What is Web 2.0?

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What is Web 2.0?

• And why should you care?

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Web 2.0 is

• Web 2.0 is the era when people have come to
  realize that it's not the software that enables
  the web that matters so much as the services that
  are delivered over the web.

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Web 2.0 is

• Embracing the power of the web to harness
  collective intelligence.
• Blogsphere
• Wikipedia
• Folksonomy

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Web 2.0 is

• The Blogsphere mental chatter of the
  collective brains.
• Wikipedia the concept that large groups of
  people are smarter than an elite few, no matter
  how brilliantbetter at solving problems,
  fostering innovation, coming to wise decisions,
  even predicting the future.

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Web 2.0 embraces

• Folksonomy" a style of collaborative
  categorization of sites using freely chosen
  keywords, often referred to as tags. Tagging
  allows for the kind of multiple, overlapping
  associations that the brain itself uses, rather
  than rigid categories. For example, a Flickr
  photo of a puppy might be tagged both "puppy" and
  "cute"--allowing for retrieval based on user
  categorizations.

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What Does it Mean To You?

• As teachers we need to teach our students skills
  and social ethics to contribute collaboratively
  online and stay SAFE.

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What Does it Mean To You?

• 1. We are living in the era of Web 2.0, where
  people collaborate more online, and create and
  annotate more media than ever before.
• 2. Internet startup companies are using the
  wisdom of crowds and user-generated content in
  order to get the attention of bigger players such
  as Yahoo and Google, who might eventually buy
  them out.

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Who is Web 2.0?
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