web 2.0 tools but want more in-depth practice!