The document discusses the evolution of the web from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0. Web 1.0 consisted of static web pages with users as passive consumers of information, while Web 2.0 is more interactive and dynamic, harnessing user-generated content and collective intelligence through services like blogs, wikis, social networking, and user tagging of content. Web 2.0 applications can be useful for distance learning by facilitating more interactive teaching and learning, academic publishing and research sharing, and data repositories.

1. Understanding technology for use in distance learning Web 2.0 Sanjaya Mishra, PhD

2. It's a slippery concept It's a technology platform It's a combination of a variety of services on the web What is Web 2.0? Term created by Dale Dougherty, Vice President of O'Reilly Media in 2004.

3. Web-log or blog (coined by Jorn Barger in 1997) Wikis (meaning quick in Hawaiian) Social Bookmarking Social Networking Podcasting (coined by Ben Hammersley) Aggregator or Feed Reader (RSS/ Atom) Key Web 2.0 Services

4. Static web pages User as passive consumer of information Individual work Publishing (Britannica) Directories (Taxonomies) Personal websites Page view Storage in hard disk Web as source of information Mass production Pull technology Closed network User active generator of information Sharing and collaboration Participation (wikipedia) Tagging (Folksonomy) Blogging Cost per click Virtual storage Web as a platform to work Customization Push technology Open network What is Web 1.0 and how it differs from Web 2.0? Web 2.0 Interactive and dynamic web pages

5. User generated content Harnessing the power of the crowd Huge data capturing Open architechture Network effect Big IDEAS of Web 2.0

6. No. of blogs. wiki pages, video increased use of collective intelligence to rank and recommend Multimedia sourcing from crowd Tagging as indexing Openness, and ease of use Increase of social networks Consequences...

7. Ajax HTML /XHTML, CCS, Document Object Model, XML, XSLT, Javascript etc. Open APIs Multimedia and virtual realities Technology and standards

8. Application in teaching and learning Application in distance learning Academic publishing and research Data repositories and archiving What else? What is there for us?