Wednesday, August 1, 2007

NETWORKED LEARNING - LECTURE 1

What is WEB 2.0?
Web 2.0
It is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity.

(For further information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0)

It requires:
  1. a platform
  2. social networking
  3. read/write web
  4. social software
  5. gathering and sorting

IT BRINGS WHAT YOU WANT TO YOU, YOU ARE CREATING THE WORLD YOU WANT

(For further information http://www.digitalchalkie.com/)

NETWORKED LEARNING - LECTURE ONE

THE BUZZWORD WEB 2.0

Web 1.0 is getting information from the web
Web 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaboratively on the web
Web 2.0 is the heart and soul of inline education eg. podcasts, ajax, mash-up, wiki

Web 2.0 is putting the "we" in "web"

Web 2.0 ... 'the living web'


(For further information, visit expert Andy Budd) http://www.andybudd.com/presentations/dcontruct05/)

Web 1.0
Personal Websites
Britannica Online
Content Management Systems
Directories (Taxonomy)
Screen Scraping

Web 2.0
Blogs
Wikipedia
Wikis
Tagging (“Folksonomy”)
Web Services

(For further information, visit Tim O'Reilly)