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Web 2.0Web 2.0 is a term coined a few years back to indicate a change to a second-generation of the web, from interactions between a single user and a computer to interactions between individuals using newly developed technologies like social networking (MySpace, Facebook, etc.), blogging, mashups, wikis, RSS syndication, and podcasts, to name just a few.
Here are a few links to information about Web 2.0 to help you understand more about it:
- Tim O'Reilly article "What is Web 2.0?"
- Wired Magazine -- just read any current issue, it will have multiple references to Web 2.0
- PDF article by Malcolm Brown of Dartmouth College (click on the Adobe PDF icon to access the file)
- Here's an absolutely great video (The Machine is Us/ing Us) posted on YouTube that captures it better than any written text can. After watching that one, check out this one (The Information R/evolution), which is along the same lines, both stylistically and in content. However, to get a good sense of what our students are doing today watch this video (A Vision of Students Today). All have been created at Kansas State University's Digital Ethnography program, with the involvement of a lot of the students in that program. Isn't YouTube great? Here's another great video about the power of the web and changes in our society (initially developed to get a conversation started about educating high school students in Colorado): Did You Know 2.0?
- And here's another -- more pedantic -- YouTube video that explains Web 2.0
- And if you're into really "old" technology ;-) here's an excellent book to read about it: Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything, by Donald Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Penguin Books, 2006. Just head to the library, your favorite independent bookstore, or order it online. For more information go to the Wikinomics web site.
- Here's a blog about "open culture" that has a list of podcasts developed at universities. Daniel Colman, director and associate dean of Stanford University's continuing-studies program, maintains the site.
- Wired Magazine has a fascinating article about using people on the internet to do research by giving them games to play. What's fascinating about it is that the researchers are using thousands of people, working together, to solve problems related to computer recognition.
I made a Presentation about Web 2.0 on May 9 to anyone at De Anza College who was interested in learning more about this. I also made a presentation on District Opening Day on the same topic, which was more up to date. Here's a PDF of the presentation, but all the links to the various web sites I showed during the presentation can be found here.
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