This document discusses various Web 2.0 applications that can be used in blended learning, including networking, bookmarking, publishing, collaborating, aggregating, and crowd sourcing. Networking involves building online communities through social networks and interactions. Bookmarking allows users to organize and manage web page bookmarks with tags. Publishing gives users tools to create and share their own online content. Collaborating facilitates working together over the internet. Aggregating combines different online sources into a single meaningful view. Crowd sourcing uses public networks as an information source.

1. Academic Pathways
Web 2.0 Apps in Blended Learning

2. Web 2.0 applications
• Networking
• Bookmarking
• Publishing
• Collaborating
• Aggregating
• Crowd sourcing

3. Networking
• A social network service focuses on building
online communities of people who share
interests and/or activities.
• Most social network services provide a
variety of ways for users to interact, such as
e-mail and instant messaging.

4. Bookmarking
• Social bookmarking is a method for Internet
users to store, organize, search, and
manage bookmarks of web pages on the
Internet with the help of metadata.
• Folksonomies are personalized tag
schemata, which allow users to retrieve
items in personally meaningful categories.

5. Publishing
• The advent of user-generated content
marked a shift among media organizations
from creating online content to providing
facilities for amateurs to publish their own
content.
• An active, participatory and creative
audience is facilitated by relatively
accessible media, tools and applications.

6. Collaborating
• Online collaboration tools are the means and
mediums of working together on the Internet
that facilitate collaboration by individuals who
may be geographically distant.

7. Aggregating
• Combining online information sources into a
single entity that is meaningful to the
individual.

8. Crowd sourcing
• Using networks or the general public as a
source of information.

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