Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Wiki and this Class

Info for this class Ed2033 can be found on this site. it gives us an overview of what is happening in a Wiki format. We will soon be creating our own wiki's wish us luck....

Wednesday, August 1, 2007

Web 2.0

Web 2.0
is essentially an increasing range of software that supports a variety of technoliogies for open and collaborative communication, learning and creativity. It requires:
  1. A platfrom
  2. Social networking
  3. Read/Write Web
  4. Social software
  5. Gathering and Sorting

Semester Two: Networked Learning

Tag Cloud.


Lecture one: Networked Learning


Web 2.0 is about you in a community, it is no longer about just getting information from the web, it is about joining a community and sharing knowledge collaboratively....
We as people of the 90's know the web as just a base to gain knowledge by doing a google or yahoo search (web 1.0), we need to adapt to the new Web 2.0.


What is Web 2.0?


  • Putting the 'we' in web


  • ...The living web (newsweek, 4.3.2006)


  • Wiki, podcasts, ajax, blogging, GTD, mash ups, web standards, peer to peer, collective intelligence etc...
Andy Budd shows the difference between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0:


  • Altavista v. Google

  • Hotmail v. Yahoo mail

  • Ofoto v. Flickr

  • Mp3.com v. Itunes

  • Geocities v. Blogger

  • Mapquest v. Google Maps

  • Encarta v. Wikipedia

  • Nerscape v. Mozilla Firefox