Semester 2 ED2203 Lecture 1

Lecture 1
Web 1.0 is getting information from the web.
Web 2.0 is constructing knowledge collaborative on the web.

What is web 2.0?
Putting the 'WE' in web.
'...the living web'
--Newsweek, 4/3/06
It is essentiually an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technologies for open collaborative communication, learning, and creativity.

It requires;

1. A Platform
2. Social Networking
3. Read/write web
4. Social Software
5. Gathering and sorting

Web 2.0 is the heart and soul of online education eg podcasts, blogging, ajax (google earth), wiki, etc... Reminder look up Andy Budd... his blog address is http://www.andybudd.com/, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Budd

Web 1.0
Personal websites
Britannica Online (fixed information)
Content Management Systems (uni blackboard system)
Directories (taxonomy)
Screen Scraping

Web 2.0
Blogs
Wikipedia (constantly being edited)
Wikis
Tagging (Folksonomy)
Web Services

Google page 1 is Web 1.0 - Google page 2 is web 2.0

Look at this link on social computing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_computing

www.digitalchalkie.com

Need to join flickr, record details in blog and write about your reaction to flickr.