Insert, below, your definition of Web 2.0
Gabriela Pena
Web 2.0 involves the use of tools that have changed the way of learning. These tools have revolutionized our methods of communication. Now with the use of blogs and wikis our brainstorming with others is shared on the web for others to see. As we integrate the use of the blogs, wikis, podcasting, and video in our classroom as teachers we will be able to see the different educational methods in foreign countries. The use of Web 2.0 tools allows our students and teachers to work in cooperative and collaborative groups. In these groups questions are answers and ideas are shared such as lesson plans and activities. As we integrate the use of Web 2.0 we will begin to enjoy these tools and use them every day.
Web 2.0 and language learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IRkqbUoXY&feature=player_embedded
Juan M. Garcia
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a network platform for its users to collaborate on content of the same interests. It allows its users to be connected all over the world. They have various tools such as wikis, blogs, podcast and social book marking available to them to communicate with each other. The users are different from each other, they can be teachers, students, business professional but one thing is the same they are discussing the same content and collaborating with each other. They create small language communities where the user is adding value. Web 2.0 benefits the 21st century learner because they are connected to the World. They not only learn and collaborate with their peers in school but can learn and collaborate with their peers from across the globe.
Web 2.0 Explained by Tim O'Reilly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQibri7gpLM&feature=player_embedded
Web 2.0 and language learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IRkqbUoXY&feature=player_embedded
Luis Troncoso
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a set of technological advances to the World Wide Web that allows a realistic connectivity and socialization of the world. These technological advancements are in the forms of wikis, blogs, podcasting, and social bookmarking among others. These are all websites that permit content to be added, publish or edited. These actions create a path for information, communication and collaboration among diverse communities who share common interests.
In education, Web 2.0 is rapidly becoming the stage of opportunity that assists in teaching and learning 21st century skills. Students’ work for example, goes beyond being exhibited in the classroom only. It can now be uploaded to a blogger or wiki to reach a more extensive audience.
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Elizabeth Castillo
What is Web 2.0?
Web 2.0 is a world without boundaries. It provides the arena for no limits communication and unrestricted creativity and thinking. Due to the nature of our current 21st century student who has grown up in a world bombarded with digital media and resources, it is no surprise that a disconnect has occurred between the world they live in and the world of education. As educators we must shift the way we think about not only how we teach, but how students learn and the educational value and relevance to the student’s lives we bring in our teaching.
Web 2.0 provides the platform to bridge this gap. Rather than the teacher only dispensing the material, students learn from communicating, collaborating, and creating with other people from around the world through wikis, blogs, web pages, and social networking sites. The students become the initiators of their own learning. Web 2.0 facilitates this learning process by evolving to meet the needs of its users. It is not a stagnant arena but one that is constantly changing as new thinking is created and begins emerging.
Resources:
O'Hear, S. (August 8. 2006). e-learning 2.0 - How Web technologies are shaping education. ReadWriteWeb.
Riedel, C. (January, 2008). Web 2.0: Helping Reinvent Education. THE journal
Tim O’Reilly on What is Web 2.0?-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQibri7gpL
Mayra N. Garcia
What is Web 2.0?
As coined by O’Reilly, Web 2.0 is a new, contemporary way of sharing ideas, communicating more effectively, and creating collaborative, efficient projects through web-based communities. Chris Riedel describes Web 2.0 as an environment of inquiry and problem solving (2008). Instead of learning through traditional and top-down approaches, using Web 2.0 technologies enhances the integration of technology and education in the classroom by using bottom-up, interactive methods. Web 2.0 technologies include wikis, blogs, streaming videos and social networks: PBWiki, Twitter, YouTube, Ning.com, blogspot.com, etc.
Teachers and professors can benefit greatly from Web 2.0 technologies if they incorporate it into their lesson planning, everyday classroom activities and student projects. Teachers can collaborate through Web 2.0 technologies by collaborating through blogs or wikis; they can answer important questions or suggest ideas or lessons that have worked for them. If students can create wikis and work collaboratively in groups, they will be able to edit and learn from each other’s information; educators can do this as well for professional development. Web 2.0 technologies are feasible and user-friendly enough to use in various educational activities due to its sharing and collaborating qualities and characteristics.
Resources:
http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2008/10/moving-toward-web-20-in-k-12-education/
Riedel, C. (January, 2008). Web 2.0: Helping Reinvent Education. THE journal
Daniela Guardiola- My Definition of Web 2.0
Web 2.0 is a shift in society that values the development of a new approach to teaching and learning. It is a combination of web services, such as wikis, blogs, and a variety of other media-sharing services that enables users to create a community of learners. This network of users provides a platform for conversation, collaboration and sharing which simultaneously recreates and perfects it.
Resources:
O'Hear, S. (August 8. 2006). e-learning 2.0 - How Web technologies are shaping education. ReadWriteWeb.
Riedel, C. (January, 2008). Web 2.0: Helping Reinvent Education. THE journal
Butler, J. “Web 2.0 Technologies.” Powerpoint presentation for Region I Technology Conference 2009, South Padre Island Convention Center. (May 14, 2009).
Tim O’Reilly on What is Web 2.0?-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQibri7gpLM
Rosa Garcia
What is Web 2.0?
As we all know and have heard many times, the term Web 2.0 is a term coined by Tim O’Reilly. O’Reilly was given credit for this term back in 2004 in a conference. Web 2.0 is the second generation of web development and design (Wikipedia, 2009) which was known as Web 1.0. Web 2.0 is supposed to be a new way to communicate, collaborate and sharing information. To be able to accomplish this users must utilize formats such as; wikis, blogs, video-sharing and social networks.
Web 2.0 picture: http://orange.utb.edu/rgarcia1/EDTC6340/What%20is%20Web%202.0/EDTC6340_RGarcia_Web2.0.doc
References:
O’Reilly, T. What is Web 2.0 (2005). Retrieved July 18, 2009, from http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=1
Wikipedia, Web 2.0. Retrieved July 18, 2009, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0
Oscar Castillo
Web 2.0 is not just a technological change, but a social and technological evolution or web-olution. It is an experience in the making with new applications and ideas fusing together allowing quicker, more user friendly, effective communication tools being integrated as part of our lives. The easy usage of new developed sites or rich internet applications has led to the end user being a significant component of what makes the inputted data by the user a part of application[1]. As more users input new data and use it more often the rich internet application has the ability to be updated quickly and be continuously transformed. Such rich internet applications that are part of the Web 2.0 include, but are not limited to, interactive wiki sites, blogs, video and audio sites, and social networking sites. These sites enable the users to post comments, tag information, interact with the web browser, but most importantly quickly exchange ideas, beliefs, and opinions acknowledging each other in new and different ways that you would not be able to in real life.
References
[1] Gutmans, A. (2006). What is Web 2.0? Retrieved July 16, 2009 from youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc.
David Cantu
Web 2.0 is an extension of the World Wide Web where people meet, not necessarily face to face but fully capable of doing so, as a massive collaboration to exchange knowledge and ideas. Web 2.0 is web-based services such as blogs, wikis, social bookmarking, media sharing, and social networking. Through the use of rich internet applications people can apply their computer knowledge and skills in the World Wide Web to interact with others. This online collaboration allows people to freely think, share, solve, or create intellectual issues as well as everyday relationships.
References
Gutmans, A. What is Web 2.0? Retrievied July 17, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc
O'Hear, S. (2006). Retrieved July 17, 2009, from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20p.hp
Riedel, C. (2008). Retrieved July 17, 2009, from http://thejournal.com/articles/21907
Stanley, G. (2006). Retrieved July 17, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IRkqbUoXY&eurl=http://uttc.blackboard.com/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_10852_1&content_id=_590323_1&modeiurl=http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/F1IRkqbUoXY/hqdefault.jpg&feature=player_embedded
Williams, P. (2008). Leading schools in the digital age: A clash of cultures. School Leadership & Management, 28, 213-228
Cynthia Balderas
Web 2.0 is the evolving phase of the internet that is more dynamic and interactive. It is a platform for collaboration that gives the average user the ability to create, access, evaluate, organize, and share information with others globally through wikis, blogs, podcast, tagging and other web applications. It is a place where users can read and write ideas and content, thus becoming active contributors of the Web.
References
Gutmans, Andy. What is Web 2.0? Retrieved July 18, 2009. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc
MacManus, Richard. What is Web 2.0? Retrieved July 18, 2009. http://blogs.zdnet.com/web2explorer/?p=5
James Higgs
Web 2.0 is the evolutionary development of the World Wide Web from a site based, static content delivery system to an every changing conversation between individuals, groups and organizations.
It is the use of web based tools to document what is happening at this moment and how the person who is doing the documentation feels about what they are documenting.
It is a individualistic use of the world wide web in order to express a viewpoint, publish an idea, make a comment, or provide a piece of information and then to invite others to share in a conversation about that viewpoint, idea or some other piece of information.
It is about the individual’s use of, belief about and understanding of content and is not about computer hardware, web architecture, computer software or web sites.
It is about creating ongoing, wide ranging and interactive lines of communication between individuals, people groups and organizations.
The overall idea is connectivity not disassociation, collaboration not separation, unity not division.
Web 2.0 is about creating a way to understand diverse, abstract and disjointed pieces of information so that knowledge can be advanced and individuals can be a part something larger than themselves.
References
Gutmans, A. What is Web 2.0? Retrievied July 17, 2009, from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc
O'Hear, S. (2006). Retrieved July 17, 2009, from http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20p.hp
Riedel, C. (2008). Retrieved July 17, 2009, from http://thejournal.com/articles/21907
Williams, P. (2008). Leading schools in the digital age: A clash of cultures. School Leadership & Management, 28, 213-228
Sheri Higgs
Web 2.0 is an evolution of Internet or Web based information sharing. The Web is no longer just an information “giver”. It is becoming a collaborative global community sharing information. The web is moving away from a technological tool towards a platform for collective intelligence. It is a fundamental change in how we use the internet as a reflection of the changes in societal philosophy toward the internet.
Through the use of interactive information collection, such as Wikipedia, users can not only gather information, but contribute to the repository of knowledge available to others on the globe. Social sites such as Facebook and Myspace allow individuals to interact with a larger array of contacts than ever before. Bookmarking sites allow sharing of websites with others providing another focused method for research. Data is shared openly easily between peoples, companies and cultures. Web blogs (blogging) provides the platform for sharing personal observations, interpretations and opinions to a vast audience.
Web 2.0 will harness the intellectual, cultural and philosophical power of the global masses through interactive, responsive and collaborative participation.
References
O'Reilly, T (2005, Sept 30). What is web 2.0. Retrieved July 18, 2009, from O'Reilly Web site: http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=1
Nations, D What is web 2.0 - how web 2.0 is defining society. Retrieved July 18, 2009, from About.com Web site: http://webtrends.about.com/od/web20/a/what-is-web20.htm
Anderson, P (February 1, 2007). What is Web 2.0? Ideas, technologies and implications for education. JISC TechWatch report, Retrieved July 17, 2009, from: http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/documents/twweb2.aspx
Celinda Tanguma
Web 2.0 is the world of opportunities for many. It is a network of communication that enhances the knowledge of its users. It is a global meeting place where people gather, at their own convenience, and interact without any constraints. Web 2.0 does not discriminate against is users. It is used for everyday necessities ranging from recipes to constructing solar panels. It an infinite source of information that has formed learning communities.
References
Andy Gutmans's video "What is Web 2.0?" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LzQIUANnHc
O'Reilly, T (2005, September 30). What is Web 2.0:
http://oreilly.com/catalog/web2report/chapter/web20_report_excerpt.pdf
Sylvia Reza - Web 2.0 Defined
Tim O’Reilly is credited with coining the term “Web 2.0” in 2004.1 Not fond of definitions, in 2005 he emphasized that the most significant principal of Web 2.0 is that it “is about systems that harness collective intelligence.”2 Graham Stanley in a YouTube video in 2006 lauds the benefits of 2.0 technologies for publishing students work online. Web-based communities, such as Podcasts, Wikis, Blogs and Twitter, are a transformative result of this new medium for E-Learning.3 In 2007 a reporter confronted O’Reilly and asked for a once and for all definition of Web 2.0. He identified the network as the platform where the emphasis of Web 2.0 is on its user-centered design. The vision or the rule is that the users add value.4
This engaging and empowering format makes participation, interaction, communication, and collaboration possible. The social aspect of online expression appeals to the N-Generation. Upgrading software, open source projects, sharing, reusing, as well as emphasis on content and functionality are do-it-yourself mediums that will motivate future generations into the Second Life-Virtual World, Web 3D.5
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_O%27Reilly
2. http://oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=2
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1IRkqbUoXY
4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQibri7gpLM
5. http://secondlifegrid.net/slfe/education-use-virtual-world
Elvia Villafranca
More than just an Internet phenomenon, Web 2.0 is essentially a means by which a broad spectrum of individuals also connected in this global web can access seemingly infinite amounts of information via blogs, wikis, podcasts, media sharing; etc. Clearly being birthed as a result of our insatiable appetites for more socialization, and/or collaboration, Web 2.0 seems to keep us well-fed at least for the time being. Indeed Web 2.0 will continue to evolve and will undoubtedly be the focus of much attention in the years to come specifically when it comes to its role in education and more so where 21st century teaching and learning is concerned.
This seems especially apparent since Web 2.0 seems to have spawned a particular type of learning known as "e-learning". With Web 2.0 at their fingertips, today’s “Digital Natives” are approaching learning from a totally different perspective where the learning is “driven by the needs of the learner as opposed to the traditional institutional approach” (O’Hear, 2006). Consequently, it is they, which in an e-learning environment seem to acquire knowledge from a bottom-up approach as opposed to a top-down approach while learning (Riedel, 2008). In consideration of Web 2.0 and in preparing for 21st century teaching and learning, it becomes almost imperative that as educators or “Digital Immigrants”, we strive to keep abreast of new technologies inclusive of Web 2.0 and extend these innovative support systems which will better help in preparing students in their attainment of their multi-dimensional abilities required of them in the current job market as well as those that are yet to come.
References
O’Hear, Steve. e-learning 2.0 – how Web technologies are shaping education
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/e-learning_20.php
Riedel, Chris. Web2.0: Helping Reinvent Education
http://thejournal.com/articles/2008/01/25/web-20-helping-reinvent-eduction.aspx
21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/framework_flyer_updated_april_2009.pdf
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