Web 2.0 refers to online services that emphasize user collaboration and sharing of content. It allows users to be producers rather than just consumers of content through applications like blogs, wikis, social networking sites, and video/photo sharing sites. Web 2.0 enables two-way participation compared to the one-way publishing of Web 1.0. In the digital age, essential skills include dealing with large amounts of information, global communication, and being a self-motivated learner. Teachers now facilitate student discovery and asking questions that extend student thinking rather than just presenting information. Examples of Web 2.0 applications that can be used are Skype, Wikipedia, blogs, wikis, Flickr, and podcasts.

1. Web 2.0 Strategies for teaching and learning in the digital age

2. Web 2.0 What is web 2.0? Web 2.0 describes the perceived second generation of internet services that emphasise online collaboration and sharing among users. Also referred to as the read/write web, users are content producers , not passive content consumers. (audience)

3. Web 2.0 Examples of Web 2.0 apps. Blogs, Wikis and Google Docs Podcasts Social Networking sites - Facebook, Ning Video sharing sites - Youtube, TeacherTube Online photo sharing sites - Flickr

4. Web 2.0 Web 1.0 Web 2.0 Britannica online personal sites Wikipedia blogs podcasts sound bytes

5. Web 2.0 2.0 1.0 What’s the difference? content owned by a few one-way two-way content shared by everyone participating publishing

6. Web 2.0 Essential skills in the digital age capacity to deal with overwhelming amounts of information global communication, not just global information gathering ability to be a self-motivated learner

7. Web 2.0 This requires a shift… The teacher’s emerging role in a classroom centered on solving real problems is to facilitate student discovery, to offer resources, and to ask timely questions that require and extend student thinking. Alan November - Empowering Students with Technology

8. Web 2.0 Some Web 2.0 applications Skype Wikipedia Blogs and wikis Flickr

9. Podcasts Podcasts for Afrikaans PD to Go: Podcasts for Smartboards EdTechTalk : Homegrown Podcasts for Educators Teach Digital: Podcasting Cell Phones as Classroom Learning Tools K12 Online Conference 2007 Podcasts for Educators