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Basic Web 2.0 Lingo -- What's That Mean?

What's a wiki versus a blog versus a tagging tool?

And what is Web 2.0?

If Web 1.0 is like a CD you'd put in your computer, it would be CD-R, or "read only". You can search, find, and recover, but you can't rewrite.

Web 2.0 is more like a CD-RW, or "read write." Web 2.0 applications are connected and interactive, allowing users to contribute, add, create, share, learn with and from each other, and add to the knowledge base. They could be connected anywhere -- laptop, home, school, or mobile -- and could be across multiple mediums.

So what are Web 2.0 applications that work with Education?

Collaborative Learning Toolsets	Examples
Wikis Collaborative essays, post reflections, share information, collaborative research, study guide	Wetpaint, pbwiki, Wikispaces, Ning
Blogs Interactive online journaling, links to online resources for students, learning reflections, storywriting; comments back	Blogger, LiveJournal
Learning Management Systems LMS is more than just connecting with "home". It is running a class either online or "bleneded." Post discussion topics, questions, homework, resources, quizzes for test review, email exchange	Moodle (open source), Blackboard (paid), WebCT
Survey systems Online quizzes, synthesizing data with charts & graphs; primary data collection	Surveymonkey, Google Spreadsheet/Forms, Zoomerang
Tagging Creating "tags" to label and sort content. Tagging tools create communities of tags. Labels are created by the community at large, a "folksonomy"	Delicious.com
Online image/video/audio sharing Can have commentary, dialog, exchanges	TeacherTube, Audacity, etc.
Distance sharing: file sharing/videoconference/chat Within classrooms, across classrooms, across world	Google Spaces, Skype, lots of education tools, Classroom 2.0, iEARN, Global Educational Collaborative
Online collaborative workspaces Upload documents and work asynchronously on a project	Ning, Google Apps, Freshbrain.org (from Sun)
Online whiteboards Brainstorm, graphics, peer-to-peer	Dabbleboard.com, writeboard.com, imaginationcubed.com (GE), skrbl.com, scriblink.com
Virtual worlds New place/time with avatars	Whyville, SecondLife (certain parts, like virtual Rome)
Mind maps Generate ideas, notetaking, organizing, connecting, revising, summarizing, storing	Inspiration.com, thinkingmaps.com, engine-uity.com
Location-based -- Cell-phone images, clicker-based response	Students’ own phones; other tools; pollEverywhere.com