Here is a definition for you to consider:
- “Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an “architecture of participation,” and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.” Tim O’Reilly, O’Reilly Media, 2004
Now watch this video, which attempts to explain Web 2.0 in just under 5 minutes:
- Find other definitions and articles explaining what is meant by the term "Web 2.0". How do you think that Web 2.0 technologies will change the way we learn, teach and live?
- Write down what you are learning, and keep your notes. Next week you will use your personal blog (which you will set up in "Thing #3") to post your own thoughts about Web 2.0.
Coming next week: Creating your own blog so you can begin tracking your journey.
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Like your use of eyebrows Pete, but not sure if I would buy a used car from you. What does RSS stand for ... let me guess REALLY STUPID SHITE?
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Eyebrows! Maybe I should get a job on the next Cadbury campaign?
ReplyDeleteWeb 2.0. - obviously a lot of information for teaching,learning and living - but we need to separate information from knowledge -there could be too much information -but too little knowledge!
ReplyDelete@steve: A huge problem - too much information. But it's oinly going to get worse, so this program will provide us with the tools and methods to sort through it all, and focus on the important bits. Let's hope so, anyway.
ReplyDeleteThis is going to fun!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the effort
yeah I read on a student blog just today that he wondered why he bothered to go to uni when all the info was there on the Web. learning the skills to discriminate between useful and useless information, to say nothing of knowledge, is a continuing issue
ReplyDeleteDid any one see yesterdays green guide - some unis are thinking of putting their materials on the web http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/macman-download-a-degree-20090915-fpu6.html
ReplyDeleteI wonder if anyone here ever thought of that -Pete?
@Colin: Do you agree with that blogging student?
ReplyDelete@Sally: How revolutionary! Monash might get there one day. But that article does clearly reinforce Colin's blogging student's point of view. "Many academics of my generation still conceive of information as being the task of education and it is not. Students understand that. They know they can get information faster in electronic ways. I think this change terrifies some academics; that if they are not now the repository or custodian of information, what are they for?"
I'm finding that current undergrads don't seem to be very taken with blogging. They don't seem to subscribe to blogs. What do others think?
ReplyDelete@Irene: I agree, the majority don't. But then again, they don't read their textbooks, either!
ReplyDeleteThere are so many excellent marketing blogs out there, and it's such a pity that our students don't use them more often. Maybe we should consider setting up a Department list of recommended blogs for them? What do others think?
Students don't read textbooks and you say they don't read blogs. So what are they reading? I prowled my 300-seat lecture theatre last week and looked at what was on the screens of the open laptops. I recognised two things only. About half had my lecture slides on them, the other half were on Facebook. (The ones with my lecture slides may well have been just quick alt-tabs away from what they were really doing, of course.) Does that mean we go on Facebook? Can we transform an essentially social medium into an educational one?
ReplyDelete@colin: You said "Can we transform an essentially social medium into an educational one?".
ReplyDeleteShouldn't education be social in nature? If so, then Facebook is ideal - certainly a lot better than Blackboard!
The number of comments and people taking part of this conversation surprises me. Perhaps this is the next generation of education. I certainly hope so.
ReplyDeleteGo Marketing Department!