Web+2.0

=What is Web 2.0?=

Wikipedia says: Technology expert [|Tim Berners-Lee] has questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of "Web 2.0" have existed since the early days of the Web.[|[4]][|[5]] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2[|] --"Web 2.0." __Wikipedia__. 5 Nov 2007. 5 Nov 2007 <[|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2>.]
 * Web 2.0** refers to a perceived second [|generation] of web-based communities and [|hosted services] — such as [|social-networking sites], [|wikis] and [|folksonomies] — which aim to facilitate collaboration and sharing between users. The term became popular following the first [|O'Reilly Media] Web 2.0 conference in [|2004].[|[1]][|[2]] Although the term suggests a new version of the [|World Wide Web], it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways [|software developers] and [|end-users] use the internet. According to [|Tim O'Reilly], "Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform."[|[3]]

An easy explanation is: The first generation of the web (Web 1.0) allowed users to read or to "get" information posted on the Internet. The second generation of the web (Web 2.0) allows users to read and write information on ther Internet without having to understand how to write programs or code. Web 2.0 is the collaborative Web. Web 2.0 allows all users to have a stake in what is printed on the web.

As educators, we need to find out what the kids are doing on the Web and bring this into our classroom. Then we need to find the educational uses for what our students are already doing.