MACUL 2009 Lada and Micallef

Web 2.0 aims to facilitate communication, sharing, and collaboration on the World Wide Web through social networking sites, video sharing, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The 2.0 classroom embraces this technology implementation for teacher-student, student-student, and teacher-parent interactions. Components of the 2.0 classroom include classroom websites, podcasts using Audacity and Gcast, screencasts using Jing and Xtranormal, blogs and wikis using Edublogs and Wikispaces, and information sharing using Delicious, Moodle, and Slideshare.