The document discusses the evolution of the World Wide Web and Web 2 tools. It describes how Web 1 focused on building the initial infrastructure and commercialization of the web. Web 2 is characterized by social networking sites, wikis, blogs, and real-time communication that allow for greater information sharing, collaboration, and communication between users through new applications and the emergence of mobile devices. Key Web 2 applications mentioned include social media sites, video/photo sharing, podcasts, collaboration tools, and RSS feeds which enable distribution of regularly updated content from various online sources.

1. Web 2 Tools

2. Web 2 Tools

3. Web 2 Tools Tools that are based on sharing and centrality of information are creating new strategies for teaching and learning

4. Web 1 F irst generation of the Web. B uilding and commercialising the Web A ccessible (Internet Service Providers) Proto cols such as HTTP , HTML and SMTP F irst Web browsers and creation of websites Web business models (e commerce) G rowth of key portals on the Web.

5. Web 1 Features Web to circa 2004 Dial-up access, 50K bandwidth Static pages Framesets <blink> and <marquee> tags HTML forms sent via Email Text Chat, Online Guestbooks

6. Web 2 The s econd generation of the web Social networking sites, Wikis, Blogs, Real Time communication Online collaboration & sharing b/w users Emergence of the mobile Internet and mobile devices (including camera phones)

7. Web 2 Characteristics Creativity Information Sharing Collaboration Communication Networks of interest Subscription

8. Web 2 Applications Blogs & Wikis (Blogger, Wikispaces) Social Networking (MySpace, Facebook) Video sharing (TeacherTube, YouTube) Podcasting (Odeo, Podomatic)

9. Web 2 Applications Social Bookmarks (Del.icio.us, Digg) Chat Maps & Directories (Google Maps) Collaboration & Sharing (Google Docs) Images ( Flickr )

10. Web 2 Applications Online Photo Editing ( Picnik ) Online Video Editor ( JumpCut ) Whiteboard ( Vyew ) Brainstorming & Mindmapping ( Mindomo, Mindmeister )

11. Web 2 Applications Presentation Sharing ( SlideShare )

12. Web 2 & RSS Way of subscribing to online content using an RSS “reader” or “aggregator”. RSS Reader checks subscribed Web pages and automatically downloads new content

13. Web 2 & RSS Enables the distribution of regularly updated content from blogs, news sites, photo sharing applications, podcasts, videocasts, social bookmarks…and so on. Clip articles Publish articles through blog Share subscriptions

14. Web 2 & RSS Users can subscribe to “feeds” from pages

15. Web 2 & RSS Web Content Feed Reader Web Content Web Content Web Content RSS

16. Web 2 & RSS - Teaching Distribution of Instructional Content Exchange of Information Publishing Assessments & Tasks Collaboration Brainstorming & Mind Mapping Research Creative Expression/Design